Cool Tools and KET's EncycloMedia

Cool Tools and KET’s EncycloMedia in the 21 st Century Classroom: “ It’s Del.icio.us!” Missi Baker, KET Education Consultant [email_address] Missibket.blogspot.com Missibket.wikispaces.com Twitter: srenatee SL: srenatee miasma

WEB 2.0 www.go2web20.net

From this… Indiana Univ. photostream. Flickr. Creative Commons. 3 June 2008.

… to this! Fryer, Wes. Flickr photostream. Creative Commons. 3 June 2008.

EncycloMedia Images and Clips embedded in Web 2.0 Tools enhance Blended Learning

Web 1.0

Read only

Web as reading platform

Developer authorship

Individual intelligence

Software applications

Commercial/proprietary

Static

Impersonal

Restricted collaboration

Official releases

Text-based

HD as storage platform

Lecture

Web 2.0

Read/Write/Collaborate

Web as publishing platform

Public authorship

Collective intelligence

Web as software platform

Open source/shared

Dynamic

It knows you & your needs

Collaborative

Constantly versioning

Multimodal

Web as storage platform

Conversation

Web2.0 proficient? BEFUNKY.COM GRAPHITA.COM

You’re not going to be perfect out of the box

ISTE NETS•S Refresh Model Digital Citizenship Technology Operations & Concepts Critical Thinking, Problem Solving & Decision Making Creativity & Innovation Research & Information Retrieval Communication & Collaboration Draft of Refreshed ISTE National Educational Technology Standards for Students Copyright ISTE® 2007

Good resources+good projects=

Using Web 2.0 Tools teaches Information Literacy/Fluency:

The ability to effectively and ethically seek, use, and create information.

Recognize a need for information;

Formulate questions; identify potential information sources;

Develop strategies for physically and intellectually accessing information; evaluate, analyze,

Analyze, synthesize and organize new information with existing knowledge;

Effectively, ethically, collaboratively and creatively communicate new knowledge.

The process in which students--and the rest of us :

Photo Sharing

Uses for Photosharing Sites

Virtual field trips

Categorize, analyze, evaluate images

Geography practice

Picture books-documentaries

Display original artwork

Online scavenger hunts

Process live field trips

Upload exported (jpeg) Inspiration graphic organizers and PPT slides

Google Earth

Digital Storytelling Tools

MovieMaker--Free Download

Photostory 3—free download

— open source

Photostory 3

Other features: Pro version Educator’s version Beta testing: movie export

Animoto

Add clips to markers in Google Earth Google Earth and EnycloMedia

Xtimeline

Slidesharing Sites

Blogs

Blogger

Edublogs

Classblogmeister

Wordpress

Moveable Type

Typepad

Blogs

Rationale for blogging in the classroom:

Increased peer interaction

Increased teacher interaction with student and increase in rapport

More positive feelings toward

learning

Increase in sharing of ideas

More diverse viewpoints

Increased commitment to

writing and learning

“ We learn from our experience...if we reflect upon our experience” John Dewey

Wikis

Software that allows multiple editors of web page content

Collaborative writing

Communities ~ private

Security is an issue ~ vandalism

MY NING

Invasion of the avatars:

KET EncycloMedia

-- Assignment builder

--Quiz builder

--Web 2.0 Tools

--Voicethread

--Blogs and Wikis

MEEZ from Photobucket Simpsonize Me Yahoo Avatars

Greenscreen and EncycloMedia

Webcam avatar and Bluescreen with Encyclomedia clips

Tools for your PLN (Personal Learning Network) RSS Feeds

RSS from Commoncraft I used Zamzar to convert flash file to movie file.

Aggregators

Citations

Felix, Jefferery P., Ed. D. “ Edublogging: Instruction for the Digital Age Learner.” 27 Dec. 2007.

Ellison, Nicole ; Wu, Yuehua . “A Preliminary Exploration of Student Attitudes and Impact on Comprehension Blogging in the Classroom: Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, v17 n1 p99-122 Jan 2008.