Keeping Up with the Kids: Teaching Tips for Using Free Internet Tools (Ga ETC)

Lorraine SchmertzingCliff LandisRichard Schmertzing

Origin of Information

Tantalizing TechnologyITED 8500: Leadership in Instructional TechnologyBeacon BulletinsQualitative Data Analysis (off track)

How to’sPersonal Use

An online guide for the exploration of issues related to Leadership in Instructional Technology.  Each summer, educators and instructional technologist work together in an online environment to produce the LIghThouse Annual.

An online guide for the exploration of issues related to Leadership in Instructional Technology.  

Each summer, educators and instructional technologist work together in an online environment to produce the LIghThouse Annual.

Communication:Instant Messaging

These programs allow you to chat in real-time with friends. Some allow you to chat in groups, share pictures, use talk or video, or text via cell phones.

AIM YM MSN Messenger Jabber Google Talk Skype Meebo

Communication:Social Network Services

These websites allow users to join groups, share photos, converse on message boards, and build profiles that express their personalities.

WebCT Blackboard Facebook MySpace Tribe.net Friendster Orkut Yahoo Groups

Marketing:Blogs and News Feeds

Blogs - Short for web logs, blogs are online journals that are kept by individuals, institutions, and groups.

Slashdot LiveJournal Blogger WordPress Gaggle

Feeds allow users to find out about the latest stories/updates at a particular website or blog without having to go to the website.

Atom feeds Bloglines

Marketing:Photosharing & Podcasting

Flickr Photobucket Webshots

GCast YouTube

Collaboration:Wikis

A subset of web pages that anyone can edit. Some are open to the public. Some are open only to authorized contributors.

Wikipedia Atmospheric Visualization Collection Wiki ALA New Orleans 2006 Wiki urbandictionary.com

Collaboration:Citation/Bookmark Management

Lists of web bookmarks, that you can organize and share.

del.icio.us CiteULike ikeepbookmarks.com

Research

GALILEO Quick Search [About it & The product]

E-Journals [A-Z Full Text Journal Title List]

ILLiad  -  GIL Express

Enhance Teaching and Learning with Free Technology Tools:

Lorraine SchmertzingCliff LandisRichard Schmertzing

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The rest of these slides are notes for me to remember about the different student comments.

Communication Tools: Instant Messaging

AIM (not allowed in many schools) Yahoo Messenger (just-in-time chat) MSN Messenger (school wide admin) Jabber Google Talk (only 1-to-1)

Parents who can’t make a meeting From computer lab to classrooms

Skype Foreign language classes Expert interviews Higher Ed – feedback for online classes

Communication Tools: Social Networking

Facebook MySpace: some schools block it

headaches, way to help students with homework Build a space for a book, author, or poem Group work Send home lit on the dangers of using it Use it to discuss the dangers of predators, teach naming

techniques, making private and choosing who gets in Under 15 already private

Tribe.net: groups like childrens’ books Friendster: used for discussions, emailing

assignments, group collaboration, not as user friendly as my space but more blocking features

Orkut Yahoo Groups: going to a new grade?

Marketing Tools Blogs:

Students keep math journals Teachers discuss issues Advisory committee meetings Upload pictures Promote events

News Feeds: save time with world coming to you (current

events at school) Science teacher uses it for biology class

Photo Sharing: Save school server space, students share summer vacation photos, yearbook folks use it, check the site to see if the pictures disappear; relationship building activity for online

students

Marketing Tools Podcasting/Vidcasting (upload

videos) Delivering instruction - remediation Introductions of self Explanation of assignments Demonstrate math problems Communicate with parents and

students You Tube: easy, private groups

available, can be linked to your web page without you having to go to You Tube

Collaborating: Wikis

Subset of webpages anyone can edit (public & authorized) Often used for research not

collaboration Website evaluation: looks official but

it is not Provides resources for other sources

on a specific topic Demonstrates ease of spreading

incorrect information TiddlyWiki: keep online journals

Collaborating: Resource Sharing Web-based therefore access all the time Teachers could share resources for different

projects Some students were overwhelmed by

del.icio.us – preferred ikeepbookmarks.com (especially for younger kids)

In higher ed students suggested they keep all their resources from classes here so they could have them in later classes

With citeulike you can create groups & allow folks to join

(eg.- folks you meet at a convention, students in a group project)

ALSO creates an RSS feed some said it wasn’t user friendly and was somewhat

complicated to figure out

Activities for Collaboration Tools

Learning to search the web as a math class, everyone can find a game and store the information in the same place

For schools where students can’t surf the web, teachers put the links students can go to on the page

Create summer reading list for studentsWhen topic is dangerous to surf (like

Holocaust) teachers can limit the places students can look on the web.