Web+2.0


 * [[file:Intro Web 2.0 tools.pdf]]

** WIKISPACES **
 * Step-by-Step Instructions for** **CREATING your own wikispace!**
 * Wikispaces** wikispaces.com

Students create wikis, or collaborative websites that are managed and edited by groups of people, through Wikispaces. Teachers regularly use wikis for group projects. On the K-12 plan for educators, wikis are free and private.

[|How to Create Wikispace Accounts for Students]

Examples of Wikis

[|Why iPads Should Be Used in School]
 * APPS and iPads**


 * Using iPads to Storyboard** - great tool to encourage our students to write!

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 * Puppet Pals**[| apple.com/ipad]

This iPad application allows users to create and record their own animated story. Choose characters, a setting, and a title and narrate the story into the microphone while moving the cartoon “puppets” manually. The app with a “Wild West” theme is free, but additional characters and scenes cost extra. || **Getting Started With Digital Tools** //These websites and apps are popular with tech-savvy teachers who incorporate digital elements into their writing instruction.//


 * TIM**[| Technology Integration Matrix]

The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells.


 * Animoto**[| animoto.com]

Select photos, video clips, text, and music, and Animoto will produce a short video—similar to a movie trailer—with the material. From there, users can upload the video to YouTube, Facebook, and other sites. Making 30-second videos is free and teachers can apply for a free Animoto Plus account, giving them access to more features.

[|edu.glogster.com]
 * Glogster**

Students can make interactive posters and collages that combine text, audio, video, animation, data, and other multimedia elements. The platform allows students to collaborate on projects. The basic teacher account, with limited features, is free.


 * Google Docs**[| docs.google.com]

This free document-sharing program allows users to create, store, and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online. Multiple users can work on the same piece at once.


 * Wallwisher**[| wallwisher.com]

Wallwisher calls itself an “online notice board maker.” Build a “wall,” or Web page, and others can contribute their own short messages, which resemble Post-it Notes and can include videos and images. Teachers use Wallwisher for any number of reasons—to display assignments, generate discussions, review facts, and share links, for example. It’s free and there’s no registration required (which means teachers should be extra vigilant about monitoring what goes up). || [|Elmore Training - May 5, 2011] || **Wordle**[| Wordle]
 * **Vimeo -**screencast video of training done in Elmore by Dean Parker

Wordle, or a word cloud, helps to interpret the meaning of the words by assigning font size according to how frequently the word appears in the targeted text. This is one of the most popular online tool with almost 14,000 visitors each day stopping by to do anything from fans typing in their favorite music videos, teachers analyzing literary texts, kids making signs, spouses writing love letter and journalists wordling political speech.


 * Bitstrips**[|BitStrips]

It’s a web-based resource that enables any student to write their own great-looking, original comic strips without having to draw. Over 5,000 schools are using Bitstrips for Schools so far, making over 20,000 new comics every day!


 * Edmodo**[| Edmodo]

Edmodo is a Web 2.0 tool that allows teachers to safely share ideas, files, assignments, videos, projects, etc.with students and with other teachers in real time. It is a safe and secure social learning site for classrooms.Edmodo does not require student email addresses and only the people who have the group code can see the students.

Skype is a free application that allows you to call people from all over the world using the Internet. When you contact another person that uses Skype you talk or chat for free. Best of all you can tell when another user is online and what their status is so you know if they are available. ||
 * Skype** [|Skype]