Web 2.0 Project Book - free download

Here is a link to Techlearning blog and a Web 2.0 Project Book that you can download for free

The Web 2.0 Projects book contains nearly 60 projects using Web 2.0 tools, organised in age groups.

VoiceThread - What do you think of Web 2.0?

Please comment on each slide!


To view in a larger window click here http://voicethread.com/share/165854/
Create your own Voicethread... Learn more

National Council of Teachers of English.

National Council of Teachers of English. Technology Literacy
directed at students but it obviously makes sense that teachers should understand those competencies if they are expected to create learning environments that help students attain those. These can be found at: http://www.ncte.org/about/gov/129117.htm

Read more blog
Educational Technology and Life - Maui Post

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds”

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes



If you like using images checkout Tag Galaxy a cool site that you may find useful to find images. What it does is to pull pictures tagged in Flickr with a certain keyword onto a virtual globe for presentation. I plan on exploring this site soon.

Practice Jumpcut Video

Practicing with Jumpcut (upload video and images)and link back to blog

video

Day 2 - Web 2.0 Class

Please make sure you add your information to the class wiki
http://lunenburgsummer08.pbwiki.com/

Question
How will you use Web 2.0 in the fall?
Add a comment to the class blog.

Additional topics
Screencasts with Jing
VoiceThread
Video on the Web - Jumpcut
Offline (Photostory and MovieMaker) option to upload to teachertube/youtube
YouTube playlist
Wordle - generate a word cloud - Web 2.0

Welcome - Day 1

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Summer 2008 - Lunenburg - Introductions

Welcome to Integrating Web 2.0!

Today's class will provide you with an overview of the following:
- 21st Centry Teaching
- Web 2.0
- Blogs
- RSS
- igoogle
- Wikis
- Skype

Later this week, we will review addtional Web 2.0 Tools
- SlideShare
- VoiceThread
- Jing and more

During this class you will be introduced to new tools for the classroom
- Clickers
- SmartBoards
- Tablet PC's and more

Please post a comment to this post and introduce yourself and let us know your grade level, subject and what you hope to learn from the class.

Interesting quote....

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
--Alvin Toffler, American futurist

FRONTLINE presents GROWING UP ONLINE - Tuesday, January 22, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS

FYI - Something you may want to watch/record on Tuesday evening.

FRONTLINE INVESTIGATES THE RISKS, REALITIES AND MISCONCEPTIONS OF TEEN LIFE ON THE INTERNET

FRONTLINE presents GROWING UP ONLINE
Tuesday, January 22, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/

Feedback to share

I have have created a voicethread presentation this weekend to gather feedback about the tools covered in this class. Please create a voicethread account (add a picture to the profile) and post a text and/or audio comment on the page. I would like to model this as tool to be shared.



Thanks!
Mary