Keeping Up with the Kids: Teaching Tips for Using Free Internet Tools (Ga ETC)
Lorraine Schmertzing Cliff Landis Richard Schmertzing
Origin of Information
Tantalizing Technology ITED 8500: Leadership in Instructional Technology Beacon Bulletins Qualitative Data Analysis (off track)
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Communication: Instant Messaging
These programs allow you to chat in realtime with friends. Some allow you to chat in groups, share pictures, use talk or video, or text via cell phones.
AIM YM MSN Messenger Jabber Google Talk Skype Meebo
Communication: Social Network Services
These websites allow users to join groups, share photos, converse on message boards, and build profiles that express their personalities.
WebCT Blackboard Facebook MySpace Tribe.net Friendster Orkut Yahoo Groups
Marketing: Blogs and News Feeds
Blogs - Short for web logs, blogs are online journals that are kept by individuals, institutions, and groups.
Slashdot LiveJournal Blogger WordPress Gaggle
Feeds allow users to find out about the latest stories/updates at a particular website or blog without having to go to the website.
Atom feeds Bloglines
Marketing: Photosharing & Podcasting
Flickr Photobucket Webshots
GCast YouTube
Collaboration: Wikis
A subset of web pages that anyone can edit. Some are open to the public. Some are open only to authorized contributors.
Wikipedia Atmospheric Visualization Collection Wiki ALA New Orleans 2006 Wiki urbandictionary.com
Collaboration: Citation/Bookmark Management
Lists of web bookmarks, that you can organize and share.
del.icio.us CiteULike ikeepbookmarks.com
Research
GALILEO Quick Search [About it & The product] E-Journals [A-Z Full Text Journal Title List] ILLiad GIL Express
Enhance Teaching and Learning with Free Technology Tools:
Lorraine Schmertzing Cliff Landis Richard Schmertzing
NOTE:
The rest of these slides are notes for me to remember about the different student comments.
Communication Tools: Instant Messaging
AIM (not allowed in many schools) Yahoo Messenger (just-in-time chat) MSN Messenger (school wide admin) Jabber Google Talk (only 1-to-1)
Parents who can’t make a meeting From computer lab to classrooms
Skype
Foreign language classes Expert interviews Higher Ed – feedback for online classes
Communication Tools: Social Networking
Facebook MySpace: some schools block it
Tribe.net: groups like childrens’ books Friendster: used for discussions, emailing assignments, group collaboration, not as user friendly as my space but more blocking features Orkut Yahoo Groups: going to a new grade?
headaches, way to help students with homework Build a space for a book, author, or poem Group work Send home lit on the dangers of using it Use it to discuss the dangers of predators, teach naming techniques, making private and choosing who gets in Under 15 already private
Marketing Tools
Blogs:
News Feeds:
Students keep math journals Teachers discuss issues Advisory committee meetings Upload pictures Promote events save time with world coming to you (current events at school) Science teacher uses it for biology class Save school server space, students share summer vacation photos, yearbook folks use it, check the site to see if the pictures disappear; relationship building activity for online students
Photo Sharing:
Marketing Tools
Podcasting/Vidcasting (upload videos)
Delivering instruction - remediation Introductions of self Explanation of assignments Demonstrate math problems Communicate with parents and students You Tube: easy, private groups available, can be linked to your web page without you having to go to You Tube
Collaborating: Wikis
Subset of webpages anyone can edit (public & authorized)
Often used for research not collaboration Website evaluation: looks official but it is not Provides resources for other sources on a specific topic Demonstrates ease of spreading incorrect information TiddlyWiki: keep online journals
Collaborating: Resource Sharing
Web-based therefore access all the time Teachers could share resources for different projects Some students were overwhelmed by del.icio.us – preferred ikeepbookmarks.com (especially for younger kids) In higher ed students suggested they keep all their resources from classes here so they could have them in later classes With citeulike you can create groups & allow folks to join
(eg.- folks you meet at a convention, students in a group project) ALSO creates an RSS feed some said it wasn’t user friendly and was somewhat complicated to figure out
Activities for Collaboration Tools
Learning
to search the web as a math class, everyone can find a game and store the information in the same place For schools where students can’t surf the web, teachers put the links students can go to on the page Create summer reading list for students When topic is dangerous to surf (like Holocaust) teachers can limit the places students can look on the web.