Technology & Literacy 2.0

Tools for educating and engaging students in a Web2.0 world

Taylor Middle School

Jennifer Krupala and Katrina Jansky

Flex Days 2009

How is literacy different in a 2.0 World?

•Content rises increasingly out of conversation rather than formal and procedural publishing,

• The behavior of content depends more and more on the behavior of its readers, and responders/writers

•People are increasingly connecting to each other through their content/through their ideas

•Educational success must be much less a measure of what students know, and much more a measure of what they can teach themselves.

-Greg Carroll

-http://blog.core-ed.net/greg/

Example: Delicious

• Create a Delicious social networking account or log into existing account

•http://delicious.com/

•Click on “Join Now!”

•View Kat’s site

Example: VoiceThread

•www.voicethread.com

• can be used as an interactive presentation – viewers may comment using text, voice, drawing tools, video

• Election Political Cartoons

• Our Famous American Projects

•Qin Dynasty

•Creating a Constitution

Example: TeacherWeb

• Create a TeacherWeb site or log into existing account

•http://TeacherWeb.com

•Click on “Sign-Up”

•Account code: PO-XXTX-370907

•View Jen’s site

Example: Animoto, Widgetbox

• Animoto.com

•Make your own video

•Fall of Rome

•World War II

•Widgetbox.com

•All-American Quiz

•Bill of Rights

•Worldwide News

•Flash Map

Example: Slideshare and Voki

•Slideshare.net

•Save PPTs and easily convert to widgets

•Convert any documents easily

•Make any document into a PPT (no Elmo needed!)

•Browse what they’ve already got

•Travel, constitution, Texas history

•Voki.com

•Create your own avatar for announcements, or let the kids make avatars for projects

Example: other web2.0 tools• Google

•Google docs – place for you and/or students to save documents online

•Wikis

•www.pbwiki.com (no email needed for kids)

•Audio and podcasting

•http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

•http://www.podbean.com/

•(example: http://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail?pid=18637)

•Presentations like PPT

•Photo Story

•Creating email addresses for students

•www.gaggle.net