Web 2.0 Tools for the Classroom

A brief guide to get you started

Valerie McIntyre

What’s in it for you?

What are the tools?

wordclouds

Wordle Tagxedo Imagechef

Very effective for homework creations, revision, summarising

Group contributions

www.wallwisher.com pupils can use 160

characters to write a stickynote

www.linoit.com

Edmodo – educational secure microblog for use with students. Good option if you want to contact students in absence of VLE!

Log in and create groups, set work, collect work

Site issues class code for you to give to pupils Now comes with parent code to involve them

also. www.edmodo.com

A few essentials

Wikispaces – MFL used one for Primary Transition Wordpress – reasonably easy to start Posterous – easiest to use and you can email to it Blogger – connects to Google – easy to use

Wikis and blogs

Classdojo – it needs IE7 or 8 and staff proxy Or Google Chrome Create positives and negative marks for

classes and summaries for lessons and reports for students

Best with younger classes

Classroom management

Classdojo class page

Zondle www.zondle.com I have started using it with KS3 – email

classlists to site for uploading Choose appropriate topics & add your own

Quizlet www.quizlet.com you and pupils can make revision games. Yr11 pupil made games for most of GCSE Fr& Ger vocab list.

Making games for your subject

www.voicethread.com – create a video of written and spoken comments on pictures – K12 paskage available

www.animoto.com – video slideshow maker with music Fotobabble – add voice to photo and record comment www.mybrainshark.com – add voice to Powerpoint and

other documents – great business applications

Using pictures for comment

Story bird www.storybird.com

Storyjumper www.storyjumper.com

Start a blog – “quad blogging”

Glogster poster making

Encouraging writing

www.teachertrainingvideos.com go here to watch online training on lots of Web 2 toolsHandy tools in class – classtools.netwww.mindomo.com interactive mind-mapping –wow!Share your presentations on www.slideshare.net & search for amazing contributions

Essentials for you!

Twitter – amazing! Use hashtags #scichat #pegeeks #engchat

#ukedchat #mathschat #scienceteacher #foodtechteachers

Follow good people @tombarrett @deputymitchell

Read blogs – find regional/national figures Start a googlereader web aggregator for YOU!

For your “professional me” time!!

My thanks to the MFL Twitterati who have shared so much with so many and have inspired me to take risks.

Thanks to the superb MFL team at the Blue School – we carry on learning together.

Big thanks to the ICT team at the Blue School who make much of my experimenting possible at all!!

This presentation is available on Slideshare.net

Thanks