Web 2.0 tools that are great for use in the classroom.

1. Transforming your Classroom with Web 2.0
Jan Coley
Jefferson County Schools
http://jc-schools.net

2. Purpose and Objectives
Examine applications that are easy to access and user-friendly.
Web 2.0 tools for the classroom
– Wordle Free and open-source softwar
– Visuword – Porta
– Create a Graph – Photo Story 3
– Quizlet
– Kerpoof Virtual Labs
– Scoreboard
– Gliffy Favorite online applications and
– Slideshare games
– Animoto
– Photoshop.com
– Pixlr
– Scoreboard

3. You Are Teaching in an Age of Digital
Learners

4. New Tools for the Classroom
Podcasting Web 2.0
Digital
Storytelling Streaming
Media
Distance Web lessons
Learning and tutorials

5. Web 2.0 – What is it?
• Web 2.0 is an expression which was used for the first time in
2004 by Tim O`Reilly. The main characteristics of new era in
Internet is connected with its constant development and
delivering services tailored to the needs of each user.
• Associated with web applications that facilitate interactive
information sharing, interoperability, and user-centered.

6. WEB 2.0
• A term used to describe a new generation of Web
services and applications with an increasing
emphasis on human collaboration
• These usually include tools that let people
collaborate and share information online

7. Web 2.0 – Why use it in education?
What are the advantages?
– Works with all Platform – Easy to share
– No software purchases – Engages students
or downloads – Pride of ownership
– Available anywhere, – Provides an avenue for
anytime collaboration with
– Allows the additions of professionals in all fields
tags, which in turn as well as other
makes searchable. students.

8. WEB 2.0
• What are the disadvantages?
– Internet may be down when you need to use
this.
– Often cannot save to a local computer
– Correctness of information
– Privacy issues

9. Wordle
www.wordle.net
Wordle is a toy for 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

10. Educational Uses
• Vocabulary
• Review
• Scrambled sentences
• Surveys
• News Items
• Book reviews

11. Visuword
http://mpcollab.org/MPbeta1/node/1720
Online graphical
dictionary that provides
meanings and word
relationships.

12. Educational Uses
• Illustrates relationships of words
– Synonyms and homonym
– Nous, verbs, adjectives, adverbs
• Great for English language learners
• Serves as a dictionary and thesaurus.
• Visuword combines a web 2.0 type visualization
tool with Princeton University’s opensource
WordNet database to create an interactive click
and drag type tool that is free for everyone to
use.

13. Quizlet
quizlet.com (Web 2.0)
TN 6th grade science academic vocabulary

14. Quizlet

15. Animoto
http://animoto.com
Animoto for Educators

16. Create a Graph

17. Gliffy
http://www.gliffy.com/

18. SlideShare
www.slideshare.net
• Allow the online
sharing of PowerPoint
presentations, Word
documents, and PDF
files.
• The files may be shared
either publicly or
privately.

19. Kerpoof
• Spell A Picture
• Make A Picture
• Make A Movie
• Make A Card
• Make A Story
• Doodle Pad
• Make A Drawing

20. Photoshop.com
http://www.photoshop.com/
• Create and account
• Select Online Editor
• Edit pictures

21. Tools Available

22. Pixlr Pixlr Express
http://www.pixlr.com/express/ http://www.pixlr.com/express/
For
Beginners
Blog with tutorial or a Quick
Additional tutorial Fix

23. SCOREBOARD
http://www.triptico.co.uk/resources/scoreboard/scoreboard.html

24. Free but must download
software

25. Do PDF
• http://www.dopdf.com/
• Installs a virtual printer on local computer
• doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal
and commercial use. Using doPDF you can
create PDF files by selecting the "Print"
command from virtually any application.

26. ClamWin Portable
• antivirus to go
• ClamWin Portable is the popular ClamWin
antivirus packaged as a portable app, so you
can take your antivirus with you to scan files on
the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive,
iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on
any computer, without leaving any personal
information behind.

27. Porta
• Porta is an open source, hassle-free photo
album generator for web pages.
• It is fast and easy to use.
• It maybe downloaded from
http://stegmann.dk/mikkel/porta/
example tutorial

28. iTunes U
• http://www.apple.com/
education/guidedtours/i
tunesu.html
• Part of the iTunes store
• Educational, audio, and
video content
• Most popular
downloads
• Contents categories
• By University

29. Photo Story 3
Photo Story 3 is a free • Digital Storytelling
download from • Class projects
Microsoft.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/us
• Individual student
ing/digitalphotography/photostory/def projects
ault.mspx
• Communication of
content knowledge
example Student Instructional
created example • Communication with
community and
parents
tutorial

30. Cool Features
• Touch-up • Create music
• Crop • Use music from other
• Rotate pictures sources
• Remove red-eye
• Add special effects
• Add soundtracks
• Add narration

32. Educational Uses
• Early language learners or English language
learners can associate images with words
• Create a student portfolio
• Post images of field trips, projects, school
events
• Show, create, or describe a process

33. Audacity
• Free, fully
functional
multi-track
audio editor
• http://audacity.sour
ceforge.net/
example tutorial

34. YouTube
• Ways to Use YouTube in the classroom:
– YouTube downloader – changes to QuickTime
format
• http://download.cnet.com/YouTube-Downloader/3000-
2071_4-10647340.html?tag=mncol
– YouTube downloader – changes to AVI and format
• http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-
YouTube-Download.htm
Fast Math Trick
Ma and Pa Kettle Math

35. • Go to the video (you should be viewing it) Type
pwn in the address line after the www For
example if the video is at this address:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxsOVK4syx
U After the www type:
http://www.pwnyoutube.com/watch?v=RxsOVK
4syxU On the next screen, click to download:
Download High Quality Video (MP4) This may
take a while depending on the length of the
video and your internet speed.

36. Jing http://jingproject.com
• Jing tutorial
• What is Jing and how to install it.
• Download Jing

37. World Wide Telescope (Web 2.0)

38. Molecular Workbench
http://workbench.concord.org/

39. The ChemCollective

40. Favorite Math & Science
Websites

41. Exploratorium
National Science Digital Library
Newspaper Bridges
Online Activities
• Site includes:
– Treasure Trove
– Learning Resources Library from
National Science Digital Library
(NSDL).
– Special Collections including a
microscope imaging station, math
explorer database, webcasts,
podcasts and media downloads

42. Thinkfinity.org

43. Favorites from Thinkfinity
• Comic Creator http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/
• Perfect Pitch http://www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org/perfectpitch/
• Marble Mania
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/marble/marblemania.html
• Touch of Class http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/class.html
• Lemelson Center Http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/class.html
• Power Up http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/powerup.html
• Dynamic Paper http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=205
• Break it Down http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/breakitdown.html
• Make A Mission http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/messenger/mission.htm

44. Interactivate
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/

45. Illuminations by NTCM
http://illuminations.ntcm.org

47. Math Playground

48. BBC Science Clips
• Bitesize 1
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/scho
ols/scienceclips/ages/6_7/s
cience_6_7.shtml
• Forces and Motion
• Bitesize2 -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scho
ols/ks2bitesize/science
• Bitesize3 –
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scho
ols/ks3bitesize/science/

49. Teacher Tube
The goal of TeacherTube.com is to provide an
online community for sharing instructional
teacher videos.
• Registration is required for uploading
- Unlimited MB video upload space.
- Unlimited MB bandwidth per month.
- Unlimited video uploads.
- All TeacherTube packages are FREE!

50. Mathematics in Movies

51. A Maths Dictionary for Kids

52. Utah Education Network – Student Interactives

53. Utah Education Network – Student Interactives

54. Utah Education Network – Student Interactives

55. Teachers’ Domain

56. Probes - TEEMSS
• The Technology Enhanced Elementary and Middle
School Science project (TEEMSS) was funded by the
National Science Foundation to bring the power of
information and communication technology to science
education in grades 3-8 by creating and disseminating
valuable, proven, and easily implemented technology-
based science learning materials and associated
teacher professional development.

57. Free software that works
with most of the leading
probe vendors.

59. Chemistry, Physics, Biochemistry
http://www.virtlab.com/main.aspx
Virtlab: A Virtual Laboratory

60. University of Virginia Virtual Lab Homepage

61. Wonderville
• http://www.wondervil
le.ca/v1/home.html
• 22 activities covering a
wide range of science
topics. Each animated
activity opens up in its
own window
• D not miss the “The
Robot Factory”

62. The Mission Science Lab
• Designed for kids age 10–16
to learn basic principles of
physics in a most entertaining
way.
• click on a random object in the
lab and complete a related
“mission.”
• Meanwhile, they’re also trying
to learn Professor XYZ’s secret
identity and gain access to the
final mission, “Professor XYZ’s
Grand Tour.”
http://nfbkids.ca/lamission/home_e.php

63. PhET: Free online science simulations
• Fun, interactive,
research-based
simulations of
physical phenomena
from the PhET
project at the
University of
Colorado.

64. Videos are on YouTube!
Bio-Alive

65. STEM Resources.com Tennessee

66. NASA Education
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/about/index.html

67. Windows to the Universe

68. http://jc-schools.net

72. Dynamic
Curriculum

73. Dynamic Curricululm
Technology Project for Jefferson County Schoools

75. Each of the core curriculum content sites
includes

77. Links to specific websites that aid in teaching
specific standards, Checks for Understanding,
and SPI’s

78. Teacher Created Materials

79. Educational Podcasts

80. What is on your disk?
Transforming Your Classroom with Web 2.0
I Love Free Presentation
plus some of the free software

81. Thank You!
Questions?