Web2.0+Tools

Web2.0 Tools

Wikis: This is my favorite Wiki __WebTools4U2Use __ __http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/ __ Here's the run down "A wiki for school library media specialists to learn about cool new web tools, see how they can be used in school library media programs, and share ideas & success stories." This is an example of a wiki being used as a web portal for a library: __http://hhslibrarymediacenter.wikispaces.com/ __ A wiki for professional development for librarians: __[|http://teacherlibrarianwiki.pbwiki.com] __ Yet one more librarian wiki. This one is for copyright friendly resources __http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/ __ This is an example of a wiki for science class....very extensive, full of content:__[] __ Wiki for students to discover German culture __[] __ Computer Graphics/Art Teacher wiki __http://mrskillmoreswiki.wikispaces.com/ __ Wiki for teachers looking at new technologies in an after school club h__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|ttp://technologyplaygroup.wetpaint.com/] __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Great wiki on the Presidents with lots of great links and quizzes __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[] __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Open Source Software lesson plans. __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">http://openlessons.wikispaces.com/ __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This wiki is about the lessons on google Earth. Teachers are sharing lesson plans using Google earth. Many good sites. h__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|ttp://classroomgoogleearth.wikispaces.com/] __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|History Tours wikispace.] __ Google Earth Tours created by teachers and students. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">http://salutetoseuss.wikispaces.com/ __ This is a link to a very extensive wiki that appears to be a Teacher 2 Teacher sharing site as well as a site to let kids explore fun topics about Dr. Suess. It appeared to me to be more of a source for information but some teachers did post some cute pics. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here is a wiki about the history of the GOP. Good for discussions about the beginnings of the Republican Party. __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[] __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Asian History for 9th graders <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[] __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The teacher has set up the outline for the site. He/she has added pages according to topic/unit: geography, dynasty, history, etc. In some cases, the teacher has provided maps or graphics or topics and asked students to provide the information or explanations or to draw conclusions. In some cases, I think the teacher provided the info. There is a page where students are asked to submit photos with captions. Another page is a general discussion page. It looks like this may have been a collaborative effort with a school in China. There are also comments from people from other countries/outside the class. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Practicing German pronunciation through comics __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[] __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The following wiki is great because it provides a concise overview of suicide as it pertains to teenagers. It also contains statistics which are relevant to the population I teach. This would be a great resource in my classroom as it could serve as research notes for their major project. __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Suicide Wiki] __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The following wiki is a great resource where students can gather relevant information and post their thoughts in the discussion format. This is definitely worth using in my classroom and anybody else who teaches gender issues. __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|gender in disney] __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Useful index for wikis already out there: __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[] __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Another one of my units is Alcohol and the following wiki has a powerful video that would be useful as an intro to the unit. The rest of the wiki also has relevant facts and figures which support the lessons I teach throughout the unit. __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[] __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[] __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This appears to be a classroom wiki and part of it is book reviews by students. This is something I would like to try with my students. When I have a student who is really enthusiastic about a book - especially a new one -- I would like to have them share with each other. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[] __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This wiki deals with cancer and seems to cover a lot of topics. It might be useful for the health classes when they are researching diseases. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This wiki talks about the history of the Bermuda Triangle and the history of its mysteries. Planes and ships are missing. Where did they go? Check out this wiki for the possible answers. __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[] __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">More German culture, including cartoons, and music __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[] __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Stevens english] __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This site offers great links for easy applications in the English classroom. The teacher- created wiki shares instructions and examples of several webquests, plus offers embedded Utube videos on various phases of American literature. Also available are study guides for paper writing;very useful for both student and teacher. Students could view videos for preview or acceleration. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Terry the Tennis Ball – A Choose Your Own Adventure <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">http://terrythetennisball.wikispaces.com __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is an example for elementary/ms students – language class. The teacher starts the story, adding a picture. The students add a word, which appears in a list below. Each word is a link to another page, with a paragraph continuing the story Below that paragraph is a list of more word choices that link to additional parts of the story. – Good for beginning collaboration and getting students to write. – May be confusing to check up on though. – It gets kind of out of control. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|student ideas] __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is a page for students to offer suggestions on how to help other students succeed in school. The concept is simple and the lessons are practical ( SAT tips.) The concept could be adopted as a means for students to advise their peers regarding a multitude of concerns - both academic and social _Leslie <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This wiki is about web 2.0 tools and how teachers are using them. The site is pretty impressive because it has teachers collaborating on many of the different web 2.0 tools. __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[] __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Prichard Elementary Gifted Program <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|http://prichardelementarygifted.wetpaint.com] __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This site is for a smaller class, but could be done with larger elem/ms classes. The teacher has a page for each student and the student has set it up like a myspace with info about themselves. Then on another page, the teacher has posted web-based assignments. These can then be easily accessed at home. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mamk Elementary Teacher Resources <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[] __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is a for teachers to add web site links with descriptions according to subject/content area. This is a good idea for collaboration among teachers. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Eduwiki <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">http://eduwikius.wikispaces.com/ __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Resource site for all teachers K-12, resources organized by type, grade, content. Focus in PA technology integration. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Bruce's History Class Wiki <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">http://mrbruceshistory.wikispaces.com/ __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I like this wiki because it is student centered and based primarily on student collaboration. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CFF Science Wiki <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This wiki is a good resource for science teachers.__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">http://cffscience.wikispaces.com/ __