Raising Responsible Digital Citizens: A Workshop for Parents
Raising Responsible Digital Citizens: A Workshop for Parents The following workshop has been...
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Category: Web Software
Oral Language, Assessment, and Metacognition with VoiceThread
Today, I am going to follow up on an earlier post from March 7th, 2011, “First Step of Innovation = Substitution”. In that post, I discussed how VoiceThread could be utilized as an innovative enhancement and...
Read MorePodcasting Made Simple – Part 4 – Tumblr
The major hurdle to jump when considering podcasting is where to host your files. As I mentioned in the first part of this series, creation of your audio project is only step one. Back in the day, you would record your cassette...
Read MorePodcasting Made Simple – Part 3 – Audacity
The first platform that I want to discuss for recording podcasts is Audacity. This easy to use, free, open source software is available for download at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/. Version 1.2.6 is the latest stable version...
Read MorePodcasting Made Simple – Part 2 – Recording
The first step of any podcast is to record the speaking. This can be done in a variety of ways and the number of different microphones on today’s market is somewhat overwhelming. Here, we will focus on the Blue Snowball...
Read MorePodcasting Made Simple – Part 1
Livescribe paper-based computing platform includes a smartpen, dot paper and software applications that changes the way people capture, use and share audio and visual information with pen and paper. [vodpod...
Read More#3 Glogster: Virtual Posters (Ban Bristol Board)
Glogster is an amazing Web 2.0 site that allows students to make virtual posters with embedded text, photos, sounds/music, and video. Students can create their virtual poster, visualizing a concept or idea and, by extension, can...
Read More#1 Lino it & Wallwisher: Online Stickies!
Today’s Web 2.0 site for discussion is Lino it. I don’t even remember how I stumbled across this one but immediately thought that there may be some fun ways to incorporate this into some great classroom activities....
Read MoreEvaluating Blogs for Teachers & Students
Well, its been a long haul, but I think that I’m finally ready to post my evaluation of some blogging platforms that can be used by teachers and students. There are literally *tons* of platforms available…this is...
Read MoreCreating A Class Blog with Edublogs
While I was assessing the plethora of blogging platforms that exist out there and that can be used for education, I came across a bunch of really cool and really helpful information at Edublogger. Here, there are a number of...
Read MoreHelp Me Out: Practical Applications for Web 2.0 Apps in Education
This is the first step of a large project intended to compile a bunch of Web 2.0 resources that educators can use in their classroom.
Read MoreHow to Set up Your Blog
Video References “How to” Instructions and YouTube Videos Ready to Blog? Let’s Get Started! How to Create a Blog with Blogger How to Post a YouTube Video to Your Blog How to Add Page Elements to Your Blog in...
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