great web based sites (or free applications)
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Nowadays instead of keeping your students’ writing confined to an exercise book in the classroom let your students use free web-based tools to make the most beautiful online creations. These tools are very simple to use and have friendly interfaces. This keeps students engaged and gives them a sense of achievement as they can easily share their work with their families and friends. The webinar will cover free applications such as Glossi, Youblisher, Microsoft Photostory 3, Slideshare, Authorstream, Slideboom and several others.TRANSCRIPT
Great web-based sites (or free
applications) for publishing your students’ writing online
By Fiona Beal from SchoolNet
Blogs
• Elkanah House Senior Primary
• Miss Tyler Smith’s blog http://m9-12.blogspot.com/
Wikis to display work http://therockacademy.wikispaces.com/Visit+the+Grade+Wiki%27s%21
1. Blog platforms for students’ own
work
• Kidblog for Grades 2-4
• Edublogs for Grades 4-7
• Blogger or WordPress for older students
2. Microsoft Photostory 3
• Lovely site for making photostories with words and pictures
• Can be downloaded from PIL Network
• ‘Using Microsoft Photostory 3’ by David Jakes. Instructional Technology Coordinator. Community High School District 99. Downers Grove.
http://www.jakesonline.org/photostory3.pdf
Summary of Photostory 3
• Add and rearrange photos
• Write on photos
• Choose transitions
• Narrate voice
• Create own music with their tools
• Add own music
• Save as a movie and upload to YouTube, blog, wiki, etc.
How I have used Photostory 3
• Global projects – students introduce themselves using Photostory 3
• Poem ‘If I were in charge of the world’ narrated on to a Photostory.
*Find suitable royalty free images
*Add background music created in Photostory3
*Narrate into the photostory
*Example: http://www.lauracandler.com/filecabinet/literacy/PDFPoetry/if%20I%20were%20in%20charge%20of%20the%20world.wmv
Ideas for using Photostory 3 http://21stcenturyteaching.pbworks.com/w/page/833439/Ideas%20for%20Photostory%20
3%20Projects
Example of how I have used Glossi
How I have used Youblisher
An example of Youblisher http://www.youblisher.com/p/746542-There-s-a-zoo-in-my-school/
African Storybook Project wiki http://africanstorybookproject.wikispaces.com/
Ideas for using Youblisher by others
• http://www.youblisher.com/p/550920-Our-Love-Book-by-Grade-1-Roberts/
• http://www.youblisher.com/p/465168-Christmas-Cheer/
• http://www.youblisher.com/p/451668-Kleure/
Examples of Issuu
http://issuu.com/mrburrettsclass
Sea Shore poems
http://issuu.com/ukedchat/docs/uked_magazine_jan_2014
UK Ed magazine
http://www.slideshare.net/Schoolnetsa11
Students can upload PowerPoints or
PDFs to SlideShare http://www.slideshare.net/sasmerritt/grade-6-nutrition-ppt
7. AuthorSTREAM http://www.authorstream.com/
AuthorSTREAM examples http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/brandyheller1-2064299-tech-digital-storytelling-final/
You can add sound
8. Scribd http://bookstoafrica.edublogs.org/2013/04/12/a-little-learning-about-
lions/#comment-91
9. Slideboom http://www.slideboom.com/
• My examples
11. Google Drive
