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The Newspaper Clipping Image Generator - Create your own fun newspaper - fodey.com. 15 Interesting Ways to use Wallwisher in the Classroom. Collaborative storytelling. BigHugeLabs: Do fun stuff with your photos. Online Presentation Software | PowerPoint Online | Web Presentation | SlideRocket. Web 2.0 Projects - a Celebration of Student Learning. Inspiring Example of embedding lessons as videos on a Class Blog. Meet Tammy – a high school science teacher with an outstanding class blog which you can visit here.

Tammy serves as an inspiration to all of us that are interested in creating an online environment that is a natural extension of our classrooms. She is amazing when it comes to recording her daily classroom notes and embedding them in her class blog as a video. We thought that you might like to get to know her a bit better and how she does what she does, so we asked her a few questions and she was kind enough to reply. What were the main reason(s) why you started recording videos for your students? For years I taught my chemistry and physics students by using dry erase markers on an overhead projector. When interactive boards came along, I was excited, but I needed to be able to see my students while they worked with me. How do you create your videos? I’m able to write on the tablet while facing my students and record both my voice and pen strokes with eBeam and a cordless mic.

French Cooking. Tips for Teaching Wikis: How I explain it to students. I just sent this out to the Digiteen group and thought some of you working with wikis might like a few tips. (My students do call me the "wikinator" ;-)) Just a tip -- To get started, I always break it down for the kids. I explain it like this. Students, when we have a wiki, there are two phases: content creation and content editing and refinement. 1) Content Creation If the page is blank that is where we are now. Remember, that what you say should have citations by linking to the item on the Internet. Remember that when you come to class you should first: check the discussion tab and RESPOND - people feel ignored if no one responds - even if you agree or say "hi" - they know you're there -- the most motivated teams and best wikis have good "Web 2.0 leaders" who engage with their partners by responding.

In about 3- 4 days we'll see that we're getting a lot on the page. 2) Content editing and refinement Here is where you ask these questions as you edit: a) Are all sources cited? FBtemplate.