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Summer 2 Portal only

Page history last edited by Jose Antonio Davila 9 years, 7 months ago

Course Calendar    Summer 1 Portal only   Summer 2 Portal only   Summer 2014 Student Profiles Page      Syllabus

 

Please post your presentations here: http://bit.ly/tliweb20   Also, add your summary of information on your choice of Web 2.0 tools under the appropriate categories. 

 

Below are some links other students have found useful. The tables for posting your URL and signing up for presentations and Web 2.0 tools can be found below this information.

 

Visual Literacy

 

Creative Commons Links:

The Creative Commons website provides easy to understand licensing that generally allows others to use your work and/or modify.  Various licenses are available under Creative Commons and on this site you can generate your license for posting on your website or on work you have created.

http://ccmixter.org - ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want. Unlike freeplaymusic (which is often used as a source of music for educators), this site offers open source music that can be used in podcasts, on websites, etc.

http://www.freesound.org/ - The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focuses only on sound, not songs.

http://openclipart.org/ - Open clip art with a very nice library of clipart that is high quality

 

Photo Sites - safe photos

Some free photos- Some are free and some cost (but are cheap). Photos are high quality and large so do not pixelate on photo stories, etc.

http://sxc.hu - one of my favorite copyright free photo sites; great quality and resolution.

Photo Sharing in Plain English - from Common Craft

http://flickr.com - loads of photos on this site.  Be sure to check copyright before using.

 

If you want to see all my links and add some of your own, go here:  http://butleratutb.pbworks.com/w/page/15207951/List-of-Links

 

SUMMER 2

Please add the relevant information in the table below. Be sure to check your posted hyperlink to ensure that it does indeed go to your wiki page for this course.

 

    Name
E-mail Address
URL to YOUR course wiki page for 6340
Articles to Read Team Sharing
Dr. Janice Butler
janice.butler@utb.edu http://bit.ly/6340sp14
1
  Kimberly Banda kimcheer2002@gmail.com 

http://butleratutb.pbworks.com/w/page/82935703/EDTC%206340%20Assignments

 

1
  Jose Antonio Davila  jose.a.davila@utb.edu  http://joseantoniodavila.pbworks.com/w/page/82835569/EDTC%206340 
2
   Chris Hilgeman

chrishilgeman@yahoo.com

http://6340class.pbworks.com/w/page/82918972/FrontPage 
2
   Maria Ing
riagirl83@gmail.com  http://mariaing.pbworks.com/w/page/82558084/EDTC%206340

 

2
Educreations  David Brook Park dbrookpark@yahoo.com

EDTC 6340

3
  Michael James Rigal mrigal@gmail.com

Michael's PBworks EDTC 6340 Direct Wiki Page

 

3
   Kevin Spurgin

kevinspurgin6@gmail.com

http://kevinspurgin.pbworks.com/w/page/82926241/EDTC%206340%20Applications%20of%20Advanced%20Technologies

 

4
  Morgan Tucker  tucker.morgan@yahoo.com  http://edtc6340mtucker.pbworks.com/w/page/82820461/Morgan%20Tucker%20EDTC%206340

 

Project Presentation Table

Please select the date and time for which you will present your final project.  

 

Date: August 5, 2014  Date: August 12, 2014
Time
Student Name
Time
Student Name
6:10 PM
D. Brook Park  6:10 PM
Kevin Spurgin
6:30 PM
Morgan Tucker
6:30 PM
Jose A. Davila
6:50 PM
Maria Ing  6:50 PM
Michael Rigal
7:10 PM Chris Hilgeman
7:10 PM Kimberly Banda

 

SUMMER 2

Sign up for the three Web 2.0 technologies that you will research and present to the class.

 

Student  Name

Three (3) Web 2.0 Technologies

Approved by JWB

David Brook Park 

Educreations

Pros: Rich interactive whiteboard that has both video and audio recording. 

Cons: Easier to use the iPad app. Limited to no recording editing possible. 

Cost: Free

Ease of Learning: Easy

Student Accounts: Yes

Versatility: Medium

Uses: Students and teachers can create video and audio recordings. 

 

 Great

Wordle

Pros:

 

Cons:

 

Cost: Free

Ease of Learning: Easy

Student Accounts:

 

Versatility: Medium

Uses: Create word clouds

 Great.

Prezi

Tutorial Video

Pros: Create engaging and unconvential presentation

Cons:

Cost: Free for Teachers and Students

Ease of Learning:

Student Accounts:

Versatility:

Uses:

 
Morgan Tucker
Powtoon

Tutorial Video

Pros: A professional product can be created with little know how and in a short amount of time.

Cons: Editing abilities are somewhat limited

Cost: free

Ease of Learning: pretty easy!

Student Accounts: students will need an account

Versatility: cross-curricular

Uses: create presentations/videos

great!
Popplet

Tutorial Video

Pros: Easy to use and gather student thought process, allows for visual organization, can be used to support many district initiatives, versatile

Cons: Cost for full version

Cost: Free for Popplet Lite, $4.99 for Popplet

Ease of Learning: This only takes moments to learn. It is intuitive and provides a clean layout.

Student Accounts: Yes- but not required

Versatility: Cross-curricular use

Uses: Used to capture thoughts and enabling students to produce thinking maps, food webs...educational illustrations 

great!
Google Drive

Tutorial Video

Pros: Makes live collaboration possible, automatically saves, have revision history available, teacher can track student progress at anytime. Students will also be able to see the progress of their learning when using Drive because all of their works will be housed in one place.

Cons: You cannot currently merge cells in the document tables and space for storage- it your district becomes a Google apps for education district, you get more storage than if you create your account on your own. 

Cost: Free

Ease of Learning: It is easy to learn, but might take a while for your mind to fully understand how it can be used to its full potential. 

Student Accounts: Yes- These can be created through a gmail or using the students' current school email addresses.

Versatility: Cross-curricular

Uses: Can be used to house any file type and/or to create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms (surveys) and drawings. Allows students to upload and convert works to then utilize the Google tools available in drive. 

Make sure you cover how students can generate content
Michael Rigal

Text2Mindmap

Pros: It is a free tool and simple to use. It does not require registration so you can start using it of the bat. This tool is great to help connect content together

Cons: It would be beneficial if the tool offered additional thinking maps 

Cost: Free

Ease of Learning: It is very simple to use and does not require registration

Student Accounts: Students can easily create account and show their maps to the class

Versatility: Cross-curricular

Uses: This is a easy to use tool that can be used to create bubble thinking maps which can help students connect content.

great!

TimeToast

Pros: You can create rich timelines using graphics to help students visualize 

Cons: It would be nice to download the timeline in the free version as a file to showcase in class without logging in

Cost: The initial use is free but there are upgrade options for more timeline features

Ease of Learning: The controls are self explanatory 

Student Accounts: Students can use a Facebook account to log in without creating an account. Creating an initial account is easy

Versatility: Cross-curricula

Uses: TimeToast is an easy tool to create your own timeline using text and images. Student can grasps the concepts by seeing when things accrued or will accrue visually.

Great!

Quizlet

Pros: It is a good tool to create vocabulary building for the class.

Cons: You can start a class set without registering first

Cost: Free

Ease of Learning: The tools is not hard to learn but may need a play with it for a while to get things going

Student Accounts: Student can use Google or Facebook accounts to sign in without registering

Versatility: Cross-curricula

Uses: Create vocabulary sets for vocabulary building where students can interact in various modes

OK - but be sure you cover how students can generate content
Jose Antonio Davila 

Slideshare: users can upload files in the following formats: PowerPoint, PDF, Keynote for presentation. 

Video Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaMg8ySFtKU

Pros: Strong forms capabilities

Cons: Limited personalization 

Cost: Free

Ease of Learning: Very easy to use and make slideshow for presentation

Student Accounts: No

Versatility: Easy

Uses: Work great for making presentations for business and students school projects.

 

We will be using in later weeks - so - select something else - how about emaze or powtoon or even slideshare?

Schoology: This is a tool that engage students to improve their educational effectiveness on large and small scale.

Video Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9D4xaRQSS4

Pros: Has parents options, work great with Ipad and Android easy to set up multiple courses easy to turn in work assignments..

Cons: Not as easy create groups within a class, level support is not free 

Cost: Free

Ease of Learning: Easy

Student Accounts: Yes 

Versatility: is derived from an innovative combination of three key components wrapped in one user and engaging interface.

Uses: Teachers can create courses as many as they want to post assignments quizzes and discussions. Also, the teacher can post links for students. 


 
Great

Edmodo: Is a social learning platform" website for teachers, students, and parents.

Video Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imjn6b5sNto

Pros: Easy to use Build in calendar for Due Dates allow to submit work assignments turn ins and many ,more.. 

Cons: Not Ipad friendly, the levels of support are not strong it complicated to create multiple classes.. 

Cost: Free 

Ease of Learning: Easy 

Student Accounts: Yes

Versatility: is a phenomenal learning tool for students.

Uses: It is use for student to post their work and get feedback from the teacher. Also, if a student has any questions they can reach the teacher by sending a message using edmodo app in their iphone or android. 

 


Edmodo is a LMS - if you use this, you have to tell how students can use it to generate content. Make sure you include that slant.
Maria Ing 

Linoit - click for link to site

Online sticky notes that can be used by teachers to prompt students and receive feedback from students. Teachers can replace real sticky notes which can add up and get expensive and instead use the Linoit service. It also allows for the posting of images, weblinks and videos.  Boards can be saved for future use or reference.  

Click for Tutorial Video 

Click for demo of Linoit in a classroom

Pros: access from anywhere, can post from a phone or iPad, organize in any visual method, set due dates on stickies (broadcast to phone and calendars), use bulletin board as a meeting place to share/collaborate

Cons: students may post inappropriate comments or pictures (as teachers we have to combat this anyway) Students can add a "tag" which will be their name so we can monitor who is posting comments. 

Cost: Free

Ease of Learning: easy, quick to learn, dependable

Student Accounts: no login needed, students are given a URL, they contribute from the link.

Versatility: visible on any computer screen

Uses: Can be used in any subject to post information for students, or as an interactive tool in which students can post ideas, information or feedback.  Images, links, and videos can also be posted by users.  

Other: Can login with twitter, Facebook or Google; weblink of ideas

Great!

Studystack.com - click for link to site

Program that allows for the use of pre made study information or allows for the creation of their own.  It has a variety of flashcard activities which helps with repetitive review of content.   

Click for Tutorial Video

 Pros:  preloaded questions from a variety of subject areas and tests (SAT, ACT, etc.); variety of learning tools (flashcards, matching games, puzzles, hangman) which allows for different learning styles and a variety of different ways to cover the same material; you can edit existing information or create one from scratch, study cards are printable and can be studied on phones. 

Cons: Some activities require Java. The web interface is very cluttered looking, but still usable. 

Cost: Free

Ease of Learning: Very Easy

Student Accounts: students can create their own accounts, but they are not connected to a teacher account.

Versatility: This can be used at home to review.  Parents always ask how to help their students do better, having them study with their child at home creates a more meaningful learning environment and parents can better monitor what their child is learning. Also a great tool for preparing for college entrance exams. 

Uses: Can be used in any subject as a review tool of vocabulary, formulas, facts, dates, etc., in preparation for tests and quizzes.  Students have the ability to log in and create flashcards using vocabulary, notes and test reviews distributed by the teacher.  Students can share flashcards for study resources.  If students want to work together they can make a stack that they will allow others to edit, which will allow classmates to contribute to the study content. 

OK  - but remember - Web 2.0 is not about teacher developing content - it is about students generating content and collaborating. Be sure to focus on this.

Dr. Butler, I updated the uses portion.  Would this suffice to make this a Web 2.0 tool?  If not I don't mind trying to find something else. That works!

ToonDoo - click for link to site

Comic strip creating tool which provides an place to easily create customizable, publishable,  personalized cartoons.  It's a simple drag and drop or click to create interface.  It allows for the expression of views, opinions, angst or just having fun. 

Click for Tutorial Video

Example of classroom use: www.classroom20.com

Pros: no artistic ability needed, easy drag and drop usage, 

Cons: no drawing ability (decrease creativity), must set up an account

Cost: Free

Ease of Learning: Very Easy

Student Accounts: No, but an account must be set up in order to use

Versatility: A large variety of characters and backgrounds are available to allow adaptation for all areas and allow for some creative diversity between students works. Challenges students to turn verbal/textual  information into visual information and demonstrate computer skills. 

Uses: Can be adapted for any classroom. It will be very easy to use in an English or Social Studies class to show timelines or a story of characters or events. (fictional or historical).  Science and Math could also use the tool to show steps in a process or formula.

Other: Teachers Guide to ToonDoo

Great!
Kimberly Banda 

Dropbox

Tutorial Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDdaPBdYYMs

Pros: Students are able to upload their work to share with others in the classroom. This is another substitution for emailing but it holds more space for students' presentations, etc than regular emails.

Cons: Need to pay for more space, Files in dropbox can be sent to others. (Privacy issue)

Cost: Free.    Need to buy  more space.

Ease of Learning:  Easy

Student Accounts: Students may make accounts for school or personal.

Versatility: This can be accessed from any computer.

Uses: This can be used for any subject area in order to submit assignments. The students can share their work with others to compare works.

OK - but be sure to focus on collaboration and student generated content

Wiggio

Tutorial Video: www.wiigio.com

Pros: Host virtual meetings and conference calls, send email and voice messages, take polls online, upload files, managae events on calendar.

Cons: Doesn't offer specific teacher and student accounts. It's just a group account. 

Cost: Free

Ease of Learning: Not Easy

Student Accounts: No.  

Versatility: Many opportunites to collaborate

Uses: Can be used for discussions, scheduling assignments, uploading files.

Great!

Today's Meet

Tutorial Video: http://learnitin5.com/Todays-Meet

Pros: Groups are able to post in there, limits who can join your room, closes room when not ready to post, keeps rooms open for a year.

Cons: must have access to a computer at school, limits the amount of words to type, once it's posted it cannot be removed.

Cost: free

Ease of Learning: Somewhat difficult

Student Accounts: Yes

Versatility: no. It's a backchannel

Uses: discussions/ meetings, presentations, movies and silent activities.

Great!
Kevin Spurgin 

Populr

Tutorial Video

ProsAttractive and varied templates are easy to modify and use; intuitive; makes information visually appealing; alternative to DropBox, ShareFile, and static webpages; quick way to create a short great looking presentation; multiple forms of media can be added to a Pop (page); functional analytics and feedback lets you know who's looking

Cons: Primarily geared toward business not education; the help pages can be lacking; limited number of themes available

Cost: Free

Ease of Learning: Easy

Student Accounts: Yes

Versatility: Very versatile as a method for transmitting and presenting information in a way that is aesthetically pleasing

Uses: Could be used in any content area by students sharing information whether it be a short presentation or a research type assignment. Being limited to one page (Pop) forces students to hone in on the most important information.

Science - present findings from an experiment

Social Studies - groups share various cultural perspectives on a social issue

Math - share how math relates to a real world scenario

Language Arts - present a book report/summary complete with images and video

Looks interesting!  Great!

Google Sites

Tutorial Video

Pros: Excellent capabilities for wiki and intranet; seemlessly incorporates all Google tools and resources; almost endless capacity to generate content from students that can be submitted digitally to teachers; privacy settings available to limit access

Cons: Calendar pages can be difficult to navigate; bland themes; must be at least 13 years old to hold an account

Cost: Free

Ease of Learning: Somewhat Difficult

Student Accounts: Yes

Versatility: Because of the combined power of all the Google tools, the possibilities are almost limitless as this tool can be used to build 21st century skills in learners and create responsible digital citizens

Uses: Excellent tool for collaboration, document sharing and minor project management; students can create their own websites and e-portfolios

Science - collaborate with lab group on experimental design and implementation

Social Studies - create a website full of content on a specific social group or historical event

Math - present the findings of an historical figure such as Albert Einstein and his contribution to math and society

Language Arts - develop an e-portfolio based on a novel

OK - but be sure to focus on collaboration and student generated content

RealtimeBoard

Tutorial Video

Pros: collaborate with up 100,000 people (that might be a bit much) in real time; works with Google Drive, include files, images, videos, sticky notes, freehand drawing and more on the white board; public or private options; permanently saved; presentations can be exported as PDF; free education version available with extended features

Cons: firewalls can restrict use, lacks zooming feature

Cost: Free

Ease of Learning: Easy

Student Accounts: Yes

Versatility: incredibly versatile incorporating a wide variety of file formats and user inputs

Uses: collaboration, project planning and management, brainstorming, mind mapping, collecting feedback, and story telling

Science - collaborate with a PBL group and plan your project from start to finish

Social Studies - set up a "war room" scenario with the U.S. president and vital members of his/her staff to plan strategies and develop solutions

Math - brainstorm ideas for how to solve a difficult math equation using only prior knowledge

Language Arts - mind map the main idea, plot, and major characters from a story or novel

Looks great!
Chris Hilgeman 

Conceptboard

Demo:  http://vimeo.com/88451394

Pros:  Giant whiteboard app that gives the user plenty of space to work with.  Plenty of tools to use in making the board what you want it to be.  Allows for images, virtual post-it notes, writing, and chat.  Invite users to join the whiteboard, allowing for a group project where everyone is communicating via chat and modifying the whiteboard as they go.

Cons:  Free account is limited to 5 MB of use.  Account basically freezes once that level has been exceeded.  In order to unlock you need to pay a monthly fee.  You could shrink your usage and downgrade back to free eventually but this is a hassle.  

Cost:  Free for basic plan.  Other plans cost more.

Ease of Learning:  Moderately easy.

Student Accounts:  No student accounts but you can invite students via email.

Versatility:  Very versatile. Only once did I have a technical problem with the app.

Uses: Groups working together on a finished output/project.  Good for distance learning if you want something visual that a group of geographically spread-out students can manipulate.  Could be used for practically any discipline.  

Misc:

Great!

Examtime

Demo:  http://www.screencast.com/t/y1fkfUOqzcpB

Pros:  Allows for collaboration between students/teachers.  Useful for reviewing material and creating your own quizzes as part of the review process.  Information entered in Notes tool can be transferred to other tools.

Cons:  Quiz feature does not have an easy way to aggregate and allow teachers to view the scores without students emailing the scores.  Sometimes the information from the notes that transfers to other tools needs to be edited to ensure it is what you're looking for.

Cost:  Free

Ease of Learning: Moderately easy.

Student Accounts: Students would need to create their own individual accounts.

Versatility:  The fact that it's four tools in one that, in theory, can share information between them makes it a fairly versatile app.

Uses: Probably best suited for review purposes rather than assessment.  Could be used for assessment but requires students to email quiz results to teacher by entering teacher's email.  Since it is collaborative, it makes for a good tool for several students to use together to review.

Misc:

 
Nice.  Great!

Mendeley

Demo:  http://www.mendeley.com/features/#

Pros:  Easy to import pdf documents from your computer or other sources such as Google Scholar.  Easy to annotate and highlight documents and share them with others.  Includes a tagging feature for further classification and easy retrieval.  Suggested articles similar to yours are shown when you import a new document. 

Cons:  Requires you to download the Mendeley program to your computer.  Might have too many features, depending on the age you want to use it with.  It would be helpful if there was a scaled-down version for elementary and junior high students;  as it is, Mendeley is only suitable for high school and above.  

Cost: Free

Ease of Learning:  Moderately Easy to Slightly Difficult, depending on how many features you want to learn.  

Student Accounts:  Students must create their own individual accounts.

Versatility:  

Uses: Collaborative Research; Finding Related, Community-Suggested Articles

Misc:

 
     
   
   
     
   
   
     

 

 

 

 

 

TitanPad

  • Link to website: www.titanpad.com  
  • Tutorial Video
  • Pros: You don’t have to sign up to start using a pad. Each collaborator is color coded and must provide a name. All the content on the pad can be imported and exported. You can import text documents. There are public and private pads available.
  • Cons: There are only 8 distinctive colors to assign students. No pictures or videos can be inserted onto the pad.
  • Cost: Free
  • Ease of Learning: Very Easy
  • Student Accounts: No
  • Versatility: TitanPad is limited to text only.
  • How it could be used
    • Math: Students can create word problems and write how to solve them
    • Science:  As a group, students will create lab safety scenarios that illustrate incorrect and correct lab safety techniques.
    • Social Studies: Students can answer questions posed by the instructor during a lesson
    • Language Arts:  Students can brainstorm the major parts of a collaborative essay.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TitanPad

  • Link to website: www.titanpad.com  
  • Tutorial Video
  • Pros: You don’t have to sign up to start using a pad. Each collaborator is color coded and must provide a name. All the content on the pad can be imported and exported. You can import text documents. There are public and private pads available.
  • Cons: There are only 8 distinctive colors to assign students. No pictures or videos can be inserted onto the pad.
  • Cost: Free
  • Ease of Learning: Very Easy
  • Student Accounts: No
  • Versatility: TitanPad is limited to text only.
  • How it could be used
    • Math: Students can create word problems and write how to solve them
    • Science:  As a group, students will create lab safety scenarios that illustrate incorrect and correct lab safety techniques.
    • Social Studies: Students can answer questions posed by the instructor during a lesson
    • Language Arts:  Students can brainstorm the major parts of a collaborative essay.

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