Martha Chapman Technology Facilitator Special Education Department Rapides Parish School District [email protected].

Martha ChapmanTechnology FacilitatorSpecial Education DepartmentRapides Parish School [email protected]

These collaboration and communication tools combined with educational methods that promote 21st century skills will help students acquire the abilities they need for the future.

Twenty-first Century SkillsTwenty-first Century Skills

Digital-age Literacy Inventive Thinking Effective Communication High Productivity

Digital-Age LiteracyDigital-Age Literacy

Basic scientific economic and technological literacies

Visual and informational literacies Multicultural literacy and global

awareness

Inventive ThinkingInventive Thinking

Adaptability and managing complexity

Self-direction Curiosity, creativity and risk taking Higher-order thinking and sound

reasoning

Effective CommunicationEffective Communication

Teaming, collaboration and interpersonal skills

Personal, social, and civic responsibility

Interactive communication

High ProductivityHigh Productivity

Prioritizing, planning, and managing for results

Effective use of real-world tools

Ability to produce relevant, high-quality products

Encompasses Web-based tools Uses browsers for access Tools are free Tools accessible to all Tools are social in nature Tools promote self-expression (blogs,

wikis, photo sharing)

WEB 1.0 WEB 2.0

Application based Web based

Isolated Collaborative

Offline Online

Licensed or purchased Free

Single creator Multiple collaborators

Proprietary code Open source

Copyrighted content Shared content

In Web 2.0 the creation of material or information on the Web is as much a part of our experience as the finding or reading of data has been in Web 1.0.

Word Art, Digital Word Art, Digital Collage, Video Collage, Video PostersPosters

Bring school projects to life! Create and collaborate!

http://goanimate.com/http://voicethread.com/#homehttp://www.wordle.net/

Wordle Wordle

This program allows you to create “word clouds” from text that you provide.

Image Tools:Image Tools:

Use social photo sharing sites to inject creativity into instruction through photography.

http://www.picnik.com/

http://bighugelabs.com/

Presentation Tools: Presentation Tools:

Create and share presentation slides anytime, anywhere.

http://www.slideshare.net/

http://prezi.com/

Video Tools: Video Tools:

Learn more enhanced video integration in the classroom.

http://animoto.com/pricing/01http://www.gizmoz.com/newsite/presite/home.jsphttp://www.xtranormal.com/

A Web Log (blog):A Web Log (blog):

Personal commentaries/ issues author deems importantContains text, links, Web pages, media Promotes open dialogue Bloggers/commenters exchange opinions and ideas

www.gaggle.net

PodcastsPodcasts

A way to distribute multimedia files such as music or speech over the Internet for playback on mobile devices and computers -offers students & teachers access/ authentic feedback to/from a worldwide audience.

Podcasting and EducationKidCast : Podcasting in the Classroom - A resource book for educators

http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/infolit/edupodcast/

WIKIWIKI

A wiki is a Web page – allows readers to collaborate with others in writing, editing, and revising the page’s contents at any time.

http://www.wikispaces.com/

Wiki BooksWiki BooksThe Free High School Science Texts:Biology Physics Science for secondary school students Regents Earth Science Computer LiteracyGeometry for elementary Or for teachers... Classroom Behavior ManagementInstructional Technology Blended Learning in K-12

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

Social BookmarkingSocial Bookmarking

•Displays shared lists of user-created Internet bookmarks •organize, rank, and display resources for others to see and use• Content is classified using keyword-based tags

http://del.iciou.us/(bookmarks public)

www.backflip.com(stores user URLs in folders)

Photo EditingPhoto Editing

Make your photos look good!

Google’s Picasahttp://picasa.google.com

Apple’s iPhotowww.apple.com/iphoto/

Microsoft’s Photo Storywww.microsoft.com/photostory/

Desktop ToolsDesktop Tools

•Web-basedWeb-based•collaborativecollaborative•free.free.•spreadsheetsspreadsheets•Word-processingWord-processing•presentationspresentations

Google Docshttp://docs.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=15114

OTHER TOOLSOTHER TOOLS

•Mapping•3D Modeling•Social Networking•Organizing Web Info•Surveys•Drawing•Mashups

Google Earthhttp://earth.google.com/

Google Sketchuphttp://sketchup.google.com/

ZOHO Pollshttp://blogs.zoho.com/polls/zoho-polls

Tux Painthttp://www.tuxpaint.org/

Flash Earthhttp://www.flashearth.com/

EXTRAS!!EXTRAS!!

Think.com (online learning community)http://www.thinkquest.org/en/

Google Educationhttp://www.google.com/educators/index.html

Discovery Education

Lesson plans, links, categories, everything you need in one place!

http://cdwg.discoveryeducation.com/web2.0/resources.cfm