Handout for presentation given by Kay Gormley, School of Education, The Sage Colleges, and Peter McDermott, Pace University, during the 2011 THV Summer Institute, Place & The Digital Native: Using Technology & Social Media to Teach the Hudson Valley

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Using Web 2.0 Tools to Enhance
Learning and Engagement in
Teaching the Hudson Valley
Kathleen A. Gormley, PhD Peter McDermott, PhD
The Sage Colleges Pace University
gormlk@sage.edu pmcdermott@pace.edu
Web 2.0 Tools Discussed in Presentation
FREE, unless otherwise noted with $
Cloud Storage
Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/ (2 gb free)
Collaboration
VoiceThread: https://voicethread.com ($‐‐worth the price!)
[Teacher/student(s) can display images, video, text and comment in
variety of ways.]
Digital Image Tools
Fotoflexer: http://fotoflexer.com/ Fotoflexer has lots of potential—
one way we suggest using it is to obscure student faces.
Flickriver:http://www.flickriver.com/about/ With flickriver, don’t
have to upload series of pictures, so it’s efficient.
Picnik: http://www.picnik.com Picnic allows lots of free effects
including speech bubbles, coloration and so forth. Easy photo editor.
Pizap: http://www.pizap.com/ Another digital imaging tool that
allows uploading of images and adding of speech bubbles—easy photo
editor.
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Digital Boards
Glogster: www.glogster.com Glogster is an online FREE interactive
poster tool. Ability to add video, insert digital images and voice
(mp3)‐‐lots of ways to personalize. Great potential (e.g., introduce self
in course, individual book reports, group projects, unit summaries).
EASY to use.
Glog Examples:
Henry Hudson Glog: http://kfortseven.glogster.com/glog/
FDR Glog: http://rorage.glogster.com/glog‐703/ (note: no attribution
included)
Industrial Revolution: http://dp0149.glogster.com/american‐
insdusterial‐revolution/
Wallwisher: http://www.wallwisher.com/ (can add comments,
images, video, mp3)
Wallwisher Example­­THV URL:
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/HudsonRiver
Presentation Tools
Google Docs—Presentation:
https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=writely&pa
ssive=1209600&continue=http://docs.google.com/&followup=http:/
/docs.google.com/&ltmpl=homepage
Prezi ($): http://prezi.com/
Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/
Sliderocket ($): http://www.sliderocket.com/
Screencasting
Animoto: http://animoto.com/ [Free for 1/2 minute. Recommend
paid version $] (note: also under slidehow tools)
Jing: Up to 5 minutes of screencapture
Screenflow: [$‐‐recommend the paid version due to ease of editing]
Screencast­o­matic: Up to 15 minutes of screencapture.
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Slideshow Tools
Animoto: http://animoto.com/ (note: also under screencasting)
Flickriver: http://www.flickriver.com/about/ With flickriver, don’t
have to upload series of pictures, so it’s efficient.
Kizoa: http://www.kizoa.com/ [special effects, transitions, subtitles
and more]
Photo Peach: http://photopeach.com/
Picassa: http://picasaweb.google.com
Slidestaxx: http://www.slidestaxx.com/
Social Bookmarking
Diigo: http://www.diigo.com Diigo is a social bookmarking system
(many more options that del‐i‐cious) that allows tags, highlighting,
question posing, searching and more. Can create groups (e.g., units of
study, content colleagues, study groups) and easily email bookmarks.
Able to follow people with similar interests. Please join us at NYSRA
2010 to receive (and add) ongoing resources on digital literacy.
Virtual Field Trips and other Websites
A Day in the Life of the Hudson River (updated yearly):
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/edu/k12/snapshotday/index.html
National Register of Historic Places ­­ First Lady of the World:
Eleanor Roosevelt at Val­Kill:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/26roosevelt/26ro
osevelt.htm (readings, maps, resources, lesson plans)
Hudson Valley Institute:
http://www.hudsonrivervalley.org/learning/fieldtrips.html#Historic
%20Sites%20&%20Field%20Trips
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (Hudson River
Estuary Program): http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/4920.html
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YouTube Hudson River:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB37xwQh5tE
Simple K­12:
http://www.simplek12.com/virtualfieldtripshttp://www.galviniz
ed.com/ellis/index.html
Multimedia display boxes
http://museumbox.e2bn.org/
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