Web 2 Technologies - VoiceThread

A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.

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Web 2.0 Technologies - Pixton

The world's best online comic-making software. Watch the video and you'll definately be hooked.

Pixton

Timelines

For all of those historians out there this FREE site is fantastic for creating a timeline of key dates in history.

http://www.timetoast.com/

PowerPoint Voice Overs

PowerPoint can be a great tool for differentiation when you apply voice overs. It's great for those students that need one to one tuition, find reading difficult or are learning to speak English   To add your voice to a slide just follow the steps below:

click on the Slide Show menu (menu bar, top of screen)

click the Record Narration... command

click the Ok button

At this point you will be taken into slide show view and must begin speaking.  When you have finished press the Escape (ESC) button on your keyboard (top left). You will then be asked if you would like to save your voice over and will need to click the Save button if you want to keep it.  You will know you have a recording on your slide because you will see a loud speaker icon at the botton right of your slide. All you need to do then is get into slide show view (F5) to listen to your voice.

WebQuests

A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web.

I'm in the process of creating some for my year 7 and year 8 students.  As soon as these are done I will provide you with a link to them. In the meantime one the best FREE WebQuest sites I have come across is Zunal.  It has thousands of lesson ideas for all areas of the curriculum and is really worth checking out.

http://www.zunal.com/

WIKIS

A wiki makes it easy to swap ideas and information on projects, whether for a class of students or a complex business enterprise. A wiki opens the door to experts and shy silent types alike, increasing creativity, expertise, and productivity all around.

Wikis end the waste of ricocheting emails and communication breakdowns, wikis literally get everyone "on the same page."

In February a group of teachers (inclucing myself) are going to Latvia as part of the Teachers International Development programme.  I created a Wiki for all of us to collaborate. I have included a link to this Wiki below and a link to the site that enabled me to create it for free.


http://tipdlatvia.wikispaces.com/          http://www.wikispaces.com/

Wordle

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. http://www.wordle.net/