My new hero, Larry Ferlazzo, has a midyear list of The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education In 2011
Here are my notes on them for my classroom.
educaplay Can make Riddles, Crosswords, Wordsearch Puzzle, Fill in the texts, Dialogues, Dictations, Jumbled Word, Jumbled Sentence, Matching, Quizzes, and Maps.Can record audio. But their is a lot of Spanish on the site that does not re-enforce the target language of English for my Korean learners.
tildee lets you very easily create a simple step-by-step tutorial by adding text, maps, videos and photos which will be great for me to introduce all the outside of the classroom work. Where is the English Lounge, Computer Lab, Storybook Center. A tildee for every English Lounge and SBC lesson! Yeah!
Web Doc is way cool. My Typepad blog looks ancient compared to how easy it is to drag and drop nearly anything from anywhere. Very cool.
Instablogg is good, but not sure why to use it to replace my blog or for students to make a blog entry instead of a comment to a blog.
Swayable simple picture survey. But I'm not a big survey person.
Caffein video chatroom for up to 15 people. This may be good for my study groups. I plan to have study groups in the English Lounge, but maybe we can let those who can't physically join, log in online and share. But I don't think we have webcams on the computers in the English Lounge.
Jux make your own website by drag and drop; you can grab images off the web. Login required.
Magisto looks like this would be good for the GIC Talks to make short videos easily for promotion.
Wordlings I think I've used this before for my KONA presentation on Nepal. Like it a lot. Adds visual diversity to text.
PhotoCollect this looks good to let students add photos which I can then link to our class blog page.
Fakebook from ClassTools site (Russel Tarr ) to support our Storybook Center activities as well as re-tell movies from English Lounge time.
Broadcastr lets you record a 3 minute audio and attach it to a map. Students would have to create their own acct. Could then 'follow' students thru the site's follow tab. Really great to create online material for Universiade about Gwangju and favorite places. Freshman could talk about hometowns, field trips, or places they want to visit.
GeoTrio create audio tours with map. This looks cool, but might be too complicated for my students, but it does look good on mobile devices. Might be better for GIC or for my own website; transition from Community Walks to this.
Little Bird Tales lets you make your own slideshow or 'book' with images and voice overs. There is also an app like this called Story Maker, but you must choose from a selection of backgrounds and avatars.
Thumbscribes create private groups to collaboratively create a story. This might be a little intense for my learners. Would definitely have to make a 'how to' tidlee to go with it.
Freedom Share like Instablogg.
Convore chat room option.
DropEvent collects info and stuff sent to it. Good for documenting an event collaboratively.
Scoop.it is a cheat way to grab info from the net. An editable search engine. This would be interesting to see what my students came up with. Good to help them change all the English into their authentic, leveled voice and move away from plagarism.
Projeqt like Prezi which allows for micro storytelling to be shared and connected.
Popplet is a very cool mind mapping app. It lets you add text, images, drawing, urls. Awesome!
Corkboard Me simple. I might use this as a daily to do list to share with others.
Posterbee lets you share links, etc. and see who on your 'team' has read it. Posterous’ new “Groups” feature —is also a possible way to replace my lost love, Ning.
Isle Of Tune, very simple “drag-and-drop” to create a musical city. No registration is required, and you’re given the url address of your creation to share. As a bonus to English Language Learners, the different parts of the city are labeled, so students can pick up vocabulary at the same time. Plus, they can describe their musical creations. (from Larry)
Write Comics is freaking cool. My life right now: http://writecomics.com/gen/17758.html
Qrait Larry sees that "it can be used to easily create Internet Scavenger Hunts and Webquests. It lets you create a “molecule” filled with “atoms” (the call each topic a molecule and atoms the different parts of the collection). You can insert a website and notes into each molecule, which will also show a screenshot or even a video. The task for each can also be described. And it’s easy to move the “molecules” around. And, then, best of all, you can embed your whole “molecule” wherever you want, including on a class blog or website." - But it looks complicated to me.
Imgur per Larry "is a super-simple photo-sharing site that you can use to upload photos or insert image url addresses. It can come in particularly handy in the classroom because of it’s ease in creating albums where you can title individual photos and write captions — all without registering. Students can categorize photos and describe them." I like it. Seems simple.
Knovio upload a PowerPoint presentation, record a presentation with your microphone and webcam, and then it’s done! Like Authorstream but with a more simple interface. Really good for students.
Slidestaxx took a long time to load. Students can grab content from anywhere (and it lists where it came from in the caption) and then make their own caption into their own slideshow.
