Web+2.0+Tools

Video Conversion Tools
These online tools allow you to covert video files into various formats. You can either upload a file from your computer or copy and paste a URL (i.e. YouTube) to convert videos.

Zamzar

Movavi

MediaConverter

Voki


Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.

Voki video tutorial [|Voki_Speaking_Avatar_Instructions.pdf]

· Students can use Voki to create a class introduction, recording a message and using an avatar that resembles themselves. · Students connect with others, by exchanging these Voki recordings with other classmates, and with other students in other schools. · World language students can use Voki to speak “in character” for different role-play assignments. · Students can orally share their “writing pieces.” · Anyone can use it for a classroom “newscast.” · Can be used as an item in a student electronic portfolio. · As an “authentic” foreign language experience, students are writing, reading, revising, and speaking to an audience. · To aid resource students, teacher can record oral pronunciation of vocabulary words as a review-guide for upcoming assessments.
 * Classroom Ideas**

Glogster is a free web service that allow users to create weg pages (called posters) using Flash elemtnts. Images, video, audio and text can easily be uploaded and/or added to the content. § Complete a project on a famous composer and add video clips from a symphony orchestra playing his or her pieces § E-folios § Create book reports § Create public service announcements § Chronicle an event or time period in history using images, videos, and text
 * Glogster EDU (online poster editor) **
 * Classroom Ideas**

Glogster Tutorial
Glogster Exemplars

A Trip to Europe
Skype is an online tool that allows users to make voice calls over the Internet. Calls made from computer to computer are free, while calls from a computer to a landline or cell phone have a small charge. Other services such as instant messaging and video conferencing are also available at no charge.
 * Skype **
 * Classroom Ideas**


 * Live talks with authors and book discussions with students around the world.
 * Talk to meteorologists about weather concepts
 * Live talks with students in California about earthquake experiences.
 * Can be used as a global/multicultural project (addition to many ways in Geography class) where students can interact with peers their own age in another country and then can use literacy skills to communicate and build a cumulative project upon
 * Talk to or video conference with experts in any content area such as university professors to relate "real life" experiences with students to further their understanding of a content related concept.

**VoiceThread** VoiceThread is web 2.0 tool that allows the user to combine images, text, and video to create a multimedia slide show. Once the presentation has been created other users can leave video, audio, and text comments.
 * Classroom Ideas**

· Share reflections about a historical photograph. · Share favorite characters in a novel read by the class. · Use historical pictures, do research and give the report orally while viewing the visual. · Students can present digital book reports. · Students can share facts or reflections about a field trip · Students can explain art work/techniques, book reviews, book advertisement, science labs


 * [|VoiceThread.pdf]

Voicethread Video Tutorial

Examples of VoiceThread Projects** Civil War ABCs Faces of the World Area of a Triangle

Creates word clouds from inputted text. The size of the words in the word cloud depends on the word's frequency in the input text. The word cloud can be customized using different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. · Wordle famous speeches to determine themes · Create a wordle and have students pick out the word that does not belong · Have students define/ explain each word. Similes can be used so students can compare the similarities among the words · Students can build upon their vocabulary knowledge throughout the school year by consistently updating the Wordle as they learn new information · Students can create an acrostic of famous historical people or events for Social Studies classes. · Students could use this as part of a "What I Know" brainstoriming activity. The teacher could assign each student or group section of what they are about to study (1960's - policital movements, pop culture, science & technology) and have them come up with as many facts as they can. The group would present it to the class. As each group presents their Wordle, the rest of the class would fill out their "What I Want to Know" sections of their reading organizer writing down any questions they have about the information that is being presented.
 * Wordle **
 * Classroom Ideas**

Guess the Wordle Why Wordle? Using word clouds in a lesson
 * Examples of Wordle**

Enhanced Wordle media type="custom" key="6503535"

Jing is a free download that allows you to capture your computer screen through screenshots or screencasts. Text and/or audio can also be added to the screen capture.
 * Jing **
 * Classroom Ideas**
 * 1) Create a screencast with narration showing students how to use new software or online applications.
 * 2) Bring up students' work on your computer and narrate your comments and suggestions for editing.
 * 3) Students can record thenselves doing class work on their laptop (math, writing, brainstorming) for teachers to review the process taken by the student.

Bookr is free tool to create and share your own online photobook using images from Flickr. Students and teachers can search from the "public gallery" by key word or author. If users have a Flickr account and have chosen to make their images public, then those images will appear in search results.
 * Bookr **

Example [|A Bit of Heaven on Earth]


 * Classroom Ideas**
 * 1) Create a class photo book of events during the year.
 * 2) Creation tool for final projects, replacing PowerPoint.
 * 3) Online portfolio of student artwork.