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group 5 =Podamatic A 2.0 Webtool Review by Jeff Schubart=

media type="custom" key="10337762" is very user friendly way for kids to take home their teacher. It is a free 2.0 web tool that uses quick time player. It could be used for public viewing or private. It has a clean setting or explicit setting. It you to make mini casts which is a video slide show. It allows 1 GB of video to be uploaded. It can do super cool animations. It is also very easy to share on facebook. It can also be viewed internationally. Super easy to use the above example took a few minutes. Sign up is easy and quick. As long as you do not film students you can post it public. We are flooded with podcasts everyone is doing it. It is very easy to click on the wrong podcast and subject students to harmful material. We can use podcasts to read books aloud to students. You could also use it to show math problems in the process, demonstrate science experiments for example fetus pigs are very expensive and icky. To save money and people's lunches you could use podcast to dissect one fetal pig professionally to identify each part and still test on it. You could also use it to re-enact historical events such as the Civil War. You could also use it to show a field trip to parents or a student who couldn't be at school that day.This is also the perfect tool for students who are out sick a day. This way students could always be kept up to speed. Jeff Schubart Teachers can create and edit lessons bound only by their own creative limits. Students can all take home a flip camera for a day. The teacher can then edit and create a class montage everyone can enjoy. Also if A teacher is aware of an upcoming date that they will not be at class they can prepare a podcast as a lesson.
 * Podamatic**
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**SMART KIDDIES**


The Smartkiddie web 2.0 tool seems to be a wonderful tool for students and teachers. It has many different games, activities, and videos. All of these things contribute to teaching in all subjects. For instance math; I actually played a game with adding. The game allows the student to pick their character and opponent. The opponents range from easy to hard. The harder the faster you must answer to beat them and the clock. I believe it would be a wonderful tool for teachers to use or assign students to use. I do believe it would be difficult to do this in the class because it seems to be more for the individual students’ practice. I also viewed a science video on the digestive system. This video was great! I think it would be a wonderful tool to start a lesson on the digestive system or even to review. It talked aloud and gave good sound effects. There are also videos that will teach students how to make crafts like paper flowers. This tool is wonderful for when teachers want to do activities for holidays or lessons and aren’t artfully inclined themselves. There are even videos for sounds of letters and combinations of letters. This is wonderful for younger students trying to put these together and to have them be able to be seen and correctly enunciated is wonderful and would make learning so much easier! The other thing I loved was the history of famous artists. This is much like a note card. It has the general information on the artist, a picture of their famous work, and a little history of that work. This would be a wonderful tool for students to study by. This seems to be a great tool for teachers and students! ~Emily Easter

= A Review of GoAnimate, A 2.0 Webtool By Jeff Schubart=

A private and controlled environment.
 * GoAnimate** is a 2.0 web tool that is customized to each classroom.To use this product you must fill out an application outlining your expectation for the product. The Administrators will then give a quote based on your specifications. It offers the following features:
 * Easy-to-use animation tool.**
 * Unlimited choice of characters.**
 * Social networking features**

The privacy setting is a must especially when dealing with children. This makes it easy for the teacher to monitor and keep the group on track. The animation tools are great and easy to use, it is all point, drag, and click, nothing complicated. You can form any type of character, I recommend representing each student so the students become apart of the lesson. The social networking feature they can keep. The students have plenty of opportunities to do this in their own time. More likely than not they probably spend more time on social network sites than on their studies. Really easy to use, no major computer skills required Have you ever watched what happens to a child eyes when you snap on a television? Their eyes immediately get glued to it no matter what is on. With **GoAnimation** the teacher can take this trait and get good use out of it.By making a lesson that is animated with the students in the classroom it give them a connection to the lesson. Also there is a large gallery of already made lessons from other instructors at your disposal. The computer voice on the animations for lack of better words plain suck. The flow is a little choppy. Also there are people out there that have done some nefarious things with go animate like, sex and alcohol. It is important keep a tight lid on what the students can access. This could be a great lesson building tool that the students would really benefit from. I would worry about overuse; with this in mind a balance must be maintained. Students over the age of 11 should be encouraged to create projects that have them animating a lesson for class presentation.
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This is an example by Steve Moore of what a teacher can do with go animate. I am using this example because there is no free trial of this product.

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=**__A Review of //Edmodo.com//, an educational website for Teachers and Students to Interact with one another in and away from the classroom__**= =**__by Richard Whitehead__**= Edmodo is a 2.0 webtool which allows a teacher to blog with students, post assignments, monitor the progress of students, post grades, create groups of students ie: different blocks/periods of the same class, etc. Teachers can also communicate with other teachers and find other teachers in the same school, the same school system, etc.

__**Advantages and features:**__ If a teacher is out of the classroom they can monitor the student's progress on the days they are away from class. Assignment progress by the students can be monitored. Teachers can blog with the student and offer constructive criticism and helpful hints to students in a much more private way than in the classroom setting. There is the opportunity for both student and teacher to reflect back on past assignments and measure progress of the student towards completion of the course. Alerts are also an advantage to remind those students who wait until the last minute to complete assignments. Personal profiles are available with this tool, but not essential. This also allows students to work at their own pace. It has many featues and benefits which a student will be familiar with from the social media sites. The tool is free to both the students and teachers. Links can be embedded.


 * __Disadvantages:__** The username and password are unique to each student and when one of these are misplaced or forgotten the student can NOT complete their assignment online. There have been several times when students have had issues logging on the site. The Technical Help Desk in the CMS system could not even get logged on so passwords had to be reset. Uploads are limited to 100MBs files.

__**Overall Validity in the classroom:**__ I think if this tool had been more reliable and easier to access it would be an invaluable tool, but speaking from past experience it is too hard for the student to have legitimate excuses for the lack of access time. this just kills it's use in the classroom on a regular basis.

This is a link I put in a file for my students to see about me. I made accessible to all my students just so they know a little about me.

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This is an example of what your personal page would look like.

Grades

0 Students 0 Teacher Connections View My Public Profile=Mr. Richard Whitehead=
 * 20%** profile completeness**Suggestion:** Specify your school on the settings.
 * 1** Library Items
 * 2** Sharing Score

Type something about you... Manage and order your Favorites

Enter the School Name or ZIP Code where your school is located into the search field above and click "Search". No Results. Please enter a new search in the field above.
 * {SCHOOL_NAME} || {SCHOOL_CITY_AND_STATE} || [[image:http://images.edmodo.com/images/icons/green-check.png caption="Verified Institution"]] ||


 * Hint:** Award badges by visiting a student's profile page, or the members page for a group.

**GLOGSTER**
by Emily Easter
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 * WHAT IT IS:** Glogster is a wonderful tool! It is a tool that allows users to mix text, images, graphics, and videos together all on one page. It is like a virtual collage or scrapbook page!
 * ADVANTAGES:** Glogster is an extremely user friendly tool! It is so simple to use. Once you sign up to create your own page it guides you through the process with an example page. It has so many different options for backgrounds and graphics! It also allows you to import your own personal photos and videos. Or users can download videos and images from Youtube or even their Facebook accounts.
 * USES IN THE CLASSROOM**: Glogster would be great for beginning of the year projects. It would be an interactive tool for students to tell about themselves in a fun way. It could also be used in older students to do presentations. Some ideas for presentation would be: what I want to be when I grow up, my dream vacation and many other! This is a great tie in for literature and English as well as science. Students could use this tool to present their science projects to the class. It could also be used as a homework assignment for older students to turn in their projects privately to the teacher. This tool would also work well for students who are unable to attend school due to sickness and never get behind on their homework.

BUBBL.US- by Jordan Easter



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Bubbl.us is a great web 2.0 tool to use on most any occasion. Bubbl.us is a brain storming tool that allows you to make bubbles of thought, that work just like brainstorming on paper, except better. It allows you to go back and change things, and for messy children it keeps everything neat and orderly after you have what you want brainstormed all you have to do is save it, then you can keep coming back anytime you want to revise or change anything. This tool eliminates the need for paper, which is a green choice, it allows for multiple revisions of the brainstorm without making a mess of the paper, and it also is kept in a safe place where it can always be found again, which is unlike most of my brain storms they usually ended up lost in a big pile of papers that were all a jumbled mess. I’d recommend using Bubbl.us on any and every project that involved student brainstorming. It is an all around quicker cleaner, and user friendly application.
 * Bubbl.us** does have a few down sides; to begin with it is slightly confusing learning how the brain storm bubbles work, how to add more bubbles, and how to use lines to connect all your bubble thoughts. Once it is understood though it would be relatively easy to teach children of any age to use bubbl.us

=**Review of the educational website : Khanacademy.org**= =by Richard Whitehead=

Khan Academy is a not-for-profit website with the ability of providing a very good educational tool for student, teachers, home-schoolers, principals, an adult returning to education after 20 years or aliens needing to catch up on their education. Everything available through Khan Academy is completely free of charge. All the sites services are available to anyone.

Students have access to over 2,400 videos, practice exercises and assessments from any computer with internet access. The site is self-paced as well as allows for a system for getting help when needed. It also can measure the progress of the student.

For the parent or teacher it gives you the ability to see what students are and learning in real time. It even helps target what the weakness of a student is and how to intervene with focused, direct help.

Each of the over 2,400 videos are about 10 minutes each and specifically designed for use on a computer. The video library covers k-12 math, sciences such as chemistry, biology, physics some humanities and social sciences to include finance and history.

The math sections go from basic math all the way to calculus and has randomly generated problems so the learning practice is endless. It even tracks what each student has done and what kind of progress each user is making towards self-imposed goals. It can also help users watch related videos on subject areas which may aide the user. Khan Academy can also suggest the best exercises for students to work on. It knows where you have been and guides you where you want to go.

The student and teacher benefit by being able to figure out what areas are problematic for the individual student. This is achieved by using the data on each student's progress. In other words, you instantly know if a student is struggling with multiplication, division, fractions, etc. It even rewards the student with badges and points earned for learning.

Here are some of the lessons offered in Algebra:

Algebra
Topics covered from very basic algebra all the way through algebra II. This is the best algebra playlist to start at if you've never seen algebra before. Once you get your feet wet, you may want to try some of the videos in the "Algebra I Worked Examples" playlist.
 * 1) Algebra/ Linear Equations 4
 * 2) Algebra/ Solving Inequalities
 * 3) Algebra/ graphing lines 1
 * 4) Algebra/ Slope and Y-intercept intuition
 * 5) Algebra/ Slope
 * 6) Algebra/ Slope 2
 * 7) Algebra/ Slope 3
 * 8) Algebra/ Equation of a line
 * 9) Conic Sections/ Intro to Circles
 * 10) Conic Sections/ Intro to Ellipses
 * 11) Conic Sections/ Intro to Hyperbolas
 * 12) Conic Sections/ Hyperbolas 2
 * 13) Conic Sections/ Hyperbolas 3

Here is a video from the subject area Cosmology and Astronomy: []

My school has actually ordered a textbook/curriculum to go along with the SAT Prep area of Khan Academy. We are teaching this course as a semester elective for juniors and seniors and the all 3 blocks/periods this semester are overcrowded with 30+ students per class. Finding the curriculum to coincide with the Khan Academy videos was the toughest challenge for our school.

**WORDPRESS**

 * [|sample wordpress]**
 * by Emily Easter**
 * WHAT IT IS:** Wordpress is a site that allows users to share thoughts and comments. It also allows others to share on your page. It is a type of social network and has many uses.
 * ADVANTAGES:** Wordpress can be used by older students to share thoughts. It is great for group work outside of the classroom, especially for students who can’t drive to meet.
 * DISADVANTAGES:** Not user friendly. We actually used this for a group in class and we had a horrible time with this. We had a hard time signing up and then signing back in. I also had an extremely difficult time finding others pages. There was also the issue of learning how to leave comments and signing in different times.
 * CLASSROOM USES:** This tool may be difficult to learn but can be very useful with older students. It can be used for group projects. It could be used to discuss a book read in English or even a chapter in a science or history book. It would also be a wonderful tool for students to review for tests, quizzes, or just class in general. With this tool they could ask a question and students themselves could respond. This would be very helpful because sometimes it takes a peers way of explaining before a student catches on. It would also allow students to show what they’ve learned and instill it even more in them if they can explain an answer to a fellow student.

**Animoto**
by Jordan Easter

Animoto is a great web 2.0 tool. It is a slide show making tool that allows you to put in pictures, video, images, text, and music. It then allows you to change the order of these things and creates a slide show/video.It gives the option of different backgrounds and allows you to choose one. It is a great tool that is extremely user friendly. Everything is so very simple and it walks you through step by step. It even offers a tutorial in case you’re having a hard time. This tool would be great to get students more involved and personal their classroom experience with technology. It could be used to introduce themselves at the beginning of the school year or tell about their summer. It could also be an aid to a writing assignment. For instance students could share their paper and then their slide show. It could be used in most any subject. Students could even use it to demonstrate math problems and their solutions. I didn’t really see any problems with using animoto. The only thing is free slide shows only last 30 seconds and you either have to buy more time or have a teacher code.

=Easy Bib by Jeff Schubart= This Web 2.0 tool is a citation maker. It is called "Easy Bib." The URL is http://www.easybib.com/cite/view/style/apa It touts that it can be used for APA, Chicago,MLA and Turabian style I chose a website (http://fi.edu/franklin/inventor/inventor.html) and followed the steps and here is what it looks like in MLA: "Benjamin Franklin and His Inventions." //Benjamin Franklin and His Inventions//. Franklin Institute, 10 Oct. 2011. Web. 28 Oct. 2011. . I could not cite anything in any of the other styles without paying. It does MLA for free but charges for the other styles. I personally am ambivalent about this web tool. I spent 16 weeks in a college class to learn how to properly cite. I believe this is going to lead to students being unable to properly cite resources, just as they are unable to spell properly do to their dependance on words " spell checker." This being said, the cite is very easy to use. I was able to perform the citing task in 30 secs. (really I timed myself). This site would come in handy for any student who wants an easy way to cit sources. [|Research] [|BETA] [|Notebook] [|Bibliography] [|Citation Guide][|StudyBreak] Unsaved bibliography. [|Save now!]

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