So you want to use Web 2.0 tools in your classroom, but you don't know where to start? Find out what works and what doesn't from some teachers who have tried it all.This podcast is 19:21 minutes long. If you're an ISTE member, you can read the text version of this article in L&L's archive.
Jennifer Perino, director of instructional technology at Peoria Notre Dame High School in Peoria, Illinois, produced this podcast for L&L as part of her internship through Johns Hopkins University.
Enhancing Educational Connections with Web 2.0 Tools
Room 235
Presenter: Mr. Michael George (Fredericksburg Public School)
This session will cover the Wii-mote interactive screen, Flip Video Cameras, Screen Casting with Jing and CamStudio. This session will also demonstrate various free Internet-based resources and how they can be easily be integrated into your class. Participants will have the opportunity to see more than 20 free websites and applications that are available for immediate use.
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Fredericksburg City Public Schools
2300 Washington Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA 22401
(540) 372-1100 x2411
www.cityschools.com
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Imagine you know all about ducks (or elephants, or anything in fact) and you have discovered a lot of cool information on the web you now want to share with all the other duck-addicts. The thing is that this information is spread out on plenty of different sites. You could of course put up your own site or blog and draw the list of the links to all the interesting pages you found. Youd put a comment for each page and give the URL. Your visitors would then browse your page and follow each link and need to come back each time on your page to find the next URL So it would be a load of backwards and forwards but I suppose we are used to that. Now with a track you can do a lot better.
So tracks boil down to simplifying the web and building paths to share with others.
Tracks can be used
http://www.3d3r.com/bubbles/index.php
How about running your favorite web applications as any other desktop program? Bubbles is a free Windows client that lets you access web services from within the desktop. Open services like Gmail, Flickr, Google Calendar… and pretty much any web application without launching your browser.
Features
As mentioned above, Bubbles already comes with a number of preconfigured services and all you need to do is enter login details. However apart from bringing these services to your desktop, Bubbles also adds a number of cool features:
TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any user-supplied text by creating what is popularly known as a tag cloud or text cloud.
Today, text clouds are primarily used for navigation and visualization on Web 2.0 sites that employ user-generated metadata (tags) as a categorization scheme.
Features and uses
Most of the sites I am providing were found on a great website- Go2Web20.net Many of the sites are fun and take a creative mind to implement in to your classroom curriculum. I will be featuring some of them on here and some creative uses for them. Have fun exploring!
