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They have to use Internet resources to "book" a flight, lodgings, places they will visit, eat, etc. and record their expenses and collect images from the internet. Once it is complete, the studnets present their trip to the class in the form of a Prezi (since they can edit together); even Animoto, iMovie or Movie Maker would work as well. They will also practice math skills as they work with a budget, currency conversions, etc.
Teachers and students both liked the project; it really gives students a taste of different cultures.
As a follow up activity, the class could Skype with classes or people in some of the more popular areas.
Just an idea.…
link, it was in a list site of various resources that they advertised. That site is: http://web20education.bo.lt/6o6pa
The 2nd resource down is Animoto, that is the website that i'm telling you about. It basically makes a video for you from your images or videos. You just add in pictures, text, video and pick a style and in seconds a professional looking video appears with your content. Unfortunately the free version gives you only 30 seconds of playtime, but did i mention it is free.
Here's an example i made.
http://animoto.com/play/nhFs2qyCETg5DnvPNkOYsw…
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with her own - she'll be able to create unlimited videos of pictures (she loves the ones I have done). My blog is on edublogs, so I can also set her up with a student account there. She has been wanting a diary for some time. I gave her one last year. She quickly lost the lock and who knows where it is now. A blog would be a way for her to journal her life. She's 8 so it isn't as if she is going to have too much to hide. She can take the digital camera both to our barn and to her riding lesson barn and take pics - and she'll have places to post them.…
google voice number on their cell phones to answer questions as an oral assessment.
- Students take pictures w/ cell phones on field trips, email me the pics and they can be uploaded to animoto to turn the field trip into a movie
- Take pictures w/ cell phones for assignments & text the pics to teacher evernote account as an assignment.
- Research: Students create evernote accounts, while researching they take pictures of book pages, documents...pictures are then organized as images in evernote and can be tagged, organized and used later to write research paper.
- Turn cell phones into recording devices to make quick "podcasts." Have students call teacher googlevoice account, and the teacher can then embed the messages in a webpage, blog.
Hope this helps.
Greg…
ittle easier and hopefully fun! Students will not only publish projects, teach each other web 2.0 tools, but they will collect them on a their own webpages created in Google Sites - kind of an electronic portfolio of educational tools. In addition, as the semester goes along whenever the students have an assignment from another discipline, they will be expected to use one or two of the newly learned tools to complete and publish the assignment. For instance: Quizlet for world languages; Voicethread, Slide, Prezi, and/or Animoto for a presentation; Google Apps for word processing and collaboration; Jing for teaching each other a Web 2.0 tool; a classroom wiki; online notetaking; online photo editing; etc. I have not finalized all the details yet, but that is sort of the plan. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!…
ove their Spanish skills. If you teach in a Spanish country and are looking for someone to practice English with your students, we could take turns writing in English one week and Spanish the next week or switch languages with each new topic.
My students are currently working on a VoiceThread to share and I'm experimenting with blogging with my Spanish 5 class every Tuesday. Some other web2.0 tools I use in class are GoogleVoice, screencasting (for feedback on compositions and for tutorials and review videos of grammar for the students), Animoto, Glogster (though not one of my favorites), ShowBeyond, and Storybird.
I look forward to finding other educators that want to stress inter-class communicative activities with their students.
Cynthia…
sidered animoto, but I don't know how I would be able to have the prefix (and definition), root (and definition), suffix (and definition) and the derivative (and definition) to all flow together so it all builds. (I hope this makes sense).
The only other option I could think of is powerpoint and prezi. The kids aren't crazy about (creating) prezi projects and powerpoint is almost the same 'old anymore.
Any FREE 2.0 suggestions for high school students?
Thanks in advance,
jl…