Easy Web Tools for Educators

Presented by Shari Nelson and Kari FransenMarch 12, 2012

Web 2.0 Facts

• Did You Know???

• The web is changing so fast, the information you are learning today, may already be changing!

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

Good Sites and videos

• http://sites.google.com/site/educationalweb20tools/

• http://www.slideshare.net/woscholar/60-sites-in-60-minutes

Student Project Sites

• Glogster.com and edu.glogster.com

• Storybird.com

• animoto.com

• Prezi

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

Teacher WebsitesCreating your Own Classroom Space

• Wikispaces.com and pbworks.com: (Collaboration sites)– mrsfran.pbworks.com

• Weebly.com– mrsfransen.weebly.com

• Shutterfly.com– (music website here)

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

Vocabulary

• Need something new? Teach vocab differently!

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

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

Science and Math Websites

• Graphing? – Draw Function Graphs

• Astronomy Charts– Starry Night Sky Charts

• Biology and Anatomy– Teaching Tools

Art and Media Websites

• Photo Editing Tools: – www.aviary.com– www.befunky.com Johnnie

• Collaboration Site for drawing

Health and Psychology Sites

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)

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!