DropBox

Drop Box is an easy way to store, sync, and, share files online. There's no complicated interface to learn. Drop Box works seamlessly with any operating system. Teachers can use Drop Box as a way to backup school files and share documents between colleagues.


Assignments

1. Create a Dropbox account
2. Create a shared folder
3. Upload a document to the shared folder. Documents shared can include a picture, text, and short video. 
4. Post a reflection to this post.  What do you think about Dropbox?  Do you see a benefit of using Dropbox in education?  Is this something you would want to use with students or fellow teachers? 

Social Media Sites

Social media -- tools that allow the sharing of information and creation of communities through online networks of people. Some examples of social media sites are Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Vimeo, YouTube, Flickr, Edmodo, Digg, and StumbleUpon.


Assignment:

1. Write a reflection and include your thoughts on using Social Media in the classroom. Is there an appropriate and purposeful way to use social media in schools?

12. Online Photo Sharing

December 1, 2011 - Online Photo Sharing
There are many online tools to help you organize, store, share and edit your photographs. This class will outline some of those services.


Assignments:
1. Create an account on Flikr.
2. Upload at least one photo to your Flikr account.
3. Make at least one comment on another user's photo on Flikr.
2. Choose 2 of the many other online photo sharing and editing sites.
3. Comment on this post. Include ways you could use online photo sharing as an educator, something you learned in class, or thoughts about one of the photo sharing sites you explored.


Photo Sharing / Editing Sites:
Picasa
Pics4Learning
Picnik
PhotoBucket
snapfish
shutterfly
SmugMug
Phanfare
Zenfolio
PhotoShop.com
Fotolog
MobileMe Gallery 
Top 20 Photo Storage and Sharing Sites
Top 10 Free Online Photo Editing Sites

11. Podcasting and iTunes

November 17, 2011 - Podcasting and iTunes
A podcast is a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and downloaded through web syndication. Podcasting provide an engaging learning environment for students. It provides activities for researching, organizing, editing, recording, and a medium to express their creativity.  Podcasting - Podcasting is used across the curriculum giving all students the opportunity to showcase their finished product. 

iTunes is a digital media player used for playing and organizing digital music and video files.  iTunes U is an innovative way to get educational material in the hands of students.

Assignments:
1. Explore the many podcasts available in iTunes and iTunesU.
2. Create a podcast using GarageBand.
3. Comment on this post. Include ways you could use podcasting with your students, something you learned in class, or thoughts about a podcast you viewed.

10. Google Apps

November 10, 2011 - Google Apps
Google Apps are used for communication, collaboration, and to help build a 21st century environment within the classroom.

Assignments:
1. Create a Google account. (If you have already created a Blogspot account, then you already have a Google account.)
2. Explore the many apps available with your Google account.
3. Create your own Google doc, Google calendar, and one other Google app of your choice.
4. Comment on this post. Include ways you could use Google Apps with your students, something you learned in class, or thoughts about a Google App you tried.

9. VoiceThread

November 3, 2011 -  VoiceThread
VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a web cam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.

Assignments:
1. Create a VoiceThread account.
2. Build a VoiceThread using the storyboard you started last week and the digital media you brought to class.
3. Post at least one video comment, one audio comment, and one written comment on your VoiceThread project.
4. Comment on this post. Include ways you could use VoiceThread with your students, something you learned in class, or thoughts about VoiceThread.

View the video of our VoiceThread class on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNSVXOT1ToA

8. Digital Storytelling

October 27, 2011 - Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. Digital stories comprise images, music, narrative and voice to express the student thoughts from autobiographies to historical events across the curriculum.

Assignments:
1. Create a script and storyboard for your own digital story and bring it with you to next week's class.
2. Bring digital media (photos, video, music) to class next week that go along with your storyboard.
3. Explore the online resources for digital storytelling listed on the class website.
4. Comment on this post. Include ways you could use digital storytelling with your students, something you learned in class, or thoughts about a digital storytelling resource you explored.

7. Wordle and Weebly

October 13, 2011 - Wordle and Weebly
Wordle - Wordle generates “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your students. 
Weebly  Weebly is a free web page creation site. It uses a widget style format, allowing users to create pages with only a few clicks. The user drags and drops different page elements (such as images, text, and Google Maps) onto a page and fills in the content. Teachers can use Weebly to build classroom websites, create student digital portfolios, and post their curriculum online.

Assignments:
1. Create a word cloud on Wordle or another word cloud site. Try making words different sizes and changing the fonts and colors.
2. Create your own Weebly account.
3. Create a teacher Weebly site.
4. Comment on this post. Include your thoughts about Wordle or other word cloud sites, your thoughts about Weebly, particularly compared to blogs and wikis, something you learned in class today, or thoughts about how you would use these tools as an educator.

6. Wikis

October 6, 2011 - Wikis
A wiki is a Web 2.0 collaborative authoring tool that allows teachers and students to group collaborate on a Web page.

Educational Wiki Resources:

• EduWikis
• Examples of Educational Wikis
• Teaching Tips: Wikis in the Classroom
• Wiki in a K-12 Classroom
• Wikis in the Classroom (Add your classroom wiki to the list of how wikis are being used in the classroom.)
• Wicked Wikis
• Basic Wikis
• Blog Vs. Wiki

Check Out These Example Wikis!

• Springfield Township High School Virtual Library
• Examples of Educational Wikis
• Classroom 2.0
• C-Forum
• CSD Engaged Classroom
• Elementary Tech Lessons
• CSD Keyboarding
• Blunt Classroom - Example of a basic teacher blog
• Web 2.0
• KBlunt Portfolio - Example of an electronic portfolio
• iPods In The CSD - Good example of a wiki used for collaboration
  

Assignments:

1. Create your own Wikispaces account.
2. Create a teacher, class, or grade-level Wiki.
3. Add 2 pages to your Wiki.
4. Add text, a picture, a link, and a document to your wiki.
5. Comment on this post. Include your thoughts about the possible benefits of wikis, something you learned in class today, or thoughts about an article you have read about wikis.

5. Social Bookmarking

September 29, 2011 - Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is a method that Internet users employ to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources.


Assignments:
1. Create your own Delicious account.
2. Add 10 bookmarks to your Delicious account.
3. Create 5 tags to use in your Delicious account.
4. Follow 2 people on Delicious.
2. Comment on this post. Include your thoughts about how you might use Delicious (or other social bookmarking sites) in your classroom, what the benefits are of using social bookmarking as an educator, something you learned in class today, or thoughts about an article you have read about social bookmarking.

3&4. Blogs

September 15 & September 22, 2011 - Blogs
Blogs can take the form of a journal, links to other sites, and new pages. Blogs serve as a collaborative communication space between teachers and students. Blogs can be integrated into the curriculum to reflect, write, and share ideas in the classroom.

Click on the link to view the powerpoint presentation Blogs to Teach and Learn

Example blogs:

http://missbluntblog.blogspot.com/ 

http://fabulous4thgrade.blogspot.com/ 

http://stew-pendous6thgraders.blogspot.com/ 

http://mrcsclassblog.blogspot.com/

http://mathendorsement.blogspot.com/

http://bluntsixth.blogspot.com/

http://blog.nj.com/willingborohs_sports/

http://itc.blogs.com/greenstream/about-us.html

http://sunriseipads.blogspot.com 

http://sassmaster6446.blogspot.com/ 

Assignments:
1. Build your own blog!
2. Comment on this post. Include your thoughts about the possible benefits of blogging, something you learned in class today, or thoughts about an article you have read on blogging.

2. Digital Citizenship and Online Safety

September 8th, 2011- Digital Citizenship and Online Safety

Assignments:
1. Watch some of the movies and read some of the articles posted on today's class agenda.
2. Take a closer look at some of the copyright information provided by UEN (see the link on today's class agenda).
3. Comment on this post. Include your thoughts about the importance of teaching our student digital citizenship skills, something you learned in class today, or thoughts about an article you have read on Internet safety.

1. Web 2.0 and Creative Commons

Welcome to a new semester of our Web 2.0 class! If you are taking the class for lane change credit, please be sure to add a comment to this post reflecting on our class discussions and/or homework. If you are not taking the class for credit, feel free to comment anyway!

September 1, 2011- Web 2.0  and Creative Commons

Introduction to Web 2.0  The trend in the use of technology and Web sites that aims to enhance information sharing, creativity, and most notably, collaboration among users. (Source: Wikipedia)  Web 2.0 consists of 21^st Century teaching and learning, social networking, and open (free) software.

Our Class Wordle: What are Web 2.0 and the ISTE NETS?

 
Creative Commons
Creative Commons allows digital educational resources to be freely accessible and collaboration between other educators and students.

Assignments:
1. Create an account on Classroom2.0.
2. Watch some of the movies and read some of the articles posted on today's class agenda.
3. Take a closer look at the Creative Commons website (see the link on today's class agenda).
4. Comment on this post. Include your thoughts about Web2.0, something you learned in class today, or thoughts about an article you have read on Web2.0.

Class 17 Prezi

http://classroompublishingpd.wikispaces.com/May+12

http://prezi.com/

UEN Virtual Field Trips

http://www.uen.org/tours/fieldtrips2.shtml

Contact:

James Hodges

801-883-4851

Class 16 - Virtual Field Trips

You will have time in class to explore some virtual field trips. Your assignment for this week is to find one you think would work with your class. Then take it with your class. Your comment for this assignment will then be to describe your class' experience with the field trip.

Class 15 - Skype and Other Messaging Clients

Skype and other messaging clients provide access to other teachers, students, schools, guests from outside the walls of the classroom. These services are free (for the most part)  but open up the world to the classroom.

Reflection - What are some uses of Skype that you believe would be valuable in the classroom?

Class 14 Podcasting

Podcasting is a great way for students to be engaged in their learning environment. Podcasting is a great opportunity to showcase their finished product.

Reflection: What curriculum area could you use to create a podcast? What kind of a podcast can you see doing with your classroom? Please share the link of a podcast you have created with your classroom.

Class 13 Jing & Online Video Sharing

Jing is a great way to capture what you see on your computer and it helps you create a tutorial for someone you are trying to teach and you can share it instantly.

http://www.techsmith.com/jing/

Online video sharing is a way to upload, share, and view videos via the internet. Classroom projects can be published online or a video can be shown to your classroom during a lesson.

Reflection:
Which online video resources did you find helpful to use in the classroom?

Class 12 Google Earth

Google Earth

Google earth is an application that will allow you to experience the world in 3-D with your students.

Reflection: How do you see yourself using Google Earth in the classroom?

Class 11 Google Apps

Google is more than a search engine to look for information on the Internet. Google offers online applications that do not have to be downloaded and the best part? Google applications are FREE. It is important to remember that in order to facilitate within these apps, a Google account will need to be created. Go ahead and check out the different applications by visiting www.google.com and click more at the top of the page. From the drop down menu, click on even more, and check out the world of Google.

Reflection: Name two apps that you would find beneficial to use as a teacher or in your classroom and explain why.

Class 10 Dropbox

Drop Box is an easy way to store, sync, and, share files online. There's no complicated interface to learn. Drop Box works seamlessly with any operating system. Teachers can use Drop Box as a way to backup school files and share documents between colleagues.

Reflection: How could dropbox be beneficial to use as an educator?


Here is a file you can download 

Class 9: Digital Storytelling

The following is the link to view tonight's class since our Elementary teachers have parent-teacher conferences tonight. Good luck teachers!

Please comment on your thoughts about Digital Storytelling and how you can use it effectively in your classroom.

Class 8 - Wordle and Weebly

Please post a comment to this post reflecting on, Why I would or wouldn't use Wordle or Weebly in your classroom. Please comment on the use of both sites.

Class 6 Wikis

What the heck is a wiki? It is a tool much like a blog, but much better for collaboration.  A wiki allows for multiple authors to add content. Educational wikis allows students to problem solve, peer edit, collaborate, and easy access to documents from anywhere as long as they have an internet connection and a Web browser to work from on their computers.   The most well known wiki is called Wikipedia.  This is a free online collaborative encyclopedia that has up-to-date entries made by the general public.  Contributors to Wikipedia usually monitor, evalute, edit, and authenticate the content that is provided in Wikipedia. 

Class 4 & 5: Blogs

February 2, & February 9, 2011 - Blogs

Blogs can take the form of a journal, links to other sites, and new pages. Blogs serve as a collaborative communication space between teachers and students. Blogs can be integrated into the curriculum to reflect, write, and share ideas in the classroom.

Reflections:

Class 4: Share your Blog with the class.

Class 5: Create a new blog post.

Class 3: Social Bookmarking

January 23, 2011: Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a method that Internet users employ to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources.

Reflection Question: Please reflect on one of the following questions.

1. How can you use Delicious in your classroom?

2. What are the benefits of using Delicious as an educator?

Section 2 Class 2: RSS Feeds

January 19, 2011 - RSS Feeds

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS is a web feed, or a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content or works including blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video.

Reflection Question:
Reflect on ways you can introduce RSS in the classroom or on how RSS can help you as an educator?

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Links from Class

• Where you can find information about Tooble from CSD class.

http://classroompublishingpd.wikispaces.com/April+21


Downloading YouTube Videos on your computer.

• Download Tooble

• Download Video DownLoadHelper to be used with Firefox.

Section 1 Class 1 Intro to Web 2.0

January 12, 2011: Web 2.0 and Creative Commons

Introduction to Web 2.0 The trend in the use of technology and Web sites that aims to enhance information sharing, creativity, and most notably, collaboration among users. (Source: Wikipedia) Web 2.0 consists of 21^st Century teaching and learning, social networking, and open (free) software.

Creative Commons Creative Commons allows digital educational resources to be freely accessible and collaboration between other educators and students.