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Web 2.0 Resources for
Your ClassroomAmy Hopkins
Caddo Mills [email protected]
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Web 2.0 Words are Weird!
Comedian Kevin Nalts on His Favorite Web 2.0 Words - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPYLn2QblNI&feature=related
Resources for this presentation:
http://tcea2009.wikispaces.com
What is Web 2.0?
The term "Web 2.0" describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim 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
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
Vocabulary Needed!• Tags
The subject descriptors given to Web 2.0 based information which can also be used to search out items of interest
• 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
• RSS – “Really Simple Syndication” The ability of web content to be shared and republished
• Web feed/News feed a URL that Web 2.0 content creators obtain to allow users to “subscribe” to the content on the site
• Aggregator/News ReaderA Web-based or computer-based program that allows you to have your “subscriptions” automatically delivered and all to one place
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].
• To create a new Google account, – Go to
google.com/accounts– Click the “Create an
account now” link– Follow the on-screen
prompts
No email addresses? Try Gaggle!
•If your students don’t [or can’t] have their own email addresses, you can create a free set of classroom email addresses at gaggle.net.•You can then use these email addresses to create a free set of classroom Google accounts.
gaggle.net
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://toolbar.google.com/T5/intl/en/index.html
Web 2.0 Categories
• Aggregators• Audio Tools • Collaboration Tools • Converting Tools • Drawing Tools • Graphing Tools • Image Tools • Mapping Tools
• Music Tools • Organization Tools • Presentation Tools • Quiz and Polling To
ols
• Research Tools • Slideshow Tools • Video Tools • Word Processing &
Productivity• Writing Tools
AGGREGATORS
What is an Aggregator?
• Aggregators reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites for updates, creating a unique information space or "personal newspaper.”
•Once subscribed to a feed, an aggregator is able to check for new content at user-determined intervals and retrieve the update.
Vocabulary Needed!• Tags
The subject descriptors given to Web 2.0 based information which can also be used to search out items of interest
• RSS – “Really Simple Syndication” The ability of web content to be shared and republished
• Web feed/News feed a URL that Web 2.0 content creators obtain to allow users to “subscribe” to the content on the site
• Aggregator/News ReaderA Web-based or computer-based program that allows you to have your “subscriptions” automatically delivered and all to one place
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
Pageflakes•The site is organized into tabs, each tab containing user-selected modules called Flakes.
•Each Flake varies in content; information such as RSS/Atom feeds, Calendar, Notes, Web search, weather forecast, del.icio.us bookmarks, Flickr photos, social networking tools like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, email and user-created modules.
•Pageflakes has 250,000 Flakes and over 130,000 Pagecasts (publicly shared pages created by users with individual URLs).
AUDIOand Podcasting
VokiVoki enables users to express themselves on the web in their
own voice using a talking character.
You can customize your Voki to look like you or take on the identity of lots of other types of characters…
animals, monsters, anime etc.
Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via
microphone, upload, or phone.
Read the Words
Users of this service can generate a clear sounding audio file from almost
any written material.
Read the Words.com generates a voice that reads the words that you request.
Podcast
• 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.
• Podcasts are audio files that are delivered over the Internet and then played back on a computer or portable audio player.
• Podcasting is a term coined from the combination of “iPod,” a popular digital audio player, and “broadcast. You can 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
GcastGCast is a site that lets you
create and store podcasts.
Using code from Gcast you can even add your
podcasts to your Web site.
Great Podcasting Resources
Follow these instructions to learn how to take your audio recording and turn it into a real
podcast!• Blogging with Blogger and Feedburner -
http://www.learninginhand.com/podcasting/blogger-feedburner.html
• How to Make your Internet Broadcast a Podcast from Mr. Coley's Classroom - http://mrcoley.com/coleycast/podcastinfo2.htm
COLLABORATION
Wikispaces• Wikis are simple web pages that
groups, friends, and families can edit together.
• Wikispaces now hosts over 750,000 wikis for over 1,800,000 people.
• Take a tour - http://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour#introduction
Hardware Reviewhttp://mrshoppy.wikispaces.com/Input+Device
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
CONVERTING
ZamzarConvert any type of files, including Youtube.
Email notification when ready, pick up from the site.
Media-ConvertConvert almost any file (document, image,
video, etc) to almost any file format. Upload from your computer or from URL. Instantly
available for download.
DRAWING
Sumo Paint
Picture Courtesy of CJ Tawater
Sumo Paint is a free image
editing software that gives you the
opportunity to create, edit and comment images
online with powerful tools
and layer support.
Go AnimateGoAnimate.com is an entertainment
website that enables the simple creation of unique computer animated stories, satires
and sentiments that can be shared with the entire online community.
QueekyQueeky is an online drawing community with unique drawing tools and creative users from all around the world.
CC License - Z22
DoppelMeCreate a cool graphical
likeness of yourself, your friends, family or any group of people
for use as an avatar in forums, instant
messenger, blogs and almost anywhere else
on the web.
IMAGE
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.
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.
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
MUSIC
Mixter
ccMixter.org is a community music site that promotes remix culture and
makes samples, remixes, and a cappella tracks licensed under Creative Commons available for download and re-use in creative
works.
Jamendo• Jamendo is a community of free, legal and
unlimited music published
under Creative Commons licenses.
• Share your music,
download your favorite artists!
Garageband• GarageBand.com
is a large online community of
independent musicians and music
fans.
• Founded in 1999, the site is used by
musicians who seek greater exposure
• The site is also used by music fans
to discover new independent artists
in the site's vast collection.
• Some is Creative Commons-
licensed music content
Good Times by Kevin Mitchum
ORGANIZATION
GliffyWith Gliffy online diagram software, you can easily create professional-looking flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings, and
more.
Webspiration
Whether working
individually or
collaboratively,
Webspiration is the new online visual
thinking tool.
JottLets you "phone it in"
and it emails you the message. Or you can call in
appointments to your Google
Calendar, add check list items to
your Remember the Milk to-do list,
order titles from Amazon, and/or
post items to your blog.
PRESENTATIONS
Presentations in Google Docs
• As of September 2007, Google Docs also lets you collaboratively create, edit, and share PowerPoint-type presentations.
• You can import existing presentations or use the on-screen slide editor.
Courtesy of www.google.com
Zoho ShowAlmost any presentations
that you create using your
desktop software, can now be done
with Zoho Show.
•Themes•Shapes and
symbols•Text editing
•Bullets & numbering•Clipart and
more
•No transitions, but
they are working on it!
280 Slides• Create beautiful presentations or
upload existing documents and access them from anywhere
• Add photos from Flickr and videos and YouTube
• Download to PowerPoint or embed in a website.
QUIZ AND POLLING
Poll DaddyWith your free
account from PollDaddy you
can create surveys and
polls for your website, blog
and social network profiles.
RESEARCH
Google Notebook• Google Notebook is a
free research tool, available to everyone with a Google account, that lets you create a notebook of your online discoveries – quotes, images, etc.
• Think of this as Google’s 3x5 index cards for internet research.
• As of January, Google has discontinued support of Notebook! If you already have an account, you continue access.
google.com/notebook
SLIDESHOW
GlogsterGlogster is a new
service that lets users create web pages (they call them posters) using Flash
elements. Upload photos, songs, text
and other stuff, drag it around,
embed the poster or share it with
friends.
VIDEO
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.
JingJing is a free screen capture program you can download to your computer, which you
can use to take snapshots, or record whatever you are doing.
Files save as .swf files – need to be convertedOr
Upgrade to Jing Pro – saves as smaller, .mp4 files
WORD PROCESSING & 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
Letter PopUse LetterPop to create
eye-popping newsletters, presentations, invitations,
product features, event summaries, club updates,
picture collages, and a whole lot more.
NON-Web 2.0 That I Have to Mention!
• Format Factory – free download that converts files
• Inkscape – open source alternative to Adobe Illustrator
AudacityAudacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
My students use it to:• Record their voices for multimedia projects• To cut down copyrighted songs into portions they can legally use in projects.
Download at: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ To save as .mp3 files, also download the Lame Encoder at :http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/
Save audio as .mp3 or .wav
Student Example using PowerPoint and Audacity
Sara's Fable
Google Sketchup
Picture Courtesy of Asa Pelt
A 3D software tool that combines a tool-set with an intelligent drawing
system. Enables to place models using real-world coordinates.
Create, modify and share 3D models.
Picture Courtesy of Michael Craig
WORKS CITED• "Podcast." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 23 Jan 2009, 23:03 UTC. 25 Jan 2009
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Podcast&oldid=266008188>.
• "GarageBand.com." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 2 Jan 2009, 03:29 UTC. 26 Jan 2009 <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GarageBand.com&oldid=261381266>.
• "CcMixter." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 19 Jan 2009, 09:22 UTC. 26 Jan 2009 <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CcMixter&oldid=265047264>.
• "Flickr." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 25 Jan 2009, 13:35 UTC. 26 Jan 2009 <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flickr&oldid=266310181>.
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• Mitchum, Kevin . "Band Profile - Kevin Mitchum." Good Times. 25 Jan. 2009 <www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSiYVizYG4>.
• Schrock, Kathy. "Web 2.0 Tools:Communicate, Collaborate,Compose, Create and Contribute." Web 2.0. 19 Jan. 2009 <kathyschrock.net/web20/schrock_web20.pdf>.
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Amy HopkinsCaddo Mills ISD
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