most sense for me. So I guess my answer is that I separate, not integrate.
I have used 21classes and teacherwebit. I like these because both provide a portal to your classroom of bloggers, and both allow you to keep your classroom of bloggers private. Students go to one page to log in and then the entire classroom of bloggers can be accessed through the student listing tab. It makes it very easy for students to navigate to their peer's blog to make comments or collaborate, as well. Both cost $$. 21classes is 9 dollars a month and offers more options than most teachers could ever want, and teacherwebit is 4 dollars a month, but is easier to use by design.
I think a great tool to keep all the technological applications that you use available in one spot is by using a RSS feed like Pageflakes or Netvibes. It has been a while since I've used these, but you can essentially create a page where all your favorite tools are visible and easy to navigate to. You could create a classroom Pageflake or you could allow each student to have their own feed--depending on the ability and age of your students.
As for specific classroom practice, I use blogs for everything. I may post a blog page with the assignment on it where students must read and respond in the comment page--then I can easily grade. I may pose a Socratic questions and students must answer through blog posts and commenting. I've used blogs to post writing and to have students share videos that they produce (Animoto!). Most recently, I had my students respond to 7 character blogs I set up from the novel we are reading. It was a little work, but the kids liked the idea of communicating directly with a characters blog. Blogs are also great for group activities and jigsaw type activities.
My go to technology tools are blogs and Animoto. Have fun!
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If that's too much faff, here at least is the original stimulus video:
And thanks, Nancy. I can't wait to get into Scratch - it looks fascinating.…
Structures Episode.
Learned to Dowloaded U Tube videos on Top 10 Bridges (using both online and offline application)
Learned to Embedd them on classroom blogs.
Student Favourites were candystick bridge competion and Spaghetti bridge competion on U Tube.
We skinned these videos on Slide.com
Kids learned to download software "Westpoint Bridge Designer" and installed it. Had fun buildng bridges and seeing them come crashing down.
At home they build bridges with all sorts of things, matchboxes, blocks, etc. captured its digital image using digicams and cellphones.
Brought these photographs to school and used Animoto to animate the images in a video, added music and embeded this video to class blog.
You are most welcome to querry me on any of these technology - integration projects.
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Added by Poonam Kurani at 11:42am on August 12, 2008
of School project, all you would really need to do is take a lot of pictures. I have not completely figured out how to add some text to this project, but it should not be hard. I would like us to write about emotions on the first day, as well as any traditions, etc. that the kids might have around the first day. I want to keep this simple since the year is just starting AND I am just learning about all of this stuff! If we collaborate throughout the year, we can do some bigger and better things. In the meantime, I will try to get a blog set up (or wiki? Not sure which will work best for all this!) where we can post our videos/text/whatever. I will keep in touch! This should be fun. Take care!…
c) that uses an ONLINE application, rather than a software package (no Word or Powerpoint or Keynote!).
Let them find and choose the site they want to use (although this itself would take more than 45 minutes). It alleviates problems with saving/losing work, and it will be accessible from any computer with internet access.
Pretty much all of these kinds of sites allow you to share a link to the presentation, so the students can email you the link, then you can assess their work. They can also write a review of the site they used, so others find out about it.
For creating a wiki: wikispaces.com. Ning is great for blogging and online learning environment. You can easily upload videos in Ning, too.
Some other places to look at: slideshare, animoto, prezi, bookbuilder, coveritlive...
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Added by Deon Scanlon at 11:21pm on September 12, 2009
u have access to? In my classroom, I have a computer, document camera, video projector, digital camera, webcam, two high quality microphones for podcasting, and a scanner. We also have a computer lab in our building. My students have learned how to create PowerPoint presentations and web sites, explored different Web 2.0 applications, experimented with Google Docs, and played with Animoto. In addition, we could use my personal laptop, the webcam, the video projector, and Skype software to have a "free" video conference with each other.
At this point, I am open to suggestions for the collaboration project! We could involve the 4 cores: ELA, social studies, science, and math. Or, we can focus on tech skills and the ISTE NET-S. What do you think?
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Added by Sally Irons at 8:30pm on December 1, 2009
two places to look at when looking for effective tools to guide a lesson would be Google and Microsoft. Both of these provide web-based services that the student can work on at school and continue at their homes if they run out of time. Google’s tools such as Google Docs and Google Forms even provide a service that allows students to work on a project together over the Internet in real time regardless of their various locations. Microsoft also provides platforms to make such as OneDrive that can give cloud access to students at the teacher’s discretion for access to files like Powerpoints, PDFs, Word Documents and video and audio files. Furthermore, teachers can use services provided by developers that operate independently from major corporations. Programs like Cartoonist, Animoto, and Prezi are effective and versatile presentation programs that will engage students more than a standard Powerpoint or overhead projector. …
wiki.They have been asked to find links containing tutorials, practice problems or examples of problems we have covered in class. I also challenged them to use web 2.0 tools such as voicethread, voki, animoto among others to create their own tutorials, examples and practice problems. I am torn between using class time to work on the wiki and spending time engaged in more traditional instruction. I would like some input from other teachers on how much time they might spend on this project. Right now I am only giving them one class period but am considering two during the week…
ry web building program has designed templates where you just plug in the content. There are open source codes available online so you can get free web templates online if you dont have webdesign software. There are web programs like Google Sites and wiki's where you can build cool looking sites without ever knowing any code.
When I look at the amazing Web 2.0 tools that are available for teachers to use with their kids like Voicethread, Slideshare, Animoto, Zoho, wiki's,blogs, etc..... I wonder why a course about the Internet would be anything other than trying to utilize those great teaching tools. Every minute that I spend learning how to code feels like I'm taking time away from learning the Web2 tools since there is only so much time in a day.…
d with Drupal and served privately. It is one of the best and most organized student blogs I've seen. I blog on the frontpage and students each have their own blog, we also have other adults and parents blog with us. A good place to start is Recent Posts. Each evening I go to Recent Posts and see what everybody has written and respond to most.
We've used Moodle for threaded discussions (book discussions) and online course work. Drupal also allows for threaded discussions--- With Blogger, for instance, you cannot comment on a comment---all the comments are in a list. I definately think Drupal is worth the steeper learning curve.
You can see all we've done here. Good Luck, N.…
Added by Nancy Bosch at 5:52pm on November 11, 2008