Web 2.0 - Presentation for Operation Spark

Web 2.0 Resources for

Your ClassroomAmy Hopkins

ahopkins@caddomillsisd.org

This work is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license

How can Web 2.0 help me be a

better teacher?

21st Centur

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Their goal: to ensure that today’s students are well prepared to

be tomorrow’s innovators, leaders and engaged citizens of

the world.

Basics of the Survey

• Data collected through online surveys and verified through a series of focus groups and interviews.

• Since fall 2003, over 1.2 million K-12 students, teachers, administrators and parents representing over 14,000 schools in all 50 states.

• Data represents the largest collection of authentic, unfiltered stakeholder input on education, technology, 21st century skills and schools of the future

What do students do regularly with technology outside of school?

• Gaming over 64% of students play

online

• Download music #1 activity by MS and HS

students

• Social networking 40% of middle

school students

67% of high school students

• Email, IM, text messaging over 50% of HS

students

What do STUDENTS do regularly with technology?

• Writing assignments- 74%

• Online research – 72%

• Checking assignments or grades online –

58%

• Creating slideshows, videos for schoolwork

- 57%

• Email or IM about assignments - 44%

What do TEACHERS do regularly with technology?

• Use email to communicate - 93%

• Create PowerPoints – 59%

• Create or listen to podcasts or videos – 35%

• Websites like MySpace or Facebook - 21%

Survey Conclusions….

• This year 60% of parents and 73% of teachers rate good technology skills as important

• 74% of high school students consistently identify good tech skills as the #1 skill they need to be successful in the 21st century.

• Only 23% of those students feel that their school is doing a good job preparing them for future jobs.

Survey Conclusions….

• Since 2004, students’ discontent with school rules that limit their access to technology at school has grown by 46%

• School rules keep them from using tools they use everyday

• The other major obstacle today is the teacher – over 40% of students think so!

Find the full report:

http://www.tomorrow.org/docs/National%20Findings%20Speak%20Up%202007.pdf

Shift Happens

More information on Shift Happens can be found at: http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/

What is Web 2.0?

• Describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design

• Aims to enhance creativity, communications, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Will Richardson….The most sweeping change in our

relationship with the Internet may not be as much with the ability to publish as it is the

ability to share and connect and create with many, many others

of like minds and interests.

Richardson, Will. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Tools for Classrooms. Corwin, 2006

Web 2.0 – The Read/Write Web

• Describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design

• Simplified online content creation• Users can focus on:

IdeasCreativityCollaborationTechnical know-how unimportantUsually publically accessible

Andy Carvin, Embracing Web 2.0 for an Education 1.0 Universe

Web 2.0 can help you be a

better teacher!

GOOGLE PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

Google Accounts• Many of

Google’s newest tools require you to have a free Google account [which is not the same as a Gmail account].

iGoogle• Personalized homepage for

Google Account holders• It was originally launched in May

2005. • Its features include the

capability to add web feeds and Google Gadgets of particular interest to user

• Custom background themes

Google Toolbar

• Bookmarks• Custom Buttons• Settings on toolbar can be

accessed from any computer with the toolbar

• Download at: http://www.filehippo.com/download_google_toolbar_ie/

Vocabulary Needed!

RSS – “Really Simple Syndication” The ability of web content to be shared

and republished

RSS in Plain English – The Common Craft Show

Vocabulary Needed!• Tags

The subject descriptors given to Web 2.0 based information which can also be used to search out items of interest

Web feed/News feed • Feeds are most commonly used with web sites that are

frequently updated, like blogs and news sites. • By creating a ‘feed’, the author can easily syndicate his or

her content in a format that others can access by subscribing to the feed.

• When the author changes the content on the site, it’s automatically updated on the desktop or web page of every single person who subscribes to that feed.

AGGREGATORS

What is an Aggregator?

•The aggregator holds a list of web sites and resources that offer RSS feeds. When it’s opened the aggregator retrieves the information from each RSS feed page listed.

•Once subscribed to a feed, an aggregator is able to check for new content at user-determined intervals and retrieve the update.

Google Reader•Stay up to dateGoogle Reader constantly checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new content. Whether a site updates daily or monthly, you can be sure that you won't miss a thing.

• Simplify your reading experienceGoogle Reader shows you all of your favorite sites in one convenient place. It's like a personalized inbox for the entire web.

• Discover new contentMillions of sites publish feeds with their latest updates, and the integrated feed search makes it easy to find new content that interests you.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCESGoogle Reader in Plain English Google Reader printable Cheat Sheet for Shortcuts

BLOGS

Blogs• A weblog (usually shortened

to blog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of articles

• Most often, articles are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Blogging is the posting of journal-like pages to a website. These pages can contain photos or media - mainly focus on written thoughts posted to a website.

• Typically, a blog "post" can be "commented" on by others, allowing for discussion on the topic.

Blogs in Plain English

from the Common Craft Show

Courtesy of http://www.weblogcartoons.com/

Math and Science Blogs

• Darren Kuropatwa's AP Calculus AP class blog on Blogger - Winnipeg http://apcalc06.blogspot.com/

• From David Wetzel: http://www.teachscienceandmath.com/

• Math Goodies Blog http://mathgoodies.blogspot.com/

• http://futureofmath.misterteacher.com/blogs2.html

• Mrs. DuBoses Super Science Classhttp://adventuresinscience.edublogs.org/

A great resource to find blogs on any subject

www.blogcatalog.com

AUDIOand Podcasting

Podcasting

• According to Wikipedia, “A podcast is a series of digital-media files which are distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and computers.

• Podcasting is a term coined from the combination of “iPod,” a popular digital audio player, and “broadcast.

• Subscribe to a podcast feed and then have it automatically delivered to your computer when there is a new episode.

Photo Courtesy of Oliver Hartmann

Tech Chick Tips – a podcast I subscribe

to

iTunes – search for podcasts

Other Podcast Directories:

• Podcast Blaster• Podanza• Podcast Alley• Digital Podcast

Creating Podcasts

• Audacity – free, open-source software to record audio

• PodOmatic – storehouse for audio recording

• Blogger – blog to create feed for podcast

• Feedburner – burn the feed

COLLABORATION, PRESENTATIONS

and PRODUCTIVITY

Google Docs & Spreadsheets

docs.google.com• Google Docs &

Spreadsheets is available to everyone with a Google account.

• Docs & Spreadsheets lets you– Upload Word or Excel files or

create new documents and spreadsheets online

– Edit your files online– Invite others to edit your files

online– View the files’ version

histories and roll back to previous versions

– Publish the finished files to the world as web pages or blog posts

– Download the final, edited files as .doc, .rtf, .pdf, .html, and/or .zip files

Google Docs Templates

• Google Docs now has 314 document, spreadsheet, and presentation templates you are free to use.

• You can create a new document from a template by choosing New > From Template…

docs.google.com/templates

WIKIS

Wiki• Wikis are simple web pages that

groups, friends, and families can edit together.

From The Common Craft Show

Wikispaces

• Wikispaces now hosts over 750,000 wikis for over 1,800,000 people.

• Allows educators to have ad-free wikis for classroom use – http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers

• Take a tour - http://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour#introduction

Hardware Reviewhttp://mrshoppy.wikispaces.com/Input+Device

http://tcea2009.wikispaces.com/

Google Sites• Google Sites is a free, online, web editor that lets you easily create your own group websites.

• Google even gives you your own URL [sites.google.com/site/sitename] and 10 GB of storage for your pages and uploaded files.

• Negative: At this point, no code embed feature

Example of a Student Portfolio created in Google

Sites

Other Wiki Resources

• Wikibooks - A Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.

• Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

• wikiHow - The How-to Manual That You Can Edit.

VIDEO

Finding Educational Videos for the Classroom• YouTube• TeacherTube• SchoolTube• National Geographic Videos• The Moving Image Archive• NOVA Science Videos• How Stuff Works Videos

Getting Video Ready to Use

• Many videos don’t come ready for immediate use in the classroom.

• Sometimes download and converting to other formats is necessary.

• My instructions on how to do this are here

AnimotoCreate video from your pictures. Apply for Animoto in Education account for your students and you will be able to create full-length video, instead of the standard 30 second video.

SOCIALBOOKMARKING and NETWORKING

Social Bookmarking

• The ability to save and categorize a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others.

• Users may also take bookmarks saved by others and add them to their own collection, as well as to subscribe to the lists of others.

Social Bookmarking in Plain English

From The Common Craft Show

Diigo

My Bookmarking site of choice

• Save bookmarks under “tags” allowing me to easily look at categories at any time

• Share my bookmarks with my classes or colleagues

• Look at other’s bookmarks for ideas/websites – Look under “Tag Communities”

http://www.diigo.com/user/ahopkins

IMAGES/PHOTOS

Photo Sharing Sites

• Act as online storage spaces for photos, with the ability to tag and organize each photo, as well as publishing anyone the user selects.

• Other users have the opportunity to leave comments for the photographer on any image that has been made available.

• Some photo sharing web sites offer the ability to edit photos online, make notes, post photos to a blog and a variety of other features.

Flickr• Flickr is an image and video hosting

website

• It was one of the earliest Web 2.0 applications – launched in 2004

• In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a

photo warehouse.

• Its popularity has been fueled by its organization tools, which allow photos to be

tagged and browsed.

• It claims to host more than 2 billion images.

Flickr Resources

• Spell with Flickr

• Flickr Toys collection

Students can search on Flickr for pictures licensed under a

Creative Commons license to use in their presentations and digital

stories.

GREAT JOB FLICKR in providing this resource!

Windows MovieMaker project using pictures

from Flickr

Video Courtesy of Samantha Martin

Cool TextCool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an

impressive logo without a lot of design work.

TypoGenerator

Turns a piece of text into a piece of art.

WordleGenerate “word clouds” from text that you

provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.

Thirty Interesting Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom –

http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dhn2vcv5_157dpbsg9c5

Picnik

• Picnik is an online photo

editing service. Currently it can import photos natively from

Facebook, Myspace, Picasa

Web Albums, Flickr, Yahoo Image search and also offers

options to upload from a computer or to upload from a

website.

Photo Courtesy of Lexie King

ORGANIZATION

Dial2do

• Available in 24 Countries• Dial2Do lets you do common tasks by

just calling a number and speaking. Use it to send EMAIL or TEXT messages, record REMINDERS to help you remember things!

Google Calendar

QUIZ AND POLLING

Poll DaddyWith your free

account from PollDaddy you

can create surveys and

polls for your website, blog

and social network profiles.

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Amy Hopkinsahopkins@caddomillsisd.org

Resources for this presentation:http://techisthefuture.wikispaces.com

Resources for another Web 2.0 presentation:http://tcea2009.wikispaces.com