Description:
Come journey with us. In 2008, a few students at the Palmyra Middle School took on a challenge to create an Internet collaborative wiki pilot with students at a school in Haiti. In what has been a roller coaster ride with rewards and heartaches, we are approaching the potential to make a lasting positive impact on the lives of many in the United States, Haiti and around the world. We hope to create an educational model that others around the world may utilize and implement.

On this journey, we have stumbled upon many cool and useful Internet tools that any educator can implement to make their own teaching and student learning more dynamic and meaningful. Even if you are not interested creating a global partnership, you will walk away inspired and also find many interesting and useful Internet gems that you can apply to your own instruction.

This session will touch on the following institute objectives:
-Participate in cognitive conversations about the future of classroom instruction.
-Identify emerging technological tools and powerful on-line resources that aid in motivating digital minds.




Workshop Info:

We will start our global tour with our Internet passport, Delicious. If you do not have a Delicious account, take a minute to create one or we can create one together at this session.

Delicious (Your Internet passport!)

More useful sites to come that you may "stamp" on your "Internet Passport" (Delicious).

Welcome to Web 2.0 and Curriculum 21! This is "Geek Speak" for where education is going on the web. Before we get to our first stop, you may want to book mark the next three sites on your Delicious account.


Stop #1. Get your Delicious passport ready!

Our first stop is language translation programs. You may not be interested in doing a global wiki, but I will bet your ESL & ELL population continues to grow and diversify. These translation programs can help you communicate and adapt work for your ESL & ELL population. Since this is a key subgroup of PSSAs, utilizing these programs is time well spent.


Google Translate
By far, this is the best free translator I have used to date. It is more intuitive than the others. It provides word choices for correct context. It can translate whole web pages and maintain their context.

Babelfish

DIctionary Translation

Languages online
Many language tools on this website for Language teachers or to use for your ESL & ELL population.

Language Guide
Free sound applications to help you with languages. Many language tools on this website for Language teachers or to use for your ESL & ELL population.

BBC Languages

Live Mocha
Social language learning network
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Stop #2. Video & Podcast Connections

With all the online media, instant access to downloading, uploading and viewing video are unprecedented. Gone are the days of filmstrips and super 8 film, anyone can express themselves globally. There are many useful web applications to help you make your classroom learning environment dynamic!

FLIP Video Camera
With this inexpensive piece of technology, making and uploading videos is quick and easy. You can video you lessons, tutorials, etc. and save your time as well as give students unlimited access to your teaching.

Viewpoint (embedding video tool)

TeacherTube
Although teacher tube is not as popular as YouTube, it is content filtered to protect your students. Most school’s Internet filtering software allow this site as opposed to YouTube.

SchoolTube
Like teacher tube

Watch Know
Student learning videos

Podcasting
All inclusive site to create, view and manage podcasts.

Voice Thread
Like a podcast


There are many video sharing platforms and sites on the web but the two above are much safer for school use.

KeepVid
This is a VERY USEFUL site. So lets say you find a great You Tube or Daily Motion video for class but your school's blocking software won't let you view it, you can use KeepVid to download it to a flash drive or your computer's hard drive.

Links to other video download programs.

Live Educational TV


Google Earth (The gold standard)

Panoramio
Not as powerful as Google Earth but adds the element of uploaded photos of local sites.

Bing Maps
Street level views of many places along with map function.

Google Maps
Street level views of many places along with map function.

Pin the Map
Useful for pinning and sharing locations on a map.

Geogreetings
Make cool greetings and stuff from geographical locations.

Stop #4. Forgot your library card? Don't worry!

The days of the paper books may be fading fast along with brick and mortar libraries that house them. With the Kindle and the I-Pad, there will be a big push to move to e-books. Jump on the bandwagon in your classroom and do it for FREE! With an increasing ESL & ELL population, you may be able to connect to those learners with a book in their native language that relates to your subject.


Gutenberg Project

Gutenberg Project books in French
You may not find this useful, but here is an example of how our school in Haiti can get access to more books than they could ever afford or dream of.

Multiple free e-book download sites

Audio Books in French
You may not find this useful, but here is an example of how our school in Haiti can get access to more books than they could ever afford or dream of.

Bibliomania

Bartleby (Classics online)

Online Newspapers

Story Line
Famous actors reading stories

Issuu (Publish a student magazine)

StoryBird (Collaborative Storytelling)

Media Literacy Clearinghouse
Animate your education presentations! Do you have repetitive or boring content related material that you must teach every year? Spice it up with one of these animation programs. The programs are fun, multi lingual, and can be posted on video sharing websites. They can also be used as student assessment projects if carefully supervised.

Xtranormal
Classic text to animation program. Lots of fun!

Voiki
Text to animation program.

Blabberize!
Make photos or clip art talk! Tell a story like you have never done before!

Scratch
M.I.T. animation and programing site. Awesome!
Stop #6. Fun with pics. and words.

These are just a few sites that can add life to any text or pictures. Even generate your own pictures and posters.

Imagegenerator
Create your own cool images!

BeFunky Photos
Adapt and create fun images from photos.

SLIDE
Create and share a slide show

Glogster
Make posters for your class. Caution... adult supervision needed with this site.

Skitch
Create and share your sketches.

Sketchup
Create and share architectural drawings in 3-D

Wordle
Great word cloud application.

Cool Text
As the name implies.

Visuwords
Very cool word web dictionary & thesaurus
Stop #7. Useful classroom productivity and presentation applications.

You will find a variety of useful presentation and application tools in this section.

Prezi
More flexible than PowerPoint.

Sliderocket
Like Prezi

White Board Conferencing

Office Live (Document Sharing)

Google Docs (Document Sharing)

Open Office (Productivity Suite)

Free web filtering and security.

Comprehensive Classroom Study Guides

Time Line Maker

Time Glider Time Line Maker

Comet Docs (File converter)

Quip It!
Use your cell phone to scan a document.

Creative Commons (Document and picture sharing)

Free Online Mind Mapping

Gapminder (stat tracking)

Stumbleupon

Google Voice
Stop #8. Learning networks

Set up your own learning network and expand the influence of your teaching.

Ning

Wikispaces

PB Wiki

Schoolology

Moodle

Wet Paint

EduBlogs

Elgg

School of Everything

Global Education Ning

Global School Network

Global Education Projects

Stop #9. Sites specific to our wiki project

Inexpensive computers for developing countries...

XO One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)



The XO's run independent of Windows or Mac OS. They run on a "Linux" operating system and utilize "Sugar" applications.

Linux OS

Sugar Freeware


Intel's Classmate PC is similar to the XO in many ways. It operates with a Windows based operating system and is more like an actual PC.

Intel's Classmate PC & Learning Series




SKYPE
This is wonderful for video conferencing. We have had some neat SKYPE sessions with our students in Haiti as shown below.




Hughes Satellite Internet





We have been supported through various funding sources.

Global Giving

Grant Wrangler

GG's Technology for Education Fund

Come back soon as more sites are posted in this section...