g, creating, and innovating. This Wiki is the workstation for exploring, interacting with, learning from, and creating with emerging technologies. Students identify a topic of interest. A WIki page is created for that topic. This page is used to identify specific learning goals, to locate and post links to sites that support those interests, and to begin creating web-based projects to creatively demonstrate their learning experiences.
For the past few months, upper elementary and middle school students from three schools from Arizona, Illinois, and the country of Turkey have been participating. They have added some great work using tools such as Animoto, Wordle, Voiki, Dipity, MyStudiyo as well as information links.
It has been quite exciting and fun - and we'd love to see other classes join us! http://weewebwonders.pbwiki.com/…
ught was to do Animoto videos, but I am sure there are many other great ways to connect. Ultimately, it would be great to create a web site or wiki with all of our experiences in one place. I would foresee us talking about traditions, fears, hopes, etc. I think staying with the ages of around 7-11 would be best. This could be a really excellent project!
I am new to the idea of collaboration and trying to learn all I can about web 2.0 technology, so I am very open to any guidance anyone wants to give. I am a third grade teacher in an inner-city school in a high poverty/ high crime area. I am hoping to expose my kids to other cultures in the country/world. Let me know if you are interested!…
ars old yet.What are your school's policy in terms of students email accounts? I just feel that our hands are tied and we cannot fully embrace Web 2.0 tools like Animoto for Education (only our teacher has account) or Prezi because these tools need a valid email address to create an account.We thought of following this trick using Gmail to create dummy student email accounts but has anyone tried this to sign your students to any Web 2.0 tools? Can you share your experience if you had taken this route? Pros & Cons?I appreciate your feedbacks.…
in my classroom for free are based on Flash. In fact, I recently attended a training where a whole bunch of Web 2.0 tools were demonstrated. Almost all of them required flash to function. I understand that some (a tiny number) have apps available on the app store for a few dollars each. I understand that some can be accessed in a non-flash way, but then are usually much reduced in their functionality (animoto for example).
Other people have posted about their schools using iPads or iPods and I am wondering what are they doing about this issue. Do they use those devices for content consumption more than creation? Do they use full laptops or desktops when students want to create online content using tools unavailable due to lack of flash?
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Georgia, United States
Language in Which You Will Present: English
Target Audience(s): K - 12 Teachers, Administrators, Technology Teachers, Parents
Short Session Description (one line): 25 free tools for student to create products to demonstrate their learning.
Full Session Description (as long as you would like): This session will be a whirlwind trip through over 25 free tools that students can use to demonstrate their learning. Some topics: Digital Storytelling, Paper Slide Videos, Animoto, Voice Recording, Pre-Assessments, Formative Assessments, and more.
Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session: http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=407909…
math teacher, but it's a great list and I think it would fit. Thanks for offering it up.
I also wanted to tell you about two changes I'm thinking of making to MathLand next year. I'm thinking that kids will need to pass a quiz to pass a level because I'm still having problems with retention and mastery between levels. I'm also thinking of making every other level, or maybe one level per unit, a "product" level where they have to explain, demonstrate, present their understanding through some kind of Web 2.0 technology like voicethread, animoto, animations, glogster, or whatever. Ultimately, they'd keep them at a classroom blog or website, and it would be really nice for them to also keep them somewhere for their own digital portfolio.
Again, because my students are emotionally impaired, there are discretion issues as well as confidentiality issues around letting them run free in a social setting or publicly sharing things that are attached to their special ed status.
MathLand continues to be a work in progress.…
Added by Kate Fanelli at 8:24pm on October 27, 2008
ndreds of workshops in my district, state and presented at NECC for 5 years. About 4 years ago I threw in the tech towel. I couldn't stand the resistance--it's only gotten worse, at least in K6, with high stakes testing and scripted reading and math programs.
I figured I knew enough to keep my kids active and learning new stuff until I retire. I, too, thought my kids' enthusiasm would carry over to the regular classroom--it didn't. We use blogs, wikis, video, digital cameras, Moodle, Animoto, Mnemograph, GPS, handhelds, Google Earth, Flickr, Tikatok, Mindstorm Robotics, and dozens of other tools and they go back to the regular classroom and sit. Oh well, I've got the best job in the world.
About ning--sometimes it seems all my school's teachers do is complain (which they'd never put in writing), I don't know if they could come up with anything useful to discuss on a ning!…
Added by Nancy Bosch at 6:11pm on November 7, 2008
e classes learned to create various presentations from Kid-Pix slideshows to animoto to I-Movie. I used to log in to the computers for each child and for the younger ones I got the site open before they got there. This year we moved to flex schedules and every child from K-5 has their own log in. If you could see what the K and 1 students are able to do, it is unbelievable. They all are able to log in, follow multi-step directions to open a particular folder, application or website. The younger ones have been using Pixie 3 to create presentations, the 1st graders have been using Garageband to make podcasts of stories they can read, the 2nd graders have been using Kidspiration, and have been taking digital pictures and uploading them to i-photo for a noun book they are making, 3rd graders began with Glogster, etc. I teach online awareness to all grades K-5. Basically, if you give these students the opportunity, they will rise to the occasion.…
apping, slide and audio tools......the list just goes on.
What are your favorite tools?
Here are some of mine:
Slide Tools:
Bubbleshare
Video Tools:
One True Media
Joggle
Jaycut
Vuvox
Vuvox Collage
Voicethread
Animoto: Make sure you sign up for the "Education version"
Comics Tools
Kerpoof
Comics Sketch
Piki Strips
Timeline Tools
XTimeline
Example of XTimeline by my students, CLICK HERE
I'm eager to hear what you all like to use. Lets create a master list and share with everyone.…
e Adobe Premiere Elements. I am curious about what others like to use in the classroom.
In the past, my students worked with an original idea of mine called "Digesting a Story" . That was probably one of my all time favorite projects. (See clips here!)
Another digital project was my KDOZ TV 2 Newscasts with my 2nd graders. See example here!
If you can't open the files, you can see those on my website @ http://www.vrml.k12.la.us/smbodin
I would love to hear about your digital projects (or see student examples!)
Thanks!
Stacy…
Added by Stacy Bodin at 12:37am on September 8, 2009