Web+2.0

Web 2.0  Vuvox - Vuvox is a Web 2.0 website that allows you to create a interactive visual presentation site that is suited to your creative needs. You can upload pictures and video's and arrange them as you feel fit. It is described as a visual blogging tool on the website. After uploading your own pictures and movies you can add text to them, enhance with links to other websites, or rotate and design the background in the best way suited to your needs. You can access your own Pisca, SmugMug, or Flickr accounts to upload images as well. Once you are done, you can embed it, send the link to friends, or pass it along through Facebook. This site has the potential to be a fun and motivating way for students to do book reports, biographies, or a variety of other presentations on. It is a creative alternative to PowerPoint and the kids will enjoy letting their artistic sides run free. With the ability to add text and link to sites, students still have the responsibility to provide an textual outlet. However, since this site focuses more on the visual, the students may find themselves acting in a skit about their book to upload to the site, or running around town trying to find evidence of certain types of leaves in their neighborhood to snap a picture of (two random projects I just thought of). Here is a link to one I made up quickly. Once my pictures and movies were uploaded, it took all of 5 minutes to situate it all and have it ready to be viewed. Granted, it is not very educational, but the amount of time it took me does speak to the ease of the program. Horizon Minions VocabAhead - Vocabulary Videos. This website provides the definition to many of the words that will appear on the ACT, GRE, and/or SAT. In addition to the definition, each word has video that accompanies it. In the video, it goes through the definition, examples of the word in sentences, and different meanings it may have. Edmodo - A popular "school/social networking" site that is used fairly regularly by most of our teachers at Horizon. Students create their own accounts and join groups that their teachers have created. They can talk directly to the teacher or to the whole class. The teacher is able to see everything that is written, which makes it easier to monitor. Teachers can create quizzes, polls, upload files, or embed video's into it. Some teachers in my school use it strictly for enrichment opportunities. I tend to use it for homework help and as a way for students to have book discussions. ﻿ A list of Education, Web 2.0, SMART, etc. people I follow on Twitter. Feel free to use and follow as well!