Unpacking a few Web 2.0 tools that can be leveraged for student achievement.

1. Web 2.0 for Student Achievement:
Leveraging Technology for
Academic Gains
Doug Achterman, Ph.D.
San Benito High School
Hollister, CA
dachterman@gmail.com

2. Based on
this word
cloud,
make
pre-
dictions
about
the article
from
which it
was taken

3. Now form
questions
empha-
sizing key
words
from the
cloud

4. Article: Student inquiry
and Web 2.0.
Author: Pam Berger
School Library Monthly
26 (5), 2010.
Web 2.0 Tool:
Wordle
www.wordle.net
Available http://www.schoollibrarymonthly.com/articles/Berger2010-v26n5p14.html

5. Into Through Beyond
Pre-reading Reading Extension/Reflection
Connect Wonder Investigate Construct Express Reflect
Inquiry model
from Barbara
Stripling

6. Wonder
CA Model School Library Standard
AND Common Core Standard, ELA:
Activate prior knowledge related to
the information and events in texts

7. Practical Criteria for Academic Use
• Students create or manipulate
(organize, analyze, evaluate,
synthesize) content
• Free
• In the “Cloud.”
• Technology is transparent
• Clear academic benefit

8. Areas of Potential
• Pre-writing, pre-reading, background
building
• Concept mapping
• Note-taking
• Language acquisition
• Meta-cognition, self-reflection
• Formative assessment

9. Web 2.0: Collaborate to…

10. Brainstorming: Edistorm
Connect

11. Brainstorming: Edistorm
Blue “Note” icon = comments
(Unlimited comment space)

12. Casting Idea Votes

13. Export to XLS (Spreadsheet)
(formative assessment)

14. Heads Together
For more bright ideas…

16. Wallwisher
Unlimited
number of
students can post
Web-
based
pictures,
audio
and
video

17. Investigate Construct
1. Organize this information in a
way that best helps answer the
question.
2. Which posts are most helpful in
answering the question?
3. How do you suppose the Voting
Rights Act of 1965 influenced
or changed American society?

18. Wallwisher
• Brainstorming whole-class, in groups, or
individually
• Generating and assessing background
knowledge
• Reviewing important content from a unit
Cool Features
• Auto-saves as soon as info entered
• Embeds into blog, web page

19. Concept Mapping: Gliffy and Bubbl.us

20. Concept Mapping
• Show understanding in a less
language-dependent way
• Show understanding of connections
between important concepts
• Visual representation/visual learning

21. Concept Mapping: Bubbl.us
You can
preselect
topics for
students to
organize
Students can
collaborate with
each other and you
You can’t write on lines to
explain connections, but you can
add unattached bubbles.

22. Investigate Construct
1. From your concept map, which
type of program appears most
common? Why do you think
that is the case?
2. Examine the concept maps
from the others in your group.
Which map makes the most
sense? What does this map
help you understand?

23. Heads Together
For more bright ideas
about
concept mapping 2.0

24. Google Forms (in Google Docs)
Choose type of
answer, and
make it optional
or required.
Link to
dynamically
updated spread-
sheet

28. Real-Time Feedback & Support
Students: Will This Resource Help Me for My Own Research?
Teachers: Is this student finding the right kind of evidence?
Are students having a harder time finding evidence
for A than for B?

29. Feedback and Support
• Students share resources
• Students learn from each others’ choices
of best passages
• Teachers (classroom and librarian) make
formative assessments about individual
students and whole class.
• Students and teachers see trends about
what resources are most helpful.
Provides starting point for reflections
about the research process and about
the content.

30. Heads Together
For more bright ideas…

31. More from Google Forms
Each time
students complete
a work session:

33. Google Forms: Assessment and Self-
Reflection
• Students and teacher(s) monitor progress with
an easy form
• Students reflect regularly.
• Students can view reflections collectively
when unit is over for big picture of progress,
process
• Teachers can use as formative assessment and
a conversation-starter on process and content.

34. Heads Together
For more bright ideas
about
Google Forms for
assessment & reflection…

35. For 2nd Language Learners
NO REGISTRATION NECESSARY
Easy to use for novice computer users
Comic Strip Generators:
MakeBeliefsComix
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com

36. For 2nd Language Learners
More Difficult, but with hundreds of
options
Comic Strip Generators:
ToonDoo
http://toondoo.com

37. For 2nd Language Learners
Animation Programs
XtraNormal
http://www.xtranormal.com

38. Cameras
Animations
Expressions
Looks
Points
Pauses
Sounds
‘Magicam’ chooses
the best camera angle for you.
XtraNormal…
Students create a
script, choose
voices,
backgrounds,
characters,
camera angles,
ambient noise,
music, character
movement, etc.

39. https://sites.google.com/site/sbhslibraryaides/home/xtranormal

40. Academic Benefits
• Students engage in language creation
and language play
• Lowers affective filter
• Students can share work with others
even when they’re not ready to
speak

41. Heads Together
For more bright ideas…

42. http://cslasmackdown.wikispaces.com/
Thank You!
Janet Hasbrouck
Jane Lofton
Deb Stanley
Marie Slim

43. Final Thoughts
How can I use Web 2.0 to…
• Help students learn more, learn differently,
learn more deeply?
• Facilitate student collaboration to produce
deeper understandings than they could
produce alone?
• Expand the community of learners on a given
project?
• Enhance students’ experience through the
inquiry cycle?