This presentation aims to show that there are wonderful, free resources on the web that can inspire both teachers and students

1. Reading, Writing and Web 2.0 make a great team! (Rasa Conference 2011) Presented by Fiona Beal fionabeal@gmail.com http://fionabeal.edublogs.org http://schoolnetsa.blogspot.com

2. Web 2.0: Amazing free, easy to use interactive programmeshttp://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

3. Introducingmyself Teacher, web 2.0 ‘fanatic’ and passionate about integrating the curriculum with technology. Have taught Grades 1 – 7 as a class teacher, and thereafter a computer teacher at FishhoekPrimary. From 1 October will be working for SchoolNet with professional development for its premium members Life was revolutionised in 2009 by blogging and discovering a whole educational community ‘out there’. Winner of Innovative Teacher 2009 in SA. Winning place in Pan African Finals in Mauritius and participated in World Finals in Brazil. 1 of 50 teachers selected to attend partners in Learning Institute week in Seattle in July 2011 Textbook writer

4. Outcome for this session To show how Web 2 can be a fantastic literacy resource both for students and for teachers.

5. Current scenario Digital natives (learners under 18) and digital immigrants (us). Do we teach to our past or our learners’ futures?

6. Technologyis not the wave of the future – it is the tsunami of the present. (Janice M. Rolle)

7. Creativewritinga) In the classroomb) In the computer lab

11. Stories made using PowerPoint

12. The Grade 5 bookbinding team at work

13. In computer lessons we created a reading scheme of 80 books from Grade 1 – Grade 7 for Steenberg Primary School

14. Creativewritingc) as an e-bookd) collaboratingwithclasses fromother countries

15. This is what it looks like in Slideboom.com

16. UsingiEtherpad Pad to createcircle storieshttp://ietherpad.com

17. We sent codes from to Canada and then Argentine

18. Our two and three-nation collaborative writing project These can be read from http://slideboom.com itself following a link. http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/94941/The-Secret 2. They can be embedded in a blog. http://fionabeal.edublogs.org/our-three-nation-story-writing-project/ They can be uploaded to a website http://www.sanandres.esc.edu.ar/olivosp/extranet2009/6to/globalwriting/index.htm

20. Creativewritinge) using Google images and a different e-book programme

21. Ideas using youblisher.com http://elk-grade6-stories.wikispaces.com – Karen Stadler’s project

22. Creativewritingf) Creating and sending Flat Stanleys to another class alongwith a week’sdiary

25. Story-starter sites

26. Use a programme likehttp://www.wallwisher.com

27. http://www.thestorystarter.com/jr.htm

28. http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/#

29. Storyboard generatorhttp://generator.acmi.net.au/storyboard/interactive

30. Online creativewriting sites

31. Storyjumperhttp://www.storyjumper.com This is a free flip-page book withartworkattached. You can enter a whole class to have these e-books

32. A sample from Tamsyn in Grade 5

33. A sample from Tamsyn in Grade 5 http://www.storyjumper.com/book/index/572294/4c68afedee407

34. Storybirdhttp://www.storybird.com This is a free online writing programme withloads of beautiful art to getyouthinking and creating an e-book.

35. Storybird http://fionabeal.edublogs.org/2011/05/25/fun-using-storybird/

36. Artisan’s Picture Book http://artisancam.org.uk This is a free online writing programme whichisgreat for the youngerleaeners

42. LittleBird Taleshttp://littlebirdtales.com/http://fionabeal.edublogs.org/2011/05/10/we-loved-using-little-bird-tales-today/ This is a free online writing programme which has a place for the learners to drawtheirownilluatrations.

43. Sites using photosin a fun way http://www.picjoke.com http://photofunia.com http://piclits.com

45. http://www.piclit.com

46. Using a blog to create a story

47. http://5bwrites.blogspot.com/

48. Use fake Facebook and Twittertemplates

49. http://www.myfakewall.com/

51. A template and rubric to usehttp://bit.ly/nx19ET

52. http://faketweetbuilder.com/

53. Using Wikis for creative writing

54. http://graystonprep-grade6-english.wikispaces.com/The+Write+Stuff

55. http://writingpals.wikispaces.com/

56. Writing a class novel using a wiki http://yrps5m.wikispaces.com/Welcome

58. Vocabulary-building sites

59. http://www.tagxeedo.com

60. Online newspapers

61. http://globalnewspaper.wikispaces.com/

62. http://cyber-kap.blogspot.com/

63. Poetry

64. http://www.gigglepoetry.com/index.aspx

65. http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/flash_pie.htm

66. Listening to reading

67. Vocaroo.comhttp://vocaroo.com

68. Download to keep forever

69. Reading sites

70. http://askatechteacher.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/weekend-website-51-17-story-sites-for-first-and-second-grade/

71. http://www.starfall.com/

72. http://www.highlightskids.com/Stories/Rebus/rebus_theNoise0705/0705_theNoise.asp

73. http://www.watertowncsd.org/index.cfm?bid=5&cid=3927

74. http://www.storylineonline.net/

75. http://en.childrenslibrary.org/

76. More Reading sites http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=61940 http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/genre/Children/all http://studentdigitaltools.wordpress.com/reading/ http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/50-places-free-books-online.htm

77. Book reviews

78. http://www.scholastic.com/kids/homework/sandwich.asp

79. http://www.booktrailersforreaders.com/Home+Student+Book+Trailers

80. Use a blog to write book reportshttp://josephr4.edublogs.org/2010/07/19/my-report/

81. Further down in the same blog

82. More book report ideas This whole blog called ‘Watch, Connect, Read” is devoted to different types of book reports: http://mrschureads.blogspot.com/ This blog post gives ten alternatives to the traditional book reports: http://theapple.monster.com/benefits/articles/8529-10-technology-enhanced-alternatives-to-book-reports

83. How canweachievethis? 1. A few computers in a classroomlinkedwith Microsoft Sharepoint http://schoolnetsa.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-are-south-african-schools-faring-in.html

84. 2. A bank of mobile netbooksthatcanbebooked for use. 3. Schoolsstart to employtechnologyintegrationspecialists. e.g.Elkanah Househttp://karenstadler.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/bett_competition-entry_elkanahsp.pdf THE END