New technologies are often perceived as magic. Let's explore a bunch of FREE tools for recording and SAFELY sharing student voices online, collaborating with partner classrooms, and more!
Past Presentations
- Poll Everywhere Survey from #micon - Martin Institute Fall 2010 Conference - Sep/Oct 2010 (Memphis, Tennessee)
- Poll Everywhere Survey from ACTEM - Oct 2009 (Augusta, Maine)
- Google Moderator series from OTA. My presentation for OTA on 11 February 2009 is available as an audio-podcast.
Contact and Digitally Follow Wesley
Survey and Crowdsource an Audience
Create free SMS and web polls
Create and publish annotated screen captures to the web
Setup free SMS alert messaging for groups
Use a cell phone as a mobile audio recorder
Use visual voicemail with any cell phone
- YouMail (downside: you do have to share your real cell phone number with others)
- K7.net (upside: provides you with a new phone number you can use)
- GrandCentral (from Google, new feature set and open enrollment coming soon)
- Hat tip to Ryan Collins and Liz Kolb for these links
Create a moderated, walled-garden learning community (social network)
Videoconference readily with friends and classroom partners
- Use Google Video Chat (requires small additional free program to install, works within GMail) - free, cross-platform
- Skype - free, cross-platform
- iChat - free, Mac-only
- H.323 Videoconferencing with Tandberg or Polycom
- Find virtual guest speakers for your classroom:
Find global classrooms for collaborative projects
Create Flashcards which are web and iPod Touch accessible
Download
YouTube videos to a USB Thumb Drive
Create Interactive, Hyperlinked Timelines
Webcast an event LIVE online
Setup free content filtering at home
Find Free, High-quality Professional Development Online
Schedule an Event for People on Different Calendaring Systems
- Doodle.com (sent a simple text poll to people to indicate available dates/times)
- Eventsbot (handle event registration and even payment)
Create and use a Custom Digital Newspaper
Never Lose a Good Website
Screencast a How-To Tutorial
- Setup a separate Facebook environment and personal profile for your students
- Obtain free PhotoShop Replacement Software
- Clearly and Accurately Explain Copyright Guidelines in 5 Minutes
- Create and Publish a Digital Story
- Convince Your School Board to Embrace 21st Century Skills
Longer session description: Often the most valuable learning outcome of a professional conference is a single website, collaboration idea, or software application which can transformatively help students and teachers more effectively demonstrate mastery of knowledge and skills included in the curriculum. This presentation focuses on a diverse array of web 2.0 tools teachers and librarians can use to enhance classroom websites, collaborative projects, and multimedia reports created by students individually or in distributed teams.
The ability to embed content permits educators to create multimedia- rich webpages on their school website integrating images, voice recordings, videos, and animations. Web tools which provide these functionalities will be demonstrated and explored in this session, as well as other web tools which can enhance research-based methods of providing recognition and feedback for students. These include methods for moderating social networking interactions among students as well as other educational constituents (including parents) and expanding the menu of collaborative knowledge product possibilities for students including interactive digital timelines, collaboratively authored digital stories, and synchronous presentation environments for sharing and teaching by students.