1. online web
tools

2. Synchronous
• Occurring at the same time.
• Simultaneous
• E.g .chat sessions

3. Asynchronous
• Not occurring at the same time
• Delayed
• E.g. E-mail, blogging

4. Blogging

5. • 4.5 million Google sites on using blogs in
the classroom
• Authentic learning?
• Homework assignments
• Sharing classroom news
• Journaling own learning

6. Bundublog.com - free blogs for Africa

7. Microblogging

9. #designersanddevelopers

10. • Publish short text messages of less than 140
characters
• Online from cellphone
• Private safe online environment.
• Communication restricted so learners privacy
protected
• Teachers can send alerts, events and even
assignments to learners
• Valuable resources can be passed on quickly
and effortlessly

11. • Exchange of quick, frequent answers to one
simple question – what are you doing?
• If you are following the right people / experts
who are sharing what they are learning and
reading then you will be on the cutting edge
of Internet news

12. • During a lesson get feedback on a question –
imagine the excitement of responding to a
question posted in twitter – you are sure to
get more than the same 3 hands that normally
go up.

19. Wikis

21. • Derived from a Hawaiian word wiki
or wiki-wiki which means “quick”
• Is a social media tool which provides
a collaborative space where
members can add and edit pages and
create resources on any chosen topic

22. Why use wikis?
• Flexible asynchronous communication
tool
• Encourages peer supported creation of
content
• Learners have to work together,
negotiate, plan, research, problem solve
and take ownership of their contributions
• Portfolio of evidence created that can be
assessed

23. • Teachers can use wikis
collaboratively to create lessonplans
• Can post homework and assignments
on your class wiki
• Classroom rules, schedules and
calendars
• Post questions for students to
brainstorm
• Involve parents

24. Wikipedia

25. Wiki educator

26. Discussions

27. www.wikieducator.org

28. Podcasts

30. • Refers to recording audio & then
streaming it via the Internet for people
to listen to on their computers
• Can be used to record authentic
learning experiences in the classroom
• Create virtual tours of your curriculum
content or get learners to do it

31. • Start a classroom or school radio
station
• Practice language skills and vocab in
a more exciting way – learn a new
language
• Let learners conduct interviews with
experts
• Can be used to help encourage
storytelling and book reading

32. Browse the podcasts
by theme / topic

33. Play the reading of Do you
have a Hat to your class
http://podcast.com/episode/21366461/18408/?cp=1125

34. You can even find an
online copy of the story
with question ideas on
the Internet

35. Social networking

37. • Social networking site
• Online discussions
• Online chat
• Sharing of resources

39. Instant messaging
and chatting

40. • Communicate in a synchronous
manner with learners
• Communicate with fellow teachers
• Either verbal (with video even) or via
text chat

42. Add people to
the group chat
session

43. Type the message you want to
send to everyone here

44. Social bookmarking

45. Social bookmarking
Like a highlighter used to draw
other peoples attention to
something

47. RSS and widgets

48. Really Simple
What is RSS? Syndication
• A technology that helps you keep
track of their favourite websites.
• In the ‘old days’ to keep track of
updates on a website you had to
‘bookmark’ websites in your browser
and manually return to them on a
regular basis to see what had been
added.

49. RSS Changes Everything
• What if you could tell a website to let you know
every time that they update? In a sense, this is
what RSS does for you.
• RSS flips things around a little and is a technology
that provides you with a method of getting
relevant and up to date information sent to you
for you to read in your own time. It saves you
time and helps you to get the information you
want quickly after it was published.

50. What is a widget?
• Widget is a fancy word for tools or content
that you can add, arrange, and remove from
the sidebars of your blog. Widgets make it
easy to customize the content of your blog
sidebar.

51. Tag clouds
A tag cloud is a visual representation
for text data, typically used to depict
keyword metadata (tags) on websites,
.
or to visualize free form text.
'Tags' are usually single words,
normally listed alphabetically, and the
importance of each tag is shown with
font size or colour.

53. File sharing

54. Sharing slide presentations

55. Sharing photographs
email

56. www.picasa.com

57. • www.flickr.com
• Photo sharing website
A picture is worth a thousand words
Pictures of anything:
• Cloud formations
• Buildings
• Landmarks
• Historians
• Learners can take a photo on their cellphone when on a school
outing – this can be put it up on the site for classmates to comment
on or discuss

60. Learners can add their
comments / suggestions

61. Search the public gallery of photos that people have shared.
If you are dealing with Italy – you can just type Italy and hundreds of
photos will come up

62. • www.youtube.com
• www.teachertube.com
• Video sharing website
• Online video sharing sites provide teachers with
access to a wide selection of video material on
any topic within the curriculum
• Teacher tube is an online community for sharing
instructional videos

63. •You could record your lessons
•Learners could create video projects
•Use instructional videos to
demonstrate
difficult experiments / clarify difficult
concepts

65. You don’t have to attach Powerpoint
presentations to emails in order to
distribute them
You can upload them to a slideshow
platform and just share the link
Or you can search for other people’s
powerpoint presentations

67. • Cloud computing
• Online sharing of documents

69. • Cloud computing
• Online sharing of documents
• Collaborate with others

71. Mind mapping

72. E Books
• Imagine how much more exciting it is for
learners to read a book “online”
• Learners can respond to your posted
questions about the book and email you their
answers
• Learners are able to ask each other questions
• Students can write an online book review