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Application (. . . as Alan Levine says, it is as easy as 1 2 3)
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READY, SET, GO! Create Your Own Story
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- How Do I Come Up With A Story Idea?
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- Finding Media for Your Story
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- Select a Web 2.0 Tool to Tell Your Story
READY, SET, SHOUT! Integrating Web 2 Tools in Instruction
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- Build Upon What We Already Have
Go to the Online Research Models and suggest an alternative student product using a Web 2.0 tool.
Elementary | Middle | High School
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Use AIM (Articulate Instructional Module) to identify Library Media objectives/ knowledge and skills indicators that align with and justify the use of Web 2.0 tools.
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Use BCPS Licensed Digital Content
Need resources to use with instructional activities and lessons? Check out BrainPop "writing" resources at http://www.brainpop.com/english/writing/ and BrainPop Junior at http://www.brainpopjr.com/writing/essay/
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Promote Media Literacy and Reading
Imagine how you can use Web 2.0 tools with students to share their book reviews/critiques; promote the Maryland Blackeyed Susan Book Awards. Check out Edutopia web site provided by the George Lucas Educational Foundation which has hundreds of outstanding examples of media literacy projects explained in both video and text formats. I am sure you could spend many hours exploring this fantastic resource.
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- Instructional Collaboration With Colleagues
Talk to teachers who are looking for ways to engage students in communicating new knowledge in innovative ways - writing, sharing, collaborative work, visual literacy, persuasion, justification, etc. There is more than a PowerPoint for students to use!
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- Build Capacity and Understanding
Share student Web 2.0 projects with other teachers and administrators.
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This week you will have a lot of fun exploring Web 2.0 tools that are making a presence on the Web at an exponential rate. Take a look at several Web 2.0 directories as evidence of the scope of these resources: (1) NetWebApp, (2) Web2Logo, and (3) 2008 Web 2 Awards. There are many - so much so that it is confusing as to which one(s) would be the most effective tool to use to communicate your ideas, content, or story. Another problem is that when we try out a new Web 2 tool, we are often not creating the same content, thus measuring its effectiveness with other tool is difficult to assess because of the varying content.
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Thanks to Alan Levine, Vice President of the New Media Consortium (NMC) Community and CTO of NCM, a solution to the problem is readily available to us! Using a storyline about his dog Dominoe, he used 50 different Web 2.0 tools to share the same story in many creative ways. By your viewing the same story in 50 different Web. 2.0 tools, you will be able to decide which one(s) are the most effective.
Exploration
1. Let's begin by viewing one of 50 Alan Levine's stories about Dominoe. The first story is told with Web 2.0 tool SlideRocket; the second tool usedis Vuvox. Below the Vuvox media is a graphic guide to using the Vuvox media controls. in addition to Levine's list, there are two new digital storytelling Web 2.0 tools worthy of your exploration: Myths and Legends and Historic Tale Construction Kit (These came on the scene/or to our attention as of Jan. 19, 2009, which illustrates the proliferation of Web 2.0.)
2. After viewing either rendering of Dominoe, I would imagine you are curious about the other 49 ways that Alan Levine communicated his story about Dominoe. For the next exploration step, go to Alan Levine's website and view at least 5 of the Dominoe stories. Click image below to go to his website.
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3. I bet you are eager to try out some of these cool Web 2.0 tools with your own stories. Before you do, a word of caution to avoid frustration when using the BCPS network. As you know, the BCPS web filtering blocks out some very useful tools because they are tagged as either a social networking site or streaming media site. Therefore, in order to maximize the use of Web 2.0 tools for yourself and your students, the Office of Library Information Services and Barbara Falkinburg created a WEB 2.0 WHITE LIST of these tools that are NOT blocked by the web filtering. Go to the BCPS Web 2.0 website to see if some of your favorite Alan Levine tools are listed on the BCPS site. Choose one you would like to use to create your own story. Make sure you take a look at Animoto and SlideRocket (2 of my most favorite :-)) NOTE: Later in the EXTENSION step on this wiki, I will share with you how you can help LIS add more Web 2.0 tools to this white list.
4. Before you begin to create your own story, let's explore in more detail as to HOW Alan Levine organized his story board and the images he used to create the Dominoe stories. Go to the Dominoe Storyboard now.
Extension
Below are some choices to extend your learning about Web 2.0 tools:
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- Access to Web 2.0 Tools Within the BCPS Network
Now that you have knowledge of at least 50 more amazing Web 2.0 tools, we are asking that you support efforts to make these tools accessible in BCPS. After you have identified and evaluated a Web 2 tool (outside of the BCPS network) and attempt to access it at school, please complete the request for reevaluation by the Web team. Make sure that the Web. 2.0 tool that you request to unblock has contributed content that is appropriate to K-12 students, will enable the creator to control access (if applicable), availability of user directions and help, dependable operation, etc. Some Web 2.0 tools that have been successfully unblocked through the reevaluation process include Google Docs, VoiceThread, Google Earth, Wordle, and many more. See BCPS WHITE LIST of accessible Web 2.0 tools as evidence that the process works!
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- Appropriate and Ethical Use of Web 2.0 Tools
Involving students in creating content and sharing using Web 2.0 tools provides an excellent instructional opportunity to have conversations about appropriate and ethical use of information, technology, communication, and intellectual property. Some resources to use include the following:
- Faculty Awareness
Share with the faculty the BCPS WHITE List of accessible Web 2.0 tools- create a faculty handout, a Web 2.0 announcement, a PSA, a morning announcement, etc. Please share what you do by uploading to Week 3 folder.
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Comments (3)
psetser@... said
at 4:27 pm on Mar 2, 2009
Whew! My head is spinning exploring so many of the Web 2.0 tools. I am going to share Animoto and Slide with my students as possible resources for our book trailer project. Our art teacher is going to flip over Vuvox for its yearbook potential. Comic Sketch was not my first choice since I tend to be somewhat challenged artistically. Google Calendars is a must as a professional tool. I had great fun using Flypaper with all its templates. Stories will definitely come alive using this tool. I also really enjoyed the postcard with the song on Show Beyond. 4th graders, like those in the Lucas video clip, will have a blast creating animated shorts. So much to learn, so little time.....
Roxanne Dean said
at 4:18 pm on Mar 30, 2009
It took weeks just to look at all these cool things to do with WEB 2.0. I wish I had more time to explore. I thing I will be using more of these as the year comes to an end. I can see many ways to integrate these tools into the curriculum. My family is enjoying these. I even sent the gizmos to my neice and nephew and they were hooked. My neice is a fifth grader and she was able to pick up on it quickly. I kind of used her as a guinea pig before experimenting with my class. The only problem I found was lots of these tools do have a charge if you use them a lot. Perhaps this could be built into the budget for next year so I will have to decide which ones I would use the most. The Comic Sketch is my project coming up for this weeks students. I also tried ZOHO slide show and found that to be easy to add to a web page. Now I know how this is done on other sites. i am going to use this one for my own professional needs because it can include many slides. I can create tutorials for my students with it. I am having fun with all of these and I don't know which is my favorite yet.
Cindy Gardina said
at 7:51 pm on Dec 16, 2009
I looked at the Cyber Survival Guide for middle school. One idea is to have avideo of a student on a treasure hunt through the school in which the student is given a question about cyber safety and must answer correctly in order to get one step closer to his/her final destination (ex. the gym, the library, the cafeteria). The question could appear on the screen and the video stopped in order for the class to answer the question. The video would be restarted and the correct answer given.
The neatest thing about Web 2.0 is that it is similar to watching television and what student doesn't like to watch TV?
I will tell our teachers about Web 2.0 through an e-mail.
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