What software do you find most beneficial for your students to use? Click here for a link to a short survey.
Zoomerang provides a free online survey tool which can survey up to 100 people. Very easy to use and publish. The survey will remain active for 10 days. To see it working, complete this survey and then [...]
http://voicethread.com is a free Web 2.0 tool which provides easy-to-use features for students to create multimedia projects. This is exciting in itself, but even more motivating for students is that viewers of the project can leave comments via the internet. Look at this example to see how it works: http://voicethread.com/share/107896/
The online media album can hold [...]
Dipity is a Web 2.0 application which allows chronological information to be entered and displayed as a timeline. It can then be shared via a blog or other website. The news headlines about our Olympics team below is an example of one your students could make. It is a ‘live’ timeline in that as events [...]
Thank you to Bob Sprankle at Seedlings for this great Web 2.0 tool. Students can type in text or upload Word or pdf documents to the Read the Words website. A ‘voice’ is chosen to read the text. The resulting sound file can be embedded into a blog (as I have done to the [...]
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most of the information is researched via the web. The model was developed by Bernie Dodge and Tom March at San Diego State University in 1995 (http://webquest.org/index.php)In an interview with Linda Starr of Education World, Bernie Dodge discusses some of the key aspects of using WebQuests [...]
David writes:
The concept of best practice usually illicits some strong emotions from educators; what exactly is best practice. Best practice means different things to different people. With that in mind, here is my perspective of a framework or scaffold that can help school districts implement learning technologies appropriately. Again, my perspective; yours might be different. [...]
Here are a variety of wikis used in schools. Have a look and contribute a comment on possibilities for your classes …
Edublog Award winner Best Wiki 2007 : Welker’s Economics wiki http://welkerswikinomics.wetpaint.com/?t=anon
http://304sophs.wikispaces.com/Historical+Context
http://www.infinitethinking.org/2007/07/pe-geek-boys-sports-and-wikis.html
http://senior-calendar-07-08.wikispaces.com/
http://literature.wikispaces.com/AP+Language+and+Composition
http://discoveryisms.wikispaces.com/
Bud Hunt’s Wiki: Created by Colorado teacher Bud Hunt and many educator-collaborators.
Educational Blogging Wiki: Supports the educational uses of blogs and contains links to [...]
Look at one of these classroom blogs. Write a comment below to describe what feature you liked best and will add / incorporate into your classroom blog.
http://australianedubloggers.pbwiki.com/FrontPage
http://class.huffenglish.com/
http://www.missbakersbiologyclass.com/blog/
http://english12ns.blogspot.com/
http://theopenclassroom.blogspot.com/
http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/
http://appliedscienceresearch.blogspot.com/
http://durffsblog.blogspot.com/
http://lisaslingo.blogspot.com/
http://room9nelsoncentral.blogspot.com/ (a primary school blog … creating an audience for student writers)
http://missrumphiuseffect.blogspot.com/
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