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ENHANCING INSTRUCTION WITH WEB 2.0 TOOLS Amy Ballew ([email protected]) Westside Elementary School

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Enhancing Instruction with Web 2.0 Tools. Amy Ballew ([email protected]) Westside Elementary School. What is Web 2.0?. The primary function of Web 2.0 involves applications that facilitate interactive information sharing . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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ENHANCING INSTRUCTION WITH WEB 2.0 TOOLSAmy Ballew ([email protected])

Westside Elementary School

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What is Web 2.0?

The primary function of Web 2.0 involves applications that facilitate interactive information sharing.

Wikis, blogs, podcasts, video

conferencing, and multimedia presentations are just a few examples of these programs.

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Why use Web 2.0?

Supplement Regular Instruction Differentiation Project Based Learning 21st Century Learners Increased Interactivity Increased Home/School Connection

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The following slides include actual examples of interaction with Web 2.0 programs in a fifth grade instructional setting. Ideas for classroom use are also provided.

Classroom Applications of Web 2.0

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Museum Box (Example 1)

http://museumbox.e2bn.org/

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Museum Box (Example 2)

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Ideas for Museum Box

Parts of speech Biographies of famous people Events leading to the Civil War Geometry-shape characteristics Regions of the United States Periodic table elements Figurative language

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Trackstar

http://trackstar.4teachers.org

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Ideas for Trackstar

Use Trackstar as a project or unit organizer.

Students can work at their own pace at school or at home by following the links you provide to complete the learning process.

Links can include tutorials, videos, quizzes, etc.

Modify your units from year to year based on your ‘who.’

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Wordle

http://www.wordle.net/

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Ideas for Wordle

Use Wordle as a vocabulary tool for your unit

of study in any content area. It can also be used

to motivate writers. Allow them to complete

their writing in a word document and copy/paste the text to create a Wordle to

print.

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Delicious

http://delicious.com

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Ideas for Delicious

Use Delicious to tag your favorite sites and organize them by categories for quick and easy access during instruction.

Create a student Delicious page for easy

access to content specific sites from home or during class.

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Edublog http://edublogs.org (http://msballew5.edublogs.org/)

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Ideas for Edublogs

Post content specific questions, prompts, links, videos, etc. for students to respond to.

Encourage collaboration by requiring students to respond to one or two peers per post.

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Classtools.Net

http://classtools.net/

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Ideas for Classtools

Use premade graphic organizers with the Activboards for prewriting, content review games, diagrams, charts, timelines, etc.

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Other Web 2.0 Sites

http://hubpages.com/hub/Education20

http://oedb.org/library/features/101-web-20-teaching-tools

http://glovely09.wetpaint.com/page/TopTen+for+Young+Learners?t=anon

http://teachweb2.wikispaces.com/

http://indispensibletools.pbworks.com/