This is a presentation for teachers of any subject - although I am an MFL teacher,I think these tools would be great to use for lots of classes and educators.

1. Web 2.0 Tools for the Classroom
A brief guide to get you started
Valerie McIntyre

2. What’s in it for you?

3. What are the tools?

4. wordclouds
∗ Wordle
∗ Tagxedo
∗ Imagechef
∗ Very effective for
homework creations,
revision, summarising

5. Group contributions
∗ www.wallwisher.com
∗ pupils can use 160
characters to write a
stickynote
∗ www.linoit.com

6. A few essentials
∗ Edmodo – educational secure microblog for use with
students. Good option if you want to contact
students in absence of VLE!
∗ Log in and create groups, set work, collect work
∗ Site issues class code for you to give to pupils
∗ Now comes with parent code to involve them also.
∗ www.edmodo.com

7. Wikis and blogs
∗ Wikispaces – MFL used one for Primary Transition
∗ Wordpress – reasonably easy to start
∗ Posterous – easiest to use and you can email to it
∗ Blogger – connects to Google – easy to use

10. Classroom management
∗ Classdojo – it needs IE7 or 8 and staff proxy
∗ Or Google Chrome
∗ Create positives and negative marks for classes and
summaries for lessons and reports for students
∗ Best with younger classes

11. Classdojo class page

12. Making games for your subject
∗ Zondle www.zondle.com
∗ I have started using it with KS3 – email classlists to
site for uploading
∗ Choose appropriate topics & add your own
∗ Quizlet www.quizlet.com you and pupils can make
revision games. Yr11 pupil made games for most of
GCSE Fr& Ger vocab list.

13. Using pictures for comment
∗ www.voicethread.com – create a video of written and
spoken comments on pictures – K12 paskage available
∗ www.animoto.com – video slideshow maker with music
∗ Fotobabble – add voice to photo and record comment
∗ www.mybrainshark.com – add voice to Powerpoint and
other documents – great business applications

14. Encouraging writing
∗ Story bird
www.storybird.com
∗ Storyjumper
www.storyjumper.com
∗ Start a blog – “quad
blogging”
∗ Glogster poster making

15. Essentials for you!
www.teachertrainingvideos.com go here to watch
online training on lots of Web 2 tools
Handy tools in class – classtools.net
www.mindomo.com interactive mind-mapping –wow!
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17. For your “professional me” time!!
∗ Twitter – amazing!
∗ Use hashtags #scichat #pegeeks #engchat #ukedchat
#mathschat #scienceteacher #foodtechteachers
∗ Follow good people @tombarrett @deputymitchell
∗ Read blogs – find regional/national figures
∗ Start a googlereader web aggregator for YOU!

18. Thanks
∗ My thanks to the MFL Twitterati who have shared so
much with so many and have inspired me to take
risks.
∗ Thanks to the superb MFL team at the Blue School –
we carry on learning together.
∗ Big thanks to the ICT team at the Blue School who
make much of my experimenting possible at all!!
∗ This presentation is available on Slideshare.net