WILLOUGHBY-EASTLAKE

Online tools that encourage collaboration and are user centered.  This page may open a totally new door for your classroom and for a students ability to express themselves.

Web 2.0  Plus

A new concept in searching (Web Search - Images - Videos [Youtube] - Files - Blogs - Books - Local          Directory - News -  Weather) 

Search Engine

We’re just getting started on our first step towards creating an entirely new way to search the Web. The quality of your results will vary as we make Search-me better and better.
Visual Search for the Visual Student

Space Time Search

This site provides students and educators a safe, world class, and FREE media sharing website that is nationally endorsed by premier education associations 
May be viewed in the classroom

School Tube

The Internet is full of useful information, but it's disorganized and often unreliable. The potential of the Internet for education is especially huge.
Imagine tapping into that potential.
Imagine collecting all the best free educational videos made for children, and making them findable and watchable on one website. Then imagine creating many, many more such videos.
Just think: hundreds of thousands of great short videos, and other media, explaining every topic taught in schools, in every major language on Earth.Finally, imagine them all deeply and usefully categorized according to subject, education level, and placed in the order in which topics are typically taught.WatchKnow--as in, "You watch, you know"--is trying to do this.

(Note and Directions: may only view this from home.  
1.  Find a Categories you like.
2.  Click on the video your interested in.
3.  Just above the video is the description
     of the Video.
4.  Highlight and copy the description to
      the search section of YouTube.
5.  Once you have found the correct video and
     URL in Youtube copy it and then go to Convert
     Youtube listed below.

Watch-Know

You will need a login and use a password but it is free to use.

Teachers Domain

Teacher Tube

British Spin on Teachers Tube
May be viewed in the classroom

Many activates on this site for you to view.  Please take your time.

Teachers TV

This FREE software program will allow you to download the videos quickly and easily.  Once you have download the video you will find it located under MY DOCUMENTS - MY VIDEOS.  You will need to install the free version listed on the right.  You may now download much larger videos.  We have provided a video here if you need help. VIDEO

 Wondershare
for Windows

Wondershare
for Mac

Note You must use the convert website listed below to convert from home and brought to school)

(Note and Directions: may only view this from home.  
1.  Find a Categories you like.
2.  Click on the video your interested in.
3.  Just above the video is the description
     of the Video.
4.  Highlight and copy the description to
      the search section of YouTube.
5.  Once you have found the correct video and
     URL in Youtube copy it and then go to Convert
     Youtube listed below.

Science Hack

You will discover on the right two files to download (Audacity & LameMP3)  allowing you to create your own Podcast.  The only extra  hardware you need is a microphone.   Depending on your own personal web page you may create your own audio messages.  If you are presently using Pow-Pak as your web page creator you may very easily create and up load your Podcast.  For Pow-Pak websites I have placed a video showing you how.

You will need to down load this file and install it.  Make sure you know where it is installed on your computer.  This encoder will allow you to save your sound as an MP3 instead of a Wav file. Or in other words an MP3 file is 1/5 the size of the same file in wav format. You will only have to link to this file once when asked then the computer will automatically adjust for you.

1.) Audacity

2.) LAME MP3

Website for you if view if you wish to better understand the encoder

Videos on how to Create a Podcast

Some Reasons for Podcasting

Podcasting  for Smart Board

(9) Ed.VoiceThread:
is a web-based communications network for K-12 students and educators. Simple, powerful and safe, Ed.VoiceThread is a place for creating and collaborating on digital stories and documentaries, practicing and documenting language skills, exploring geography and culture, solving math problems, or simply finding and honing student voices.

VoiceThread

What is Twitter:  Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

You can start this account by clicking on the link on the right.  You may wish for your students to follow your every day move teaching and home life.

Twitter

Write4net

You will paste the URL of the video to a website and that website will convert your video for you and send it to you in an email you must provide.  Everything you need to know is illustrated for you in the videos.  Major change in your pedagogy

Convert

The program listed on the right will convert many different formats.  An example of a very useful one is you may upload a PDF format and have it converted to a doc file.

Zamzar

Wikispaces

Click here for Instructional
Videos

Bring the world to your class. 

Today's Front Pages

Online graphical dictionary that provides meanings and word relationships.

Educational Uses

• Illustrates relationships of words Synonyms and homonym
• Nous, verbs, adjectives, adverbs
• Great for English language learners
• Serves as a dictionary and thesaurus.
• Visuword combines a web 2.0 type visualization tool with Princeton University’s open source Word Net database to create an interactive click and drag type tool that is free for everyone to use.

Visuwords

We’re just getting started on our first step towards creating an entirely new way to search the Web. The quality of your results will vary as we make Search-me better and better.
Visual Search for the Visual Student

Space Time Search

Visual Dictionary

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept by us forever

National Archives

A New World of Educational Innovation Awaits You.  Glogster EDU is your original educational resource for innovative and interactive learning. Glogster EDU was conceived to imaginatively, productively, and collaboratively respond to the dynamic educational landscape and exceed the needs of today’s educators and learners.

GLOGSTER

Tagexdo

UJAM

Pollmo

Google Apps for Teachers

 Glasscubes

What is WEB 2.0?      

Web 2.0 is a term that has been generating quite a bit of talk in the last few years. It’s been used in so many ways that many people, when asked, cannot give a clear definition of what it is exactly.  It has been applied to nearly everything "new"  related to the web, which has led to many misconceptions about what the term refers to. The first documented use of the word dates back to 2004. The simplest definition can be traced back to this origin: the web as a platform. That is rather vague, however, so we will attempt to clarify this using some specific examples that we will have in place above as we update this site. 

In our humble opinion, Web 2.0 represents a change in attitude towards how the internet is used, and is not necessarily a change in technology. It is basically a "remixing" of older technologies into new applications.  

Teachers must learn the basics of integrating technology in the classroom prior to using a Web 2.0 attitude.   Although this is a new approach to learning and teaching at the same time it is necessary to use the fundamentals within your new pedagogy scope of teaching.  We will keep this page on the cutting edge.  I must say that since technology and the world must be viewed in exponential terms all teachers must get on board quickly or be left behind.  The revolution has just begun and it is already placing educators who are teaching obsolete excellence using antiquated teaching methods far behind.  This applies to all subjects and all grades.
Our job in computer services is to assist you any way we can to bring you up to the cutting edge.   Today on this date "Jan 15 2009"  I will go out on a limb and say it will not be an easy task but, it should only take a few days consisting of sitting in your classroom to show you how to change your pedagogy.  I must say as a disclaimer  the turning of each month on the calendar will make this a much harder job and take a lot longer to do. 

So do not procrastinate get on board and email me any and all teachers, (dan.hoffman@weschools.org) so I may help you get on the cutting edge.  This will make teaching exciting for you and learning alot more fun for your students. Time is of the essence!!!

Primary items needed in a Technology Rich Classroom and School

1.  Computer connected to the Internet
2.  LCD projector (allowing teachers to share with their students a teachable moment!  You will find that this will permit you to teach and cover your lessons faster and let more students understand what you are showing them.
3.  A computer lab in the school permits teachers to become facilitators and students may learn at the speed of thought!  At present we are presently working on a revolutionary concept that will allow a teacher to become a facilitator in a classroom of only one computer.
4.  Since the Internet is both visual and audio, speakers are necessary to allow  students to obtain the full impact of what they are learning.
 

http://schooltube  Videos for educational use

http://video.google.com/ ‐ another video site, with commercial and free videos available, as well as the ability to add your own videos.

http://del.icio.us/ ‐ tag based bookmarks

http://blogger.com/ ‐ an easy way to start a blog

http://technorati.com/ ‐ a blog aggregator where users tag blogs and makes it easy to find blogs related to the topics you are looking for.