web 2.0 tools for teachers of ells- questar iii

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Web 2.0 tools for Teachers of ELLs-Questar III

Kelly SchermerhornFebruary 17, 2011

Room 2 3:45- 5:45 PM

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Essential Question for the day? What does technology integration look like?

What are you looking for today? How can I share this information with others?

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What Web 2.0 is… “The whole generation of ideas and needs

to be presented graphically.”

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Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 Web 1.0 Web 2.0

One-way Two-way

Authoritarian Democratic

Passive Active

Static Dynamic Closed Collaborative 

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Why Web 2.0 tools? It’s about users and content, not just

surfing the Internet Active collaboration and not passive

viewing Do you use Web 2.0 tools? If so, what?

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Slideshare.net

Slideshare.net is a free (mostly) web-based service that allows you to upload your presentations for others to view and download. You can get ideas from others-if you do use other’s ideas, give credit and make sure the presentation is NOT copyrighted. (No word-for-word copying)

Slideshare link

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Teacher Tube

Free account Teacher tube link Online community to upload your videos or

search for them Channels to search for specific topics/subjects,

documents, photos, groups, resources

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Del.icio.us Free account Web-based online book marking site-your own personal

repository to save articles, URLs ,etc. Share your bookmarks with others (My Network) or

recommend to others Bookmark by “tagging” the item or see what others think

is popular Del.icio.us link My username is kschermerhorn-add me to your network

and get my bookmarks

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Super Teacher Tools Free account Variety of free review games, classroom

management software, etc. Free, easy Jeopardy game maker-a MUST have Requires use of flash Classroomupdate.com-free teacher website

creator Super Teacher Tools link

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Money Instructor Money lessons and related featured articles

Money saving tips, informational resources and materials for teaching anything related to money

(try the “check writing lesson”-there are printables, an interactive lesson on how to write a check and how to keep a check register

Teacher/Parent portal- suggested use with Adult Ed.

Money Instructor link

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Digital Dialects 60 different language learning games in one place! Free account/site Some basic sections: games, verb section, advanced,

spelling, bookshop (not all choices are available in each of the 60 languages) *the more “popular” the language, more items available

Digital dialects Link Requires flash player

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Vocab Ahead Building vocabulary using short videos; pronounces and

defines each word with a picture and example in a sentence to explain

Suggested use with SAT or GRE preparation, also use with ESL/ELL

Teacher portal that helps you to customize vocabulary for your students (lists, widget for your blog, have students help with building of list)

Vocab ahead link

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Edmodo Free account Secure social learning network-sign up as a student or

teacher (parent sign up with code) Create a work group with your class, add content to your

online library, connect with other teachers Assign/post assignments or submit a poll for response Send alerts to all in group-great reminder tool! Calendar tab Edmodo link

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Do you Google?

If you do not Google, you should try it! There are TONS of free resources available on Google,

such as News (which you can translate into other languages), Wonderwheel (looking up a topic and want all the information on that topic), iGoogle (your own personal learning network) and Docs (for online, real time collaboration).

Blogs, Books and Photos-oh my! The wonderful things we could learn by using Google.

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Follow up to this session… How shall we do this? My contact information is on the last slide My Google contact info is: kschermerhorn68@gmail.com Would you like more integration

information? I will be available through the BETAC.

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Resources Images.google.com Kathy Schrock:

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/edtools.html SMARTBoard resources, Kelly Schermerhorn www.teachertube.com www.delicious.com www.superteachertools.com www.moneyinstructor.com www.digitaldialects.com www.vocabahead.com www.edmodo.com www.slideshare.net

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Contact Information

Kelly Schermerhorn 518-479-6847 Kelly.schermerhorn@questar.org