unlocking creativity
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A presentation for Los Padres CATESOL conferenceTRANSCRIPT
Unlocking Creativity: Bridging the Digital Divde
Developed by Susan GaerOctober 10, 2009
Los Padres CATESOL Chapter Conference 2009
With a partner, you will have 1 min.
• What is Web 2.0?
• How many Web 2.0 tools can you name?
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What is Web 2.0?
How many Web 2.0 tools can you name?
How many of these 2.0 Tools did you know?
human-computer interaction
personal connections--from words, pictures, video, and audio
authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication
open, flexible collaboration
data and applications opened to creative use by the public
harnessing collective intelligence
collaboration/participation/collective intelligence
second generation of services
Web as a platform
the wisdom of crowds
creative amateur is cherished
“democratizes” media
amoral
authentic, peer-to-peer channel of communication
collective judgments
user-generated content
safety in numbers
participative Web collective power community
Web changing from “medium” to “platform”
user actions provide valuearchitecture of participation
bookmarking >>> social bookmarking
transparent selves…transparent Web
interactive, community-based Internet applications
How does it unlock creativity?
Photo Sharing
Digital Photo Stories
Scrapbooking
School/Class Events
Class Roster
Blogs/Wikis Writing Prompts
Descriptions Albums
Collages Collaborative Projects
Unlocking Creativity With Photos
•Flickr Tag Site
•Cool Things you can Do with Picasa
•Verb Project
•Schools Around the Globe
Sharing Videos
List of video sharing sites
ViewPoint: Embedable videos
Unlocking Creativity with Video Sharing?
Video Dictionary
Video Ring tones for your phone
Spend One Minute. Share with a partner what you learned.
• What did you learn about photo sharing?
• What did you learn about video sharing?
Sharing Documents to unlock creativity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BArOImjtG2M
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Blogs and Wikis
Larry Ferlazzo
Creativity in Writing
Spend One Minute. Share with a partner what you learned.
• What did you learn about sharing documents?
• What is the difference between a Blog and a Wiki?
• What did you learn about using Wikis and Blogs in the classroom?
Podcasting from your Cellphone
646-495-9215 x 66112
“Record your podcast via a call from any phone. Never even touch a computer!”
Need a toll free number? Gabcast gives you 5 minutes free and it costs $10.00 for 100 minutes. http://www.gabcast.com
Miscellaneous
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• Online community
• Share bookmarks
• Social browser
• Calendar
• Diagrams
Explanatory video
Social Networks
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Miscellaneous
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“online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.” -- group audio blogging to enhance group communication and reflection
“captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere”
“Enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. Customize your Voki to look like you…Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone.”
Miscellaneous
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create surveys and polls for your Web site, blog and social network profiles
Fleck.com allows you to add notes or bullets to Web sites. Share these annotated pages with others.
one-to-many live interactive video broadcast platform enabling anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to broadcast to a unlimited global audience
• Beyond just driving directions…
• 100 Things to do
Directory of web 2.0 apps & services – 2795 logos (2/3/09)
(1937 logos back on 1/19/08)
“The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” — Alan Alda
How do you unlock creativity?
Dareto unlock creativity