Guiding Question
What are Web Tools and what are important considerations that I need to make when I use Web Tools instructionally and professionally?
Warm Up
As we begin this session, let's brainstorm together using a Padlet. What do you already know about Web Tools? What do you want to know? To add ideas, select the + sign under each topic. Include your name in the title! Participation is required by Thursday.
Exploration
As you read and watch the following, create a graphic organizer, digitally or on paper, to develop an understanding of Web Tools and how Digital Citizenship, Accessibility and Internet Privacy relate to the use of these tools. Consider the use of Web 2.0 Tools both professionally and personally.
Use your graphic organizer throughout Session 1 and the course to collect ideas and notes. Practicing with an online mind map will prepare you for your final project.
You may use this sample as an idea for organizing your mind map.
Web Tools
The Role of Web 2.0 Technologies in K-12 Education In this advocacy white paper you'll be introduced to an overview and definition of Web 2.0 Tools. As you read, capture notes on not only the definition of Web Tools but on why they are relevant to the classroom.
Using Web 2.0 Tools in the Classroom In this blog post, the author will again define Web 2.0 tools, but then discuss important questions as educators that we'll want to consider when integrating these resources into the classroom. You'll also be presented with examples of Web Tools.
Teaching with Web 2.0 Technologies: Benefits, Barriers and Best Practices As you read this article, think specifically and capture notes on the benefit of using Web 2.0 tools instructionally.
Selecting Web 2.0 Tools
The Twenty-Five Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education in 2017 - So Far Although this resource is basically a list of the best Web 2.0 tools that this author has identified, pay specific attention to his criteria for selection.
Web 2.0 Digital Tools Selection Criteria As you read this article, pay specific attention to the selection criteria.
Rubric for Evaluating Web Tools This simple chart will help you determine your own criteria for Web Tools.
Digital Citizenship
Social Media at School: Teaching Safety on the Virtual Playground As you read this article, consider the virtual playground for your students and how you can help students make responsible choices in this arena.
Internet Safety Staying safe online is fundamental topic in the digital world. Along with reading about internet safety, take note of the many resources through Common Sense Education, a wonderful resource for teachers implementing digital tools in the classroom.
Digital Footprint and Reputation As you read this article, consider ways you can help students become aware of their digital footprint while celebrating a culture of sharing.
Oversharing: Think Before You Post Internet Privacy A video designed for students, use this video to consider discussion points you can have with students around digital citizenship.
Accessibility
Introduction to Web Accessibility Think about what is meant by web accessibility as your review this introduction. How does Web Accessibility relate to using Web Tools in your classroom?
Student Data Privacy
As you consider Web Tools, it is important to create an awareness of student data privacy and ways to protect students online. Explore these resources and consider how this area will influence your own selection criteria:
What is COPPA? Watch this video and then follow this link to learn what the law says about protecting students online.
Consider simple ways to help students understand, Privacy and Security
Dig deeper into policies through considering Needles, Haystacks, and Policies
It is recommended that as you begin this course, you explore the procedures and policies in your own district or school regarding Web Tools.
Integration
Final Project Activity:
Throughout the course, you will experience a variety of Web Tools. As a Final Project, use a Web Tools Mind Map to organize the tools that you find are appropriate for your classroom. You will also include corresponding instructional application ideas and design an instructional page for each tool that you include on your Mind Map. See this description and rubric for more information.
Explore these Web Tools Mind Map Tools and choose one to use as you begin to plan your final project:
Guiding Question
How can Web Tools influence my professional practice?
Warm Up
As we begin this session, let's use a Web Tool called Dotstorming to share our ideas. Using our Dotstorm below, briefly describe how you use Social Media personally. This could be Facebook or Pinterest or any other site. Does social media provide to you any professional help or information? If you don’t use Social Media, reflect on someone who does.
To add your response, Enter Your Name, select Add a Card. Please remember to include your name at the beginning or end of your response. After colleagues have added a card, notice the dots at the bottom of the card. Vote, using the dots, with three of the ideas of three colleagues with which you agree.
Exploration
As you interact with the following content, think about how these Web Tools can influence your professional practice?
Explore this video to define a PLN as well as to begin to think about getting started!
Play Video
10 Reasons Every Teacher Needs A Professional Learning Network Use this graphic and accompanying text to inspire you to create a professional learning network.
Now, take some time to explore tools that can become part of your Professional Learning Network. Which of these sites or others that you found contribute to your own professional learning?
Integration
Twitter is an excellent place to begin to develop a Professional Learning Network. Explore these resources to think about how Twitter serves as the perfect tool for an educator's PLN:
Choose one of the sets of directions below to create a Twitter account. Think about your username/handle and allow it to represent your professional identity. It is recommended that if you have a personal Twitter account, to create an additional professional account to use for your Professional Learning Network.
Who Should I Follow? Follow your own instructional paths and passions, but to get started you might consider the following lists. Follow at least 5 educators/accounts.
Guiding Question
How can I organize and share content with my students?
Warm Up
As we begin this session, let's continue our application of Twitter to share our ideas. Share the strategies and methods you use to share digital content with students and tag it with the hashtag #mptcurate by Thursday. Feel free to share your struggles and successes, but remember the character limitation of a tweet! Optional: Consider using TweetDeck to search for #mptcurate to see our conversation this week.
Exploration
Why Do We Use Digital Content?
As you explore, Guide To Choosing Digital Content and Curriculum, pay close attention to the definition of digital content, types of digital content, as well as the challenges and affordances of using digital content.
As you skim through the Digital Content Goes To School, pay close attention to the section on How Digital Content Is Used (p. 13) and Benefits and Concerns (p. 24-27).
Why is Curation Important When We Speak of Digital Content?
Use this article to Getting Started with Content Curation in the Classroom to define curation.
Read Why Curation Revolutionizes Education and Learning to further extend your understanding of curation and why it is important to educators.
Are You a Curator or a Dumper provides educational scenarios for when curation can make a difference as well as guidelines for curation.
What Tools Can I Use to Curate and Share Digital Content?
Explore the links on the Symbaloo to explore each tool. You will be making a decision to use one tool in the next section. (You may click on the link to the Symbaloo and open it in a new window or use the embedded Symbaloo below)
Integration
Think about a unit or lesson that could be enhanced using Symbaloo, Diigo, Participate! (formerly EduClipper), or ThingLink to collect, curate, and share digital content. Choose one of the four tools to use. Revisit the Exploration links to learn to use that tool (as well as any additional research on your own) so that you are able to add digital content that you will share with your students.
Now that you have learned to use the tool, add digital content that you will be sharing with your students for that lesson, a series of lesson, or a unit. You may use Digital Content that you have collected in the past or find new resources that better fit your curriculum and students' needs!
Guiding Question
How can I organize and share content with my students when the teacher is the creator?
Warm Up
As we begin Week 2 of this Session, reflect on your content collection and curation process, identifying where teacher created content that can be shared with students can further enhance the digital content that you have collected. Add your response in the form of a comment to this VoiceThread. You will need to create an account and add your comment by selecting the + at the bottom of the class VoiceThread.
Exploration
The New Digital Learning Playbook: The Digital Content Story provides some interesting data from Project Tomorrow, Speak Up around Digital Content.
Consider the Digital Content that you have begun to collect and curate in light of 10 Best Practices for Teaching with Digital Content.
Integration
Choose one of the following tools, or one that you have researched on your own (be sure to share with your facilitator) to create digital content to enhance or extend the digital content that you have collected. Be sure that you are able to share your product with the class through a public sharing link.
Tool
Description
Getting Started
Animoto is a cloud-based video creation service that produces video from photos, video clips, and music into video slideshows
Getting Started with Animoto for Education
Creating Your First Animoto Video
PowToon is a Web-based animation software that allows you to create animated presentations with your students by manipulating pre-created objects, imported images, provided music and user created voice-overs.
WeVideo is an online video creation and editing platform.
Screencast-O-Matic is a free online screen capture tool. This tool records a designated area of your screen as well as audio and webcam input.
Prezi is a presentation tool that can be used as an alternative to traditional slide making programs such as PowerPoint. Instead of slides, Prezi makes use of one large canvas that allows you to pan and zoom to various parts of the canvas and emphasize the ideas presented there.
Student/Teacher Account Verification
Piktochart is a web-based infographic application which allows users without intensive experience as graphic designers to easily create infographics and visuals using themed templates.
A Student’s Guide to Getting Started with Piktochart
Book Creator is the simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks.
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).
Be sure to add your own digital content to your Symbaloo, EduClip Board, ThingLink, or Diigo Collection.