life’s a beach
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Free Web 2.0 tools to use in the classroomTRANSCRIPT
Life’s a Beach
Teaching made easy With FREE Web 2.0 Tools
Dolores Bluntschly – 2nd Grade TeacherCrestview Elementary [email protected] - @miss2blcrestviewschools.net
Motivate students to write by having their characters come to life.
Students can animate photos or pictures to make them appear as if they are talking.
Great tool for digital storytelling, building students’ language skills, communication skills and self confidence.
Sitting at home, working on lesson plans and the website you are looking for is bookmarked on your computer at school. What to do…
Online bookmarking site with benefits.• Highlight important information
to draw students attention
• Leave virtual “post-it” notes for others to see
• Create folders for individual students or subjects
• Share sites with colleagues
‘Okay, class today we are going to create a poster about how we can help take care of our Earth.’Great idea, but now your room is full of 25 posters with no place to hang them. Then after you grade and return them to the students you watch as they throw them into the trash as they walk out the room. How aggravating!
Interactive poster where students can include text, pictures, music and videos.
Students take more pride in their work when they realize that others, beyond school walls, will be viewing their work.
Create and share work online
Upload files from Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint to work on anywhere
Create forms/quizzes/tests that students or parents can complete online and have all of your data in one place.
Trying to explain to students what to do when you save a document and they are staring at you like you are speaking another language…
Jing allows you to take pictures of what you are doing on your computer to add to a document that you can then give to your students (or sub).
Still not convinced…Then use Jing to add voice to your pictures and no document is needed. No papers to lose (Go Green!) and students can listen to it over and over and over again.
They say a picture is worth a 1000 words, then why are all those pictures still on my SD card in my digital camera.
Here you can upload photos and create a slide show with music and or text.
Students can upload pictures or photos to create a digital story to share with the world!
Make those dull, drab photos come to life with online photo editing.
Add stickers, boarders and graphics to your pictures
Create a collage and share photos with friends and family.
• Online photo storage
• Organize photos into folders
• Share photos
• Create slide shows
• Private and password protected
Create a share site to share photos with family and friends
Create group rooms to share photos with friends and family
Let parents know what’s going on in your classroom at any time
Forgot to tell the class something, tweet it!
Students are at home working on homework and have a question…Don’t give up! Tweet it!
Student sick at home…Keep them up to date with Twitter
Take your images, documents and videos and create an interactive slide show
Students, parents and teachers can comment in five different ways: voice(mic or phone), text, audio and/or video file
Text comes to life with beautiful word clouds. The more you use a word, the larger the word becomes in the cloud.
Copy and paste student’s writing so that they can see their word choice.
Copy and paste text, such as famous speeches. Students can easily see which words are important.