Web2Tools_Integration

Best Practices in VoiceThread

Web 2.0 ToolsAdd your ideas for using any of these tools in the classroom or in your professional role. Post sticky notes on a wall.
 * Wallwisher** [|Wallwisher]
 * IDEAS:**
 * Students in Extended Day can post notes about their favorite snacks.
 * It can also provide them with a voice in what supplies we need for outside play.
 * They can be given the option of activities and the notes can give us their votes on specific topics.
 * The teacher has the opportunity to preview the sticky notes and approve their posting.This may eliminate any inappropriate comments.
 * Use a tool to collaborate with other teachers
 * Use for reflection -likes and dislikes about an activity
 * Students could post questions, and other students could post the answers. jenkaatz
 * You can use it to gather data or information for survey collection. jenkaatz

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 * BeFunky** - [] "Turn your photos into incredible artwork with one click."
 * IDEAS:**
 * I think there's an interesting diversity/learning application of this tool. Starting with a photo, you can have students explore different ways the photo looks based on the particular BeFunky tool you use. The point, of course, is that there's more than one way of looking at things and not everybody sees things the way you do.
 * Great for adding creative photos to student produced posters.
 * When studying different artists and their styles, students can experiment with their own photos.
 * I loved this idea and think we could make fun avatars with them in our classrooms.
 * I found this link to be so much fun and will use this not only in the classroom but at home too.
 * Terrific way to make the avatars you need for voicethread
 * Used to make customized clip art for my Smartboard calendar

Turn any photo into a talking cartoon.
 * Blabberize** - [|http://blabberize.com]
 * IDEAS:**
 * My mascot is a cow, and I have this wonderful mental picture of the cow telling new students about class rules and traditions
 * This link was a little confusing to use but seems like if you spend the time to really dive into it you can have a lot of fun with it.
 * My school does bug projects, and we presented at a faculty meeting today, showed blabberize, and they were really excited about using it for the bug projects. The kids will just record their written information to the website, and use that as their presentation portion.
 * I could see students doing a project with a famous person in History where the picture would give some kind of "autobiography" or a President would tell some of the important events that occurred while they were in office
 * My students can use it to tell information about the different insect (projects) they are working on.
 * use for an invitation to parents or to teach anew concept. How cool would it be to see a ostrich tell you about your assignment?
 * summarize a book you're reading with a picture of the character from the book
 * tell a story from another character's point of view
 * a good tool to use for a technology lesson... upload a picture of yourself, and tell us about yourself using your own voice

Simple, elegant concept mapping with useful keyboard shortcuts, no-log-in required to make a basic diagram.
 * Bubbl.us** (2.0) - []
 * IDEAS:**
 * Use to brainstorm ideas for creative writing
 * Story maps
 * Teachers can use to plan units/themes

Create a poll that allows users to select one or more answers with results displayed in a grid.
 * DoodlePoll** - []
 * IDEAS:**
 * Use this site to select times/dates to get a group of people together to work on a (class) project/assignment.
 * Use to coordinate items people are bring to a social gathering or meeting
 * get to know you exercise at the beginning of the school year: find one friend for each question (example: who has been to a different state?)

Collaborative concept mapping tool (like an online version of Inspiration).
 * Gliffy** - []
 * IDEAS:**
 * Create flow charts for classroom projects (like the pioneer wiki project)
 * Students can create their own maps of classroom
 * This is a neat website for flow charts, vocabulary organizers, and also nice geometric figures for math.

Create a digital "poster wall" to share images, text, music, video and links. This is not your Mama's book report!
 * Glogster EDU** - []
 * IDEAS:**
 * This could be a photo journal for a field trip, a book report. I am trying to figure out how to use this for a math project for percent, decimal, and fractions. This is a neat idea for students to be creative.
 * This would be a great tool for end-of-unit assessment of learning for the students. They could create a glog showing what they learned about any given subject.
 * Perfect for a virtual science fair project
 * Would make a good personality profile page...use it to introduce yourself to your families on your class website
 * Book reports; embed movies for the setting, list the characters, embed polls for other student reviews, etc.
 * May be used to present a project to students by making a glog as a rubric with an example.
 * Biography
 * Researching the people, places, and events occuring during the same time period as a historical book that the student has read
 * Students can add videos, sounds, voice recording to explain the info they choose to include on the Glog. Lauren W. - SFJH
 * I like the idea of having students create a glog to explore an event in history--5W's & H, cause/ effect, etc. I'm wondering if it would be possible to have them do something like the BBC audio slideshow I found through the RSS feed. Anyone know? Karen P-FBI
 * Collage character traits for a character in a book
 * Summarize the main points in a novel read in class
 * Illustrate the culture of a country


 * Jing**[|http://jingproject.com]

Create narrated screencast video tutorials up to 5 minutes each and annotated screenshots. Store videos and images for free at screencast.com or save them on your computer or network.


 * IDEAS:**
 * Create self-paced lesson instructions for computer-based projects - an added bonus when using a substitute teacher!
 * Create instructional videos for other teachers/admin so you don't have to explain the same thing over and over - and when a "movie" offers a better explanation than text in an email.

"Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns." Upload a data set (or use and existing one) to create one of 18 types of interactive visualizations. Browse the gallery to explore existing visualizations. Wordle was developed as part of this powerful IBM-hosted project.
 * Many Eyes** - []
 * IDEAS:**
 * Replace me

Create interactive books using original photos or artwork.
 * MixBook** - [|http://www.mixbook.com]
 * IDEAS:**
 * Great way to capture the highlight of the school year. Create a class book or have other teachers collaborate and create a book spotlighting a specific school event.
 * We use this for a mini-type year book for the Pre-K students. The parents love it and the kids have something to look back and remember all of the fun things they did in PreK
 * This is a nice photo book to record projects or student photos or work. We have had older students create one from a science field trip.
 * Another option for the memory book required for our students making the class trip to Washington, D.C.
 * End of the year collaborative project to show the learning that happened over the entire school as part of our global studies program.
 * Use to highlight student writing

Edit digital photos in your browser.
 * Picnik** - []
 * IDEAS:**
 * Replace me

Create custom comic strips using your own or Flickr Creative Commons photos.
 * Pikistrips** - [|http://pikistrips.com]
 * IDEAS:**
 * Replace me

Cool online comic creator with characters and backgrounds (I like this better than ToonDoo).
 * Pixton** - []
 * IDEAS:**
 * Have students create comics that differentiate homonyms and/or homophones. Lori Menger, San Jose Episcopal Day School
 * Create Social Stories with students who have Special Needs
 * Students practice sequencing or writing directions

Create custom polls and surveys to embed in any web page. Results displayed in a graph.
 * PollDaddy** - [|http://polldaddy.com]
 * IDEAS:**
 * Have students create a survey and analyze the results.
 * Great resource for accumulating data when doing a unit on statistical landmarks

Create and share interactive study materials. Keep track of your progress automatically.
 * Quizlet** - []
 * IDEAS:**
 * This is a great site to create and show students how to use flashcards and other tools to help them study. Sharon Ferrar- Davis Academy
 * High school students could each be assigned a certain number of words and or concepts in order to make a group set of vocabulary flashcards to study for each unit. Beth Howd - Providence Christian Academy
 * Students take turns doing flash cards for vocabulary for each unit
 * Thank goodness somebody is for students taking turns making up the flash cards. I am in a high school where I am fighting to get students with writing issues to be able to make flash cards this way. The games really help the students use the words and learn them on a deeper level.
 * Students can also add Flickr pictures to their flashcards which is a great way to get them to think about how the words relate to real life situations and to help them visualize them. Lauren W. - SFJH

Clip and share portions of web pages in an easy-to-use visual format. Great for collecting, organizing and sharing resources on specific topics.
 * SimplyBox** - []
 * IDEAS:**
 * Terrific way to aggregate the best parts of many websites when doing online research for a lesson or presentation

Upload and share Powerpoint presentations in an embeddable format.
 * SlideShare** - [|http://www.slideshare.net]
 * IDEAS:**
 * Assists in embedding student powerpoints into teacher blogs; great for when working parents can't be in the audience for presentations

Easy to use to-do list. Add items, sort them, share them, check them off as you complete them.
 * Ta-da List -** []
 * IDEAS:**
 * Great for managing tasks for group projects or for tracking long term assignments - Michelle Mittleman, Davis Academy
 * Super personal productivity tool; especially useful for students with "executive function" issues
 * Manage tasks from any computer - Limitation: No due date
 * I'll go even further - access lists from your i-phone


 * st**[|http://www.timetoast.com]
 * IDEAS:**
 * Do a time line of events for a story. Lori Menger - San Jose Episcopal Day School
 * Have younger students make a timeline and upload pictures to describe the events. Embed in a classroom wiki or a glog.

Create and share your own comic strips using an array of characters, settings and custom speech balloons.
 * ToonDoo** - []
 * IDEAS:**
 * Create public service announcements
 * Create cartoons for historical events or scientific findings
 * Also can make books or manipulate photos
 * Create Social Stories with students who have Special Needs
 * story boards for prewriting

Create a collaborative bulletin board using "sticky notes." Great for group brainstorming, or posting student questions, comments or quotes.
 * Wallwisher -** []
 * IDEAS:**
 * Use as a "parking lot" for questions that occur in the middle of a professional learning session
 * Embed in a class wiki
 * Here are 105 ideas on one website!

Create a drag-and-drop website in minutes -- no technical expertise necessary!
 * Weebly** - [|http://weebly.com]
 * IDEAS:**
 * Create a professional looking website to increase effectiveness of parent communication
 * Use the site for blogging
 * Weebly.com offers a more time efficient and cost effective way of designing and maintaining a website
 * create a class webpage to share pictures, event dates, etc.

Create colorful, graphical 'word clouds' from text that you provide. Apply custom layouts, fonts and colors. Super cool.
 * Wordle** - []
 * IDEAS:**
 * Students can create word clouds describing themselves, literature characters, or specific books
 * Create guess the genre word clouds
 * Spotlight a specific event/holiday and see how many words the children can come up to describe the event. Do a word count and tally how many nouns, verbs or adjectives were used.
 * Input student text to look for repetitive figures of speech and other writing "tics"
 * Do a poll asking a group of people to describe their school or other entity and display the results as a woodle.
 * Summarize event: things seen on a field trip, activities of the school year
 * main idea/facts and details - be sure to check out Guess the Wordle
 * each student creates a wordle from their favorite blog (tv show, pro sport team, hobby, etc) print it out and let the class try to guess whose wordle goes with whom

Create a collaborative document that you can share with anyone by sending them the URL and password.
 * Writeboard -** []
 * IDEAS:**
 * Nice way for a group to collaborate on a project

"If you can type, you can make a movie!" Use characters, backgrounds, props, sound effects and animation tools to turn your script into an animated movie.
 * Xtranormal** - []
 * IDEAS:**
 * What fun!! Create story lines about any topic. It would make the deliver of information fun.
 * Practice being flexible....the more different types of platforms we get kids to work on, the more flexible they will become at working with unfamiliar softwares or cloud applications.
 * Gives a wonderful opportunity for creativity and self expression. Students can use their imagination to how a scene might have looked if they were there.
 * Input student text to look for repetitive figures of speech and other writing "tics"
 * Way to make them play with those Playmobil toys!! Use in a music/drama classroom to explore the effects of sounds, gestures and music on the observer.
 * Fun way to put together a topic or skill for whole group presentation