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Bitstrips Comics Issuu - You Publish Storehouse: Your stories, as they happen. The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You The Wordle of this list! (Click image to enlarge) One of the most popular posts on Edudemic in 2010 was The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You and I felt it might be time for an update to that list for 2011. In order to put together a list of the best Web 2.0 classroom tools, I polled my Twitter followers, Facebook fans (are they still called fans? Likes?) There were more than 900 submissions but many were duplicates.

Activities for online courses: The Beginning Like any good play, an online course has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Okay, admittedly some good plays – like Waiting for Godot – have none of the above, but bear with me on this. Some courses are short one-act plays, and some are full-length Shakespearean dramas – especially when real-life tragedy does unfortunately intervene, and participants are forced to withdraw because of bereavement or illness. Photo by Flnz Whatever sort of play (or novel, or piece of music, or opera… comments invited) you compare an online course to, a good online course should have a beginning, middle and end. What you are looking for is a clearly structured sequence of learning activities and tasks that lead somewhere. a beginning that introduces and orientates the learners to the content,a middle consisting of well, the actual content, and hopefully,an end that results in the application of the content to meaningful practice, be it learning a language or brain surgery. Activity 1: Profiles 3-2-1

PowToon Trip Planner | Tripomatic 26 logiciels libres à découvrir Présentation du catalogue L'April publie le 2 décembre 2010 un catalogue de logiciels libres intitulé « Catalogue Libre. 26 logiciels libres à découvrir ». L'enjeu de ce guide est double. D'une part, présenter des logiciels libres correspondant à des usages quotidiens de l'ordinateur ; par exemple : « lire une vidéo » en référence au célèbre lecteur multimédia VLC. D'autre part, inscrit dans une perspective de promotion du logiciel libre et des sujets afférents, le contenu du catalogue est complété par une série d'encadrés, détaillant des enjeux liés aux logiciels libres. Pour permettre aux personnes qui découvrent les logiciels libres de ne pas être perdu dans le large choix des applications disponibles, cette proposition constitue une première sélection de logiciels grand public, sélectionnés pour leurs qualités et organisés par domaine d'application (Multimédia, Bureautique, Éducation, Internet). Le contenu Les pages du catalogue sont décrites comme ci-contre : La distribution Licence

15 Popular EdTech Tools Being Used Around The World During the past month, Katie and I have been working our tails off to make the upcoming September issue of the Edudemic Magazine for iPad (comes out tomorrow!) as helpful as possible to all teachers around the world. To do so, we spoke with teachers from, well, around the world. During those conversations, we discussed an array of topics, trends, tools, and whatever else popped up. One of the many things that struck me was that most of these admittedly ‘connected teachers’ use the same web tools and apps. So without further ado, these following 15 tools (in no particular order) are apparently some of the most popular tools being used by the teachers I spoke with from around the world. Schoology : Through this social site, teachers can manage lessons, engage students, share content, and connect with other educators.

Activities for online courses: The Middle In my last blog post, I suggested that a good online course is like a play or story – it has a beginning, middle and end. It has a clear storyline that develops over time, and leads to some sort of meaningful conclusion (I’m excluding books like Ulysses, or plays like Waiting for Godot from this analogy!). I suggested a number of generic ‘beginning’ activities that could be used in an online course, regardless of course content. Photo by koukrapoc Now I’d like to look at the middle bit of an online course. No matter what the content area or topic of your online course, there are a number of generic activity types that can be included. personalisationprogress to date (among others). Activity 1: Personalisation I’ve already looked at the importance of socialising activities at the beginning of an online course, but there is no need to drop socialising activities once your course gets going. All time faves playlist Audio anecdotes Activity 2: Progress to date My Course Progress drawing

Crowdfunding, Creative Commons e Amazon A plataforma de crowdfunding Unglue.it surgiu com o nobre propósito de financiar a publicação online de títulos esgotados em licença Creative Commons. Ou seja, o autor do livro estipula um determinado valor para que o livro passe a circular sem restrições. É uma plataforma que está começando, mas já tem um título publicado, o “Oral Literature in Africa”, de Ruth H. Finnegan, de 1970. Na semana passada, entretanto, o site simplesmente paralisou todos os projetos, pois recebeu a seguinte notícia: o seu sistema de pagamento, o Amazon Payments, não prestará mais serviços. Segundo o fundador do Unglue.it, Eric Hellman, o representante da Amazon disse que o problema não é crowdfunding em si, pois Amazon Payments continua a trabalhar com o Kickstarter. Segundo uma matéria sobre o tema na Wired, Amazon argumentou que o modelo da Unglue.it se diferencia de outras plataformas de crowdfunding e que a companhia não poderia dar suporte à esse modelo em função das particularidades do próprio serviço.

Trading Cards ReadWriteThink’s Trading Cards app allows kids and teens a unique way to share their understanding of various topics, to build study aids for school, or to create their own fictional world of characters. Create trading cards for any number of categories, including: Fictional personReal personFictional placeReal placeObjectEventVocabulary word Each category has specific guiding questions for creating a dynamic, information-rich trading card. Summarizing skills are critical as they drill down to the most important information to fit on the card. In addition, they become aware of writing for an audience because they can share their cards with others. Part of the appeal of trading cards is being able to sort them into collections. Trading Cards is an educational app for all ages that adds creativity and fun to the learning process. Privacy: Your trading cards are private unless you decide to share them by e-mail. Grades 6 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Trading Card Creator Talk it Up!

Digital Portfolios Note to all visitors to this page: This wiki is a collaborative learning space. If you want to contribute to this e-portfolio or digital portfolio page, please join the wiki and then add your thoughts, your notes or describe how you created digital portfolios for your students. Please say which programs the students used, or whether they utilized Web2 tools like blogs or Wikis. General information about Electronic or Digital Portfolios Check out this great slide presentation about . What is a digital portfolio? Lots of resources to create electronic portfolios Scoop.it Great "How to" tutorial to start blogging with Wordpress Diplomas Don't Prepare Students for the World. ePortfolios Do. 35 Professionally Designed Personal Portfolio Websites Why do people create digital portfolios?