Week of March 27- April 3
20. Discover YouTube and a few sites that allow users to upload and share videos.
21. Discover some useful tips for and uses for podcasts in your classroom at The Education Podcast Network. Interested in creating podcasts in your classroom? Let us know, we can help!
22. Teach someone else how to use one of the technologies described above and blog about your experience!
23. Summarize your thoughts about this program on your blog.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Things 18, 19 & 20
Week of March 20-27
18. Take a look at some online productivity (word processing, spreadsheet) tools.
19. Explore My Maps on Google Maps and create a map of our school and add a picture of it to the map.
18. Take a look at some online productivity (word processing, spreadsheet) tools.
19. Explore My Maps on Google Maps and create a map of our school and add a picture of it to the map.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Things 15, 16 & 17
Week of March 6-13
15. Explore Technorati, an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google and Yahoo. As of June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. Learn how tags work with blog posts.
16. Learn about wikis and discover some innovative ways that classrooms are using them.
17. Add an entry to our Hudson23Things wiki (username and password both Hudson23Things)and read about (register for?) educators free access to private K-12 wikis for your classroom.
15. Explore Technorati, an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google and Yahoo. As of June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. Learn how tags work with blog posts.
16. Learn about wikis and discover some innovative ways that classrooms are using them.
17. Add an entry to our Hudson23Things wiki (username and password both Hudson23Things)and read about (register for?) educators free access to private K-12 wikis for your classroom.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Things 12, 13 & 14
Week of February 27-March 6
12. Take a look at LibraryThing and catalog some of your favorite books.
13. Check out Ning. There are lots of educators on Ning. This tool lets you create your very own social network space! Create your own space, and invite some of your colleagues or classmates to join! Blog about ways you think this tool might be used in your classroom.
14. Learn about social bookmarking then create a Del.icio.us account and add and tag some Web 2.0 sites.
12. Take a look at LibraryThing and catalog some of your favorite books.
13. Check out Ning. There are lots of educators on Ning. This tool lets you create your very own social network space! Create your own space, and invite some of your colleagues or classmates to join! Blog about ways you think this tool might be used in your classroom.
14. Learn about social bookmarking then create a Del.icio.us account and add and tag some Web 2.0 sites.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Things 10 & 11
Week of February 20-27
10. Sign up for a Twitter account. Track your activities using Twitter for a few days. Think about how Twitter might impact students in and outside of your classroom. Blog about your Twitter experience.
11. Play around with an online image generator. There are a number of free graphics generators that customize images into banners, buttons, comic strips, logos, blog pics and more. Flickr's online image generators are a fun and easy way to start now that you have an account! Blog about your experience(s).
10. Sign up for a Twitter account. Track your activities using Twitter for a few days. Think about how Twitter might impact students in and outside of your classroom. Blog about your Twitter experience.
11. Play around with an online image generator. There are a number of free graphics generators that customize images into banners, buttons, comic strips, logos, blog pics and more. Flickr's online image generators are a fun and easy way to start now that you have an account! Blog about your experience(s).
Friday, February 13, 2009
Things 7, 8 & 9
Week of February 13-20
7. Visit Classroom 2.0, the social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies. This will introduce you to ways other teachers are using Web 2.0 in their classrooms. Create a blog post about anything Web 2.0-related that you think would be useful in your classroom. There is a great search "By Tool" and "By Subject" on the right sidebar.
8. Learn about RSS feeds and set up your own Bloglines newsreader account. Bloglines is a FREE online service that allows you to search for, read and share updates from your favorite news feed or blog.
9. Locate a few useful classroom related blogs and/or news feeds and add them to your Bloglines account.
7. Visit Classroom 2.0, the social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies. This will introduce you to ways other teachers are using Web 2.0 in their classrooms. Create a blog post about anything Web 2.0-related that you think would be useful in your classroom. There is a great search "By Tool" and "By Subject" on the right sidebar.
8. Learn about RSS feeds and set up your own Bloglines newsreader account. Bloglines is a FREE online service that allows you to search for, read and share updates from your favorite news feed or blog.
9. Locate a few useful classroom related blogs and/or news feeds and add them to your Bloglines account.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Week of February 6th-13th
6. VUVOX is a neat mashup tool that allows you to mix, create and blend your personal media – video, photos and music into neat presentations. It's free and easy. You can use Flickr photos, Picasa albums, and RSS feeds - and then you can add audio narrations and music. There is an express service, a collage option or a studio option where you can construct your presentation in a storyboard style. Here is what I created, Sample 23Things .
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