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Angela Ash

New Tools for Schools, T&L Editors - 0 views

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  • Desire2LearnThe latest version of eLearning Suite includes Learning Environment 8.1, which offers new assessment options and blogging; Learning Repository 3.5, which allows for effective tagging and learning object reuse; and LiveRoom 4.0, featuring chats and a presentation management area.www.Desire2Learn.com
    • Angela Ash
      Angela Ash on 12 Jul 11
       
      Desire2Learn is a kids version of iGoogle. The tool allows for students to organize technology tools in order to keep their studies organized and available through the web.
  • GenevaLogicCreated in response to teachers' desire to have more control over the Internet in the classroom, Surf*Lock2 is a plug-in for GenevaLogic's Vision classroom management software. The tool allows users to turn browsing on or off with a single click and limit students' access to certain Web sites. Surf*Lock2 is compatible with filtering software and does not require a server. At the time of this writing, the plug-in is only available for Windows.www.GenevaLogic.com
  • NetSupportNetSupport School 8.5 classroom management software now has student auto login, Internet cobrowsing, and additional testing components. Educators using the software can record all screen, keyboard, and mouse activity on student computers and also limit Web surfing to approved sites.www.netsupportschool.com
    • Angela Ash
      Angela Ash on 12 Jul 11
       
      Educators could use this tool to monitor students and their use of technology. It could also be useful to parents or guardians, as the tool records activity on a students computer.
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  • SchoolMessengerWeb-based SchoolMessenger ASP Plus is a parent notification service that includes always-available messaging and the ability for educators and administrators to create personalized voice messages and e-mail in various languages. Parent alerts can be timed to address absences, emergencies, and so on.www.schoolmessenger.com
    • Angela Ash
      Angela Ash on 12 Jul 11
       
      SchoolMessenger would be a great tool to ensure effective communication, via voice message, email, ect. for educators, adminstrators, and parents. And, it allows for translation in various languages!
  • AccoonaThe Talking Search Bar combines search technology with a text-to-speech feature to enable users to highlight Internet text and have it read to them out loud. Useful for ELL students and children learning to read, the Talking Search Bar can convert any Web page into text. Users can choose to listen to a male or female voice.www.accoona.com
    • Angela Ash
      Angela Ash on 12 Jul 11
       
      This would be a great tool for students who are not strong in their reading and writing skills. It allows for a voice to provide audio for listening during typing and searching.
  • Angela Ash on 12 Jul 11
     
    Links to any and every technology tool available for educators
  • Angela Ash on 12 Jul 11
     
    This site has taught me the endless options of tool available for educators. In alphabetical order, tools are listed for educators to search through, and find tools they could apply to their classroom. Links to the tools with information to each tool is available at their fingertips. It would be impossible for any educator to search this site and not find a tool that is interesting or applicable to their subject.
Kyle Campbell

50 Useful Twitter Tools for Writers and Reasearchers - 1 views

www.onlinecollegedegrees.org/...ls-for-writers-and-researchers

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  • Monitter: Keep an eye on keywords, and find out geographic areas as well. TweetBeep: Use TweetBeep to get updated on keywords and phrases. Twilert: Twilert emails you every time someone tweets with your keywords.
    • Angela Ash
      Angela Ash on 11 Jul 11
       
      All three of these tools would be highly useful for educators who are or will be integrating Twitter in their classroom. They will allow the teacher to be notified when students tweet specific words or phases. This could be useful for monitoring students tweets, but also if an educator is looking for specific material for students to tweet about.
  • Tweetzi: Check out Tweetzi to use an advanced Twitter search engine.
    • Angela Ash
      Angela Ash on 11 Jul 11
       
      This is basically Google for Twitter. Everyone should check this out. Type in any subject you are interested in trying to follow and there are lists of people/information to follow on their Twitter account.
  • Twazzup: Use Twazzup to get a quick and handy look at what’s popular on Twitter right now.
    • Angela Ash
      Angela Ash on 11 Jul 11
       
      This tool is a three in one. Type in any subject of interest and they provide the highlights, news, and tweets on the subject. Very cool!
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  • . TwitPic: TwitPic is a wildly popular way to share photos on Twitter.
    • Angela Ash
      Angela Ash on 11 Jul 11
       
      It is even easier to upload pictures to Twitter with this tool. TwitPic also allows you to search for pictures that have previously been uploaded.
  • Twiggit: Use Twiggit to let your followers know what articles you’re supporting on Digg
    • Angela Ash
      Angela Ash on 11 Jul 11
       
      Twiggit would be highly useful for educators to stay informed on the latest articles on some of the most popular technology tools students are using. Educators will be able to continue their growth in technology knowledge and be able to effectively teach students.
  • Twit2Do: Twit2Do is a great tool for keeping your to do list together on Twitter.
    • Angela Ash
      Angela Ash on 11 Jul 11
       
      Stay organized by using Twit2Do to create a To Do list on Twitter!
  • Angela Ash on 11 Jul 11
     
    Twitter Resource
  • Angela Ash on 11 Jul 11
     
    This tool has taught me how popular Twitter has become. I was shocked to see there were 50 resources available for Twitter. Some of these resources can be highly useful for educators to search for key words, obtain the latest information, and stay organized. I especially like the tools that allow you to monitor words and pharses on your account as I am fearful for students posting inappropriate material in their Tweets. Some of these tools allow educators to monitor this material. 50 tools on one website...talk about easy access to learn about Twitter!
  • Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
     
    I had no idea these tool were available on twitter. Makes winnowing down a topic and being able to keep up with it much easier.
Emily Beyer

50 Free Collaboration Tools That Are Awesome for Education | Accredited Online Colleges... - 0 views

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collaboration tools education

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  • EtherPad. This web-based word processor allows multiple users to work simultaneously on a document. Each person’s work is highlighted in a different color to keep everything understandable.
  • Zoho Show. Grea
  • online presentations are easy to create collaboratively with this powerful free tool.
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  • MemberHub. Up to 30 members can communicate in one place for free with this tool.
  • Yugma. The free version of this tool allows up to 20 people to web conference and is a great way for groups to connect when they can’t be in the same location.
  • drop.io. Students can share images, documents, audio and video files, and more with this tool.
  • ePals. Students can connect with other classrooms around the world with this tool that has a strict education-only focus.
  • Student.com. High school and college students can find help with school work, prepare for college admission, and socialize with other students.
  • LearnHub. LearnHub is all about education sharing and allows students to share their knowledge, find what they need to know, and even study for major standardized exams.
  • Socialtext. Get a free microblogging platform for up to 50 users to have a private Twitter-like experience in your classroom.
  • Emily Beyer on 12 Jul 11
     
    This site offers many suggestions of collaboration tools to use in the classroom. Many of the tools are geared toward college students, but I highlighted a few that seemed interesting and relevant to elementary or middle school students. Most of these tools could also be used in high school.
Kate Castle

Adapting Social Networking to Address 21st-Century Skills - Internet@Schools Magazine - 0 views

www.mmischools.com/...21st-Century-Skills-59635.aspx

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  • 70% of the new jobs recently created in the U.S. are positions that require interactions between people and involve judgment, insight, and collaboration.
    • melanie gladden
      melanie gladden on 12 Jul 11
       
      This is so interesting. I think that students need to learn technology to be sucessful in their lives because technology is only going to grow, so it would be niave to think that we don't need to teach technology in schools.
  • another aspect of a social learning network is the potential to build global awareness among students.
    • melanie gladden
      melanie gladden on 12 Jul 11
       
      Students could use skype to achieve this.
  • same ePals online email service
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  • communicate with them using Web 2.0 technologies (the ePals service has a language translator, helping students to communicate regularly and across cultures)
    • melanie gladden
      melanie gladden on 12 Jul 11
       
      I had no thought about the language barrier as a complication. It would be interesting to see what other socail networking tools have the ability to translate.
  • Consider what tools, when implemented together in a holistic and thoughtful manner, can encourage collaboration, spark creativity, teach 21st-century skills, and address the needs and challenges of different socioeconomic environments.
  • Consider the following questions
    • Kate Castle
      Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
       
      These are five really crucial questions. I suspect too they are very different approaches to teaching than what has been typical in the past.
  • what tools best fulfill the needs of each school and district’s environment
  • What should be encouraged is the next level of communication—collaboration.
  • create, invent, and showcase their work
  • as many as 70% of the new jobs recently created in the U.S. are positions that require interactions between people and involve judgment, insight, and collaboration.
    • Kate Castle
      Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
       
      Students need to be aware in a different way than before. Learning is no longer a passive activity. This new interactive stance fosters the skills of judgement, insight, and collaboration that employers are looking for.
  • the framework suggests three overarching student outcomes, including life and career skills; learning and innovation skills; and information, media, and technology skills. Ultimately, the Partnership is advocating for educators and students to consider the implication of skills beyond the basic subject areas that are critical to success in the 21st century.
    • Kate Castle
      Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
       
      It makes me happy to see that it is obvious to people that producing a literate student involves more than teaching him or her the core subjects. Learning how to learn, meta-learning (has anyone coined that one yet?) is THE indispensable skill of the 21st century it seems. If I take nothing from this class, it will be that.
  • free, online email service for K–12
    • Kate Castle
      Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
       
      This is a cool site. Worth looking into. Connects educators who want to collaborate on classroom projects, great and interesting forums, and email accounts for kids to use for school.
    • Kate Castle
      Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
       
      Good to know this exists.
  • to match students with other students around the world
  • Educators can choose to utilize Web 2.0 tools
  • preparing them for working in a global marketplace
  • His students take part in a global newscast, featuring students from the U.S., Japan, Russia, Belize, and several other countries.
    • Kate Castle
      Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
       
      What a great idea! Very cool.
  • narrowing down which combination of tools would be best with the curriculum and pedagogy for the class
    • Kate Castle
      Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
       
      Each class will be unique in its abilities and needs and having knowledge of a wide varitety of tools makes teachers able to customize web tools to best serve their classrooms.
  • Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
     
    today's students need to be creators and collaborators, not just individual learners
Janet Swistock

50 Free Collaboration Tools That Are Awesome for Education - 9 views

Love Zoho for students to work together on a presentation on a period in art history, or a study of the life and work of an artist. They could even create a group presentation with artist statement...

started by Lesley Maurer on 07 Jul 11 5 follow-ups, last by Janet Swistock on 18 Jul 11
Sonja Boras

cooltoolsforschools - Collaborative Tools - 2 views

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Networking Education Social Reference

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  • Sonja Boras on 11 Jul 11
     
    This is a great resourceful website that everyone should keep bookmarked! It has a list of over 50 links to Web 2.0 tools that are good for education with a 1-5 sentence blurb about what they are capable of and how they can be used. They are also broken down into subcategories, document sharing, discussion forums, etc. If I had a highlighter tool I would have highlighted the CollaborizeClassroom tool because I have found that very interesting and my next link gives some more description about how and why it is used.
  • Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
     
    Twiducate looks great! Twitter for schools. Bookmarked this site, great resources.
Sonja Boras

» Pedagogical Tool Review: Collaborize Classroom - 0 views

mreyn012.grads.digitalodu.com/blog

Networking Social Education Review

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  • Sonja Boras on 11 Jul 11
     
    This is a review of CollaborizeClassroom, a Web2.0 tool used for student collaboration. Even though I can't highlight, I would like to point out that this tool is a "free web-based platform for facilitating and tracking discussion". EMPHASIS ON THE FREE. It is completely customizable like a blog, but allows every student to have a voice in the conversation like twitter. And it allows upload and sharing of documents, you can create question forms or forums, and organize it all in one central location. Seems very applicable for teachers and easy to use.
Emily Beyer

Web 2.0 Projects - a Celebration of Student Learning - 2 views

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web 2.0 project student

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    • Emily Beyer
      Emily Beyer on 12 Jul 11
       
      This site has a lot of really cool projects created by middle school students. You can tell that the librarian and/or other teachers are really incorporating technology into their classrooms across the entire school. These projects cover many different topics and tools.
  • Kyle Campbell on 16 Jul 11
     
    Awesome way to showcase East Middle School's Library in this case. But just think we can use Web 2.0 Tools like Animoto to create slideshows of students work and even a culmination of projects we will do in class. This would be a neat thing to create to show parents on back to school night!
Victoria Steele

PBS Teachers | learning.now . PBS Teachers Embraces Social Networking and Bookmarking T... - 1 views

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Social Networking Education

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    • Victoria Steele
      Victoria Steele on 11 Jul 11
       
      Allowing users to explore and search for topics based on tags is convenient and may get more people interested.
  • Victoria Steele on 11 Jul 11
     
    I was most interested in the responses from this article that are listed below the actual article. One response recommended www.fatclass.com as a social networking tool that works great in the classroom. "Andy Carvin: Internet activist, author, Edtech expert. Learning.now is a weblog that explores how new technology and Internet culture affect how educators teach and children learn. It will offer a continuing look at how new technology such as wikis, blogs, vlogs, RSS, podcasts, social networking sites, and the always-on culture of the Internet are impacting teacher and students' lives both inside and out of the classroom."
  • Emily Beyer on 13 Jul 11
     
    I also see another response listing www.teachersrecess.com. That sounds interesting too!
Janet Swistock

Thinking Machine / Think Social Networking for Education - 1 views

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socialnetworking networking education social technology

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  • National School Boards' Assocation says that Social Networking technologies should be adapted for use in the classroom.
    • Andrew Tucker
      Andrew Tucker on 11 Jul 11
       
      These facts are very interesting and I had no idea that this was the case! These statistics prove that we, as teaching professionals, cannot ignore the impact that social networking has on the kids that we will be teaching. They are going to be using these tools and using them a lot, so we should reach them on their level.
    • Daphne O'Donnell
      Daphne O'Donnell on 11 Jul 11
       
      I'm surprised by the fact of 50% of students talk online about hw. Honestly, I thought it would be less than that.
  • Facebook - a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.
    • Andrew Tucker
      Andrew Tucker on 11 Jul 11
       
      Everyone knows my love of Facebook by now. I really think Facebook can be used in so many ways: groups, posting school work as statuses, posting links to websites and articles that can be used and shared, etc.
    • Lesley Maurer
      Lesley Maurer on 11 Jul 11
       
      Facebook is such a widely used social networking tool, I think you would be very hard-pressed to find someone who does not know how to use it. Kids can be steered in the direction of using it for educational and introspection purposes which they probably didn't consider. I love the idea of creating a page for a book character.
    • Daphne O'Donnell
      Daphne O'Donnell on 11 Jul 11
       
      Andrew, I like Facebook too. And I think that students and adults alike figure out how to use it with ease. I just worry about the over exposure for younger students, for instance the advertisements and so on.
    • Victoria Steele
      Victoria Steele on 11 Jul 11
       
      I think there is a ton of potential for Facebook to be used in the classroom but like Daphne said, could it lead to overexposure or to unwanted sites/people/ideas that are out there? Maybe somehow setting up very private settings would work best for teacher-student collaboration.
  • Twitter 4 Teachers wiki
    • Andrew Tucker
      Andrew Tucker on 11 Jul 11
       
      Very helpful site that expands upon many of the things that we have been talking about! 
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    • Janet Swistock
      Janet Swistock on 18 Jul 11
       
      Video with quick flashes of information to get you thinking about the future of education and the world.
    • Janet Swistock
      Janet Swistock on 18 Jul 11
       
      Hard to include Club Penguin as a social networking site. My daughters used it when they were little and were more interested in the game than the limited networking aspect.
  • Janet Swistock on 18 Jul 11
     
    Wiki based on statistics and information supporting use of social networking, and internet use in education. Although a little dated (2006) it's clear to see how things have progressed as expected through today. "Did you know 2.0" is a video worth the time.
melanie gladden

Tools for Schools: What's New with Web 2.0? - Middle Ground - 0 views

www.nmsa.org/...Default.aspx

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  • We need to prepare our students for the 21st century jobs that require global awareness, communication, teamwork, collaboration, critical thinking, problem solving, and data mining.
    • melanie gladden
      melanie gladden on 12 Jul 11
       
      I think that this is so important! I was never taught how to use a lot of technology in schools I had to teach myself and I think sometimes we forget how important technology is in the workplace!
  • Students are able to not only learn from their teachers, but learn from and teach their peers in their classroom, across the country, and even around the world.
    • melanie gladden
      melanie gladden on 12 Jul 11
       
      So important! Students need to learn how to collaborate and learn from each other
  • Global Connections ePals
    • melanie gladden
      melanie gladden on 12 Jul 11
       
      I think this is so awesome....students can learn and have such an appreciation when they realize how different life is around the world!
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Andrew Tucker

Thinking Machine / Think Social Networking for Education - 3 views

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  • Andrew Tucker on 11 Jul 11
     
    A great site that maps out statistics about how many kids use social networking as well as numerous social networking sites, all available on one site! An easy website to get the rundown on the importance of social networking and the tools that are out there.
  • Lesley Maurer on 11 Jul 11
     
    The K and 1 teachers at my school use Club Penguin and the kids absolutely love it. There are lots of good suggestions on this site, some of which I am more familiar with than others.
Andrew Tucker

twitter4teachers / FrontPage - 1 views

twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/...FrontPage

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  • This wiki was created to easily help educators connect with other educators on Twitter. Good luck finding and connecting with other educators on Twitter!
    • Andrew Tucker
      Andrew Tucker on 11 Jul 11
       
      Bringing teachers together over Twitter! These teachers know how to use Twitter and we, as educators, can learn from them.
  • Drama Teachers
    • Andrew Tucker
      Andrew Tucker on 11 Jul 11
       
      This site even has drama teachers! I was so impressed by this, because drama could have easily been overlooked as a class that needs networking. This says to me that this list is compiled to include everyone.
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    • Andrew Tucker
      Andrew Tucker on 11 Jul 11
       
      This site even has a place to post comments! So many ideas can be shared, even about how to use the Twitter profile finding tools. Social networking on top of social networking.
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