Saturday, February 25, 2017
Web 2.0 and the future...
This semester I have learned about a lot of tools that can be useful in the classroom. It was fun to see how tools, such as YouTube, can be used for educational purposes....not just looking up old music videos. I have learned that Twitter is a great way to connect and collaborate with your classmates. I hope that when I become a teacher and a librarian that I will continue to use these tools. Now I can see that it is so important to keep up with all of the new technology. Teaching students how to use Web 2.0 tools for education and implementing them into the classroom will help them to become lifelong learners.....which is our final goal!
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Diigo!!
This week, I am thankful for researching a Web 2.0 tool that I really like. Diigo is a social bookmarking tool. You can bookmark any web page on a cloud....share the pages or keep them private. The bookmarks can then be accessed from anywhere!! This tool is used in place of all of those pages you save to your "favorites". I don't save things to favorites...I just keep an open tab. You can only imagine how many tabs I have open at once. I do the same thing on my phone. Once, my phone crashed. It sure would have been nice to have everything on Diigo! I would have been able to open Diigo and access everything I think is important.
In education, Diigo can be used for collaborative learning. Teachers can share bookmarks that are important with other teachers or students. Diigo also has the ability to highlight important passages and add little sticky notes. If a student uses Diigo on the school computer, all bookmarked pages can be accessed at home.
It really does seem like a great tool! I know that being able to share information is a feature that many educators may use....I really like it for my personal bookmarks. For another class that I am taking, we are required to read specific online articles. I am planning on posting the links to each article on my Diigo. This will give me the ability to read the articles without having to log on to my school account....Yay!!
In education, Diigo can be used for collaborative learning. Teachers can share bookmarks that are important with other teachers or students. Diigo also has the ability to highlight important passages and add little sticky notes. If a student uses Diigo on the school computer, all bookmarked pages can be accessed at home.
It really does seem like a great tool! I know that being able to share information is a feature that many educators may use....I really like it for my personal bookmarks. For another class that I am taking, we are required to read specific online articles. I am planning on posting the links to each article on my Diigo. This will give me the ability to read the articles without having to log on to my school account....Yay!!
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Aggregate Pages....what??
These were my first thoughts when I read the class assignment for the week. I had never heard of aggregate pages or even widgets. So, I got to work. First I visited the Protopage website. After setting up an account, the page seemed pretty easy to manipulate to my liking. I added widgets that linked to my blog, Twitter feed, and the class wiki painlessly. Then I tried to add YouTube. This is where I ran into some trouble. My YouTube channel would not show up. I went back to our class discussion and luckily came upon some step-by-step instructions on embedding the playlists....thank you, Alicia!!
An aggregate page, like Protopage, is a great tool for accessing everything with one simple click. I liked that I could add pretty much anything that I wanted to the page...websites, news feed, photo, or podcast. There are endless possibilities. I believe that an aggregate page would mostly be used, again, by older students, teachers in the classroom, or for parents to be up to date with happenings in the classroom. I can also see having an aggregate page as the home page in the library with links to CitationMachine, the school website, and the school events calendar for students.
Protopage seemed pretty easy to navigate. I know other aggregate pages exist,such as Netvibes. I am thankful that I researched Protopage first...the class made Netvibes seem much more complicated. And, I do not need complicated. =)
An aggregate page, like Protopage, is a great tool for accessing everything with one simple click. I liked that I could add pretty much anything that I wanted to the page...websites, news feed, photo, or podcast. There are endless possibilities. I believe that an aggregate page would mostly be used, again, by older students, teachers in the classroom, or for parents to be up to date with happenings in the classroom. I can also see having an aggregate page as the home page in the library with links to CitationMachine, the school website, and the school events calendar for students.
Protopage seemed pretty easy to navigate. I know other aggregate pages exist,such as Netvibes. I am thankful that I researched Protopage first...the class made Netvibes seem much more complicated. And, I do not need complicated. =)
Sunday, February 5, 2017
YouTube Adventure
This week I set out to learn a little more about YouTube. Sure, I've used YouTube.....when searching for a specific movie clip, an old music video, or even how to fold up a princess tent. The only time I have used YouTube as an educational tool is when it has been required to watch a video for a class.
So, I set up my account and created playlists for different categories of videos. My playlists include Twitter tools, Wikispaces, Web 2.0, Library, and Cricut. I added some videos to each of the playlists and then went back to watch.
After watching the Twitter videos and playing with Twitter a little more, I can still see it as a great tool for older students. One tip from a video suggested using as a teacher to tweet out research tips which, I think is a great idea.
Being new to Wikispaces, I found quite a few videos that helped me out as a beginner....I actually wish that I had watched these earlier!!
I am currently not a teacher so, I looked for some Web 2.0 videos and some on libraries that I know I will not put to use for a few years. One Web 2.0 video was about Weebly...a tool that I have not used yet but, will have to use in the future.
After searching YouTube, I realized how much time and effort is put into making educational videos. I can see using these videos to help teach students about different things. I actually got a Cricut Air 2 for Christmas that I have not learned how to use yet. I'll be watching the YouTube videos in my spare time so that I can make something crafty. =)
So, I set up my account and created playlists for different categories of videos. My playlists include Twitter tools, Wikispaces, Web 2.0, Library, and Cricut. I added some videos to each of the playlists and then went back to watch.
After watching the Twitter videos and playing with Twitter a little more, I can still see it as a great tool for older students. One tip from a video suggested using as a teacher to tweet out research tips which, I think is a great idea.
Being new to Wikispaces, I found quite a few videos that helped me out as a beginner....I actually wish that I had watched these earlier!!
I am currently not a teacher so, I looked for some Web 2.0 videos and some on libraries that I know I will not put to use for a few years. One Web 2.0 video was about Weebly...a tool that I have not used yet but, will have to use in the future.
After searching YouTube, I realized how much time and effort is put into making educational videos. I can see using these videos to help teach students about different things. I actually got a Cricut Air 2 for Christmas that I have not learned how to use yet. I'll be watching the YouTube videos in my spare time so that I can make something crafty. =)
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