Hoping to get ideas for handout for school librarian workshop at this session!
Watched the “A Vision of K-12 Students Today” video to start
Web 1.0: static; get it and go away
Web 2.0: interactive, dynamic, content based on user input (kids see this as the Internet — have no idea what Web 2.0 term means; no idea Internet used to be at 1.0 stage)
Gotta Love Commoncraft videos (Showed the Delicious one)
Looking at Delicious. Presenter’s Delicious.
She uses her delicious account with her students. Game sites as an example — they’re allowed to go to those sites under that tag in her delicious account.
Wordle: Word clouds. Shared “38 Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom” by Tom Barrett
- word recognition, like how many times you used “like” in 3 paragraphs
- ~ treats two words as one word.
Blogs: lots of different uses.
- Technorati plug
- Her district uses Blogger.com; also mentioned edublogs.org
- Blog etiquette & parental/district permission for classroom blog use
Glogster — never heard of this one. Hmmm..
- looks like digital posterboard! awesome! kids get on there and use it to embed videos, slideshows, etc. Use Education version: kids can register under teacher — no need for email address or registration. Parents, grandparents can see the projects. Can be marked private or public.
Animoto — can get free education upgrade. create account and then apply for the education upgrade.
- her delicious has links to royalty free music
- bottom left corner of registration or website has educator link to create educator account.
- smart enough to put pics in order.
PicLits — gallery of pictures there. can then drag and drop words from selection or click “freestyle” to type. Displays those words on the pic of your choice.
- Wikipedia is an excellent education tool! Has built-in tools to show how accurate the information is.
- Student newspaper hosted on wikispaces (elementary school!)
- Wikispaces: teachers can create accounts; has free ed upgrade. the ads are taken off. stuent access is controlled.
- Wetpaint
- PBWorks
Prezi: rethink the slideshow
Bubble.us? (I think it was mentioned at the very end?)
Zamzar: This one is definitely worth checking out. Online file conversion. Check out the whole list. Convert up to 100MB file for free!!! The list does include converting Microsoft Works files to several other file formats, including Microsoft Word. Haven’t given it a try yet, but looks like a great option.
Heather Braum is the Technology Librarian at NEKLS. She can be reached by phone, by email (hbraum (at) nekls.org), or through several online chat services (look Heather up by her email address). Visit the 
