Welcome to the second almost 30 day technology challenge. This challenge focuses on the use of Web 2.0 resources.
Click comments below to post how you are using the challenge resources.
Challenge Rules
1. View the resources below.
2. Use them with your class
3. As you use them post to the blog how you used them.
4. The person with the most blog posts and the person with the most creative/innovative use of the resources will win.
Have Fun!
Heather
Challenge Resource Sites
Kerpoof
Kerpoof Studio (http://www.kerpoof.com/)
This is a kid friendly tool for students to create original artwork, stories,
greeting cards, and animated movies. A lesson plan and classroom ideas sessions
are to get you started. Check out the lesson plan/classroom idea sessions and
the newsletter archive. Be sure to sign up to receive the free Kerpoof's
electronic newsletter.
Storybird
Storybird
(http://storybird.com) A fun collaborative
way for creating stories. You can explore ready made themes or get inspired by
the collection in the public library.
Animoto
Animoto
(http://animoto.com/education)
Bring your next classroom lesson to life by capturing photos, videos, and text
in a slick slideshow.
Letter Pop
Wordle
Wordle (http://wordle.net)
Generate word clouds with your own text. It's easy and fun!
Tagxedo
ABCya Word Clouds
ABCya Word Clouds (http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm) Generate word clouds for younger students.
Prezi
Prezi
(http://www.prezi.com) Try using this
tool for your next presentation. It's fun and very easy to use.
Wallwisher
Wallwisher
(http://www.wallwisher.com) An electronic
bulletin board where you can post announcements, use it to brainstorm ideas, or
keep notes.
Our Story
Our Story
(http://www.ourstory.com) Capture stories,
photos, and videos on a collaborative timeline.
Blabberize
Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere
(http://www.polleverywhere.com/) Next time
you need to poll your parents or students, try this tool. It's easy and you can collect
your data in real time.
Capzles
Capzles
(http://www.capzles.com/) Create an
interactive online timeline with photos, text, music, audio, videos and even
access to documents. This is a great tool for storytelling.
Storyjumper
Storyjumper (http://www.storyjumper.com/) Storyjumper is a great tool for
the classroom. The classroom edition is designed to help teachers manage
stories created by students.
PhotoPeach
PhotoPeach
(http://www.photopeach.com) Tell your story
with this online slideshow. Viewers will be able to leave you a comment at the
end of the presentation. You can also create quizzes.
ToonDoo
Museum Box
Museum Box
(http://www.museumbox.com) This virtual
museum box allows you to include electronic artifacts of images, text, links,
sound and video placing them in a content box.
Kidblog
LiveBinders
LiveBinders (http://www.livebinders.com/) A place to collect resources and organize them neatly and easily. Create tabs for each subject or topic.
Bubbl.us
Bubbl.us (https://bubbl.us/) Brainstorm online and easily create colorful mindmaps to print or share with others.
Hi Heather!
ReplyDeleteMy kids LOVE using Wordle and we have used it quite a bit this year. They love changing the direction of the words, changing the font/color, and changing the size of the words.
The first time we used it was when we were studying the three different Virginia Indian Language Groups. Each student selected one Language Group and had to brainstorm as many words as possible that they would use to describe the Language Group that they selected.
At the end you had all three language groups covered and it was a great way for the kids to remember the different language groups.
We also created a fourth grade board in the hallway and the kids created Wordles about different aspects of fourth grade. They created a Wordle about Art, Music, Band, fourth grade in general, and the various field trips we went on.
Anna
I used wordle for the first time today. I find that a little hard to believe, but it is true (for The Voice project, you did the wordle for our discussion).
ReplyDeleteMy third grade language arts group is starting to explore the concept of change. They had to brainstorm and categorize their ideas about change. They created a wordle with their list of things that change.
Check out the cool wordle that we made today.
I am doing a different unit with my 5th grade Language Arts group, but it is from the same program. So, we are also having discussions about. The group came up with ideas of change as the basis for their Wordles. You will note, there are two versions of the Wordle. I had one student who could not agree with the class, it was easy to indulge, so that person got their own.
ReplyDelete(I have tried, in vain, to link the wordles. No Luck, this time!) I will try again later...
The change units continue with my upper elementary language groups. Yesterday the 4th graders completed the same activities as listed above. They brainstormed about change on sticky notes, categorized the ideas, then chose the most important concepts for the Wordle. This time we took it up a notch and made a Tagxedo. The Tagxedo allows for more thinking about the theme of the words. The students selected the shape they felt most represented change (a hand print shape) as well as the colors and the font that also were symbolic of change. I loved that it allowed them to go in much more depth with the word cloud. They also thought it was very cool! I can't wait to try it again.
ReplyDeleteI didn't say this before, with all three groups I let them, as a whole group, pick the fonts, lay, out, and look of their Wordle/Tagxedo. I am interested to let them give it a try with a character analysis project.
Another great think about Tagxedo is that you can save the project as a jpg image to insert in any document.
This time I used Tagxedo to create and image for a lesson. I took the generalizations about change that go with the change unit (stated above) and made a wonderful Tagxedo for my powerpoint on the lesson. I LOVE that the image I chose for the shape of the cloud (a key) brings the words to a more complete concept.
ReplyDeleteOn a side note: One of my students loved our work with Wordle so much that she has been using it at home and having such a lovely time of it. She sent me a MS. Sterner Wordle yesterday.
Hi Heather,
ReplyDeleteI finally finished the project on Blabberize that I planned with Second Grade. We studied the life of Mozart, made mini books about his life, and then each class created a blabberize using a picture of Mozart (one as a child and one as an adult). The students really enjoyed recording facts that they learned as "Mozart Speaking" and loved seeing the picture talk.
https://arlington-k12-va-us.campuspack.net/Users/Miriam.Capellan/Class_Play_Podcast
I also tried out Kidblog to keep all the videos I wanted to use for 5th grade Karaoke Kid Choice Day in one spot. It's easier than going through a Youtube channel and inputting/embedding in the blog worked very well. I would say Kidblog is very user friendly, though I think they have a lower storage capacity than the APS Learning Space Blog via Blackboard.