1. The document provides a quick guide to popular Web 2.0 tools that can be used by teachers, including top sites like YouTube, Wikipedia, and Flickr that see millions of monthly visitors. 2. It describes how Web 2.0 tools can support learning across Bloom's Taxonomy and encourage participatory, student-led learning. 3. Examples of creative Web 2.0 tools are given for sharing photos, videos, animations, digital stories, cartoons, and more that can be used in language arts and other subjects.

1. A QUICK GUIDE TO TOOLS YOU CAN USE Web 2.0 for Teachers Lori Franklin Olathe USD#233 April 17, 2009

2. Web 2.0 Collaborative Open source editing/sharing Global Evolving

3. Learning Encompasses all of *Bloom’s Taxonomy Participatory Cooperative Student-led Teacher-facilitated *Knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation

4. Top 10 Web 2.0 sites April ‘09 YouTube - 69.1 Wikipedia – 62.2 Craigslist – 45.2 Photobucket – 24.4 Flickr – 23.7 Wordpress – 22.1 IMDB – 21.3 Digg – 33.4 eHow – 15.2 Typepad - 9.6 Monthly visits in millions eBiz MBZ: http://www.ebizmba.co

5. Teens and technologies

6. Links from Olathe Technology Dept. http://online.olatheschools.com/curriculum/K6symposium.htm

7. Speaking of top sites: eBiz MBA provides monthly web rankings Might be used as a template for creating a class project for ranking information sites for a research project Don’t miss: Top 20 Science Web Sites 20 Most Popular Political Sites

8. More on “Open Source” Shared spaces Ownership not emphasized Co-creation with many Crosses boundaries Non-proprietary

9. Blogs One way to share text/photos/opinions Many blog platforms Free Wordpress for USD#233 Caveat: should be updated frequently Examples

14. School Library Blogs http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/index.php?title=School_libraries http://blog.schoollibrarymedia.com/ http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334.html

15. Wiki world Sharing Gathering Editing Publishing Archiving

16. Wrap your head around it… Online space Anybody can edit Can password protect What ways can you use a wiki?

17. Quick wiki example From pbwiki: http://pbwiki.com/content/viewdemo

21. Creative tools Flickr Upload photos and share/create slideshows Scroll down and click on: Explore F.D.’s Flickr Toys Mash up with Flickr lets you create amazing graphics

24. Warholize it!

26. Animoto takes it further - Animoto Photos, music, motion Uploads to YouTube, Facebook, iPhone Very short learning curve Example: http://animoto.com/play/VG0JDu0Ksq0iECJlGlflfg

27. Then you share…

28. Digital storytelling Voice Thread Demo Example

29. ToonDoo Create your own cartoons Publish and share!

30. Amazing stuff in no time at all! Schmoop Try this with students in language arts programs – also covers other subject areas HippoCampus This math site is comprehensive! Also includes audio read-aloud

31. More… Amelia Bloomer Project Looking for books that feature strong female characters? Need storytelling from a feminist point of view?

32. Self-help can be creative wikiHow This worldwide writing project lets the users tell the steps and procedures for just about anything. What if you made a wiki like this and asked students to provide the steps in a process? Maybe they could share how to solve a math problem.

33. Love streaming video? Streaming Video Services Links, via a wiki, to just about every streaming service/conversion/fix available !

34. Get the 411 Goog-411 Directory Calling Demo

35. Digital Librarian Librariana Simply a monster site! Filled with all things libraries, including that awesome Stephen Colbert clip about Wikipedia

36. Do you know Nancy? Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust Wiki Interactive

37. Like to listen? Best of iTunes University Scroll down for suggestions Great literature for listening

38. For example… Lit2go Download pdf of the text to go along with the audio!

39. Television content…online Hulu

40. Read Alikes Novelist Literature Map

41. File Converters Allow you to transfer from one platform or file format to another Useful for many reasons: - students don’t have MS Word - conflicting versions of word processors - video/audio applications

42. Use these… Zamzar – provides many conversions, including YouTube for playing at school Vixy – also allows video conversion to MP4 format PDF to Word – Great for changing PDF files into MS Word formatting Media-Convert – conversions appear quickly

43. Think about passwords… For school use of Web 2.0 products, you could use the same username/password combo that you originally set up for one product – it makes it easier to remember

44. My favorite… RoboForm Will generate usernames and passwords One-touch entry into sites requiring username/password combo Stores up to 10 for free

45. Want to learn more? 100 Helpful Web Tools 100 Free Library Web 2.0 Tutorials

46. Ready to really dig into Web 2.0? The Best Web 2.0 Applications for Education YouTube Sucks: Four Sites that do Video Better PBS Frontline videos Seven Things You Should Know Web 2.0’s Most Ridiculous Sites Three Ways to Find the Latest iTunes Freebies Open Office Google Labs Google Docs

47. This presentation… SlideShare – Example: http://www.slideshare.net/lfranklinoe Also on OE Library page http://teachers.olatheschools.com/oelibrary/presentations.html