This document provides a summary of various digital tools that can be used in the classroom, as presented by Michael Swirsky and Ellen Phillips. It discusses tools for embedding documents and linking to other websites. It then describes 13 different digital tools, including websites for creating flash activities, multimedia lessons, tag clouds, historical maps with stories, programming games with Scratch, using BBC Dimensions to explore scale, quoting text from websites, getting narrated overviews with Qwiki, highlighting text for definitions, collaborating in real-time with DimDim, conducting video conferences with Wetoku, and contacting the presenters. For each tool, it provides the URL and suggestions for how it could be used in the classroom.
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Wild Wacky and Worthy Web 2.0 Tools for the Classroom
1. Presenters: Michael Swirsky and Ellen Phillips,
Instructional Technology Specialists,
Office of Educational Technology, Queens
NYCDOE
Tools for Schools
2. Embedding
• Embedding allows another part of the Internet
to live on your site
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(Similar to an
embedded
reporter in a
war zone)
3. Linking to a URL
• The URL Link directs you to another website
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5. In the Classroom
• Embed source documents on your site
• Embed assignments
• Embed school/class newsletters
• Embed student work
• Here’s an example
7. • Accepts assorted document types in one player
and will tab each document.
• Customize permissions for printing and
downloading
• Generates an embed code and a URL
• Your viewers do not need third party software
like Adobe Acrobat to read PDFs, etc.
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In The Classroom:
•Create Flash Activities based on topic and thinking skills
•Find created Flash activities based on topic and/or thinking
skills i.e. create an activity that focuses on an historical era
and drill down even further to find one that focuses on
interpreting data.
•The activities can be a great place to differentiate learning
for all levels of students.
10. http://www.hippocampus.org
Free multimedia lessons and course materials
•Free Interdisciplinary multimedia lesson database
•Provides you with pre build courses that unit ad lesson plans or select specific topics to enrich
lessons.
•Contains a wide range of content areas, supplementing existing classroom resources
•Add your own annotations to lessons.
•Spanish content for Algebra and Calculus
12. In the Classroom
• Organized by Topics, Courses, Text and Mini Site
• Great for differentiation
• 24/7 learning
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13. www.tagxedo.com
What does it do?
Tagxedo turns words -- famous
speeches, news articles, slogans
and themes, even your love letters
-- into a visually stunning tag cloud,
words individually sized
appropriately to highlight the
frequencies of occurrence within the
body of text.
14. Compare Similar Documents
Use option "Deja Vu" to show identical words in the same color
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
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•make tag clouds in real-time,
•save the tag cloud as an image for printing and sharing
•choose from many different fonts
•quickly switch between different colors and themes
•constrain the cloud to selected shapes (heart, star, cloud, oval,
etc)
•use images as custom shapes
16. In the Classroom:
101 ways to use Tagxedo.
http://blog.tagxedo.com/101-ways-to-use-tagxedo-completed
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•A great marriage of photos (old and new) and
maps
•Access with a Google account
•Learn history and add to history
•You can read/write the stories
•Search the map by topic, date or keyword
http://www.historypin.com
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In The Classroom:
•Students can research local photos on the map and
read/write about them.
•Students upload old photos and add their stories to the
map
•Student can add comments to existing stories on the map
•Compare past and present through photos and stories on
the map by using streetview.
20. Scratched.media.mit.edu
•Scratch is a graphical programming language that students can use to
create animations, simulations, games, interactive projects, stories,
etc.
•Fosters creativity, thinking and problem solving and technology
fluency
•Communication and Collaboration: Scratch community encourages
global sharing
and remixing Scratch programs is encouraged
•Resources for educators at the Scratched site
21. • Choose old-style video game and have small groups of
students program their own versions
• Student can program animations of book reports and stories
• Simulate a scientific process i.e. the water cycle, food chain,
etc.
• Used in Lego Robotics program
• For more information: Learning How to Make a Game
(http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Mick/10482) and
(http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/view/93770)
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In The Classroom
23. In the Classroom:
• Bring home the human scale of events
and places in history
• Helps communicate history in a way that
connects with your students’ lives
• Coming soon: Create your own maps
• Here’s an example
BBC Dimensions
25. •“kwout” is a plug in for the Firefox browser
•“kwout” lets you quote a part of a web page as a image with
an image map. Links stay “live.”
•Generates an embed code
•Can be shared with a click to social networking sites
(Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
•Allows for annotation
Kwout.com
26. In the Classroom
•Students can take direct quotes from web pages and embed
them on site.
•Embed teacher-created Kwouts as prompts for blog posts or
free writing
•Non-readers can “see” the sites in a Kwout and know where to
click
•Link Kwout URL to Google Map placemarks for students to get
additional information/perspectives on a topic.
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In the classroom:
•Provide a narrated experience complete with images
•Text can accompany narration
•Images can be downloaded
•Provides an engaging visual overview of a topic with
related links and additional resources.
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Their mission is to bring users the best information on the Web for
any topic, employing human insight and methodical review.
SweetSearch4Me is our search engine for emerging learners.
SweetSearch2Day is where students Learn Something New Every Day.
Visit SweetSearch for School Librarians for content that helps students use the
Web effectively.
Visit our SweetSites for teachers and students, organized by subject and academic
level.
Visit SweetSearch Biographies for profiles of 1,000+ significant people.
Visit SweetSearch Social Studies for our best social studies content.
31. Giving readers the power to search and explore rich content and media fromGiving readers the power to search and explore rich content and media from
the web without even leaving the page.the web without even leaving the page.
•Works by installing a plug in
•Highlight any word on a page and get search results in a pop up
box from Google, Bing Wikipedia, YouTube, Google Images
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In The Classroom
•Great for vocabulary understanding
•Differentiates the learning, helping struggling readers
•Have your students go to an article at NYTimes.com and
highlight several names mentioned in the article.
•Have them share what they learned about those people and
their relevance to the article.
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35. •Real-time multi-user online whiteboard.
•Live audio, image collaboration, text-chat
•No download required
•Permissions allow for locking and privacy
•Easy on-the-fly invites to the room
36. In The Classroom:
•Global collaboration on project planning
•Online homework help/tutoring
•Upload Flickr images to spark discussion
•Embed a room on your blog as a collaborative workspace for students to
respond to a post
•Link a room to a Google Map placemark for student response/work
•Archive student work in a room by locking and linking
37. Two way video side by side conference
http://www.wetoku.com
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A great way to have a show on your website or
blog
Embed a live conference
Record and archive
interviews.
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In The Classroom:
•Invite an expert into your classroom
•Interview an author
•Have your students role play an interview, or debate, record and
embed on your wiki, blog or website.
•Use it to conference with a parent
•Use it to tutor a child
•The possibilities are endless
Here’s an example
