1. Web 2.0 Tools
2011 Symposium
May 20th 2011
Mary Asquith
St Richards Kilsyth

2. My PLN
(Personal Learning Network)
• Personal Learning Network for Victorian
Schools project.
• 12 weeks online project
• Collaboration of The State Library of
Victoria and School Library Association
of Victoria
• http://plnteach.global2.vic.edu.au/the-
program/

3. What is Web 2.0?
• Web 2.0 is the term given to describe a
second generation of the World Wide
Web that is focused on the ability for
people to collaborate and share
information online.
• http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/W
eb_2_point_0.html

4. Examples of Web 2.0
• Social networking sites - Facebook
• Blogs
• Wikis - Wikipedia
• Video sharing sites - YouTube
• Hosted services – Google Docs
• Web applications - Wordle

5. Blogs (Web Logs)
• A blog is a type of website or part of a
website. Blogs are usually maintained
by an individual with regular entries of
commentary, descriptions of events, or
other material such as graphics or
video. Entries are commonly displayed
in reverse-chronological order.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

6. Facebook
• Facebook is a social networking service and
website launched in February 2004.
• More than 600 million active users as of
January 2011.
• Users may create a personal profile, add other
users as friends, exchange messages, update
their profiles.
• Users may join common interest user groups,
organized by workplace, school or college etc.
• How many of you have a Facebook account?

7. Examples of Blogs
• http://marya.global2.vic.edu.au/
My PLN blog using Global2
• http://cevn.cecv.catholic.edu.au/iconblog.aspx
CEVN ICON Blog
• http://global2.vic.edu.au/
Global2 Blog
• http://2kmand2kj.global2.vic.edu.au/
2KM and 2KJ Leopold Primary School Class Blog

8. Wikis
• A wiki is a type of website that allows visitors
themselves to easily add, remove and
otherwise edit and change some available
content, sometimes without the need for
registration.
Wikipedia
• Ward Cunningham created the first wiki in 1995. The
name "Wiki" was inspired by the Hawaiian word wiki
or wiki-wiki, which means "quick".
• Wikipedia is probably the most well known example
of a public wiki.
• Many wikis are private, restricted to registered users.

9. Wikis in myclasses
• Example of Wiki in myclasses
• http://home.srkilsyth.catholic.edu.au/my
wiki/Wiki.Page,101112878308541
• Rainforests are Cool!
• Problems

10. Wordle
• Wordle is a toy for generating “word
clouds” from text that you provide. The
clouds give greater prominence to
words that appear more frequently.
• You can tweak your clouds with
different fonts, layouts, and color
schemes.
• You can print out images you create, or
save them to the Wordle gallery to
share with your friends.

11. Wordle example

12. 51 Interesting Ways* to use
Wordle in the Classroom 1
• http://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/wordle.htm
• Wordle a collection of words that represent
parts of speech. Change the colors to white
words on a black background in Wordle. Ask
students to color nouns one color, verbs a
different color, etc.
• Ask students to predict what the main ideas of
a reading will be.
• Find out what ideas are most important in a
famous speech. E.g. Martin Luther King Jnr’s
speech Ï Have a Dream

13. 51 Interesting Ways* to use
Wordle in the Classroom 2
• Wordle text from the newspaper (online)
looking at bias.
• Use a non-fiction reading and ask students to
use the Wordle to generate a title or headline
before they see the real article.
• Compare two different accounts / essays on
the same theme / event - let them compare
the Wordles generated by each.
• Generate Wordles for two different reading -
let students see if they can match the Wordle
to it's corresponding reading.

14. 51 Interesting Ways* to use
Wordle in the Classroom 3
• Two Wordle tips:
• 1. Once you have created a Wordle
right click a term to remove it from the
results. Wordle will re-compute w/o it.
• 2. Use ~ to connect two (or more) word
into one term Ex: literacy~strategy

15. Tagxedo 1
• Tagxedo turns words -- famous
speeches, news articles, slogans and
themes -- into a visually stunning tag
cloud, words individually sized
appropriately to highlight the
frequencies of occurrence within the
body of text.
• http://www.tagxedo.com/

16. Tagxedo 2
• Make tag clouds and respin, and respin to your
liking.
• Save the tag cloud as images for printing and
sharing.
• Look at all variants of the clouds in a gallery and pick
the one you want for further tweaking or saving.
• Choose from many different fonts.
• Use local fonts (e.g. downloaded from Font Squirrel,
DaFont, FontSpace, or your own hand-drawn fonts).
• Switch between different colors and themes.
• Constrain the cloud to selected shapes (heart, star,
cloud, oval, etc).

17. Tagxedo of Goldilocks text

18. Wallwisher 1
• Wallwisher is a Web 2.0 free online tool where
anyone can build a “wall”. Discussing a new
idea? Taking notes? Giving feedback? Voicing
opinion? Wishing a happy birthday?
• Your students can then go onto the internet
and stick post-it notes electronically onto your
wall. The notes can include linked pictures,
You Tube videos, PowerPoints, PDF
documents, Excel Spreadsheets, or web page
links.
• http://www.wallwisher.com/

19. Wallwisher 2
• http://seanbanville.com/2010/06/26/wallwisher-105-
classroom-ideas/
• Can be used to elicit things students might not
want to express in front of the class. They can
post anonymously.
• Brainstorming writing topics.
• Five Things each Please Students contribute
five things each to a brainstorming session.
This means quieter students contribute
equally.

20. Wallwisher 3
• Students could post images instead of words
as part of the brainstorming session.
• Put the starter in the title of the Wall; students
have to finish them by posting stickies.
• Wallwisher is a great way of polling opinions.
• Students post stickies of their favourite sites.
• Create a special wall for books.
• http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/2010bookweek

21. State Library of Victoria
• http://www.slv.vic.gov.au
State Library of Victoria
• Join the library, use your card and read
newspapers online
• http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/ergo/
Ergo: A research and study website for students
that puts Victorian history at students' fingertips
• Study and Research guides

22. Boolify
• http://www.boolify.org/
• To begin your search, move a green keyword
piece to the board. Refine your search by
adding pieces, such as and, not, or, or a URL
to limit your results.

23. Google Docs
• http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html Google
Docs Tour Open a Google Account (Gmail)
https://docs.google.com/present/edit?
id=0AQUP703c_xQrZGZzN25qZzhfMXZiZDVuYmhw&hl=en&
pli=1&authkey=CO6Zp-IG My Web 2.0 PowerPoint posted
on Google Docs

24. References
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
Wikipedia: a web 2.0 tool itself
• http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/Web_2_point_0
.html
Webopedia.com: a free online dictionary for words,
phrases and abbreviations that are related to computer
and Internet technology.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
Wikipedia: entry on Blog
• http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/
Web 2.0 Cool Tools for Schools

25. References 2
• http://www.larkin.net.au/020_web20_links.html
Web 2.0 in teaching & learning ~ links and resources for
teachers
• http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/e
dtools.html
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Teaching Tools
• http://www.onlinedegree.net/100-essential-2-0-tools-
for-teachers/
Online Degree – 100Essential Web 2.0 Tool for
Educators
• http://web2010.discoveryeducation.com/web20tools.
cfm
Discovery Education Web 2.0 Tools

26. References 3
• http://sigilt.iste.wikispaces.net/Favorite+Web+2.0+To
ols
Sigilt - Favorite Web 2.0 Tools 25 Jan 2010 ...
Language Arts students write and embed Web 2.0
tools.
• http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curricu
lum/ict/
WA Education Blogs and Wikis in Education
• http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/schooled/school_th
eme_pages/pid/542
Edna theme page on blogs and wikis
• http://dotsub.com/view/77366331-a04d-48f0-8cab-
cb5e278c4033

27. References 4
• http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/perth04/procs/
augar.html
Explanation of Wikis
• http://boolify.org/
Boolify Simple Search tool using Boolean logic
• http://www.wordle.net/
Wordle
• http://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/wordle.htm
51 Interesting Ways* to use Wordle in the Classroom
• http://web20guru.wikispaces.com/Web+2.0+Resourc
es
Web 2.0 Guru (Web 2.0 everything)

28. References 5
• http://www.wallwisher.com/
Wallwisher website
• http://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org/2011/03/22/free
-tools-challenge-1-wallwisher-words-that-stick/
Wallwisher demo
• http://seanbanville.com/2010/06/26/wallwisher-105-
classroom-ideas/
Wallwisher - 105 Classroom Ideas
• http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/ergo/
State Library of Victoria

29. References 6
• http://2kmand2kj.global2.vic.edu.au/
2KM and 2KJ Leopold Primary School Class Blog
• http://primarytech.global2.vic.edu.au/2011/02/06/5steps-to-
starting-a-class-blog/
5 Steps to starting a class blog Kathleen Morris (McGeady)
• http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html
Google Docs tour
• https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?
sid=2007026&psid=2010-05-25.2308.D.D7D4C0FD46AE724CE
C153475C9816C.vcr
Elluminate session on Cybersafety
• http://creativecommons.org/
Creative Commons Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally
Mary Asquith St. Richard’s Kilsyth