December 22, 2009
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Play Time: Web 2.0 Tools...
a) Ways to announce stuff to online classes:
--- Blabberize.
--- Animoto. Already have a few created!
--- Jigsaw Planet.
--- Prezi?
b) Options/Additions for products/projects/papers:
--- Presentations: Prezi, Slideshare, VoiceThread, SlideRocket...
--- Glogster.
--- Wordle.
--- Wikis or Google Docs for group work, online or on-campus.
--- ToonDoo (below) for Creative Writing.
--- ToonDoo (below) for English 105 assignments that show communication in the workplace or in their fake companies.
--- ToonDoo (below) for English 120 assignments to show argument.
--- Use PocketMod & CutePDF = "You can create a 7-8 page word document, convert it to a PDF (using a free service such as CutePDF) and then make your document into a small little book. Students can create their own content to tell stories, review terms and share ideas. Teachers can use it to deliver content, help students review vocab, science terms and math equations and much more. Teachers could provide the PDF on their class website for kids to assemble at home, they could hand them out at school, or the kids could create their own content and make their own books."
--- Use TimeGlider to create a timeline in Creative Writing of an author?
--- Use TimeGlider to create a timeline of an argument for an English 120 project.
c) To embed/use in English 120 Online:
--- Finding & Citing Digital Sources, a VoiceThread video created by others.
--- TED presentations. Find some!
--- Use Screencast-o-Matic. It takes video of desktop as I show 'em how to put in footnotes or search for blogs (for the GBP), etc. Or try ScreenJelly to do the same thing?
--- Use ClipNabber to take videos off of YouTube.
--- Use Newseum to see what's making the headlines in papers around the world.
More brainstorming:
I'm already thinking that students in English 120 could create VoiceThreads or Wikis or Animoto videos for their Shortfolios at the end of the semester. Creative Writing students (if we do a photo essay, here's an example) could create VoiceThreads too for projects as well as Wikis and Animoto videos.
Other tools:
Zamzar does free online conversion of files. Woot!More stuff:
--- Have students sum up the chapter in a tweet-sized bite?
--- A wordle of the many, many web2.0 tools out there!
Comments (1)
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