Web+2.0+Resources

Why:

 * Clicking the 'Favorites' button on your computer usually only saves that website to that computer([|*]). How would you access that information from another computer? Use a social bookmarking site.media type="youtube" key="VHWapAF1Txw?rel=0" height="273" width="336" align="right"

Classroom Uses:

 * Create student accounts so they can collect information.
 * Search Diigo instead of Google for new resources.
 * Create a group made up of the grade level team in your building or across your district to share resources. Lightens everyone's work load while still improving instruction.

Resources:

 * [|Diigo's YouTube channel]
 * [|Information on using Diigo in Education]
 * Use and access your Diigo information from your
 * [|iPad]
 * [|iPod/iPhone]
 * [|Android device]
 * [|Variety of web browsers]
 * [|Social bookmarking feature comparison]
 * [|Josh's Diigo page]
 * [|Social Bookmarking in the Classrom] (LiveBinders)
 * [|Cybraryman's Bookmarking site]

Why:
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 * Simple, free, online video creation tool. Upload pictures to the site, use Animoto's music selection, add a bit of text here and there, publish your movie to embed and view. You tell Animoto what you want to be included and it arranges it for you.

Classroom Uses:

 * Use video to share
 * what students know
 * activities going on in class
 * a summary of an event at school
 * Students work on storyboarding and writing process skills just like the would in a language arts setting.

Resources:

 * [|Animoto Educator account]
 * Classroom example: [|American Revolution Battles Intro]

Why:

 * Upload or link to pictures and then narrate over them using video, audio, or text.
 * Allow other users to make their own comments or provide feedback in the same fashion.

Classroom Uses:

 * Practice sentence writing and reading fluency at all grade levels.
 * Create "books" that are read by the class.
 * Allow kids to narrate over pictures of what is happening at school (special events, learning activities, etc.)
 * Have students use the annotate feature to help explain what users are seeing in the pictures.

Resources:

 * [|Voicethread Group on Classroom 2.0 Ning]
 * Elementary VoiceThreads wiki - connect with other schools
 * [|Cybraryman's VoiceThread resources]
 * [|Using VoiceThread for Digital Conversations]
 * [|Josh's Doane Tech grad class VoiceThread page]

Why:

 * Evernote allows you to take audio, picture, and text notes that are accessible on all of your electronic devices.
 * You can decide whether those notes are shared as a website or kept for yourself.

Classroom Uses:

 * Formative assessment observations that can immediately be shared with students or parents.
 * Students use it to collect data that can be shared back to you.
 * Students (or teachers) can take notes on the device they have with them and not have to worry about going to get something to write with.

Resources:

 * [|Capturing the Process of Student Learning] - [|Russ Goerend]
 * [|Using Evernote in the classroom] (Cybraryman's page)

Why:

 * Depending on how your school's computers are set up, you may not have access to your work documents at home. Dropbox sets up a folder on your computer that allows you one place to store those documents and work in Microsoft Office or iWork without having to email them back and forth to yourself.

Classroom Uses:

 * Great tool for students to share documents with you or work on documents asynchronously with each other.
 * Share documents with colleagues.
 * Access your documents from multiple devices at work or at home.

Resources:

 * [|Top Tips for Using Dropbox at School]
 * [|Cybraryman's Dropbox page]