- 30 Online Multimedia Resources for PBL and Flipped Classrooms by Michael Gorman. 1 Comment May 28, 2012 By: Michael Gorman May 28 Written by: 5/28/2012 12:30 AM.
Tour. CogDogRoo - StoryTools. 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story (return) Note!
50+ Ways is no longer being updated here but over at the new site for 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story-- It has more organizational features and includes ways for you to add content to the site once you join the new wiki. Below you will find 50+ web tools you can use to create your own web-based story. Again, the mission is not to review or try every single one (that would be madness, I know), but pick one that sounds interesting and see if you can produce something. The Anatomy Of An Infographic: 5 Steps To Create A Powerful Visual. Information is very powerful but for the most bit it is bland and unimaginative.
Infographics channel information in a visually pleasing, instantly understandable manner, making it not only powerful, but extremely beautiful. Once used predominantly to make maps more approachable, scientific charts less daunting and as key learning tools for children, inforgraphics have now permeated all aspects of the modern world. I designed a couple of infographics back in college, the need arising especially around the time Soccer World Cup fever spiked. It was a fun process representing the different groups, predicting winners in each group at each stage and creating a mock pairing of teams that would clash all the way leading upto the finals.
Cool Infographics - Blog. Great infographic Tool- Software/Application. At this moment, Yet Another Studio is also building its own product in the wonderful market of infographics.
Now, you might think what is infographic? The below is an example: The benefits of creating an infographic are:
Education 2.0 - allymollica. Student Examples. 10 Awesome Free Tools To Make Infographics. Advertisement Who can resist a colourful, thoughtful venn diagram anyway?
In terms of blogging success, infographics are far more likely to be shared than your average blog post. This means more eyeballs on your important information, more people rallying for your cause, more backlinks and more visits to your blog. In short, a quality infographic done well could be what your blog needs right now. Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students. 15 Free Online Collaboration Tools. We rarely learn in isolation.
The vast majority of our learning is social, and whether we are aware of it or not, most of that social learning occurs when we are collaborating with others. Because of what the Internet makes possible, we no longer have to be in the same room with others to collaborate effectively. There are free tools for online conferencing, collaborative writing and editing, file sharing, private communication, and desktop sharing – and countless other activities. Here are 15 free online collaboration tools and apps to try today: Keep and Share – Keep and Share is a group file sharing system. Wridea – Wridea makes it easy to collaborate and share ideas with colleagues, team members, and fellow learners. Better Me - 50 Web 2.0 Tools Your Students Want You to Use. Oprah Winfrey. Presentation Tools.
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- Top 100 Sites of 2011. 0 Comments November 23, 2011 By: David Kapuler Nov 23 Written by: 11/23/2011 3:54 AM.
Web 2.0 Science Tools. By Laura Turner The following web2.0 sites would be useful for science educators at the high school and middle school level.
Some would also be appropriate for higher elementary grade levels. There are many new ‘tools’ or websites that take advantage of the higher speed and bandwidth of today’s Internet. Interactives.
Web 2.0 Tools for UDL. Video Editing. Tale Editor. Learn. Weconnect [licensed for non-commercial use only] / Twitter. YouTube to mp3 Converter. Science Essentials - Get Physical. Class Premium. Kerpoof Studio. Photostory. 4 Web 2.0 Technologies To Inspire Students. Qtopia. Publish Digital Magazines and More Online for Free. Conduit Mobile. Conduit Mobile is a new (beta) site that allows users to create mobile apps for their blog or site w/out knowing what to do (that's me 8-).
Right off the bat let me say that this is a very easy site to use that takes you step by step how to get that done and you can have an app ready to use in 5 to 10 minutes depending on what you want to accomplish. There is a very detailed review and guide on how to create an app by clicking here. Basically all a user has to do is: create an account, enter their URL, then select what kind of data they want in their app (RSS, Twitter feed, FB, etc etc), choose a theme, add some pictures and that's really about it. There is a wonderful visual on your app in action on a preview mobile device. What's really neat is you can select the device you want to see it on (iPhone, iPad, Android, etc.) and it shows you what it will look like. Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Ticker Blogs from TL Blog Staff – TechLearning.com. 0 Comments August 1, 2011 By: Guest Blogger Jul 31 Written by: 7/31/2011 11:07 PM ShareThis Creating a video chat in the classroom is a crucial component of global learning.
Skype in the Classroom - Designed for education, this site brings teachers, projects and resources together from around the world. New Teacher Boot Camp with Lisa M. Dabbs M.Ed. Hands-on practice with five powerful Web 2.0 tools. Lisa M Dabbs M Ed. is the facilitator of Edutopia's New Teacher Connections group; she is also the founder of the weekly #ntchat for new teachers on Twitter, and one of the organizers of #edcampOC.
She's been all over the country -- virtually and in real life -- in her mission to support new and pre-service teachers. We are honored to have her as the steward of this summer program! Summer PD: New Teacher Boot Camp Week 1 - Using Wordle. Editor's note: See the full archive of the five-week boot camp. Welcome to the first week of New Teacher Boot Camp! If you would like to participate, please register: New Teacher Boot Camp Registration. Registration will be open until July 15, 2011 at 5 PM Pacific. Please view this introductory video before we get started . . . Our first lesson is on using Wordle in the classroom. www.wordle.net.
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Read free books online: Web 2.0 for Schools, by David Kapuler. Comment on, edit, and fill PDF files, Word documents, images and more. My StoryMaker : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. My Storymaker® was named one of the Best Websites for Teaching and Learning by the American Association of School Librarians, a division of the American Library Association. Udtechtoolkit - Math tools. Udtechtoolkit - Graphic organizers. Udtechtoolkit - AudioBooks. Audio books are a great way to increase access in your classroom. Providing a selection of audio books for all students can support fluency, expression, and comprehension.Bookshare- a free subscription is provided with proof of a print disabilitySigned Stories- free audio books designed for elementary readers that are also signed60 Second Recap- a 60 second audio/video presentation of classic works of literatureOnline Audio Stories- a collection of elementary audio booksThe Mother Goose Club has a number of rhymes and songs that provide audio support for the text.Learn Out Loud - over 2000 free audio and video titles including books, lectures, speeches and interviews.Read Print - free online book library with over 8,000 titles that can be read using any free text reader (tested with Natural Reader).Smories is a video site featuring kids reading kids' stories.