1. Helping Teachers Make the Grade! Lonnie Cochran, Krystle Horton, Kimberly Cing, Kristi Reynolds, Rachel Ashwood

3. What is Quizlet is a free easy to use Web 2.0 application that allows users to create and master vocabulary using a variety of interactive games.

4. Getting Started Getting started on Quizlet is easy! View the video below:

5. Examples from my

7. Check accuracy of class notes and data by comparing to teacher posted Quizlet definitions etc.

8. Immediate feedback

9. Track individual progress promoting metacognitive skills

10. Fun activities for pratice

12. Ready-made flashcards, review games and quizzes using a variety of formats (multiple choice, fill-in, matching)

13. Track student progress

15. for I love Quizlet! It is easy to use and access. It is free! Quizlet is a great way to integrate technology in the classroom and homework habits of my students! The interactive nature not only allows my students to practice, study, and quiz themselves, but the comments feature allows students to pose questions of their peers and of me, the instructor, for clarification! In addition, Quizlet is a tool my students can use to generate flashcards for any course they will study! It is a great tool for promoting lifelong learning and study skills.

16. SnagFilms.com is a website devoted to providing full-length documentary films to a wide variety of people across the world. This website also allows people to do what is called “snag a film” and post it practically anywhere on the Internet. The best part about this site is that it is FREE!

18. Selected films that are appropriate for students grades six and up from the SnagFilms’ collection.

19. Films cover almost every discipline and include films from PBS and National Geographic.

20. Teachers can collaborate with one another by submitting lesson plans, activities, quizzes, and homework.

22. What Does SnagFilms Look Like?

24. Choose from: What’s Hot, Topics, Channels, or search A-Z

25. Use MovieMatcher to connect you to films that interest you

28. Easy to use

29. High quality, Award-winning documentaries

30. Teacher collaboration

31. New films added weekly

32. Connects students to real world problems

33. Increases student engagement

35. Conclusion SnagFilms and SnagLearning are great Web 2.0 Applications that should be used in the classroom. They are a great alternative solutions to YouTube and are more about what is going on in the world rather than random people uploading whatever comes to mind first. This tool allows students to learn about different disciplines in relation to their world.

37. Users may utilize a list of words (divided into nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and universal words) that the website offers related to each individual picture (sort of like “magnetic refrigerator poetry"), or the users may choose to freewrite poetry or descriptive paragraphs.

39. Just go to www.piclits.com

40. Enter your e-mail address, a password, and a pen name (under which your work will appear)

43. Lesson plans have suggested worksheets and quizzes

44. All keywords for each photograph are divided into parts of speech (helps teach students grammar)

45. "Coming Soon" to the site: search tools and tagging to aide with finding examples to use in class

47. Can be accessed from any computer with internet use

48. Simple to use ... students can use keywords to inspire them and help them to write poetry

49. Drag-n-drop option helps students change the tense and forms of the keywords

50. A wide variety of inspiring pictures to choose from

53. Final Thoughts on PicLits.com I'm excited to use this Web 2.0 site in my classroom. The lesson plans provided on the site are an outstanding resource. I have my students write poetry when we do our poetry unit and they're always asking, "What do I write about?" and "How do I get started?" PicLits really gives students some inspiration and some ideas to get started. Students could complete the assignment and upload it to the class wiki or they could email it to the teacher. It would also be a wonderful extra credit assignment. Or I could also have students write descriptive paragraphs on the photographs instead of poetry. This site is a literature teacher's or creative writing teacher's dream!

54. What is Glogster EDU defines itself as "A Web 2.0 platform that allows users to easily upload photos, videos, text, audio and more to create a unique online, interactive poster." This is an example of a glog. The neat thing about a glog is that it is interactive. See interactive glog

55. How to get started 1. Go to www.Glogster.com/edu 2. Click on register and sign up for an account. 3. Do NOT add any students at this time, you can add them later. How to add students to your class. Click on Download File not add accounts Watch this detailed video for extra help with setting up an account.

57. A new way to express creativity

58. Private, secure, safe virtual classroom monitored by teachers

59. Drives new interest levels around subjects that may have been seen as “boring” before

60. Adds audiovisual aspects to traditionally text-oriented subjects

61. Fosters teamwork and collaboration with classmates

62. Increases drive to be independently creative

63. Unlimited shelf life

64. Improves student-teacher relationships by allowing both to explore Web 2.0 & learning concepts together

66. Make sure to add your students using the "Excel" option.

67. To add sound, data and drawing options, you must purchase the premium edition.

68. Try Glogster for your next class project I would definitely suggest using Glogster EDU in your classroom. It is so easy that you don't really need to spend much time teaching your students. I plan on using Glogster this summer in a class I am teaching. They are really easy to embed into other formats such as wikispaces too. SEE MY GLOGSTER

70. Convenient to bookmark all online links using categories and subcategories

71. Easy for parents, students, and other teachers to access

72. Share links with others

74. Click the 2nd button down on the lefthand side that says "Signup," enter your basic information, then click "Join portaportal"

75. Note: The username you choose will also be the guest name of your portal. Keep it simple so guests can easily remember and access your portal

76. Once you have your account you may begin adding/editing/deleting categories, bookmarks, or basic quick links by using the tools on the top right

78. Helpful since bookmarks can be opened from any computer like the one in the classroom, the computer lab, or your students' home

79. Parents can access easily to see what are good websites for them to use at home

80. Students can access easily at home

81. Categories can be specific like: "Parent Links," "TCAP Practice," "Phonics Skills," or links to other skills that have been studied in the classroom

83. Cannot aggregate and separate: If you want a link in two categories, you have to enter it twice; If you want to remove it from your categories, you have to remove the link from whichever categories it is in individually

84. It is not difficult to search other portals, but it isn't very social because it is not networked

86. I like how I can share links easily with fellow teachers and parents

87. My students are only in kindergarten so they do not access it themselves, but I often pull it up on the projector to quickly open bookmarks. I like it because I can use it in the library, computer lab, another classroom, etc.

88. I like portaportal, because it is what many people at my school use. However, I think Delicious is overall a better bookmarking site

90. SnagFilms and SnagLearning offers educational films at your fingertips. It also offers activities and quizzes to accompany the films.

91. PitLits is a creative outlet for students. It gives them inspiration to be great poets and writers and offers them a place to publish their work to Facebook or their class wikis.

92. Glogster allows students and teachers to create interactive posters with photos, video, and audio. This would be an innovative way for students to do group projects in any subject area.

93. PortaPortal is social bookmarking for the classroom allowing quick access to links and teachers, students and parents to share bookmarks.