Web+2.0+Collection


 * Web 2.0 Collection **

[] ||< A glogster is an online multimedia poster with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more. A Glog is created using a very easy to understand, drag and drop interface that is relevant, enjoyable, and scalable for students of all ages and learning styles. A Glog is an interactive visual platform in which users create a “poster or web page” containing multimedia elements. ||< Pros: -hands-on -user friendly
 * < __Web 2.0 Tool__ == == ||< __Link and Picture__ ||< __Description__ ||< __Pros/Cons__ ||< __Classroom Implementation__ ||
 * < == Glogster == ||< media type="custom" key="24604140" width="60" height="60"

Cons: -can be too busy -time consuming -only works with Safari ||< __**History:**__ Teacher could give the students a certain history person or a certain culture and have the students make their own glogster with the information they retrieve.

Glogster could help be used for a review strategy for a lesson that has been taught before a test is given.
 * __ Literature: __**

The teacher could create a glogster for an introduction to a topic. For example the teacher could make a glogster about Potential and Kinetic energy, describing the topics and what they mean.
 * __ Science: __**

**__Math__**: The teacher could write out a math problem on the board and the students can put it in a glogster and explain how they know what the answer is. || @http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=8881723&height=267&width=200 ||< Avatars are a fun way to share information with students. Voki avatars, available at @http://voki.com/, is a free Web 2.0 tool that allows you to create a customizeable avatar and record a message. After you have completed making an avatar you have the choice to embed it, share, or even get an url for it. ||< Pros: - large variety of backgrounds, characters,and voices. -allows you to record your voice by phone, keyboard (speech), microphone, or from an audio file.
 * < == Voki Avatar == ||< media type="custom" key="24604722"

-free tool

Cons: -it has to be quite for you to use the microphone properly. -often times the microphone does not work on the computers for you to record your voice ||< **__History:__** Teacher could create a avatar to introduce the class to an history lesson. For example: for Thanksgiving the teacher could use the turkey character to introduce it.

The teacher could have the students make their own avatar to tell the teacher what is something that they are still confused about in the class, to show what their "Muddiest Point" is.
 * __ Math: __**

The teacher could have the students make their own avatar for what they think a certain character looks like and record their voice explaining the character in a book the class is reading together.
 * __ Reading: __**

The students could make an avatar using one of their vocabulary words and putting it in a sentence and recording it to make an avatar. ||
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 * < == Prezi == ||< media type="custom" key="24604918"

[] ||< A Prezi is a an online presentation creator. Prezi allows the users to create and share their presentation online. It is a good tool for just about anything and any subject. ||< Pros: -free tol -Can move objects around to make it look more sufficient -It is an iPad app for students to use.

Cons: -not user friendly -very hard to maneuver around -Your prezi can not be private with the free account, you have to upgrade. ||< **__ Math: __** The teacher can use it to make a math trail. The teacher can create a math trail and download it on the iPads for the students to follow the instructions and finish the math trail as a lesson.

The teacher can create a prezi on vocabulary words and using it to teach a lesson to the class.
 * __ Language Arts: __**

__**Science:**__ The teacher can have the students create a prezi on the difference between plant and animal cells.

The teacher can have the students work together in groups and assign them a Historical figure and have them create a prezi by using the information they find online. For example: If the teacher were to teach a lesson about presidents the teacher can assign a different president to each group and have them make a prezi on that particular president. ||
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 * < == Capzles == ||< media type="custom" key="24605028"

[|http://www.capzles.com/#/0619311b-179f-497c-9352-f6af9f4c7c32/] ||< An online tool to create rich multimedia experiences with videos, photos, music, blogs, and documents. A capzle is a new and fun way to teach students about anything in the classroom and keeps it organized like a timeline. ||< Pros: -Many backgrounds and pictures to choose from. -Can embed a capzle anywhere including on your Facebook wall. -Free tool -Available in the app store

Cons: -not user friendly -hard to post your information into. ||< **__ History: __** The students can create a timeline about a historical figure or something to do with culture.

**__Reading__**: The students can create a timeline about a character in a book they are reading. For example: If a student is reading the Harry Potter series, and have read all of them, then the student can make a capzle timeline about Harry Potters life starting out when he got dropped off at his foster parents.

The students can create a capzle timeline by putting their vocabulary words in alphabetic order and writing the meanings of each one in the boxes provided.
 * __ Language Arts: __**

The teacher can create a capzle to introduction a topic into a lesson. For example: a teacher can create a capzle timeline to describe the life of a butterfly. || @https://bubbl.us/?h=1969c9/32f261/16VaScXyQUPFM ||< Bubble.us is a concept mapping tool to help students understand the meaning of something. On the right hand of the screen it tells you what concept maps you have and how they have been used. All you do to make a concept map is click on the empty white space to make a bubble and start typing in what you want it to say. ||< Pros: -User friendly -Very easy program -free tool -will allow you to embed the tool or share the url code
 * __Science__**:
 * < == Bubbl.us == ||< media type="custom" key="24605224"

Cons: -to have more than 3 concept maps you have to upgrade to better version. -hard to connect the arrows to the bubbles the right way. -time consuming ||< **__ Reading: __** The teacher can allow the students to make a concept map about their favorite book. For example: To Kill a Mocking Bird the student can write in each bubble what 4 main important main ideas were in the book.

The teacher can use it to put the students vocabulary words inside to help the students understand the words better.
 * __ Language Arts: __**

The teacher can create a bubbl.us concept map to describe the differences between plant and animal cells.
 * __ Science: __**

**__History__**: Students can create their own bubble.us concept map on their favorite historical singer or sport fan. || [] ||< A manipulation of a photo by creating a poster, magazine cover, or something else located on the Big Huge Labs website. You can use the following effects: labs, filters, cards, posters, galleries, photography, faces, billboards, celebrities, frames, drawings, vintage, magazines, professions, movies, TV, books, and miscellaneous. ||< Pros: -fun to use -free tool to use -entertaining for kids -many effects to choose from
 * < == Photo Manipulation == ||< [[image:Photo Manuplation ricky and tabby.jpg width="175" height="195"]]

Cons: -can not save it to the website -no embed code -almost too simple ||< **__ History: __** A teacher can create a photo manipulation for a historical figure to introduce the students to a lesson about that person.

**__Science__**: Students can create a photo manipulation of something they like the best in science and then present it to the class.

Teacher can create a photo manipulation for every character in a class book they are reading.
 * __Reading__**:

Teacher can create a photo manipulation of a certain word, and putting a picture for that word and put a warning poster on it saying that a certain sentence is not the meaning of the word. For example, the teacher can find a picture of two and put it in a warning poster and then underneath it put a sentence that doesn't belong to that two. || @https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r6s8N2c8XLEo0Asji3_f8VlDeKerbJTc1qFWEOf5-80/edit?usp=sharing ||< A Google Docs is a user- friendly tool that students and/or teachers can use to help make it easier on themselves. Google Docs allows you to share the document with somebody else and all of the members can be on there typing at the same time to help get a document finished. ||< Pros: -user friendly -can have friends on the document the same time you are on there. -can download the document onto your computer whenever finished -Can make comments on the document for the other person to see later on. -has a revision history that way you can see what's been done by who. -free tool -teacher can be shared on the document
 * __Language Arts:__**
 * < == Google Docs == ||< [[image:google docs screen shot.png width="319" height="150" align="left"]]

Cons: -difficult to import or export files into -when you download the google docs onto your computer, sometimes the format chages ||< **__Science__**: The students can write a report on a science project they have in class.

The students can write an essay on google docs, and if the students are doing a group essay this allows the students to work together on the essay but at their own homes.
 * __Language Arts:__**

The teacher can make a newsletter template in Google Docs to create s newsletter on the book they are reading together in class.
 * __Reading:__**

The teacher can create a powerpoint to introduce a math subject to a lesson. This can allow specific people to be shared on the Google Doc with the teacher. For example, the teacher can share the powerpoint with a Special Needs aid to allow any changes that need to be made prior to class for a special needs child in the classroom. ||
 * __Math__**:
 * < == Loose Leaves == ||< [[image:best screen shot.png width="253" height="288"]]

@http://looseleaves.me/289/Math-For-Mrs-Jeffers ||< Loose Leaves is a Web 2.0 tool that allows you to blog, for lack of a better word, without having a blog. Loose leaves was created to be a place for those writings that don't quite fit anywhere else. Loose Leaves doesn't require registration and allows you to share a link with others and save your "leaf" for future editing. ||< Pros: -free tool -place to publish random thoughts -user-friendly -can share it in many ways

Cons: -no embed code -not exciting -no way to download file ||< __**Math:**__ The teacher can create a loose leaves explaining different types of math problems in a lesson. For example: the teacher can explain the differences between the Commutative Property of Addition, Commutative Property of Multiplication, Associative Property of Addition, and Associative Property of Multiplication.

The teacher can create a Loose Leaves to be able to let the students go in and look at what assignment they have next for the following day.
 * __Reading__**:

__**Writing:**__ The teacher can have the students create a Loose Leaves on their vocabulary words for the week by typing the definitions for all of them and writing each one in a sentence.

The teacher can create a Loose Leaves introducing a lesson into Science. For example: if the teacher wanted to start a lesson on temperature then the teacher can create a Loose Leaves on temperature. || @http://www.slideshare.net/upload?from_source=loggedin_loggedout_homepage_navbar ||< Slideshare is a way to upload your presentations, documents, info-graphics, and more. They are templates already made for you to upload your documentations into. ||< Pros: -user-friendly -easy to use -can e-mail it, embed, share it, and save it. -statistics on who has viewed it and how many actions have took place with the particular presentation. - free tool
 * __Science__**:
 * < ==Slideshare== ||< media type="custom" key="24605764"

Cons: -can not see all slides at once. -can not make it private without upgrading. -not very exciting ||< **__Math__**: The teacher can upload a powerpoint onto Slideshare to teach a lesson in Math. For example: the teacher may want to teach a lesson on Geometry and they teacher uploads a presentation on Quadrilaterals to teach the lesson.

The teacher can allow the students to create a presentations in PowerPoint on the computer on a book they are reading and then have them upload it to Slideshare for the whole class can see it.
 * __Reading__**:

__**Language Arts:**__ The teacher can upload a presentation on the next weeks vocabulary words and explain each word to the students from the Slideshare.

The teacher can have the students create a presentation on a group science project that has been assigned and then upload it to Slideshare to present it. || @http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/6970418/Tabitha_Jeffers ||< 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. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. ||< Pros: -different ways of the words -free tool -fun and exciting -can be very educational -many background and word colors
 * __Science__**:
 * < ==Wordle== ||< media type="custom" key="24605824"

Cons: -time consuming -not user-friendly -complicating to get the words on the Wordle ||< **__Homeroom__**: the teacher can introduce his/her self to the students the first day of class with creating a Wordle.

After a teacher reads a book to the class he/she can allow the students to create a Wordle describing a character or describing the book with just a few words.
 * __Reading__**:

Students can create a Wordle by typing out their vocabulary words without looking at notes of how to spell them.
 * __Writing__**:

Teacher can create a Wordle to introduce a lesson in Science using only a few words. ||
 * __Science__**: