Web 2.0 tools for teachers

Create frame-by-frame animations using 4 geometric shapes.

I love how this article is framed. "Still, is this shift in pedagogy and policy worth the effort? Will sound, traditional writing instruction still suffice, or do we need to reframe the way we teach students to write due to the global, online spaces they will frequent more in their lives? In an August 2009 Wired article, Andrea Lunsford, professor of writing and rhetoric at Stanford University, offered her own research to suggest that students are writing in environments far removed from those from even a generation ago. "I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization," she says. According to her five-year study of student writing, technology is pushing writing literacy in new directions that educators must begin to make sense of. "

Kate Ray video of interviews with big names, such as Tim Berners-Lee, Clay Shirky, David Weinberger

Really cool application for Web 2 using Geo teachers. Similar to youcube - search engine with visualization and click and watch/listen to each square.

Do your students have the critical thinking skills to understand ads, what they're saying, and what they want kids to do? To help you equip your students with these valuable skills, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency, has launched a campaign to teach kids about advertising. The Admongo campaign will help kids learn to ask three key "critical thinking" questions when they encounter advertising: Who is responsible for the ad? What is the ad actually saying? What does the ad want me to do?

Très utilisé aux EU. Muséum box permet de construire un argumentaire ou une description d'un évènement, d'une personne, d'un sujet, en plaçant des informations dans des boîtes virtuelles. Ce n'est pas clair, hein, allez jetez un coup d'œil. Particulièrement adapté en histoire, biologie.

Free site to create comprehensive multiple modality lessons fom web content

"What do you want to teach today? Create lessons & lessons plans in minutes. Simple, fast, and FREE. Automatic accommodations, scaffolding, and sheltered instruction. Targeted differentiation groups. Higher-order thinking prompts. Graphic organizer selections. "

Sylvia Tolisano - Langwitches 70 Tools in 70 Minutes- come and learn!

Podomatic

Mr Picassohead is a fun website. It allows users to create their own 'Picasso' by selecting different types of faces and facial features, colours and so on and dragging them onto a canvas. It is a great way to begin a unit of work on Picasso, Cubism or abstract art with students.

After having been taken over by google, Etherpad Chris Pirillo and Jake Warner have now "frozen the Etherpad code in time" and released it as Type With Me.

99 Awesome Firefox Add-ons for Educators Posted by Site Administrator in Features on 09 28th, 2009 | no responses They say today's educators are overworked and underpaid. Luckily, the web offers tools to make your professional life more manageable and less stressful. These add-ons might not change your salary, but we're sure they'll ease your workload.

"Teachers are hard pushed to find the time for technical professional development on top of teaching a packed syllabus of content, suggest time consuming video creation and the reaction is understandable. The good news is video has just become considerably quicker to capture and process in the form of the Flip video cameras."