ABrambleTakenHold

http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/2008/04/27/heres-my-first-five-tips-for-writing-better-blog-posts-what-are-yours/

 Larry Ferlazzo says Scribd is a great tool for English Language Learners (he’s voted it fourth best tool for 2007 for ELL). Why? Because he gets students upload their papers and illustrations, and Scribd immediately also converts it into audio so, in addition to seeing their story, they and others can hear it, too.

Check out this example Larry created for how Scribe can be used for Talking Stories (press the play on the Listen toolbar on the bottom right hand side below categories and tags).

http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100.html

• My newest challenge is to bring the technology in my classroom into this century. My frustration lies in feeling that most of the people I work with are just starting to “get it”.  I also feel like I did 6 years ago or so where I had the interest, enthusiasm but not the tools to use technology in my classroom. Well the tools have finally caught up to where I feel I was back then.
• So now that the district is offering blogs to teachers most teachers define their audience as students or parents, primarily students. They are being used as a classroom webpage with the exception that students can comment, but not comment on comments. The district wiki is set up so that only currently employed teachers can create, join and contribute.
• So where does that leave the kids? Where is Web 2.0 in their education life?

 BLOGS: http://abrambletakenhold.edublogs.org/2008/04/17/student-blogging/

• Edublogs – I can add students by using the Gmail approach or just allow commenting?
• Create a learnerblogat Edublogs – (shared passwords is NOT an option)
• Classblogmeister  -

Wiki - http://abrambletakenhold.edublogs.org/2008/03/15/wikis/

• Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com Free Wiki for Teachers (no ads!).
• PBWiki http://pbwiki.com/edu.wiki
• Zoho http://www.zoho.com/
• Pikiwiki http://pikiwiki.com/ews/index.jsp

Social Bookmarking - TAGS!

• • Students working in groups can share their research results and then others can easily access them for their own purposes.
  • You can compile a list of resources for a particular class or topic that can be access from any computer.
  • Use tags to sort resources. Group One – can tag all their links “group1″ and with one click they will see only their relevant weblinks.
  • Shared del.icio.us accounts – one account per class, per school, etc.
  • Professional Groups: if a group of teachers has taken on the task of learning more about a particular teaching method they can each contribute their findings and websites to a bookmarking site so that everyone can benefit from everyone else’s time spent researching and sifting through all that is available on the Internet.
  • Advanced: If you subscribe to the RSS Feeds of all of your students’ bookmarking pages, you can see when they add items and you can see how their research appears to be progressing, you can even identify if you need to step in tofacilitate some change in research direction.
• Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us
• Furl http://www.Furl.net
• Diigo – http://www.diigo.com///

 Networking:

• Twitter – http://twitter.com/tw/search/users?q=classroom

Podcasts

• http://fresh.voicethread.com/#home

Podcachers

• podAmigo
• ipodder
• nimiq
• doppler

 Aggregators:

• Bloglines http:///www.Bloglines.com
• NetVibes http://www.netvibes.com/
• iGoogle

Digital Storytelling Tools

• Voicethread http://voicethread.com/#home
• Microsoft Photostory http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx
• Windows MovieMaker http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx
• Apple iMovie http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/
• Animoto http://www.Animoto.com
• http://abrambletakenhold.edublogs.org/2008/03/16/bookr/

web20.docweb20.doc

http://abrambletakenhold.edublogs.org/2008/04/14/marzano-web-20-wiki/

 I think it is time that I took myself out for a walk in new clothes, my own. I have been exploring through my psyudonym but I think it is time to come clean!

iTunes U: http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu_mobilelearning/itunesu.html

Twitter in Plain English Video – http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter

“Twine is a new service that helps you organize, share and discover information about your interests, with networks of like-minded people. You can use Twine alone, with friends, groups and communities, or even in your company.”

http://www.classroom20.com/ - ” the social networking site for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education.”