Problem Based Learning (K-12) – Web 2.0 is about revolutionary new ways of creating, collaborating,
editing and sharing user-generated content on line. It’s also about ease of use. There is no
need to download and teachers and students can master many of these tools in minutes.
Technology has never been easier or more accessible to all. See how you can
promote technology, create user generated content and collaborate with your staff
members and among students in your library.
Bosa Mijaljevic, Librarian, Arts High School, Newark, Deborah Liberato, Librarian, Paterson
Public Schools & Cara Cunha, Librarian, Roseland Public Schools
2. What is Web 2.0?
• Web 2.0 – Non-restrictive
–People can post comments, change
information, upload videos or
photos and contribute to a site
–User Generated Content
3. Also, Web 2.0 is
• Participatory
• Collaborative
• Connective
• Shareable
• Personalized
• Social
5. Why Web 2.0 in Education?
• "Children raised on new media technologies are less
patient with filling out worksheets and listening to
lectures because students already participate on a global
level.”Collins, Allan (2009). Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
• Will Richardson stated in Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and
other Powerful Web tools for the Classrooms, 3rd Edition
that,“Educators must possess the ability to adapt
technology to meet individual needs, rather than vice
versa”
10. Creativity
Kerpoof Studio
• Explore
• Create
• Design
• Make a picture
• Make a movie
• Make a drawing
• Select a background then
drag and drop your selected
additions.
12. ZooBurst
Digital Story Telling
• Create 3D pop-up books
• Can make items “clickable,"
allowing readers to learn
more about individual
characters within a story.
• Each character can have its
own 'chat bubble' that pops
up when that character is
clicked.
• Authors can also record
their own voices using the
ZooBurst audio recorder
13. VoiceThread
• Group conversations are collected and shared in one
place from anywhere in the world
• No software to install
• Collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds
images, documents and videos
• Allows people to navigate slides and leave comments
in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text,
audio file, or video (via a webcam).
• Users can doodle (draw) while commenting
• Can be exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as
archival movies.
14. VoiceThread
Second Graders
I Spy
• Tech skills
• Literacy skills
• Fun
• Engaging
Fifth Graders
Ellis Island
• Role playing
• Tech skills
• Literacy skills
• Engaging
• Fun
15. PicLits Writing Prompts
•Creative writing site
•Matches images with carefully selected keywords
•The object is to put the right words in the right place and
the right order
•Capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture
•Primary/Secondary resources
22. My top 10 destinations slideshow
National Park slideshow
Seven wonders of the World
Travel Venezuela
Literature Link: Amber Brown is Not a Crayon – students had to research a country
23. Use Google Street Views to post full-screen, interactive Street Views!. Plug in an
address, pan for the perfect angle, and sign off with a caption.
Literature Link: Alex Rider series
Catcher in the Rye, Eloise
26. QUICKLYST
Quicklyst provides a simple outline template that
you can use to take notes. You can search a word and
Quicklyst will insert basic information. Search
within your notes.
Native Americans
I. Coming to America
A. land bridge
II. Tribes by Region
A. Southwest
B. Southeast
III. Tribes today
A. Life on a reservation
InClass and Paper53 are free iPhone and iPad apps
with similar abilities. http://www.fiftythree.com/paper
Springnote
Create personal or group notebooks online using text, graphics,
and calendars with content that can easily be uploaded to blogs.
30. FOSSweb
FOSSweb bridges research and
practice by providing tools and
strategies to engage students and
teachers in enduring experiences
that lead to deeper understanding
of the natural and designed worlds
42. Middle School
Crime Solver Lesson
Book talk and/or
create a display of
Mystery Books with a
“Who done it? “
theme.
43. How to Smile is an online community of
educators that have vetted over 3,000
engaging hands-on, interactive STEM
activities. With both desktop and mobile
capabilities. How to Smile is full of
activities that are both physical and virtual
that are sure to get students involved.
How to Smile
44.
45. Launchball is a prototype for the
future of online learning for science
education! The Science Museum
of London has developed an
amazing tool for learning the
concepts of motion, forces,
electricity, magnetism, light, and so
much more. But your students will
also learn about problem solving,
trial and error, strategy, and critical
thinking. Additionally, they can
create their own challenges and
share them with their friends.
Launchball
47. Lesson Plans Across the
Curriculum
For more details see: http://gamestarmechanic.com/teachers/using_gamestar and
http://cdn.gamestarmechanic.com/1.31c/pdfs/gamestar-getting-started-pack.pdf
53. WebRangers
• This is the National Park
Service's on-line Junior
Ranger program for kids
of all ages.
• If you love your National
Parks, Monuments and
Historic Sites, this site is
for you.
• Play more than 50 games
and learn about National
Parks
• Also available in Spanish
54. iCivics
• Prepares young Americans
to become knowledgeable,
engaged 21st century
citizens
• Founded by Justice Sandra
Day O’Connor to reverse
Americans’ declining civic
knowledge and
participation
• Offers the nation’s most
comprehensive, standards-
aligned civics curriculum
that is available freely on
the Web.
55. MyHistro - A Timeline and Mapping
Tool in One
On myHistro you can build a personal timeline or build a
timeline about a theme or event in history. Each event that
you place on your timeline can be geolocated using Google
Maps. "Story" is myHistro's name for timelines. Create a story
then add events to your story. Each event can include videos,
images, text and be geolocated on a map.
Dipity - Create Timelines About Current Events
IWitness
Over 1,000 online video testimonies of
Holocaust survivors
57. Spiderscribe
SpiderScribe is the visual learner’s ideal tool. It allows you to create a concept
map of a topic using documents, pictures, maps etc. Students can collaborate
to build a project map. Ex. Exotic Festivals
58. Spiderscribe – Summer Olympics
Science Idea
ARKive gathers together films, photographs, and audio recordings of the world’s
species to establish a comprehensive multimedia digital collection of profiles of species
either rare or threatened with extinction.
61. Historypin
Historypin brings together stories, photographs and links memories from
around the world. Create collections, discuss history, and capture and share
the world's moments. Literature Link: Map out family history.
You could also have students map out the story of a Holocaust survivor or a
famous explorer.
63. Smithsonian:
Simple: Locate different pictures
Advanced: Click on the pictures and a short passage with questions
appears.
Literature connection:
Magic Tree House Buffalo before Breakfast
Where the Buffaloes Begin, by Olaf Baker
Buffalo Woman, by Paul Goble
Weblink: http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/nativeamericans.html
The Native Americans’ relationship to the
buffalo
64. SMITHSONIAN ART TO ZOO ARTICLES
• Radio – article
• Literature link: Radio Rescue by
Lynne Barasch
• Who Was that Masked Man Anyway,
by Avi
• Wille Bea and the Time the Martians
Landed, by Virginia Hamilton
• Podcast for LMS
• Create a podcast with class
http://www.smithsonianedu
cation.org/educators/lesson
_plans/radio/index.html
http://childrensbookradio
.com/ Book reviews
http://www.readingrocke
ts.org/article/25032/
http://www.scholastic.co
m/teachers/article/tech-
how-podcasts
67. Peace Corps – World Wise Schools
• Free
• Lesson Plans
• Interactive
• E-books
• By grade
• By region
• By subject
See also : World Food Organization
wfp.org/students-and
-teachers/students/fun-and-learn
National geographic:
ttp://nationalgeographic.com
68. Library of Congress
Primary and Secondary Sources
Collection of Over
151 million items includes
– More than 34.5 million
cataloged books and other
print materials in 470
languages
– More than 66.6 million
manuscripts; the largest
rare book collection in
North America
– World's largest collection
of legal materials, films,
maps, sheet music and
sound recordings.
81. Library of Congress
Primary and Secondary Sources
Collection of more than
• 151 million items includes
– More than 34.5 million
cataloged books and other
print materials in 470
languages
– More than 66.6 million
manuscripts; the largest
rare book collection in
North America
– World's largest collection
of legal materials, films,
maps, sheet music and
sound recordings.
83. Election Sites
Old School Presidential Campaign Videos
This afternoon my Uncle Bob shared with me this video of a campaign jingle
for Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952. I then shared the video on Twitter with
the comment, "what if political campaign ads were still like this?" To that
Tony Amsler replied, "maybe we can run a contest for folks to create
jingles." I think that could become a great classroom activity as the election
approaches. Have students use tools like Animoto, WeVideo, or Pixorial to
create "lighter" campaign commercials.
For more old campaign commercials and ideas for using them in your
classroom, please check out The Living Room Candidate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TctDYRECE9o
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/elections/index.ht
ml
84. Social Studies Project Ideas
Using C-Span to teach about the U.S. Presidents
http://www.americanpresidents.org/classroom/
http://www.americanpresidents.org/
The 50 States
http://www.pewstates.org/projects/stateline
http://www.50states.com/
Debating Social Issues
Multnomah County Library Homework Center
Public Agenda
Everything About Debating (University of Vermont)
http://www.ipl.org/IPL/Finding?Key=states&collection=youth
Ideas of using technology in the social studies classroom.
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-social-studies-lessons
http://schoolcomputing.wikia.com/wiki/Technology_in_Social_Studies
http://www.socialstudiescentral.com/?q=content/online-interactive-simulations
http://www.socialstudies.org/resources
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/04/12-resources-every-social-
studies.html#.ULGacmewWNw
85. Technology Integration Resources
• http://www.webenglishteacher.com/tech.ht
ml
• http://www.webenglishteacher.com/reading
main.html
• http://www.webenglishteacher.com/vocab.ht
ml
86. SCIENCE – HISTORY - TECHNOLOGY
http://www.techtrekers.com/secsci.htm
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
VIRTURAL FIELD TRIPS
WEBQUESTS
SIMULATIONS
RUBRICS
SCAVENGER HUNTS
POWERPOINT IDEAS
HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE SITES
SOCIAL STUDIES SITES
WEB RESOURCE SITES
INTEGRATION IDEAS OF SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES
THEMATIC UNITS
87. StudyBlue
Use Study Blue to study millions of flash cards and online quizzes or
if you can’t find what you are looking for, create your own. Available in mobile formats
as well. Study Blue is a powerful tool. Tip: Use Study Blue to practice language skills
when learning new words.
88. NASA Kids Club – Use as an example to create with other
tools.
It is time to engage your senses in outer space. Join the NASA
Kids Club and take off into a universe of STEM activities that
engage and inspire teaching and learning. Join the Discovery
Crew with Buzz Lightyear, visit NASA with Elmo, explore outer
space with Nebula, and follow those Angry Birds into another
universe. NASA Kids Club guarantees an out-of-this-world
experience.
90. Frank Potter's Science Gems
http://www.sciencegems.com/physical2.html
INTERACTIVE PHYSICS
VIRTUAL LIGHTBULB
PARTICLES IN A BOX
ELECTRIC GENERATOR
LIGHT
91. AWARD WINNING SITES
• EXPERIMENTS AND MAKE YOUR
OWN:
• Hover Craft
• Flotation
• Volcano
• Plastic
• Clouds
• IN THE NEWS CONNECTS YOU TO 100’S OF
ARTICLES ABOUT CURRENT SCIENCE
DISCOVERIES.
REEKO SCIENCE LAB
http://www.reekoscience.com/Experi
ments/Hovercraft.aspx
SCI-CENTRAL
http://scicentral.com/
92. Ocean Motion →
A comprehensive review of the
surface circulation of Earth’s ocean as
well as lesson plans and quizzes.
VIDEO’S ALL SPACE, OCEAN, EARTH
Mars Student Imaging Project →
Sign up to let your students use a camera on
the Odyssey orbiter to take their own image of
the Red Planet and analyze it using the
scientific method.
96. AWARD WINNING SITES
• REEKO SCIENCE LAB
• http://www.reekoscie
nce.com/Experiments/
Hovercraft.aspx
• SCI-CENTRAL
• http://scicentral.co
m/
• EXPERIMENTS AND MAKE YOUR OWN:
• Hover Craft
• Flotation
• Volcano
• Plastic
• Clouds
• IN THE NEWS CONNECTS YOU TO 100’S OF
ARTICLES ABOUT CURRENT SCIENCE
DISCOVERIES.
98. Create Activities
Focus on details, make connections, map history,
weigh the evidence, interpret data, find a sequence
using primary sources, and see the big picture!