Web tools for the workshop
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Antwuan Stinson Ed. D. Assistant Professor Alabama State University
description
Various web 2.0 tools and activities are included in this presentation.
Transcript of Web tools for the workshop
Antwuan Stinson Ed. D.Assistant Professor
Alabama State University
Current Professional Development
What Professional Development should look like
1. To give you an idea what is available for teachers
2. Guide you through a few tools that I use with my students
3. Give you some ideas to help you expand your information and page on the schools website
CoolToolsforSchoolsWikispaces
Google for TeachersGoogle appsMy Google Site
EdWeb2Wikispaces
GO2WEB20.NET
Rubistar
Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX)
Youtube
Designate a day for critical thinking or creative ideas for a major grade
Try Glogster for online student development of multimedia posters
Use Voicethread for the collection of group conversations, images, documents, and video
Create a Edmodo site for classroom interaction (blog, discussions, projects)
An avatar is a personalized graphic file or rendering that represents a computer user.
Add a voki to your webpage speaking in the target language to enhance students listening skills
Give your homework assignments using your voki on your webpage
Have students create vokis and speak on any grammar or vocabulary theme (describing self, illness, family, friends, how to’s, etc.)
Have students email vokis to each other and comment on them.
Log in to VokiBefore getting started
Use 1 username and password for all webtool accounts to minimize forgetting
Create a different email account so you don’t junk–up your main one
www.voki.comCreate an account or sign in
Create a Voki
1. Create your character2. Give it a voice3. Customize your
background4. Change your player
Add your voice by phone
Record your message using your microphone
Record your file using a digital recorder
When you are happy with your character, select the Publish button. You will be asked to name your character then save.
Select standard Voki link.Copy link then paste onto a blog
Type in the text, select a voice and select a Language
http://kmswildcatlibrary.wikispaces.com/Hunger+Games+VokiVoki Collection
http://mrspilver.wikispaces.com/Magic+Schoolbus+Vokis School Field Trip
http://cyberbrook.wikispaces.com/Our+Voki's Cyberbrook Classroom
http://mwiser.wikispaces.com/Voki http://jamestownreads.wikispaces.com/voki http://techietuesday.wikispaces.com/Voki
Display a variety of information in one place including videos, slideshows, calendars,
presentations, attachments, and text
Create your sitehttps://support.google.com/
sites/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=153197&to
pic=23216&ctx=topic
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Name your site
Choose a template for your site
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Capture classroom moments then post them
Have 1-2 students be responsible for helping with the site
Organize teams to submit project—based learning assignments
Student Handbook Discipline Plan Experience as a teacher Upcoming Projects
Link it to your school’s website under
Link your lesson plans Link or embed your
Voki to the school’s webpage
Allow students to help create it!!!
Teaching & Learning Screencast Tutorials Tips and Tricks
EdWeb2 Wikispaces Lee Summit School District
Teacher Help
Embed Voki into a site Link Templates to choose from
Create videos from photos, video clips, words, and music
Projects Teachweb2 Vocab/Grammar
Create stunning presentations that move and capture attention.
Autobiographies Book reports Illustrating poems Lab reports Group projects Venn Diagrams Project-based learning
◦ Budget, Cost, Time frame
Build Prezi over a duration
Prezi for Vocabulary Zooming into details
of a picture Use Prezi as a mind
map Mini-lectures Synthesis level
thinking
What can Voicethread webtool be used for? Students can share stories or design a project which explains an assignment. Allow students to change or amend it any way they wish. This authentic assessment will engage creative students for hours.
Book Stories Solving math
problems Flip books Pre-reading and
making predictions Field trips Back to school night
tour of your classroom
Creating digital collages over the year
Authors of a certain period
Scientific method Animal Habitats Photosynthesis Lab report or
dissections
While addressing Instructional Technology and Web tools in the 21st Century, we also need to deal with the critical thinking skills needed to evaluate the validity of websites, the importance of ethics responsibility in the digital age, ways to address cyber-safety as well especially in a social network environment.
