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- 1. Give them the edge with Web 2.0 Cool tools for middle school Presented by Annalisa Cleveland
- 2. • Nationality • Education • Career • Future goals • E-mail: aclev001@odu.edu About the Presenter
- 3. What is Web 2.0? Ja458vier. (2012). Logo de Web 2. Retrieved from CC BY-SA 3.0 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Web_2.jpg In the past, we used the internet to retrieve information We can now use the internet to create/present information
- 4. How Does This Affect Us, Teachers and Librarians? Strandberg, E. (2006). A toolbox. Retrieved from: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/20060513_toolbox.jpg/512px-20060513_toolbox.jpg CC By-SA 2.5
- 5. What Four Tools, and Why?
- 6. 1. Big Huge Labs http://bighugelabs.com • Functionality • Limitations
- 7. Big Huge Labs for Educators!
- 8. Curriculum Application for Big Huge Labs SOL: Reading 7.5 a) Describe the elements of narrative structure including setting, character development, plot structure, theme, and conflict.
- 9. More Curriculum Applications for Big Huge Labs • Create a map to show the Axis countries involved in World War II • Create a poster with a geometrical shape and list its characteristics Sim, D. (2006) Mirror Neon Cube. Retrieved fromhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/272633585 CC BY 2.0
- 10. 2. Voki http://www.voki.com/ Genie explains Voki • Functionality • Limitations
- 11. Voki Classroom
- 12. Voki Presenter
- 13. Curriculum Application for Voki SOL: World Languages WI.5 The student will present information orally and in writing in the target language, using a variety of familiar vocabulary, phrases, and structural patterns. Monica habla
- 14. More Curriculum Applications for Voki • Students give a voice to a historical figure to tell about this person’s life and accomplishments • Students give a voice to a fictional character • For teachers and librarians: use Voki for eye catching announcements on your website
- 15. 3. Thinglink Amelia Earhart Thinglink • Functionality • Limitations https://www.thinglink.com/featured
- 16. Curriculum Application for Thinglink SOL: Life Science LS.6 The student will investigate and understand that organisms within an ecosystem are dependent on one another and on nonliving components of the environment. Forest food chain Thinglink Remix of: Amsel, Sheri. “Food Webs.” Forest Food Webs. Exploring Nature Educational Resource. Retrieved from : https://www.thinglink.com/scene/682965272721620992
- 17. More Curriculum Applications for Thinglink • Photo collage • Timelines • Part of a picture • Bulletin boards • Interactive book talks Dani Df1995. (2009). Collage di varie immagini di Roma. Retrieved from https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Collage_Rome.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0
- 18. 4. My Storybook https://www.mystorybook.com/ • Functionality • Limitations Storybook example
- 19. Curriculum application for My Storybook SOL: Reading 8.6 The student will read, comprehend, and analyze a variety of nonfiction texts. h) Summarize the text identifying supporting details
- 20. More Curriculum Applications for My Storybook • Vocabulary pages • Creative writing • ESOL and World Languages • Geometrical shapes Picture dictionary example
- 22. • Image editing and creations: http://www.imagechef.com/ http://foldplay.com/ http://www.tuxpi.com
- 27. Questions? If you think of a question later on, please send an e-mail to aclev001@odu.edu Turn in your exit slip please!
- 28. You can find the script for this presentation at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ci2psuef4hfu1wf/Conference%20 Presentation%20Script.docx?dl=0 And you can find the conference proposal at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4dqbau7hj9qmmxs/Conference %20Presentation%20Proposal.docx?dl=0 Thank you!
Editor's Notes
- Hello everybody and welcome to the presentation about cool tools for middle school. The SOL’s that I am addressing today are middle school SOL’s, but in reality the tools I will present today can also be used in elementary and high school. So, if you are an elementary or high school teacher, please stay, because I think that you will find something for your grade level here. 30 seconds
- My name is Annalisa Cleveland, and I am Italian, although I have lived and worked in the States for the past 25 years. I hold a B.A. in Modern Languages from the University of Rome, and an M.A. in Modern Languages from Kansas State university. I am a national board certified teacher, and in my career I have been a Spanish and ESOL teacher in middle and high school in Prince William County. As an ESOL teacher, I have spent many hours in various classrooms, from Math to Language Arts, learning their objectives and learning about students’ needs. In the future, I would like to become a librarian to help teachers and students develop a cooperative atmosphere where learning is engaging and goes beyond the classroom walls. 1 minute
- This presentation is about tools that are available on the internet, or web 2.0, that allow us, teachers, librarians, and students, to create and share content. The internet is great to retrieve information, but there are some website that can help us go beyond that. 30 seconds
- There are a lot of free, interactive tools on the internet that teachers and librarians can use in their daily practice This presentation will highlight only four of them. At the end of the presentation I will have some slides to list many more tools, but today I will explore in depth just four tools. 30 seconds
- I have chosen Big Huge Labs (which is an image editing tool), Voki (which is an audio tool), Thinglink (which is a presentation tool), and My Storybook (which is a digital storytelling tool). I will show how these tools can help students synthesize information, with the added bonus of allowing creativity and fun in the learning process. In my experience as a teacher, students run from a class to the next, and are flooded with information that for many is way too fast. Some students do not have the background knowledge to absorb the new information presented every day. These tools allow students to pause and think deeply about their learning, produce something that shows what and how much they understand. In other words, these tools will help middle school students to synthesize information, which is one of the hardest skills for these young learners 1 minute
- Big Huge labs is a website that allows you to create magazine covers, trading cards, posters, jigsaw puzzles, photo collages, maps, billboards and more, using your own images or images you find on the web. Go to website online….. Here you can see what I created using my children’s picture from this summer. The great features of this website are the fact that it is free and easy to use. You can edit your product, and you can save or share it. You can create an educator account as well. The limitation of this website is due to its very nature of being mainly an image maker, so text is limited. As you can see from my example, adding more text would create a very cluttered image. This, on the other hand, would compel students to boil their information down to the bare essentials, fostering their summarization skills. Here you can see I have created a magazine cover. It has a title and subtitle, and it gives you up to 16 lines of text. And it is fun, because you add the publication date and the price, plus you can use your own pictures. You can also change the color scheme and play with fonts and text colors. Here I am talking about conflict and resolution. 2 minutes
- As I mentioned, you can create an educator account, which allows you to pre register your students, so they can sign in without an e-mail address and they can send you their work easily. The educator account is also ad-free. Here are some examples of work that can be done with Big Huge Labs. This is the flyer you can find on their website. 30 seconds
- Here there are a lot of possibilities. I am choosing a 7th grade reading SOL to show an example of how this website can be used in the classroom. For example, students can create trading cards to represent the various characters of a story they have read. In fact, in order to show the characters’ development, students can create two sets of cards, the first one showing the characters at the beginning of the story and one showing the characters at the end of the story. Here, I am describing my daughter’s character. Of course, they could create a trading card to show the setting (often times students do not create a mental image of the setting, and this visual tool would help). They could also illustrate the key elements of the plot, the theme, or the conflict. Again, this tool does not allow a lot of text, making students be concise and direct. 2 minutes
- The great visual power of Big Huge Labs can be used in many curriculum areas. Here, I am thinking of Social Studies, where students often have no idea where the events they are studying take place, and Math, where many terms are unfamiliar. As you can see, it could be used in any subject area where visualization is important. Other ideas? 2 minutes
- The second tool I have chosen today is Voki. Go to website online….. Voki lets you create an Avatar that speaks for you. Here I have created a Genie that explains what Voki does. Go to example online….. This tool has many strong features. You can choose many different characters, including historical figures. You can personalize the character and the background, and then you can record your voice or use the text to speech option. It can be used in many different languages! The website even has a collection of lesson plans available for you. These are categorized by grade level and subject area. A limitation is that if you want to save your Vokis you have to create an account, and that in the free version your recordings are limited to one minute. There are upgrades available, for a fee. 3 minutes
- For $ 29.95/year you can upgrade to Voki Classroom or Voki Presenter, or for $ 49.95/year you can purchase them both. These allow your students to use Voki without registering. 30 seconds
- This upgrade allows you to create full length presentations which you can easily share. Remember, with the free version you can only record up to 60 seconds. Longer messages would be great for absent or homebound students. 30 seconds
- As you know, my passion is languages, so when I saw that you can record many different languages, I was excited. Here I have created an example of a Voki in Spanish. Go to example online….. I am also thinking of the text to speech option. This would make students practice their written skills as well. And wouldn’t it be great for ESOL students as well? Students could present information using an avatar, maybe going from text to speech to recording their own voice as they gain confidence speaking English. In fact, samples of their Voki could be saved to show their progress form the beginning of the year to the end. 2 minutes
- Voki can be used in all subject areas. I am thinking of Social Studies, where students could have a historical character tell about himself/herself and the historical period. A Voki could be created to show a fictional character’s point of view, or version of events. Or students could generate quick book talks. And how about putting one of these talking avatars on your website? Wouldn’t it attract students’ and parents’ attention to your important announcements? Other ideas? 1 minute
- The third tools I am exploring today is Thinglink. Go to website online….. Thinglink allows you to use a picture, a picture collage, or a video and put tags on it. These tags can be links to text, video, webpages, music, making the image interactive. When finished, the image can be embedded into social media. Go to example online….. The attraction of such a tool for our young generation is evident. It is pretty easy to understand how it works, although the website lacks a more obvious step by step tutorial. Users need an e-mail address to sign in, otherwise teachers can allow them to work under one account, but this makes the process of retrieving the individual productions a little confusing. The danger with this tool is that students might just add links without evaluating them first. It would be a good idea to establish guidelines for the use of this tool and to require the tagging of one student-produced text document. 4 minutes
- Again, I am choosing a middle school SOL to illustrate the uses of this tool, this time a 7th grade Science SOL. Go to example online….. As you can see, the links can take you anywhere, to a video, to a webpage, to a written document. Students can create these, but teachers and librarians can create these as well as presentation tools. 3 minutes
- Just any kind of presentation can be achieved through Thinglink. In Social Studies, students create a photo collage of the artists of the 1920’s and 1930’s with links to their music, painting, and literature Or students can create timelines of events, adding links to information. How about in Science, when students are learning the parts of a microscope? Teachers can ask students to research the parts of a picture and tag them. Bulletin boards can become interactive if teachers or librarians take a picture of a bulletin board and add tags, then publish the Thinglink to their website or school website. Or students or teachers can take a picture of a book and tag it with an interactive book talk. I am thinking of a link to the author’s life and works, a document link to the summary of the plot and an audio link to the personal opinion of the book. Other ideas? 2 minutes
- My Storybook is a website that allows you to create little books. Go to website online….. It offers background scenes, objects, characters, speech bubbles, and text. You can even use your own images, or use the drawing tool. It has a tutorial, it’s easy to use, and the finished products can be saved if you sign in. No sign in is required if you just want to create a book without saving. The books can be shared or printed ($ 5.00 fee to obtain a Pdf file). The only limitation I see is that the graphics are a little babyish, but on the other hand this could help keep things simple. Go to example online….. 4 minutes
- This time I have chosen an 8th grade SOL to illustrate possible uses of this tool. My Storybook is a great tool for summarization. It can be used to summarize non-fiction, as in my example, or fiction, or any chapter from a book, or even as a culminating activity for a unit. 1 minute
- The possibilities for this website are endless. It can be used to create vocabulary pages in any subject area. I am thinking of Science and Social Studies with all the new vocabulary words that students learn in middle school. Go to example online….. Students can use it to illustrate their own creative writing (I am thinking of an incentive for the dreaded writing practice for the 8th grade writing SOL test). It would be a great tool for World Languages and ESOL classes, where students need extra time and practice with vocabulary words and spelling. Because of the drawing tool, students can use this website to create geometrical shapes, and write their characteristics and formulas. Other ideas? 2 minutes
- I have only illustrated four tools that Web 2.0 offers educators who want to give “them” the edge. Now I am going to tell you briefly about some more tools that are available to you. Please prepare an exit slip with the name of one tool I have presented or am about to present, that you might use this coming school year, and how you might use it. If you remember Big Huge Labs from the beginning of the presentation, I want you to know that there are other websites, such as these, that you can explore. You will choose the one that you are more comfortable with. 1 minute
- If you remember Big Huge Labs from the beginning of the presentation, I want you to know that there are other websites, such as these, that you can explore. You will choose the one that you are more comfortable with. I created this image of the multiple tool boxes with Tuxpi.com 1 minute
- I have not talked about infographics in my presentation, but these are starting to appear more and more frequently. There are various tools that help you create infographics. But they are not the easiest to navigate and they have templates that somehow limit what you can and can’t do. I created this infographic using Piktochart.com 1 minute
- You will remember my Voki. These are other audio tools, but vocaroo and audiopal do not have the added bonus of an avatar. Blabberize uses a real picture of a person, and the results are quite funny as you can see from this picture. Sure to call people’s attention! 1 minute
- I have not talked about videos in my presentation, but there are free tools to create videos. The most popular one is Animoto, but they only give a short trial period, which produces videos with their watermark, and then you have to purchase a subscription. A free educator subscription exists, but the website itself says it takes a long time to process. I created this video with Animoto.com 1 minute
- You will remember Thinglink as a presentation tool. There are other tools as well, especially these here. Prezi has become very popular lately, as it gives a nice overview of where your presentation is going before you start, so the audience never feels confused. Here you see a picture of a presentation on makerspaces I created with Prezi.com 1 minute
- 5 minutes for Q/A