David Black posted on July 05, 2008 16:19
Web 2.0 Meets Grade 2.0; The New Web in Primary Grades, by Gail Lovely
· http://glovely.wetpaint.com – Resources from the conference presentation
· Invitation to join the conference wiki and build this together
· She used the Common Craft video for introducing the idea of a wiki
· Showed examples of wikis for young users – links found on her wiki page
o Wiki which created a counting book, using digital photography to count to 100 – impressive!
o Monster project – Drawing based on a description. Shared between two different schools
o Wiki used to gather 1000 different names
o Using wikis as a collecting tool
o “What happened to the tennis ball?” wiki – a story building wiki
o Responsibilities wiki
· Web 2.0 world – We are constantly balancing the power of 2.0 with the safety of 2.0
· Blogging
o The worst feature in Blogger is “Next Blog”. One never knows what that next blog might be. There are some links on her wiki page to help remove this link.
o Blog experiences with a stuffed animal – Clever!
· Try bubbl.us
· Try classtools.net
· Moourl.com – give your Moo URL a personal touch
· Tinypaste.com
· Lulu – Self-publishing tool. Could also be used as a fundraiser
· Spell with Flickr – not all letters look alike today. We need to expose our children to a variety of different types. Taggalexy.de