Archive for the 'Web 2.0' Category
Top Web 2.0 Sites
Here is a short list of my favorites:
Edublogs.org for blogs designed for school use, the main site has video tutorials and an RSS feed for updates
wikispaces and pbwiki for wikis useful for school use
YouTube for videos useful for any curriculum- be sure to check out channels devoted to specific subjects
Google Reader for aggregating RSS feeds- [...]
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Two Cute Web 2.0 Sites
One of the best things about Web 2.0 is the ease with which they fit into the curriculum, ranging from Foreign Language to Lower School Reading. There always seems to be a way to incorporate these sites into a digital storytelling project, an exploration of verb tenses, or a strategy for summarizing skills learned in [...]
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Using Delicious
As a recent convert to Delicious, I spent a good part of the vacation spiffing up my Delicious page of links. I have added many new links for curriculum integration content and many new resources for Biology, Chemistry, and History. For those of you new to Delicious, please use my links to explore the many [...]
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Web 2.0 Presentation
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Web 2.0 for Foreign Language Teachers
Foreign language teachers have so many possibilities open to them because their pedagogy mirrors the creativity allowed by Web 2.0. Voicethread is an obvious example; teachers can upload images for students to describe, and then students can listen to the responses of their classmates and their teacher. Voicethread can also be used for digital storytelling, [...]
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Some Cool Web 2.0 Sites- Delicious to start
The abundance of cool web 2.0 sites can be overwhelming, so I thought I might highlight a useful dozen or so over the next few posts. For those of you unclear as to the meaning of web 2.0, these sites are designed for easy interaction, allowing you to create content on-line.One of the more popular [...]
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Google Earth in the classroom
Google Earth–and the ability to easily create tours with Google Maps–lends itself to many curriculum uses. In a literature class, teachers and/or students can create a guided tour of the main character’s journey, highlighting each stop along the way with quotations from the novel, descriptions of the stop and its relationship to the novel’s themes, [...]
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Try Voicethreads
Voicethread allows you to upload images; then different students can record their comments for each image, creating a slideshow with many commentaries. Students can also add written responses. Foreign language teachers, lower school teachers, and english teachers will particularly like this site, but history, science and math teachers can create interesting Voicethread slideshows. The site [...]
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