Thing #2 - IMAGE GENERATORS, PART 2

Wordle or WordSift, Glogster/edu or VoiceThread, Animoto or Voki, and Bookr

All of the above are tools students can use to create products for assignments. Choose one of each pair plus Bookr to explore. Reflect on the questions asked as you post your blog Thing #2.

Wordle is a tool to create beautiful "word clouds". You copy some text and paste it into the Wordle page after clicking on the "create" button. Be sure to explore the edit tabs at the top to change the layout, color etc. Below is the district's libraries in Wordle. In addition to printing, you can always print the screen and then copy into a draw program like PowerPoint for editing and saving. The fact that the words most repeated appear larger would help a student to find the main concepts of an article or essay. How could a student use this tool?

or
WordSift, like Wordle, takes text from any document or webpage and creates a word cloud. In addition, it gives you links to websites that might turn up if you did a search on those terms. So, the words become hot links. Again, how might students use this tool in their learning and creating?

Glogster/edu "poster yourself" or a poster online! Glogster is a tool that allows picture manipulation and mashups and adding hot links to parts of the pictures. Scroll down and play some of the tutorials. If you want to create a personal Glogster account before trying a classroom account go to Glogster homepage. Would there be any different thinking a student would have to do to turn in a poster online as opposed to a cardboard poster? If there is different thinking, is it better or worse, more or less, or how is it different?
or
VoiceThread--digital storytelling made simpler with 5 ways for the authentic audience to comment. Click on the K-12 at middle right. Then click on Learn More in middle. Watch Overviews. Then click on "Visit our K-12 pricing page". Then apply for the third or free column. What situations might this be the most appropriate tool for students?

Animoto - surely you have seen an Animoto! If you have not made one, now is the time. Be sure to explore how music with different tempos effect the changing of the pictures. Be sure to notice how the size of your picture effects the quality of the finished product. Be sure to re-arrange the sequence of the pictures to create a different effect. Be sure you can save, send, and post an Animoto. How can students and/or educators use this?
or
Voki - a talking avatar. Click get started. Be sure to click on all the possible buttons to see the various editing features you have. The students love to use the voice spoken typed text. Avatars could be used for other things than just to pretty up your blog. What would happen if a Voki was sent in an e-mail. Might the recipient get a stronger message than just text?

and

Bookr - a tool to create your own photobook. Visit the archives first and get an idea what the possibilities are. Using the cursor, you turn the pages from the top right corner or the bottom right corner. Explore but watch your cursor so you know when things are possible. Students could use Bookr instead of what other tools to create products for what assignments?

Thing #1 - REGISTRATION

Thing #1 Registration

Watch this video. We want our students to be able to create videos like this. We want our teachers to facilitate this kind of learning.

The Networked Student; The Movie
( The Networked Student - The Movie )

For Thing #1 - Post you thoughts about the student, the video, and the teacher and her role. Can a Library Technology Specialist play the role depicted in the video?  If not, what needs to be done?

REGISTRATION:

Also, you MUST register your blog within our Moodle course by emailing our Helpful Desk (kieraelledge@hebisd.edu) so it can be posted in our HEB23-2011 Blog Block for all to see. 

Email with:
1. Blog name/title of your blog. YES you may use your 23 Things blog or a new blog!
2. Your name as you are known in your blog--YOUR blog identity.
AND
3. Your blog address which will look like:

Until you do this, you are not officially a player and are not eligible for credit or certificate.

Remember:
You must record your progress on each of the 11.5 More Things on your blog. Clearly identify each THING in the title of your entries. Each Thing needs to be written in a separate blog posting. Please do not combine Things!

Your blog name is in the title bar.

Your blog address will have this form:
insertname represents the part of the address you created when you set up your blog.

******IMPORTANT Until you contact kieraelledge@hebisd.edu you are not officially playing and will not receive credit. You will also receive an official "welcome" email to indicate that you are registered.******

Next - Thing #2!

Movin' On Up....To The Cloud!

Welcome to HEB23-2011 - more play, more fun, more adventure, more opportunity to study and learn. The premise is the same as HEB23, but now the playground is larger and more expansive. This blog outlines some activities designed to expose you to some tools, but the learning comes from your playing with the tools and reflecting in your blog how the tools can be used in education, particularly in student-created learning assignments. As always, I make no apologies that we approach all these tools from a Library perspective and firmly believe the Library is a big classroom connected to specific objectives in the classroom and should always be the hub or centerpoint of the school.
HEB23-2011 is an extension of our original program, HEB23.  Whereas HEB23 was an introduction and overview of Web 2.0 tools for exploration and testing, HEB23-2011 is more application-based work with some of the more powerful cloud computing tools you dabbled in.  You will now NEED to create many of the Things to be on the application-based level.

Be sure to remember what you learned with HEB23 as you play with 11.5 More Things including commenting on other players blogs. See what they have learned in their play.

I have had lots of problems just picking 11.5 More Things to learn that I think will be most useful in helping our students create and communicate their new learning. Many more new things exist that are not covered here. And, I'm sure there will be a Part III to this story before long.  Anyway, plan on having some fun and learning some new tricks and tips.  Punch your ticket to the Cloud and let the fun begin again!

Summer 20101 Session
Start Date: Monday, June 6, 2011
All blogs posts must be on or after this date.

Completion Deadline: Monday, August 15, 2011 at 11:59 pm.
Note:  If finished by August 15th, HEBISD employees will receive 15 hours off-contract PD credit, with 6 hours being GT credit.

From HEB23, one of the things we learned was that managing passwords can be difficult. You might want to consider a free account with a password managing website. One discussed on LM_NET (a national school Librarian listserv) was http://www.passpack.com/en/home/. Others can be found by doing a Google search on password manager.

Ready! Set! Go!

Thing #1 = Inspiration and Registration

Thing #2 = Wordle or Wordshift, Glogster or VoiceThread, Animoto or Voki, and Bookr

Thing #3 = video web connecting (Skype or UStream or something) videoconferencing

Thing #4 = Posting to YouTube or TeacherTube

Thing #5 = Twitter and Facebook and Tinychat or TodaysMeet (microblogging/backchanneling)

Thing #6 = I-touch Apps

Thing #7 = TV sources, Hulu, etc…

Thing #8 = Screen capture - Jing, Camtasia type sites, but for free

Thing #9 = Sharing - SlideShare, iGoogle, and other similar sites for sharing slides, programs, etc.

Thing #10 = Virtual Worlds - Second Life, Gaming

Thing #11 = Digital Citizenship

Thing #11.5 = Evaluation