This document discusses professional development for teachers and provides examples of web tools that can be used, including Wikispaces, Google Sites, EdWeb2, YouTube, Voicethread, and Prezi. It describes how each tool can be used, such as having students create multimedia posters on Glogster or recording conversations on Voicethread. Examples are given of other teachers' sites that utilize these tools. Critical thinking skills for evaluating online content are also addressed.

1. Antwuan Stinson Ed. D.
Assistant Professor
Alabama State University

2. What Professional
Current Professional
Development should look
Development
like

3. 1. To give you an idea what is available for
teachers
2. Guide you through a few tools that I use with my
students
3. Give you some ideas to help you expand your
information and page on the schools website

4. CoolToolsforSchools
Wikispaces
Google for Teachers
Google apps
My Google Site
EdWeb2
Wikispaces

5. GO2WEB20.NET Alabama Learning
Exchange (ALEX)
Rubistar Youtube

6.  Designate a day for critical thinking or creative
ideas for a major grade
 Try Glogster for online student development of
multimedia posters
 Use Voicethread for the collection of group
conversations, images, documents, and video
 Create a Edmodo site for classroom interaction
(blog, discussions, projects)

7. An avatar is a personalized graphic file or
rendering that represents a computer user.

8.  Add a voki to your webpage speaking in the target
language to enhance students listening skills
 Give your homework assignments using your voki
on your webpage
 Have students create vokis and speak on any
grammar or vocabulary theme (describing self,
illness, family, friends, how to’s, etc.)
 Have students email vokis to each other and
comment on them.

9. Before getting started Log in to Voki
 Use 1 username and
password for all webtool
accounts to minimize
forgetting
 Create a different email
account so you don’t
junk–up your main one

10. www.voki.com Create a Voki
Create an account or sign in
1. Create your character
2. Give it a voice
3. Customize your
background
4. Change your player

11. When you are happy with your
character, select the Publish button.
You will be asked to name your
character then save.
Record your
file using a
digital recorder
Type in the Record your
Add your voice message using
by phone text, select a
voice and your microphone
select a
Language Select standard Voki
link.
Copy link then paste
onto a blog

13.  http://kmswildcatlibrary.wikispaces.com/Hunger+Games+
Voki Collection
 http://mrspilver.wikispaces.com/Magic+Schoolbus+Vokis
School Field Trip
 http://cyberbrook.wikispaces.com/Our+Voki's
Cyberbrook Classroom
 http://mwiser.wikispaces.com/Voki
 http://jamestownreads.wikispaces.com/voki
 http://techietuesday.wikispaces.com/Voki

14. Display a variety of information in one place
including videos, slideshows, calendars,
presentations, attachments, and text

15. 2
1
Create your site
https://support.google.com/sites/b
in/answer.py?
hl=en&answer=153197&topic=2
3216&ctx=topic

17. Name your site
3
Choose a template
for your site

19.  Capture classroom moments then post
them
 Student Handbook  Have 1-2 students be responsible for
 Discipline Plan helping with the site
 Experience as a teacher  Organize teams to submit project—
 Upcoming Projects based learning assignments
 Link it to your school’s
website under
 Link your lesson plans
 Link or embed your Voki
to the school’s webpage
Allow students to help create
it!!!

20.  Teaching & Learning
 Screencast
 Tutorials
 Tips and Tricks

22.  EdWeb2 Wikispaces
 Lee Summit School District
Teacher Help

23.  Embed Voki into a site Link
 Templates to choose from

24. ALEX Resources
 Flipbooks
 Standards
 Inside Math Site

25. http://www.rubrics4teachers.com/

26. Create videos from photos, video clips, words,
and music

28.  Projects
 Teachweb2
 Vocab/Grammar

29. Create stunning presentations that move and
capture attention.

30.  Autobiographies  Build Prezi over a
 Book reports duration
 Illustrating poems
 Prezi for Vocabulary
 Zooming into details of a
 Lab reports
picture
 Group projects  Use Prezi as a mind map
 Venn Diagrams  Mini-lectures
 Project-based learning  Synthesis level thinking
◦ Budget, Cost, Time frame

36. What can Voicethread webtool be used for?
Students can share stories or design a project
which explains an assignment. Allow students to
change or amend it any way they wish. This
authentic assessment will engage creative
students for hours.

37.  Book Stories  Creating digital collages
 Solving math problems over the year
 Flip books
 Authors of a certain
period
 Pre-reading and making
 Scientific method
predictions
 Animal Habitats
 Field trips  Photosynthesis
 Back to school night tour  Lab report or dissections
of your classroom

42. While addressing Instructional Technology and Web
tools in the 21st Century, we also need to deal with
the critical thinking skills needed to evaluate the
validity of websites, the importance of ethics
responsibility in the digital age, ways to address
cyber-safety as well especially in a social network
environment.

43. Antwuan Stinson
astinson@alasu.edu
(334) 229-7690 (office)
(334) 377-0537 (Google Voice)