Muscogee

=Muscogee Public Schools= =Curriculum Goals + Web 2.0 Applications Engaged Learning= = www.tinyurl.com/mcsd2010 =

BEFORE WE BEGIN

 * [|Sign up for a Google account] if you don't already have one.
 * [|Take this survey].

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** WIKIS **
You are in Wikispaces right now!

Create Your Own Page on This Wiki!**
 * Hands On


 * 1) Click New Page at the top left of this page.
 * 2) Give you page a name. (Your own name would be a good choice.)
 * 3) Add text, a web link, and a picture.
 * 4) BONUS: Try embedding a video from YouTube or TeacherTube.

**Classroom examples**
 * [|Canterbury Tales] (translations and character pages)
 * Class notes
 * French class
 * Differentiated instructional resources for Grades K-2
 * AP World History review

BLOGS

 * Hands On **
 * 1) Go to [|Karen's Mobile Musings blog].
 * 2) Read the first post and click the "__ Comment" link to add your own comment.

[|Google Reader]


 * Hands On **
 * 1) Go to Google Reader.
 * 2) Click "Add a subscription" to explore blogs on topics you are interested in and then subscribe.
 * 3) BONUS: Add a Google Reader widget to your iGoogle page.

**Classroom examples**
 * [|Formative assessment]
 * [|Book discussions]
 * [|Library news]
 * [|Classroom news]
 * [|Posting student work]

DOCUMENT SHARING
[|Google Docs]
 * [|Quick start guide]


 * Hands On **
 * 1) Create a word processed document.
 * 2) Share it with someone else in this class. (You'll need their email address.)
 * 3) Collaboratively edit the page.
 * 4) BONUS: Create a form to make a survey that feeds into a spreadsheet.

**Classroom examples**
 * Any kind of writing
 * Collaborative student projects
 * Peer editing
 * Teacher feedback
 * Learning journals

Social Networks

 * Social networks are online communities of people with common interests.
 * Social networks can be used for
 * [|professional learning communities]
 * organizing a project group
 * keeping up with family or friends
 * Some social networks to look at:
 * [|Classroom 2.0]
 * [|Facebook]
 * [|MySpace]

Shared multimedia

 * Shared multimedia is a way to publish and share photos, audio, or video online.
 * Shared multimedia can be used for
 * sharing and embedding [|photos]
 * [|sharing and embedding videos]
 * [|finding open-licensed multimedia] (that you can [|re-use legally])
 * Some shared multimedia sites to look at:
 * [|YouTube]
 * [|TeacherTube]
 * [|Flickr]

More Web 2.0
Dynamic home pages Course management Social bookmarking Online surveys or polls Photo editing File conversion Digital storytelling
 * [|iGoogle]
 * [|Page Flakes]
 * [|Moodle] (open source; you can host yourself or have them host it for free)
 * [|delicious]
 * [|Furl]
 * [|Diigo]
 * [|SurveyMonkey]
 * [|PollDaddy]
 * [|Zoho Polls]
 * [|Google Docs]
 * [|Photoshop Express]
 * [|My Image Size] (for basic resizing)
 * [|Phixr] (for more advanced editing)
 * [|Zamzar]
 * [|YouConvertIt]
 * [|Media-Convert]
 * [|VoiceThread]