Web+2.0+Apps

Wikis are a great tool for sharing information/links and working collaboratively on projects. It is very simple to set up - you give the students the wiki URL, they request membership and you can instantly accept their request and grant them access all within the first 10 minutes of your lab time. http://smcctechnology.wikispaces.com

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Wallwisher is a quick and easy web-based brainstorming tool where colleagues or students use web pages called "walls" to post ideas around a topic you identify. Use in class to brainstorn a topic or to post a question for students to respond to at another time. (wallwisher.com) []

Wordle builds a visual depiction of the word content of a website or other sources of text. Words may be shown in alphabetical order or randomly and priminene is given to those words that appear most frequently. Wordle allows users to copy text from any source and paste it into a textbox which then generates a word cloud. You change change the appearance of the word cloud easily too.

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Are you (and your students) bored to tears with PowerPoint presentations? Prezi is a dynamic, way more interesting way to deliver the same content. Instead of linear slides - prezi allows you to design a presentation to follows a unique path with different shapes, colors using easy templates or from scratch if you'd prefer. And best of all, you can import all those old PowerPoint presentations into prezi to avoid retyping it all.

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Great source for all content areas for online resources [|http://21stcenturyclassrooms.wetpaint.com]

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Wikis
See top of this page for a refresher or to learn for the first time what a Wiki is...

What can you do with them in a class? If you have the students "join", they can upload their presentations (PowerPoints, etc.) to the class Wiki and then presentation day is a lot smoother because they are all in one place. It also allows them to view each others presentations on their own, respond to discussion threads that you start or work collaboratively on just about anything. It makes it easy to provide students with documents, videos or links to webpages all in one place.

Check out the Wiki that Jenny's theology students used to share their presentations with classmates gone on retreat. http://smcctheology13.wikispaces.com/

Learn 360
This is a website that hosts a collection of full length educational digital media - videos, video clips, audio clips, images, etc. SMCC has purchased a one year subscription to access all this media. The following people have already registered to use the Learn 360 website: Amy, Allison, John H., Mandy, Jason, Karen, Chris, Lynne, Megan, Val, Heidi, Diane and Denise. I can remind you of your usernames but you need to come up with your password or have it emailed to you if you've forgotten.

If you have not yet registered, please do so now following these instructions: Step 1: To set up your Learn360 account, click on the Pass Key Link below. A. Pass Key Link: [] B. Fill out the form including the following information: 1. Username (required) 2. First Name 3. Last Name 4. Job Title 5. E-mail (required) 6. Create password (required) 7. Confirm password (required) 8. Select a Grade level 9. Select a Subject 10. Click the Register Button C. Once the account is created, you will use this Username and Password to log into [|www.learn360.com] from now on.

Once you are registered, go to the site and search for media in your content area - you will see how easy it is to search by grade level, topic, type of media. Once you find media you want to use, you can download it to your laptop (big advantage over You Tube). Many of the video clips also have Teacher Resources (look for the little Adobe Symbol) which will make your lesson planning a little easier.

Turnitin
All of our Seniors, Juniors, Sophomores and the Honors Lit class of the Freshmen have already been registered and learned how to use Turnitin. The ELA teachers and Karen Pilon have already begun using it by having students upload their written work electronically to the website. This makes it much easier on the rest of you because you students already have accounts and you just need to provide them with your class ID and password and they simploy add your class to their Turnitin portfolio.

Go to [|www.turnitin.com] - if you have any interest in having your students submit their work electronically, having it instantly checked for originality and grammar - please create yourself an account today.

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