This presentation was designed to present to teachers to encourage more technology in the classroom. Presented to Professional Learning Communities in Southwest Minnesota, March 2012

1. Easy Web Toolsfor Educators
Presented by ShariNelson
and Kari Fransen
March 12, 2012

2. Web 2.0 Facts
• Did You Know???
• The web is changing so fast, the information
you are learning today, may already be
changing!

4. Common Terms for Web 2.0
• Document
• Events
• Wiki
• Music
• Pictures
• LiveCasting- Video and
Audio
• Bookmarks
• Reputation
• Crowdsourced Content
• Blog Platforms
• Blog Communities
• Blog Conversations
• Micromedia
• Lifestreams
• Vocab Specific to Twitter
• Video Aggregation
• Social Networks
• SMS/Voicethread
• Video

5. Good Sites and videos
• http://sites.google.com/site/educationalweb2
0tools/
• http://www.slideshare.net/woscholar/60-
sites-in-60-minutes

6. Student Project Sites
• Glogster.com and edu.glogster.com
• Storybird.com
• animoto.com
• Prezi

7. More Presentation Sites
• Empress Me!
• As we all are familiar with Powerpoint, but
maybe would like to make a more permanent
presentation, this website will convert your PP
to a web-ready flash video!
• Cartoon Makers
– And toondoo.com

8. Teacher Websites
Creating your Own Classroom Space
• Wikispaces.com and pbworks.com:
(Collaboration sites)
– mrsfran.pbworks.com
• Weebly.com
– mrsfransen.weebly.com
• Shutterfly.com
– (music website here)

9. Other Teaching Tools
• Need a Timer?
• Live Binders
• Using a YouTube video, but don’t want any of
the extras? Use Safe Share to remove
offensive material and crop the video screen!
• Just About Any Topic…about.com

10. Vocabulary
• Need something new? Teach vocab
differently!

11. English Websites
• Word Clouds: make interesting word shapes
with student writing, poetry and more!
– Wordle
– Tagxedo
– Tagul: Teacher
• Teaching Historically?
– Death in Rome
– Create a Museum box
– Timelines

12. Writing Websites
• Online Typing:
– Full Screen with darkcopy.com
• Journaling:
– Private Journaling Site
• Plagiarism? Track it online!
• Writing a Graphic Novel in class use Comic
Master

13. Science and Math Websites
• Graphing?
– Draw Function Graphs
• Astronomy Charts
– Starry Night Sky Charts
• Biology and Anatomy
– Teaching Tools

14. Art and Media Websites
• Photo Editing Tools:
– www.aviary.com
– www.befunky.com Johnnie
• Collaboration Site for drawing

15. Health and Psychology Sites

16. Elementary Sites
• If you have a smart board, there are so many
things you can do on this website. You will be
able to sign up and download all kinds of pre-
made smart board activities, or make some of
your own. This also allows you to work with
smart notebook when you are at home.
• Awesome activity makers! (previously seen on
the prezi.com site)

17. Collaboration Sites
• As we have already mentioned, a large venue
for collaboration on a website would be
wikispaces.com or pbworks.com.
• Something that I have found which I think
would work great for “meeting” when you
can’t really meet, is creating a private
chatroom.
• Board room wall sharing ideas and working
together!