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Web 2.0 Tools For Grade 2

Easy-Peasy sites to

support reading and writing

while developing tech literacy skills

Ellen Robertson ,facilitator

30 second

storymaker

+Padlethttp://padlet.com/

Try it as a student: http://padlet.com/erobertson/jqa-holiday

It’s a digital corkboard

Don’t even have to sign up (but if you do sign up for a free account you can save all your padlet boards)

Teachers can use it for:Story starters, brainstorming, word of the day, whole class collaboration

Make one for your class to give them writing and keyboarding practice

What are your ideas for use in your curriculum?

+Big HUGE Labs

http://bighugelabs.com/

Lots of “creation” tools here but look at MOTIVATOR and TRADING CARD and POCKET ALBUM tools for ELA activities.

Try it out:

Create a MOTIVATOR poster as an exemplar of an activity you would have your students do

Create an autobiographical TRADING CARD: take your photo using the PhotoBooth application on your Mac Air. Title it with your name. Sub-title it “all about me”. Fill in the autobiographical poem outline as your description—be brief!

Use POCKET ALBUM to create a foldable book. First use PowerPoint to create 8 slides of information. Export as jpg. Upload your 8 slides as your “photos”

What are your ideas for use in your curriculum?

+Comic Creatorhttp://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/

VERY simple cartoon maker—great for students explaining a

concept, formative assessments, acting as a character from a

story

You can print it out or save it as a PDF file

You try it: Create a two pane comic. One character in the first

pane and a different in the second frame. Have each character

introduce themselves, telling the other how they are feeling

today.

What are your ideas for use in your curriculum?

+CartoonMakerhttp://www.cambridgeenglishonline.com/Cartoon_Maker/CM/

A bit more sophisticated than Comic Creator. Great for story

starters and creative writing, students explaining a concept,

formative assessments.

You try it: Create a character description. Place your character

in an appropriate setting. Add a speech bubble where they

introduce themselves. Then add a caption in which you

describe them (what the character is like, what they like to do,

what they like to eat ,where they live etc)

What are your ideas for use in your curriculum?

+My StoryMakerhttp://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/storymaker/

Great for creative writing (from Carnegie Mellon Institute)

children select and control characters and objects as they use them to build a story.

A title and then sentences are created for them based on the characters and objects they have selected for their story.

The automatic creation of words and sentences makes this Web 2.0 teaching tool a great digital storytelling site for young children not yet adept at spelling and writing sentences.

Stories can be saved and printed in a .pdf format.

You try---create the silliest story you can and save it as a PDF file.

What are your ideas for use in your curriculum?

+Readathon

30 Second StoryMakerhttp://www.readathon.org/you-are-a-30-second-author/

Use Storymaker to create an original short story in less than a minute.

Like Mad Libs

Lends itself to working in groups---one child creates and then the other reads the results.

Save results by taking a screen shot (on a Mac click the shift-command-4 sequence of keys).

What are your ideas for use in your curriculum?

+Voki and Vocaroohttp://www.voki.com/create.php

http://vocaroo.com/

Have robots read your story to you!

What are your ideas for use in your curriculum?