Web+2.0+Tools

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Web 2.0means = the second [|generation] of the [|World Wide Web], especially the movement away from [|static] [|webpages] to [|dynamic] and [|shareable] [|content] and [|social networking]. (Reference: www.Wikipedia.com, downloaded 9/18/09)

** Major concepts: **

 * contributions
 * publishing
 * interactivity


 * Video -** Use video from multiple sources to help differentiate content
 * **Representation** || **Expression** ||
 * Brain Pop & Brain Pop Jr. || iMovie/Movie Maker ||
 * United Streaming (Discovery Education) || Video Podcasts ||
 * Teacher Tube || iPod Nano video ||
 * iTunes/Podcasts || [|Story Line Online] ||
 * [|Vocabahead] || [|ClassTools.net] ||


 * Audio** - Use audio to help auditory learners develop concepts and aural repetition
 * **Representation** || **Expression** ||
 * Sound effects to introduce content || [|Audacity]/Garageband ||
 * Use music during activities || Audio Podcasts ||
 * Insert Sounds into presentations/lectures || Make a Music CD ||
 * Recordings of spoken text || Web-based MP3s and Audio podcasts ||

[|Lexipedia] || Other examples include: FreeMind, Read&Write Gold, Spark-Space, & Kurzweil 3000
 * Brainstorming, Clustering, Mapping** – Making **Invisible** associations **Visible**
 * **Representation** || **Expression** ||
 * Defining spatial relevance || kidspiration or inspiration ||
 * Use to help see linkages and relationships || InspireData
 * Build stories, ideas and thoughts ||  ||
 * Brainstorming activities ||  ||

Blog Resources:
by Karen Janowski || @http://www.teachingeverystudent.blogspot.com/ ||
 * Weblogg-ed.com || [|http://weblogg-ed.com] ||
 * TechLearning.com || [|http://www.techlearning.com] ||
 * Free Res from Ne (Spec.Ed) || [|http://paulhami.edublogs.org] ||
 * Cool Cat Teacher's Blog || [|http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com] ||
 * EduBlog Insights || [|http://anne.teachesme.com] ||
 * EdTech Solutions - Teaching Every Student

Wikis Resources:

 * TeachersFirst. A great tutorial about what a wiki is, **why** to use wikis in education, and **how** to use wikis in education || [|A Wiki Walk-Through] ||
 * A blog and Wiki [|book] by Stewart Mader. || [|Using Wiki in Education] ||
 * Four Letter Words: how wiki and edit are making the Internet a better learning tool || [|Using Wiki in Education chapter] ||
 * Teaching Hacks || [|Classroom Use of Wikis] ||
 * Articles and Resources for Wikis in Spanish || Articles and Resources in Spanish ||
 * A video tutorial lecture by Mark Wagner || [|Wiki While you Work] ||
 * Karen Janowski's UDL Technology Toolkit || http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/ ||

Podcast resources:

 * iTunes || [|www.apple.com] ||
 * iPodder || [] ||
 * Educational Podcasting (Gary S. Stager) || [|http://www.stager.org/podcasting.htm][|l] ||
 * [|Audacity] ||  ||

** Web 2.0 Tools and Resources: ** Websites and Resources in //**Alphabetical order**// to help you implement UDL. Feel free to add to this listing!
Arten Science (pop-up free screen reader) @http://www.artenscience.co.uk/artenscience/Pages/FreeSoftware.html Audacity (free recording software) [|http://audacity.sourceforge.net] Bibme (free bibliography maker) [|www.bibme.org] Bitty Browser (free embedded browser) www.bitty.com

Blogger (free blog hosting website) [|www.blogger.com]

BrainPop (free animated educational site for kids) [|www.brainpop.com] CAST Strategy Tutor http://cst.cast.org CliffNotes http://cliffnotes.com ClipTalk & PowerTalk www.fullmeasure.co.uk Computer Based Study Strategies http://cate.uoregon.edu:8100 Dictionary [|dictionary.com] Flickr (image and video hosting website) [|www.flickr.com/] Free Digital Photos (free images) [|www.freedigitalphotos.net]

Getty Images (high quality images) [|creative.gettyimages.com] Google Earth (geography, etc.) http://earth.google.com Google Docs (document sharing) click here for google docs Graphic Organizers (free online graphic organizers) [|www.graphic.org/goindex.html] i-Lighter (online highlighter for grabbing notes of webages) www.i-lighter.com Jott  (a voice to text service) http://jott.com Karaoke (lyrics, song and literacy) [|www.midikaraoke.com/home/]

Karen Janowski's UDL Tech toolkit http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/ Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educator's web 2.0 tools @http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/edtools.html Kids Click (safe web search engine for kids by librarians) www.kidsclick.org

Learning Styles Inventory @http://www.learning-styles-online.com/inventory/ Math Dictionary for Kids @http://teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/maths/dictionary.html Microsoft Reader [|www.microsoft.com/reader]

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives http://nlvm.usu.edu NeoOffice (Mac) www.neooffice.org

Odeo (Audio and video hosting site) http://odeo.com Open Office [|www.openoffice.org] Photostory by Microsoft click here Power Teaching @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBeWEgvGm2Y Printable Graphic Organizers http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/

Read Please (free screen reading application) [|www.readplease.com] Sketchcast www.sketchcast.com

SlideShare [|www.slideshare.net] SparkNotes (Study guides and discussion forums offered on various academic subjects) http://sparknotes.com Storyline online (screen actor's guild stories being read @http://www.storylineonline.net/ Sue Summerfield Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teacher click here Teacher Tube [|www.teachertube.com] TechMatrix [|www.techmatrix.org] Time Line Maker teach-nology.com website Top 100 tools for learning 2009 http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/index.html Tumblebooks (online database of e-books) [|Tumblebooks] VisuWords (free online graphical dictionary) [|www.visuwords.com/search.php] Voicethread ( Online digital-storytelling application through audio, images, & recorded voice) [|http://voicethread.com] VozMe (Text to MP3 Converter) [|http://vozme.com] Wallwisher (online stickey-note board to post comments) @http://www.wallwisher.com/ WebMath [|http://webmath.com] Webspiration http://www.mywebspiration.com/ Wikispaces www.wikispaces.com Wordsmyth [|www.wordsmyth.net]

WordTalk www.wordtalk.org.uk

YouTube [|www.youtube.com] YAKiToMe! (online webpage reader) @http://www.yakitome.com/ ZAMZAR (video capture) @http://www.zamzar.com sample webpage http://www.esc4.net

Web 2.0 tools by function
Instead of reinventing the wheel, go to Karen Janowski's UDL Toolkit wiki at http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/

media type="custom" key="5125057" =**What is a Blog?**= Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site.
 * Examples of Blogs:**
 * Kindergarten Blog [|Kindergarten Classroom Blog]
 * WebLogg-Ed @http://www.weblogg-ed.com/
 * TechLearning.com @http://www.techlearning.com/
 * Free Resources from the Net for (Special) Education @http://paulhami.edublogs.org/
 * Cool Cat Teacher Blog @http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/
 * Edublog Insights @http://anne.teachesme.com/
 * Ed Tech Solutions - Teaching Every Student @http://teachingeverystudent.blogspot.com/
 * AT Technet @http://blog.vcu.edu/ttac/
 * American Heritage blogpage @http://www.americanheritage.com/blog/
 * Karen Janowski's Teaching Every Student Blog [|Teaching Every Student]
 * Short's & Gonzales' Writers @http://www.mrsshortswriters.blogspot.com/
 * Talk About It - Lakeville North High School @http://www.lakevillenorth.blogspot.com/
 * Virtual Authors - Highland Park Jr. High School @http://www.hpjh.blogspot.com/

**Finding Blogs:**

 * Google Blog Search @http://blogsearch.google.com/
 * Technorati @http://www.technorati.com/

**Tools to Create Blogs:**

 * Tumblr [|http://www.tumblr.com]
 * Bloglines @http://www.bloglines.com/
 * Blogger [|http://www.blogger.com]
 * Typepad @http://www.typepad.com/
 * Edublogs @http://www.edublogs.org/
 * TeachAde (My Space for Teachers) @http://www.teachade.com/

**Potential Uses of Blogs in the Classroom:**

 * Journals
 * Class Portal or Management Space
 * E-Portfolio
 * Collaborative Concept Development
 * Extended Individual or Collaborative Writing
 * Comparison Chart - Blogs, Wikis, Docs

Accessibility:

 * Odiogo [|http://www.odiogo.com]



**What are RSS Feeds?**
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS feeds "package' information so that a person can sucscribe to the feed and receive that information. Many blogs automatically generate RSS feeds. In order to read RSS feeds, one must have an RSS Feed Reader or an RSS Feed Aggegator.

Why use RSS?
Since RSS data is small and fast-loading, it can easily be used with services like cell phones or PDA's.
 * RSS was designed to show selected data.** Without RSS, users will have to check your site daily for new updates. This may be too time-consuming for many users. With an RSS feed (RSS is often called a News feed or RSS feed) they can check your site faster using an RSS aggregator (a site or program that gathers and sorts out RSS feeds).

**RSS Aggregators and Readers**

 * Bloglines []
 * My Yahoo! [|http://www.yahoo.com]

[|RSS Tutorial] by Mark Nottingham, mnot@pobox.com at [|Creative Commons License] [|W3Schools tutorial on RSS]

=What is a Wiki?= The Word ‘wiki’ comes from the Hawaiian word ‘wikiwiki’ meaning quick. It is a type of website that allows the content to be changed quickly and allows for collaborative writing, reading, and editing.


 * Teaching Every Student Wiki
 * SED 379 Wiki [|http://138.87.80.129/mediawiki]
 * Science of Spectroscopy [|Using a wiki in Education]
 * CESA 5 - Wisconsin http://cesa5mathscience.wikispaces.com/
 * Classroom Google Earth http://classroomgoogleearth.wikispaces.com/
 * The Connected Classroom wiki http://theconnectedclassroom.wikispaces.com/
 * Dr. Reich's Chemistry wiki http://reich-chemistry.wikispaces.com/

**Potential Uses of Wiki’s in the Classroom:**

 * Group authoring
 * A Hypermedia Presentation of Content
 * Communally Created Notes, Definitions and Concepts
 * Easily create simple websites
 * Project development with peer review
 * Track a group project
 * Data Collection
 * Review classes & teachers
 * Presentations [|Brian Lamb] of [|UBC]: [|What blogs, wikis, and Soylent Green have in common...]

Strategies for using Blogs & Wikis for students:

 * A student who writes a post or comments with an expanded keyboard, word prediction, or using symbol supports, looks just like someone who uses a traditional keyboard to the reader. Products like [|Co:Writer], [|Clicker 5], [|Intellitalk 3] and [|Speaking Dynamically Pro] can produce written output that can be posted to a blog.
 * Wikis in Education slide show []

**Tools to Create Wiki’s:**

 * Wikispaces Wikispaces
 * WikiPages [|http://wikipages.com]
 * PB Wiki []
 * SeedWiki [|www.seedwiki.com]
 * WikiCities []

=**What is a Podcast?**= A podcast is a subscription based content delivery system. The content may be audio (podcast), video (vodcast), pictures, or a combination of the three (enhanced podcast). Content is delivered to a 'podcatcher' as soon as it is posted. Content may be viewed on a portable device or on the computer.



Types of Podcasts:

 * Audio
 * Video (Vodcasts)
 * Enhanced Podcasts (iPods Only)

Podcasts vs Web Media Files:
There are many different sources of media on the web. However, clicking on a media file to either view it or download it does not make it a podcast. A podcast is different in that it is embedded in a 'feed' that allows a person to subscribe to it.

[|Radio WillowWeb Resource]

Using Podcasts for students:

 * Talkr is a free software product that turns traditional text posts to a blog into synthesized speech podcasts that can be accessed by students with visual impairments or auditory learners. (Or just those of us who have more time to listen on the run than read multiple blog posts!)
 * Many Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) devices have very high-quality synthesized speech. Having a student who is an AAC user as a part of a podcast can be effective and powerful!
 * Video podcasts can be recorded by any student, regardless of disability level. (See webcast for more information)
 * Great for students who frequently miss school due to health-related reasons...record lecture and activity for High School students!

**Using podcasts as a UDL strategy:**

 * Class Announcements and Reminders
 * Stories
 * [|Children's Stories]
 * Digital Versions of Text
 * [|Ultra Hal]
 * Mini Lessons
 * [|Learning from MrExcel]
 * Social Stories

**Using podcasts to support diverse learners:**

 * Supporting Learning Styles
 * 1) Auditory learner
 * 2) Visual learner
 * 3) Haptic learner
 * Examples
 * [|Grammar Girls Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing]
 * [|Dr. Carlson's Science Theater]
 * [|Mr Corn's Math Classes]

Using podcasts as professional development:

 * [|www.texasat.net] -- Podcast interviews from the Texas AT Regional Conferences (Houston, and Fort Worth, 2006)
 * [] -- Live and recorded web sessions that are "podcast-able"
 * [|http://bestpodcast.blogspot.com] -- Assistive Technology conference podcast interviews (CTG 06 and 07)
 * [] -- Online learning division of Special Education Technology British Columbia
 * [] -- Barrier-free IT Tips and Tricks (EASI)
 * [] -- CommonCraft video on Podcasting

Tools to Find Podcasts (Podcatchers):
Once you find a podcast "station" you can bookmark it just like a web page... however, instead of you going to the page to get the updated information, the podcatcher will go to the web page and get that information for you, download the information into your Pod catcher and let you know when something is new -- all automatically!
 * [|iTunes store]
 * [|Juice (formally Ipodder)]
 * [|Podcast Alley]
 * [|Yahoo Podcasts]
 * [|Google Podcasts]

**Using iTunes to Subscribe to a Podcast:**

 * [|Dave Hohulin from UCP Infinitech, gives an overview of how to use iTunes to subscribe to a podcast]

Tools Used to Create Podcasts:

 * **General Resources**
 * [|Step by Step Guide to Creating a Podcast] - about.com
 * [|Podcasting for Dumb Dumbs] - about.com
 * [|Gcast.com]
 * [|Creating a Podcast] - Peachpit.com
 * [|How to make a podcast] - YouTube Video
 * [|Feed 101] - RSS Feed 101 information from Google/Feedburner
 * **Recording**
 * [|Audacity] - a free software application to help you with recording, editing and saving audio files.
 * **Publishing**
 * [|Poderator] - a free software application to help you publish your podcast on the web.
 * **Promoting**
 * [|Feedburner]
 * [|ITunes Music Store]
 * [|IPodder]
 * [|Podcast Alley]
 * [|Yahoo Podcasts]
 * [|Google Podcasts]