Web+2.0+for++Workshop

= = = Web 2.0 Resources and Applications = = = http://kidblog.org/home.php
 * Blog **

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A blog is an online journal that's used to support a variety of classroom activities. Easy to create Teachers are able to check the blog posts anywhere and anytime. The editing tools are just like the tools in MS. Word and there is a spell check, Images, video and other WEB 2.0 creations can be added to posts. Teachers monitor and can approve all comments and posts. ====== Summarizing a lesson Responding to literature Creative Writing Encourages students to write Describing and image Single or multiple authors News Commentary Diaries Field Reports Travelogues Varying genres http://www.diigo.com/ Diigo is a free social bookmarking, research, and knowledge sharing tool created to mimic the ease of taking notes. What Does Diigo Do? “Diigo allows you to take personal notes and highlight text information on web pages just as you would on a piece of paper. You can then bookmark and save this information for further review, while adding tags to keep everything organized. In bookmarking this information, you can also choose to share with colleagues and friends to allow them to access the web page, view your notes and highlights, and add their own annotations. All of this information is also saved online and can be accessed by any computer or browser.” http://edu.glogster.com/ Glogsters are interactive digital posters made by users from images, text, music and video.  They can also take photos of their original drawings to display in their Glogster. Teachers can sign up to get an educator's account. Then you can create add students. They will have their own account. The company will send teachers their students’ user names and passwords. Students do not need an email in order to have an account.Students projects can be easily linked to your classroom website. Podcasting in Plain English Learn how to create podcasts with Apple's GarageBand. You'll produce your own podcast in this hands-on class. Your podcast will include audio, images, hyperlinks and markers. http://ed.voicethread.com/ A VoiceThread is a multimedia tool that can be used with images, documents and videos and allows people to make comments using voice with a mike, text, audio or video. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world. They can also be embedded on your website. Class VoiceThreads can be created to share work or information. Individuals can also create VoiceThreads. Students do not email to create account. Newton Schools have students’ names to our Voice Thread server.
 * Uses for Blogs **
 * Diigo **
 * Glogster **
 * Podcasting **
 * Voice Thread **

www.wikispaces.com
 * Wikis **

Wikis are web-publishing tools that allows multiple users to create, modify and organize web page content in a collaborative manner. These collaborative websites can be utilized by groups of people simultaneously. Students can have there own usernames and passwords. They can interact with students in other classes, buildings, states and countries. You are able to embed projects onto a Wiki easily. Example: [|Poetry] @http://www.wordle.net/ Wordle is used to generating “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. to save a Wordle, you will need to take a screen shot of it. http://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/wordle.htm http://tagul.com/ Tagul, like Wordle, accepts plain text or an URL, supports multiple fonts inside the same tag, customizable angles for the words, stemming, customizable colors. when you create a word cloud with Tagul, every word in your word cloud is linked to a Google search. Click on any word in your word cloud to be taken directly to a Google search results page for that word. Applications
 * Wordle & Tagul **
 * Tagul **

** Digital Imaging ** Participants will learn the importance of visual literacy and will also learn how to import digital images from cameras, scanners and the Web. They will use tools such as Picasa to manipulate, enhance and store images on PC. Mac users will use the IPhoto tool. (NOTE: Feel free to bring your own digital camera to this workshop to practice uploading pictures onto your laptop.) ** Excel ** This workshop is intended for those getting started with this powerful spreadsheet program. You will learn how to enter data, how to create simple formulas, how to create charts and graphs, how to print, plus a few more how tips. It's a great introduction, and will get you on your way to using http://www.google.com/earth/index.html “Google Earth lets you fly anywhere to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, galaxies in outer space, and the depths of the ocean.” Learn how to find any location on our planet and the sky. Placemarks Descriptions of places Pictures of places Audio telling about places Music Layers, 3-D Buildings, and many other special features Embedded projects such as VoicThreads for certain places
 * Google Earth **
 * Tours can include: **