Are you ready to jazz up student projects with technology? Students are eager to use multimedia. Capitalize on their interest to boost critical thinking and collaboration in their response to learning. Class participants will investigate at least five different web based tools, and then generate and develop ideas for revising their current project assignments or developing new ones utilizing these tools in grades 3-12.

1. Debra Mayer
Librarian, St Luke School

2. Web 2.0
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3.  Information sharing
 Interoperability
 User centered design
 Collaboration

4. What does this mean for our students?
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6.  To become comfortable with several Web
2.0 tools
 Collaborate to create a list of ideas for
projects exploiting the tools
 Create a project/assignment you can use
this school year with your students
 Discuss pitfalls and brainstorm ways to
mitigate

7. Animoto Book Trailer
Tagxedo French
Vocabulary Project
New Student Project:
LiveBinder

8.  Divide into levels (K-4, 5-12), upper grades
may want to divide into subjects
 Brainstorm possible assignments/ projects/
student responses in which use web based
tools
 Example: create a biographical sketch
using Pinterest
 Be ready to share rough ideas with the
whole group

9. As you work, think about:
 pitfalls,
risks, and drawbacks to assigning
and having students produce a project
using web-based tools
 possible
alternatives, solutions, choices, and
workarounds
We will gather and discuss these concerns
at the end of our session

10.  Create a rubric for an assignment/project in
which students use a Web 2.0 tool or have a
choice of tools that you can assign this school
year to your students.
 You might want to use Rubrics4Teachers or
create your own rubric
 Include a short description of your
assignment you can share on the “Ideas!” tab
of the LiveBinder
 Create an exemplar of your assignment

11.  Coming Soon!