Howard D. GuntherEducational Technology SpecialistACES Professional Development School Improvement205 Skiff STHamden, CT 06517

Merging Literature with Web 2.0

Session Overview

E2T2 GrantEnhancing Education Through Technology

Discovery EducationIntegration with Social Studies Newport Field Trip

EdmodoPodcast - Celebrity Casters

GlogsterVoicethread

Tagxedo - WordleAnimoto

Google Lit Trip

Why Web 2.0? ·Paradigm Shift·Teach to ANY standards/content·Highly motivating ·Multiple learning styles·Multi-sensory·Interdisciplinary·Key to collaboration·“Gen Me”, special needs, enrichment

·Provide a rational, pedagogical justification for the site to be unblocked at your school during a certain period of time.·Describe how you will keep students safe.

A Note On Blocking

http://www.glogster.com/ http://edu.glogster.com/http://voicethread.com http://ed.voicethread.com

·Some Web 2.0 sites may be blocked at your school… you can sometimes get around this.

http://www.edmodo.com/

Podcasting

Celebrity Casters

Wordle

Forty-three Interesting Ways To Use Wordle

Word Clouds

Tagxedo

ANIMOTO

App

iPhoneiTouch iPad AppDroid

Google Earth - Google Lit Trip

Traveling The Novel by Melissa Wert & Scottie Girgus

Google Lit Trips

·How did you use Web 2.0 tools for collaboration?·How did Web 2.0 change the way you did assignments? ·How did using Web 2.0 tools enhance or detract from your learning? ·How has the use of Web 2.0 changed the way you use the web? ·What were your concerns regarding this?

What Do You Think?

Questions

Resources

http://my-tech-wiki.wikispaces.com/

hgunther@aces.org

Google Earth The Interface

Information in Google Earth is presented in placemarks. These are the push-pins or other icons that you click on when you are using Google Earth. Clicking on a placemark opens a placemark window, and displays the associated content.

Placemarks can hold many different types of information:

• Text • Image • Hyperlinks to other Web content • YouTube video (only on PC machines) • Other specialized Web content, such as podcasts (from Evoca.com) and PowerPoint files (Slideshare.net)

Adding text to Placemark: Once you create the placemark, right click on theplacemark and click on Get Info. Type in what youʼd like to be seen once one clicks onthe placemark.

Adding a Hyperlink to Placemark: As with adding text, right click on the placemarkand click on Get Info. Paste in the URL of the hyperlink, which means you need to go tothe site first copy the url then go back to your placemark in Google Earth. Once oneclicks on the hyperlink, the viewer will see the blue hyperlink.

Creating the Link to the Picture on the Web:1. Find the picture on the web. NOTE: In order to avoid scrolling, avoid using file sizesover 600 x 600.2. Right click on the image and click on Copy Image Location3. Right click on the placemark and click on Get Info.4.Type in <img src=” and then paste in the URL (Control / V) and finish the link byadding “> at the end of the URL.Ex: <img src= “http://l.yimg.com/g/images/home_photo_welshboy.jpg”>

Google Earth Cheat Sheet

Saving Your Tour: (Saving as a .kmz will embed the images!)1. Click on tour folder or placemark.2. Click on File / Save / Save as (Pick the location and save it!)

Embedding Video: For those sites that display embedding code, simply copy the codeand paste it inside the placemark. For example, YouTube posts the code on the rightside of the screen under the url of the video. Copy this html and paste it into theplacemark in Google Earth.

Now it's time to jump over to Google Earth. Open up Earth, locate the area in the world where you wish to place the placemark, and go to the upper menu bar, and create a new placemark.

This is the placemark, drag it to its location.

Exact positioning of the placemark can be done through latitude and

longitude

Paste the content from the online Web editor here

This is the placemark, drag it to its location.

Type the name of the placemark here.

Some other Simple HTML

Adding a line break: Add a <br> at the end of the line after which you want a break.

Italicize: Add <i> right before anything to be in italics and </i> at the end of what is tobe in italics.

Bold: Same as above but use <b> and </b>

Underline: Same as above but use <u> and </u>

Centering: <center> PICTURE or WORDS </center>

Linked words: <a href=”URL”> Word </a>

Resizing picture: <img src= "URL" width=400> (The height will change proportionally!

HTML Quick List

Attachments

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