Tools for publishing, sharing, and creating. This is a menu you can pick from to learn more about using it in your classroom.
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Glogster
What is it? Glogster allows users to make interactive virtual posters that can incorporate images, text, video and audio uploaded from your computer or located on the Web. Like Google docs, to use the service you need to establish a free Glogster account. Glogster provides you with a basic template; however, you can personalize your poster by changing the background art and images on the page by either selecting images from those provided by Glogster or uploading your own. You may also include links to video, audio, or other websites on your Glogster poster.
Another service Glogster offers to online teachers is Glogster.edu. This service requires a separate account, but it is still free. Here, you can create an online class and give students a particular assignment. Glogs created in this fashion can only be viewed by other members of the class, unless otherwise designated.
Glogster Video Tutorials
Detailed Tutorial on Glogster.edu – This YouTube video provides an overview of how you can use Glogster in education and uses the Glogster Education area.
Discovery Education Recommends Glogster – This YouTube video is very creative in its explanation of Glogster. Watch this interesting video tutorial on using Glogster.
How can I use it?
Think of Glogster as a type of digital interactive scrapbook. With Glogster, educators can create interactive pages that invite online learners to explore content. Moreover, you can have students demonstrate their learning in a number of creative ways: creating pages that represent a concept; reporting on a historical figure; writing about and illustrating their summer vacation, etc. Students can also include video and audio in their glogs giving them more opportunities to exercise their creativity and to use presentation skills in the online environment.
Hooked on Glogster: Posters 2.0 – This is a great article on how to use Glogster in education and the power of having students use it to demonstrate their knowledge as well.
Examples of Using Glogster:
Glogster's YouTube Channel - This video provides a great example of how to use Glogster in education. In this video a teacher demonstrates how to use Glogster to hold a virtual science fair!
School Tube Video Search - Explore any number of Glogster topics at this site from how to create a Glogster poster to ways to integrate this Web 2.0 application into the curriculum.
Let's Create a Glogster
Voice Thread
What is it? VoiceThread is "a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video " (Voicethread.com, 2010).
Video: What’s a VoiceThread anyway? - This series of videos (voicethreads) first gives you a brief description of VoiceThread and its capabilities. Next, it shows you how to perform basic functions in VoiceThread. Finally, it provides you with plenty of examples of ways to use this tool.
How can I use it?
With VoiceThread, you can have your students not only conduct research but also report it in an engaging and interactive way. Students can find information and write a narrative, find pictures that go with that narrative, and then invite others to comment on their work. (Note: students have to login to VoiceThread to post comments.) Students can also use VoiceThread to create a group project without having to meet face-to-face!
VoiceThreads in the Classroom – This PDF file provides step-by-step instruction for making a classroom VoiceThread.
VoiceThread in the Classroom – This article provides insight on utilizing VoiceThread for instructional purposes. It also provides ‘Tips for Teachers’ and some good examples.
Seventeen Interesting Ways to Use VoiceThread in the Classroom – This slideshow presentation illustrates seventeen different ways students can utilize VoiceThread in the classroom while also providing an abundance of tips.
Digital Storytelling with Comic Life and VoiceThread – This blog presents a neat way for students to use VoiceThread to engage in digital storytelling projects.
VoiceThread in the Classroom - This slideshow presentation takes you through the purpose of VoiceThread, what materials you need, and outlines the various accounts provided by VoiceThread and what features are included with each.
Getting Started – This detailed manual, provided by VoiceThread.com, walks teachers through ways to bring VoiceThread into the classroom.
VoiceThread for Educators - This Web site is a Ning which features a social network in which educators can share their ideas for using VoiceThread in the classroom. You will not be able to access this website on the DCPS network
Examples of Using Voice Thread:
VoiceThread Classroom Partners - This Web site is a wikispace devoted to educators who would like to collaborate with other classrooms through VoiceThread projects.
Let's Create
VoiceThread Tutorial - An instructor, Beth Ritter Guth, uses VoiceThread extensively in her courses. This YouTube video is a screen capture of how to create a VoiceThread.
Let's Create a Voice Thread
Podcasts
What is it?
Podcasting is a way to share multimedia files such as music, short audio, or video commentary on a subject.
The term Podcasts come from “iPod + broadcast”
Podcasting for beginners
Audacity- A free recording software Your will need a encoder if you use this software.
iTunes U - Great innovative way to get educational content into the hands of students and educators. Educational resources include a distribution list of lectures, lessons, films, labs, audiobooks plus much more.
Help Support with iTunes U http://www.apple.com/support/itunes_u/
PodCasting-
http://teacher.ocps.net/john.lien/fetc2010/
A great presentation from FETC on podcasting with tips, ideas and resources to do it with! One very clever idea was to have students read pieces of your newsletter, but don't let the parents know when or what part they will be doing. This way, they have to listen to the whole thing and parents will actually hear the whole newsletter.
Foto bubble
What is it?
Fotobabble lets you create talking photos in two clicks. Simply upload a photo and then record your voice directly through your computer to create a talking photo.
Let's Create Fotobabble
- Upload your photo
- Record your voice
- Share with Friends
What is it?
Make talking Photos
How can I use it?
Blabberize in the Classroom
Gadget of the Week from Education World
Funny Blabberize from the San Diego Zoo
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