3.2 Activity: Collaborative Presentation of Web 2.0 Tools (Portfolio Assignment)

Group 1Susana Callon

Mary Kay DavidsonDaren GilbertCasie Husby

Talisha TolliverHenry FeslerGeri Ayoade

Hank Fesler

SlideShare: “Like YouTube, but for slideshows”

SlideShare is a Web2.0 based slide hosting service. Users can upload filesin a variety of formats (PowerPoint, PDF,Keynote, or OpenDocument) for presentations. Documents can then be viewed on the SlideShare site, on hand held technology, or embedded on other sites.www.slideshare.net

SlideShare: Tool To Support Student Learning

Slideshare can support the three highest levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy: Analyze, Evaluate, and Create

Through creation of a slide presentation, students can analyze and evaluate a theme or an issue in a variety of disciplines both while working in groups and while observing and grading the work of other presentations.

SlideShare: - Student Sample

Anchor Standard 7:

(Through creation and sharing of slide presentations), students can integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.

The following slide is an example of a student presentation on philosophy and literature following World War II.

NOTE: This slide would be created in Google Slides (or another program) and then uploaded to SlideShare as part of a presentation. SlideShare is not a platform for the creation of slides themselves. The slides may be uploaded directly from the user’s computer or from the cloud via Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, OneDrive, Gmail, or a link (URL). The uploading system is powered by Filepicker.io.

Andre Maurois on Jean-Paul SartreIn “My American Journal”, Maurois tells us his thinking concerning existentialism (in 1946):“Existentialism, as presented by certain American magazines, seemed a faddish doctrine, without depth...But this [Sartre, “Is Existentialism Humanism”] is a serious, substantial piece of writing...[For instance:] ‘Man’s honor is acting the truth rather than awaiting it.’...These are not doctrines of despair, but sound and stimulating principles.” Andre Maurois Jean-Paul Sartre

Collaborize Classroom Presented by Susana Callon

http://www.collaborizeclassroom.com

Collaborize Classroom is a collaborative Web 2.0 tool. Users receive structured conversations, are able to attach documents, pictures and videos, and teachers receive results and reports of student participation and engagement to save time and enhance learning.

Collaborize Classroom-Support Student Learning

Collaborize Classroom can support higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy:

Create and Analyze

The assignment and grade level would determine the level of

cognition

Through online discussions, students can create and/or analyze: higher level questions, post comments and vote on critical thinking topics

Collaborize Classroom:Anchor Standard 6

*Student Sample Discussion created on slide 3Anchor Standard 6: Use technology, including the internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others with a discussion topic. The discussion topic I created was meant for students to start thinking about their decision to go to college to help them create their digital college portfolios.

Storify by Daren Gilbert

Storify users tell stories by collecting updates from social networks,

amplifying the voices that matter to create a new story format that is

interactive, dynamic and social. Discover meaningful social media from

the best storytellers online, including journalists, bloggers, editors and

people like you, too.

https://storify.com/

Storify - An Above Average Web 2.0 Learning Tool

Students can synthesize, plan and produce visual and narrative presentations individually or collaborate with groups.By creating first class presentations students can analyze and evaluate art, poems, photos, and videos.Storify allows students to create, analyze, and evaluate, by curating social networks to build social stories, bringing together media scattered across the web into a coherent narrative.

Anchor Standard 7:Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.

Students are to Compare and Contrast attack detection technology from WWII and the War on Iraq

Presented by Talisha Tolliver

live link!

Usage and Standards

Bloom’s Taxonomy:ApplyingStudents can use animoto to present what they have learned in an exciting way.

Media/Technology Specific Standards in the College and Career

Readiness Anchor Standards

Speaking & Listening: SL.CCR.2

Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and

formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.