The document discusses several virtual tools that can be used in classrooms including Facebook, YouTube, Second Life, Prezi, and VoiceThread. Facebook allows teachers to create fan pages to send announcements and assignments. YouTube is useful for creating and sharing content to introduce concepts. Second Life enables immersive virtual environments for experiential learning. Prezi is an alternative to PowerPoint for creating interactive presentations. VoiceThread facilitates digital storytelling.

1. Virtual Tools for any classroom Presenter Jonell Hinsey Assistant Professor, Instructional Design & Technology School of Agriculture and Consumer Science

3. Why Facebook? More than 500 million active users people spend over 700 billion minutes per month 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events, community pages The average user is connected to 80 pages, groups, events Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month More than 30 billion pieces of content http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

5. Why YouTube

6. Create content Introduce a concept Communication

7. Why Second Life? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM_1IEJsy2Q

8. Immersive Environments Virtual Reality Experiential Learning “ Presence” “ Interactive Modules” “ Collaboration”

10. Tutor Collaborate Expand Discuss

11. Why Prezi?

12. Why VoiceThread

13. Digital Storytelling

14. What will you do???