Presentation for TAMU - Commerce on Google and Web 2.0

1. Web 2.0
Resources for
Your Classroom
Amy Hopkins
ahopkins@caddomillsisd.org
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2. How can Web 2.0 help
me be a better
teacher?

3. st
21
Century
Learners

4. Their goal: to ensure that today‟s students
are well prepared to be tomorrow‟s
innovators, leaders and engaged citizens
of the world.

5. Basics of the Survey
• Data collected through online surveys and verified
through a series of focus groups and interviews.
• Since fall 2003, over 1.2 million K-12 students,
teachers, administrators and parents representing
over 14,000 schools in all 50 states.
• Data represents the largest collection of
authentic, unfiltered stakeholder input on
education, technology, 21st century skills and
schools of the future

6. What do students do regularly with
technology outside of school?
• Gaming over 64% of students play online
• Download music #1 activity by MS and HS students
• Social networking 40% of middle school students
67% of high school students
• Email, IM, text messaging over 50% of HS students

7. What do STUDENTS do regularly
with technology?
• Writing assignments- 74%
• Online research – 72%
• Checking assignments or grades online – 58%
• Creating slideshows, videos for schoolwork - 57%
• Email or IM about assignments - 44%

8. What do TEACHERS do regularly
with technology?
• Use email to communicate - 93%
• Create PowerPoints – 59%
• Create or listen to podcasts or videos – 35%
• Websites like MySpace or Facebook - 21%

9. Survey Conclusions….
• This year 60% of parents and 73% of teachers rate good
technology skills as important
• 74% of high school students consistently identify good tech
skills as the #1 skill they need to be successful in the 21st
century.
• Only 23% of those students feel that their school is doing a
good job preparing them for future jobs.

10. Survey Conclusions….
• Since 2004, students‟ discontent with school rules that limit their
access to technology at school has grown by 46%
• School rules keep them from using tools they use everyday
• The other major obstacle today is the teacher – over 40% of
students think so!

11. Find the full report:
http://www.tomorrow.org/docs/National%20Findi
ngs%20Speak%20Up%202007.pdf

12. Shift Happens
More information on Shift Happens can be found at:
http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/

13. What is Web 2.0?
• Describes the changing trends in the use of
World Wide Web technology and web
design
• Aims to enhance creativity,
communications, secure information
sharing, collaboration and functionality of
the web.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

14. Will Richardson….
The most sweeping change in our
relationship with the Internet may not be
as much with the ability to publish as it is
the ability to share and connect and create
with many, many others of like minds and
interests.
Richardson, Will. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Tools for Classrooms. Corwin, 2006

15. Web 2.0 – The Read/Write Web
• Describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide
Web technology and web design
• Simplified online content creation
• Users can focus on:
Ideas
Creativity
Collaboration
Technical know-how unimportant
Usually publically accessible
Andy Carvin, Embracing Web 2.0 for an Education 1.0 Universe

16. Web 2.0 can help
you be a better
teacher!

17. GOOGLE PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

18. Google Accounts
• Many of Google‟s
newest tools require
you to have a free
Google account
[which is not the same
as a Gmail account].

19. iGoogle
• Personalized homepage for Google
Account holders
• It was originally launched in May 2005.
• Its features include the capability to add
web feeds and Google Gadgets of
particular interest to user
• Custom background themes

21. Google Toolbar
• Bookmarks
• Custom Buttons
• Settings on toolbar can be accessed from
any computer with the toolbar
• Download at:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_google_toolbar_ie/

22. Vocabulary Needed!
RSS – “Really Simple Syndication”
The ability of web content to be shared and
republished

23. RSS in Plain English – The
Common Craft Show

24. Vocabulary Needed!
• Tags
The subject descriptors given to Web 2.0 based information which can also
be used to search out items of interest
Web feed/News feed
• Feeds are most commonly used with web sites that are frequently updated,
like blogs and news sites.
• By creating a „feed‟, the author can easily syndicate his or her content in a
format that others can access by subscribing to the feed.
• When the author changes the content on the site, it‟s automatically updated
on the desktop or web page of every single person who subscribes to that
feed.

25. AGGREGATORS

26. What is an
Aggregator?
•The aggregator holds a list of web sites and resources that offer
RSS feeds. When it‟s opened the aggregator retrieves the
information from each RSS feed page listed.
•Once subscribed to a feed, an aggregator is able to check for
new content at user-determined intervals and retrieve the
update.

27. Google Reader
•Stay up to date
Google Reader constantly checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new
content. Whether a site updates daily or monthly, you can be sure that you won't
miss a thing.
•Simplify your reading experience
Google Reader shows you all of your favorite sites in one convenient place. It's
like a personalized inbox for the entire web.
•Discover new content
Millions of sites publish feeds with their latest updates, and the integrated feed
search makes it easy to find new content that interests you.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Google Reader in Plain English
Google Reader printable Cheat Sheet for Shortcuts

29. BLOGS

30. Blogs
• A weblog (usually shortened to blog) is
a web-based publication consisting
primarily of articles
• Most often, articles are listed in reverse
chronological order.
• Blogging is the posting of journal-like
pages to a website. These pages can
contain photos or media - mainly focus
on written thoughts posted to a website.
• Typically, a blog quot;postquot; can be
quot;commentedquot; on by others, allowing for
discussion on the topic.

31. Blogs in Plain English
from the Common Craft Show

32. Courtesy of http://www.weblogcartoons.com/

33. Math and Science Blogs
• Darren Kuropatwa's AP Calculus AP class blog on Blogger -
Winnipeg http://apcalc06.blogspot.com/
• From David Wetzel: http://www.teachscienceandmath.com/
• Math Goodies Blog http://mathgoodies.blogspot.com/
• http://futureofmath.misterteacher.com/blogs2.html
• Mrs. DuBoses Super Science Class
http://adventuresinscience.edublogs.org/

34. A great resource to find blogs on any
subject
www.blogcatalog.com

35. AUDIO
and Podcasting

36. Podcasting
Photo Courtesy of Oliver Hartmann
• According to Wikipedia, “A podcast is a series of digital-media files which
are distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on
portable media players and computers.
• Podcasting is a term coined from the combination of “iPod,” a popular
digital audio player, and “broadcast.
• Subscribe to a podcast feed and then have it automatically delivered to your
computer when there is a new episode.

37. Tech Chick Tips –
a podcast I subscribe to

39. iTunes – search for podcasts

40. Other Podcast Directories:
• Podcast Blaster
• Podanza
• Podcast Alley
• Digital Podcast

41. Creating Podcasts
• Audacity – free, open-source software
to record audio
• PodOmatic – storehouse for audio
recording
• Blogger – blog to create feed for
podcast
• Feedburner – burn the feed

42. COLLABORATION,
PRESENTATIONS and
PRODUCTIVITY

43. Google Docs & Spreadsheets
• Google Docs & Spreadsheets is
docs.google.com available to everyone with a
Google account.
• Docs & Spreadsheets lets you
– Upload Word or Excel files or create
new documents and spreadsheets
online
– Edit your files online
– Invite others to edit your files online
– View the files‟ version histories and roll
back to previous versions
– Publish the finished files to the world
as web pages or blog posts
– Download the final, edited files as
.doc, .rtf, .pdf, .html, and/or .zip files

44. Google Docs Templates
docs.google.com/templates
• Google Docs now has 314
document, spreadsheet, and
presentation templates you
are free to use.
• You can create a new
document from a template by
choosing New > From
Template…

45. WIKIS

46. Wiki
• Wikis are simple web pages that groups,
friends, and families can edit together.
From The Common Craft Show

47. Wikispaces
• Wikispaces now hosts over 750,000 wikis
for over 1,800,000 people.
• Allows educators to have ad-free wikis for
classroom use –
http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers
• Take a tour -
http://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour#introduction

48. Hardware Review
http://mrshoppy.wikispaces.com/Input+Device

49. http://tcea2009.wikispaces.com/

50. Google Sites
• Google Sites is a
free, online, web editor that
lets you easily create your
own group websites.
• Google even gives you your
own URL
[sites.google.com/site/
sitename] and 10 GB of
storage for your pages and
uploaded files.
• Negative: At this point, no
code embed feature

51. Example of a Student Portfolio
created in Google Sites

52. Other Wiki Resources
• Wikibooks - A Wikimedia community
for creating a free library of educational
textbooks that anyone can edit.
• Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia that
anyone can edit.
• wikiHow - The How-to Manual That
You Can Edit.

53. VIDEO

54. Finding Educational Videos for
the Classroom
• YouTube
• TeacherTube
• SchoolTube
• National Geographic Videos
• The Moving Image Archive
• NOVA Science Videos
• How Stuff Works Videos

55. Getting Video Ready to Use
• Many videos don‟t come ready for
immediate use in the classroom.
• Sometimes download and converting to
other formats is necessary.
• My instructions on how to do this are here

56. Animoto
Create video from your pictures. Apply for Animoto in Education
account for your students and you will be able to create full-length
video, instead of the standard 30 second video.

57. SOCIAL
BOOKMARKING
and NETWORKING

58. Social Bookmarking
• The ability to save and categorize a
personal collection of bookmarks
and share them with others.
• Users may also take bookmarks
saved by others and add them to
their own collection, as well as to
subscribe to the lists of others.

59. Social Bookmarking in Plain English
From The Common Craft Show

60. Diigo
My Bookmarking site of choice
• Save bookmarks under “tags” allowing me to easily look at
categories at any time
•Share my bookmarks with my classes or colleagues
•Look at other‟s bookmarks for ideas/websites – Look under
“Tag Communities”
http://www.diigo.com/user/ahopkins

61. IMAGES/PHOTOS

62. Photo Sharing Sites
• Act as online storage spaces for photos, with the ability to
tag and organize each photo, as well as publishing anyone
the user selects.
• Other users have the opportunity to leave comments for
the photographer on any image that has been made
available.
• Some photo sharing web sites offer the ability to edit
photos online, make notes, post photos to a blog and a
variety of other features.

63. Flickr
• Flickr is an image and video hosting website
• It was one of the earliest Web 2.0 applications – launched
in 2004
• In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share
personal photographs, the service is widely used by
bloggers as a photo warehouse.
• Its popularity has been fueled by its organization tools,
which allow photos to be tagged and browsed.
• It claims to host more than 2 billion images.

65. Flickr Resources
• Spell with Flickr
• Flickr Toys collection

66. Students can search on Flickr for pictures
licensed under a Creative Commons license to
use in their presentations and digital stories.
GREAT JOB FLICKR
in providing this resource!

67. Windows MovieMaker project
using pictures from Flickr
Video Courtesy of Samantha Martin

68. Cool Text
Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and
anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot
of design work.

69. TypoGenerator
Turns a piece of text into a piece of art.

70. Wordle
Generate “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.
Thirty Interesting Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom –
http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dhn2vcv5_157dpbsg9c5

71. Picnik
• Picnik is an online
photo editing service.
Currently it can import
photos natively from
Facebook, Myspace,
Picasa Web Albums,
Flickr, Yahoo Image
search and also offers
options to upload from
a computer or to
upload from a website.
Photo Courtesy of Lexie King

72. ORGANIZATION

73. Dial2do
• Available in 24 Countries
• Dial2Do lets you do common tasks by just calling a
number and speaking. Use it to send EMAIL or TEXT
messages, record REMINDERS to help you remember
things!

74. Google Calendar

75. QUIZ AND
POLLING

76. Poll Daddy
With your free
account from
PollDaddy you can
create surveys and
polls for your
website, blog and
social network
profiles.

78. WORKS CITED
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• quot;CcMixter.quot; Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 19 Jan 2009, 09:22 UTC. 26 Jan 2009
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81. Amy Hopkins
ahopkins@caddomillsisd.org
Resources for this presentation:
http://techisthefuture.wikispaces.com
Resources for another Web 2.0 presentation:
http://tcea2009.wikispaces.com