meister, but there are others as well)
- Interactive Whiteboard (if you can't afford one, the Wiimote Whiteboard is only $55)
- Student wikis (I like wikispaces)
- Prezis for presentations
In terms of music software, I really like UJAM,but I've also used Audacity and Garageband.
Katy Scott
Stretch Your Digital Dollar
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heir own ids.
I've also set up a del.icio.us account for the school and I think I would at least like to let the older kids create their own accounts.
Finally, I am going to try a class blog for math class.
First, I'd like to know how different teachers approach having the students create their own user names. I will be teaching 6th through 8th graders. I'm sure not all of them have email accounts which wikispaces and del.icio.us require.
Second, I've created a parental permission form to let the families know about my plan and I'd like to know if anyone does this and what has worked in that regard. I'm curious if some parents will choose to withhold permission for these web sites.
Thanks in advance.
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everal writers to collaborate on content. We use wikispaces where we can control who contributes to the space. Because of the nature of the technology, we have a space for every grade level in our school. The team of teachers are going to create a grade level web space and use it as a teacher web page. This use of wiki is nothing like wikipedia. We are using the wiki technology because it is easy to use and easy to change....making the class website a "living document" where all the members can contribute rather than a static website that needs special software or special training to change and update.
My principal loves having the class websites on wikis, because she is a member to each of them and can make changes and corrections to the policies pages. She is extremely sensitive to the fact that the teacher may make typos or have misspellings when they type in a big hurry. She feels better knowing that all she has to do is click "edit this page" and make a couple of corrections. We call that being a "wiki fairy".…
You Tube - Google Video & Revver - for uploading and storing student videos, Photostory 3 productions, etc.Occasionally I find videos to be used for instruction like this one that can spark a discussion on values:
FastStone Capture - I need this for doing captures of windows - objects, etc. for creating instruction materials.
MS Share-Point - Classerver - This is the environment we use to deliver our online content and assignments. Just came out with a new interface making it much more user friendly and verstile.
Wikispaces - Here we run many of our online collaborative projects - Free - Friendly - Supports Hebrew - Great user support.…
plore visual expression by applying the basic principles and elements of design.
Beyond creation of artwork, I think one great application for web-based tools would be for students to apply critical thinking skills and analysis of artworks by creating their own virtual art exhibition. The Museum of Fine Arts Houston used to have a feature on their website where registered users (it's free) could select works of art from their collection to create their own individual "online gallery". You could have students use a wiki site like wikispaces to create their "catalogue" of art that they select based on what ever criteria you or they decide on. One page of the wiki could be where they give their "curator's statement" explaining why they selected the work that they did, why it is significant artwork, etc. Lots of great possibilities there. Imagine the fun you could have with a virtual "gallery walk" -- using the galleries created by the students or by simply creating your own "gallery walk" by pointing to specific museum/gallery websites (think along the lines of a "webquest").
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itself is really exciting. I live in St. Catharines, ON CA
Last night I participated in a session lead by a Matt. We watched “Growing up online” together.
While it was being televised we had set up a Skype instant messaging conference going on between ourselves and his grade 8 classroom parents . I was able to share comments and views about the program with the teacher and the parents while we watched.
It was even more challenging for Matt as the program was not being broadcast here in St. Catharines. Inventive teacher – set up his web camera – and used it to broadcast the program to me on my computer using ustream. I have attached a picture of my desktop to show you what it looked like. Technology talks!! The parents really related to the program. An interesting comment from one of the parents " that mother has a lot of other issues with her son and it is not about the use of the Internet. "
I can't tell you enough what a great experience is to share ideas with the Classroom 2.0 community…
le worrying. There used to be a website www.jot.com that created wikis and stuff and since Google bought them out nothing has happened with their site, registrations are all closed off and have been since the buyout. I read online that Google has done this with other sites to kill them off so they could promote their own versions of the sites. I hope this isn't happening here too. I am curious if you guys use Twitter or Jaiku with ESL students and what you use them for. I work in Brasil as and English teacher and getting my students to look at stuff online other than Orkut is hard work. I had some success with some Wikispaces I set up for them. I really like the idea of using the internet with my students as it give opportunities to do more than just the classroom stuff.
Oh :-( I just read that they closed off registrations in Jaiku, shame :-(…
Added by John Plummer at 4:14am on February 13, 2008
crossword puzzles, the electronic textbook (in case a student forgets their textbook in their locker and needs to do their homework) and many other documents that can be of use when completing lab write-ups etc. I also have links there to twitter, my wikispaces page, google docs and my blog. All in all, I think I couldn't do this job without my webpage at this point and my students come back after their first few weeks at university and tell me that they really appreciated having everythin online as their prof's do everything online. I host my course websites on a server that sits on my desk. My domain is www.educationalinnovations.com which I was lucky enough to be able to purchase 9 years ago. Feel free to visit but you won't get far as I have accounts for every one of my students.
Sorry to blather on and on but I really love using the web in my class and my students learn alot about how it can be useful as well.…
had a kite design contest and it was a lot of fun. The inspiration for the contest was to provide props for the school's Charlie Brown play. The 6th period Life Science class worked hard and earned SECOND PLACE (YEAH!) with the kite at the following link. These students felt they won hands down with their kite's dangling tail. This tail represented the Red Baron's Fokker triplane imagined by Snoopy in the second act of the play.
In an attempt to appease my 6th period class and show them an example of 21th century communication, I created the following page. These students were strongly asking for "a voice" and this being a teachable moment for them, I took the opportunity to show them how to use the Web to have "a voice."
I used wikispaces to present their issue and www.wiffiti.com to collect texted responses from mobile devices.
http://yvhslifescience.wikispaces.com/
Please checkout the site and give these student feedback in the next week. 5/28/2010…
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Like I said, I like wikispaces.com for quick and easy pages.
I use iWork for more detailed sites/pages (but that also requires a domain/FTP server/web host/etc
Poke around a few and try them out. Usually different sites/tools will appeal to different people for different reasons. I use Blogspot, Wikispaces, and iWeb to build various things for my students because I like something about each of them for the various different things I'm using them for. Best way is to try some things about. The thread you mention is 2 years old, a lof of stuff changes in that time.…