Friday, November 20, 2009

WWW & Video

Welcome to the WWW Wonderful World of Wikis!


Now that you and your students feel comfortable with using and navigating your classroom blogs, we will now focus our attention on navigating, planning and organizing your class Wiki.

-Wiki and Tell
-Folders and Pages
-Settings
-Security Default vs. Custom: Student Access-Login, Pages, Upload/Share Documents
-Wiki Plugins: Calendar, PPt. Slidshow, Google Gadgets, Page Information
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Vamp Up with Videos



Tools: (Embed/Link)
-Teacher Tube
-You Tube
-Discovery Education
-Flipshare
-Animoto

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

BrainPop and Google Discussions

It looks like everyone is getting the hang of blogging. Hopefully you have had the opportunity to use it in your classroom over these last few weeks.

We have explored how blogs can act as a convenient place to share or post information and pictures as well as a bank to store resources and have safe online discussions.

We will continue to enhance your blog as we move onto understanding the difference between Wikis AND Blogs as we add content to both.

To Do:

Username: doversherborn Password: middleschool

1. Let's add BrainPop to your blog using the picture gadget and link for students to connect free for the month of Novmeber from school and home.

2. Take a look into other online discussion platforms such as Google Groups