A presentation for Los Padres CATESOL conference

1. Unlocking Creativity: Bridging the Digital Divde Developed by Susan Gaer October 10, 2009 Los Padres CATESOL Chapter Conference 2009

3. Start Now! What is Web 2.0? How many Web 2.0 tools can you name?

4. How many of these 2.0 Tools did you know?

5. human-computer interaction personal connections--from words, pictures, video, and audio authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication open, flexible collaboration data and applications opened to creative use by the public harnessing collective intelligence collaboration/participation/collective intelligence second generation of services Web as a platform the wisdom of crowds creative amateur is cherished “ democratizes” media amoral authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication collective judgments user-generated content safety in numbers participative Web collective power community Web changing from “medium” to “platform” user actions provide value architecture of participation bookmarking >>> social bookmarking transparent selves…transparent Web interactive, community-based Internet applications How does it unlock creativity?

6. Photo Sharing Collaborative Projects Collages Albums Descriptions Writing Prompts Blogs/Wikis Class Roster School/Class Events Scrapbooking Digital Photo Stories

8. Sharing Videos List of video sharing sites ViewPoint : Embedable videos

9. Unlocking Creativity with Video Sharing? Video Dictionary Video Ring tones for your phone

11. Sharing Documents to unlock creativity http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =BArOImjtG2M

12. Blogs and Wikis Larry Ferlazzo Creativity in Writing

14. Podcasting from your Cellphone 646-495-9215 x 66112 “ Record your podcast via a call from any phone. Never even touch a computer!” Need a toll free number? Gabcast gives you 5 minutes free and it costs $10.00 for 100 minutes. http://www.gabcast.com

16. Social Networks Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009

17. Miscellaneous Dr. John Thompson - TCEA 2009 “ online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.” -- group audio blogging to enhance group communication and reflection “ captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere” “ Enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. Customize your Voki to look like you…Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone.”

20. Dare to unlock creativity