Exemplary+Uses+of+Web+2.0+Tools

Share! - Megan Incorporate the technology into the lessons, not the lessons inot the technology. This is a statement that I have based how I have incorporated technology into the classroom. I want to share two things with you; 1- [|Bloom's Digital Taxonomy Pyramid -]this is a great tool to help figure out wat web 2.0 tool to use based on Bloom's. I liked the pyramid so much it had to be added to this page! Its great. I want to print out a bigger version and hang it on my wall in my own class!-Sara

2- My students just completed using Voki.com - Students had to create a Voki that had to talk about How they are Poisitve Role Models. Here is one of my students Voki They had so much fun creating them and it did not take them long to do. Kate media type="custom" key="14061064"

Popplet is a great and FREE Web 2.0 application. It is a collaborative graphic organizer, or students can work independently. The colors are bright, and when using on the SmartBoard, is very engaging. Here are links to three of my own popplets I created.

With popplets, you can embed them into blogs, emails or websites. This Popplet below, I created on bullying. My first grade ccd students drew the pictures and shared what they thought it meant to be a good friend. I was trying to highlight the disconnect students seem to have from a young age to adolescence. media type="custom" key="14138164"

You can also just embed a link to see a Popplet. Here is a Popplet I created which better uses the idea of a graphic organizer. The topic was on operations and their properties. The graphic organizer helped to enhance the differences between the commutative, associative and distributive properties. Operations and their Properties Popplet

Here is one more Popplet I created while having to teach a social studies class!! While we were reading the chapter in our history books, I had each student go up to help fill out our graphic organizer with supporting ideas from the text. media type="custom" key="14138286"

What other ways could you see using the Popplet Web 2.0 application?

-Christina

Popplet seems awesome! It seems like graphic organizers on steroids! Really dynamic. Thanks for sharing - Megan

Christina - these are great and just what I have been looking for. I will be using this with my class on their next project. Thanks for sharing this. Kate

Kate-I would love to see what you do with popplet in your next class project! Keep me updated! -Christina

On the [|weebly] I made for my literacy project, I offered students many options for their final product. Some of these include web 2.0 tools - like smilebox for online scrapbooking and comix for creating online comic strips. I haven't actually used the tools myself, but they came recommended! - Megan

I just made my first Voki and I was also playing around with some of the comic strip making sites. Both would be engaging for students. I think a Voki would be fun for students as a response tool. I'm not sure I would use it as a final assessment without an accompanying aspect though. I also created a weebly website for my final project. I found the site very easy to navigate and I really liked that it included a blog option. This way, students can use the information on the site and respond without leaving the page. -Brianna

Voki is a lot of fun to play around with! I need to get my kids online and show them the site. I mentioned it to some colleagues at school and they're eager to try it, too. - Lisa