Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They're often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction.
Using these ideas, your students can collaboratively create classroom valuables.
Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They're often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction. Read to see how you can put wikis to work in your classroom.
This is an amazing site which allows multiple users to collaborate in real time on a multimedia canvas. You can add documents, embedded websites, audio, video, images and more by uploading them or grabbing them from the web. Then just click and drag your content into place. You can invite others to collaborate on your creation and then share or embed on your site. Creativity never looked so simple.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
BigMarker is a community for realtime collaboration, a marketplace for human knowledge. A place to freely express and to broadcast yourself.
teach, collaborate, learn something
A great site where you can collaborate with an online whiteboard. Invite other by giving them the page link and see then their drawings in real time. Upload images, chat and embed the whiteboard on your site. Your whiteboards are automatically saved for you to return to later. I'm excited by the possibilities of this site!
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
This is a fantastic web 2.0 tool. Upload images and annotate. You can other embed media inside the annotations. Annotations pop up as you click or hover over the objects you add. You can embed the annotated image into webpage or blog. This could be a useful tool for teachers and students. Lots of scope for creativity with layers etc. You can share to a group and set editing permissions for public or restricted people/groups for collaboration purposes.
DropEvent allows you to create photo galleries that others can contribute to without signing up, so everyone at an event can share their photos in one place.
"CoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share your ideas as images.
Simple sharing
* Anything you paint will show up for all other users in the room in real time.
* One click to save a sketch as an image for embedding on forums, blogs, etc.
Zero hassle
* Runs in all common browsers without plugins or installation.
* Free and without registration.
Now with Google Maps support!
* Use google maps as the background for your sketches to show directions or share trips."
This video chat site allows you to create a room for up to 50 users where you can chat, share video and audio files etc... for free.
Zorap is the first real-time communication service that allows groups of people to collaboratively experience and enjoy libraries of rich media content in personalized rooms, on fan pages, and on websites.. Zorap adds an exciting new dimension to the experience of social networks, allowing people to hang out and enjoy stuff together, in real-time.
The value of Twitter for helping you and your colleagues stay informed of the latest trends, ideas, resources, and Web 2.0 integration tools has increased tremendously in the past year.
A Web 2.0 tool is available for exploiting the every growing information on Twitter to remove barriers and allow you to collaborate with other science and math teachers. This new online tool is paper.li - a source of daily Twitter newsletters in education.