1. Powerful Learning Practices (PLP)
Web 2.0 Tools
Powerful Learning Practices
(PLP)

2. What is Web 2.0? Web 1.0 Web 2.0 One dimensional
Strictly the delivery of information
Static
Web 2.0
Collaborative
Interactive
Ability to harness collective intelligence
Fluid

3. (Free) Web 2.0 Tools: Wiki’s Glogster Digital Timelines Google Earth
Voicethread
Animoto
Wordle/Tagxedo
Big Huge Labs
Prezi

4. Wiki’s
What is it?
Web-based (24/7 access), collaborative document with “hot” links to information.
How to Use:
Can attach images, video, links to personal files or the Internet, widgets and text editing

5. Wiki’s cont.: Ideas for use: - pathfinders for research projects
- club information (book club, ski club, etc.)
- class discussion (novel, article, test review)
- online portfolio or “container” for web-
based projects
EXAMPLE:

6. Glogster What is it? Online, interactive poster How to use:
Can attach images, video, audio, personal files, graphics, data, personal drawings.
**Unlimited creative capabilities**

7. Glogster cont.: Ideas for use: - country projects - biographies
- events projects (Kennedy assassination)
- time periods (1920’s)
- cultures (Ancient Rome, Greek Gods)
EXAMPLE:

8. Digital Timelines What is it? How to use:
Online, interactive timeline of information
How to use:
Can attach images, video, audio, and text along specific dates
Can include concurrent timeline to highlight specific periods in history

9. Digital Timelines cont.:
Ideas for use:
- biographies
- historical events (battles in a war, key moments of a presidency, bill becoming a law, women’s suffrage)
- art history
- religious history
EXAMPLE:

10. Google Earth
What is it?
Virtual globe, map and geographic information program.
How to use:
- Virtual zooming and gliding over the Earth
- Ability to zoom in on specific locations
- Can create “Google Tours”

11. Google Earth cont.: Ideas for use: - trace immigration routes
- battles in a war
- potential college choices
- track tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunami’s
- wonders of the world
- trace epidemics/pandemics
- migration patterns of hummingbirds/sea turtles
- track journeys in novels (“Grapes of Wrath”)

12. Voicethread What is it? How to use:
Online communication/storytelling
How to use:
Add text (comments) to a single picture or tell a story through multiple pictures. Can also include background music.

13. Voicethread cont.: Ideas for Use: - digital storytelling
- book reviews
- art review/criticism
- explaining a process in mathematics
- explaining how to use a database or conduct an advanced search
EXAMPLE:

14. Animoto What is it? How to use:
Online music video
How to use:
Add images, music and text boxes and Animoto does the rest.

15. Animoto cont.: Ideas for Use:
book reviews
biographies
historical events
science experiments
ancient cultures
EXAMPLE:

16. Wordle/Tagxedo What is it? How to Use?
generates “word clouds” from text that you provide giving greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text
How to Use?
copy and paste text into the textbox and then select colors, fonts and layout of the final product (tagxedo also allows you to select the shape of the final product)

17. Wordle/Tagxedo cont.: Ideas for Use? Supreme Court Decisions Songs
Honor Codes
Constitutions/Declarations, etc.
Chapters of books
Foreign language matching
Student essays/reports/research

18. Example of Wordle: first chapter of Pride & Prejudice

19. Example of Tagxedo: United States Constitution

20. Big Huge Labs What is it? How to use:
Create cool things (trading cards, movie posters, magazine covers, etc.) with images
How to use:
Trading Cards – attach an image, title, sub-title, short text and colors and print out or embed

21. Big Huge Labs cont.: Ideas for Use? Animals First ladies Explorers
Presidents
Inventors
Solar system
colleges

22. Big Huge Labs cont.:
Example:

23. Prezi What is it? How to use: Ideas for use?
Cloud-based presentation software on a zoomable canvas.
How to use:
Think PowerPoint with everything present on one slide and you zoom in and out of each entry
Ideas for use?
Anything you would use PowerPoint for.

24. Prezi cont.:
Example:

25. Just for Fun LibraryThing - Online personal book library
Evernote or Diigo
- Online “Favorites”
Stitch It
- Convert several links into one short URL
Jog the Web
- Creates a synchronous guide to a series of websites

26. Final Point…. Web 2.0 tools should enhance….not replace….content.
Don’t let the “bells and whistles” outshine the substance of the project.