Web 2.0 It's a Whole New Internet

Rick Bell

HS Lab

Interact with a number of web tools to integrate technology into your teaching. Webquests, educational resources and rubric creation are just a few of the areas that will be explored.  These tools help teachers become more efficient and effective in the areas of productivity, instruction, and assessment. 

Productivity

Technology to help organize, manage, and communicate routine preparation activities

• Cool Timerctimer.exe A timer download to place on your desktop, can be projected on board for great visual.
• The Hat  th.exe  A way for you to select random teams or individuals.
• Stopwatch/Countdown Timer: (http://www.online-stopwatch.com)

              A web-based timer that counts up and down.

• FastStone CaptureFSCaptureSetup53.zip  An easy way to take a screen clipping of any thing on your computer screen.  This download is free if taken from the wiki.  Adding clippings to your lessons will get students' attention quickly.
• Kwout- capture a screen shot
   
•  KartOO - visual meta search engine

Social Networking         a. Tags (edtags) 

• Edublogs - The best education-based blog I have come across
• EdTags - An educators way to share great web resources
• iGoogle - Google's homepage personalized to your liking   
• TIP blog  

Instruction

Technology to support the development and delivery of instruction

• netTrekker  - Elementary schools have this site available to the students as a search engine with specific searches for people, images and web search .  There are many tools on this site including readability levels and read-aloud capabilities.

   

• Discovery School - Tremendous resource with lesson plans and ideas to use technology.  Kathy Schrock's page is an exceptional source.

• 42eXplore - Thematic pathfinders for all subjects.  Resource for searching information to lesson plan or for students

• Verizon Thinkfinity - Site with strong reputation, used to be called Marco Polo.  Each curriculum area is supported with integrated ideas.

   

Assessment

Technology to help make assessments more efficient and help teachers collect data that can truly improve student achievement

Audio Recording

• Audacity audacity-win-1.2.6.exealex.wav- a program which can be used to capture audio, great for audio books or fluency checks

• VoiceThread - A tool to record conversation on the Internet and be able to comment about photos with voice or text.  Click on "What's a VoiceThread" for a preview.

• Rubistar - site to help teachers to create rubrics for projects
   
• Trackstar - Webquest collection created by teachers. Can also be used for Instruction.
   
   
•  Quizlet - a student created site for kids to review materials using memorization tools on the Internet

• Wikis- pbwiki - Interactive website

• ToonDoo - Create cartoons very easily and creatively with this website