Web+2.0+Tools

**(Presents ideas for a minimum of four different subjects)** ||
 * __Web 2.0 Collection__**
 * **__Name of the Web 2.0 Tool/Website__** ||  **__Link and, where applicable, a thumbnail picture of each__**  ||  **__Description of the Web 2.0 Tool and Artifact__**  ||  **__List of Pros/Cons Pertaining to Using the Tool in the Classroom__**  ||  **__Discussion of Classroom Implementation Ideas__**
 * Concept Mapping:

[] || [|**https://bubbl.us/?h=1969b9/33234a/16KEdhWq5KSxY**] media type="custom" key="24591986" width="84" height="84" align="left" || Concept Mapping is a diagram that shows relationships between concepts. It is used to enhance meaningful learning in the sciences. It can be used in the classroom as a graphic organizer for various school subjects. || __Pros:__  -visually illustrates the relationships between concepts and ideas -help students to organize and structure their thoughts to further understand information and discover new relationships -Help students brainstorm and generate new ideas

__Cons:__ -If a teacher scores student's maps, he or she must use a consistent scheme ||  Math: Show relationships between mathematical operations (communicative, associative, distributive, and identity properties of addition and multiplication) Science: Students can use concept maps as graphic organizers for various science topics such as life cycles, food webs, or parts of a cell. Social Studies:Students can use concept maps as graphic organizers for various Social Studies topics such as important people, events, and dates. Literature: Students can show their knowledge of a book they have read in class by creating a graphic organizer of the story elements (plot, characters, theme, conflict, and setting). || Polling
 * Online

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media type="custom" key="24592178" || Online polling is a quick and easy way to discover what students know (or don't know) about a topic. With an online poll, you, the teacher, can create and pose a question to students. They respond electronically through an online link or a text message. The poll you create for this activity is restricted to online polling. || __Pros:__   -Quick and easy way to take a poll on a given subject   - test students' knowledge and comprehension of a particular subject __Cons:__  -Needs a place for comments for the ones taking the poll   -If you are a teacher who is testing students knowledge and comprehension of a subject, you will be unable to see which individual students are answering the question correctly and which individual students are answering the question incorrectly  ||  Math:   The teacher could create an online poll asking the students to choose the correct formula to use for a given problem. For example, what is the correct formula for the volume of a cylinder? Social Studies: Students can take a poll on their favorite United States president. Science: Students can take a poll on the correct steps to follow when utilizing the scientific method (observation, question, hypothesis, prediction, experiment, observations, and modification or rejection of the hypothesis). Literature: Students can take a poll choosing their favorite story character. || -Fun and easy to create. -Can be used to find multiple answers on numerous subjects.
 * Cyberhunts || [[file:Aaron Brown's Mathematics Cyber-hunt.docx]] || Cyberhunts are online scavenger hunts || __Pros:__

__Cons:__ -Have to check very carefully that the websites you are using are school appropriate. || Math: Students can hunt various formulas, vocabulary terms, or real life applications.

Science: Students can find information on the different types of clouds that produce weather such as cumulus, stratus, nimbus, and cirrus.

Social Studies: Students can complete an online scavenger hunt to find what happened to past civilizations.

Literature: Students can complete an online scavenger hunt to locate information about their favorite author and other works he or she may have created. ||
 * Livebinder

[|www.livebinders.com] || **__[]__**

media type="custom" key="24592206" || Live Binder is an online 3-ring binder. It allows you to create an online binder for content curation. || Pros: -students and teachers can upload documents and more, store their favorite websites, and personalize it according to topics and sub-topics, etc. -can be used in all content areas and grade levels --gives students a sense of ownership as they are allowed to create their own binders -helps students develop critical thinking skills

Cons: -there is not a feature for teachers to comment on students' work -the screen freezes periodically while working on live binders -Video files can only be embedded if they have been uploaded to youtube || Math: Teachers can use livebinders to teach lessons on solving various topics such as mathematical expressions and equations.

Science: Teachers could use live binders to assemble all of the requirements students would need to complete an experiment.

Social Studies: Live binders can help students to learn about historical figures and events. Also, teachers could assemble all of the requirements for a research project to give to the students on a particular historical event or other social studies topic.

Literature: A student can create a digital portfolio of a character analysis. ||
 * Pinterest

[|www.pinterest.com] || http://www.pinterest.com/staceymattie/aaron-browns-pinterest-board/

media type="custom" key="24592402" || Pinterest is a social tool that allows you to collect “pins” from various places. || __Pros:__ -can upload information from your computer, import from the web, or re-pin from an existing user's board. -can assume any topic focus that you choose -easy to use

__Cons:__ Is very addictive and can lead to a lot more time daydreaming and planning than actually working. Also, the links on Pinterest are sometimes broken. || Math: Teachers can pin various math lesson plans and activities. For example, creating math flipbooks.

Science: Teachers can locate different lab activities to have their students complete.

Social Studies: Students can locate websites that will provide them with important information about various topics such as battles and the important individuals that were involved in them.

Literature: Teachers and students can locate various books on certain topics. || **__[]__** || [] media type="custom" key="24592424" || Loose Leaves allows you to blog without having a blog. || __Pros:__ Teachers and students can easily share information and comments without having a blog.
 * Loose Leaves

__Cons:__ If you lose the link you can not reaccess it. || Math: Comment on how to use various formulas. A student can also comment on any misunderstandings that he or she may have.

Social Studies: Comment on a certain event in history.

Science: Students can share information that they have discovered through experimentation or research.

Language Arts: A student can share his or her understanding of grammar techniques. ||
 * Voki Avatar

[|www.voki.com] || ** [] **

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media type="custom" key="24592516" || Voki allows you to create and customize avatars or online people or characters. || __Pros:__ You can have your avatar to teach lessons in various subjects by recording yourself. This will engage the students.

__Cons:__ -Using avatars can be time consuming to create and implement into a lesson. -Have to pay to create specific avatars. || Math: Avatars can be used to help students understand formulas. Avatars can also be used to explain why we use various mathematical operations to solve problems.

Social Studies: Teachers can use avatars to explain a particular event in history or a timeline of events. They can also help students to learn about significant people in history and their contributions.

Science: Teachers can use avatars to provide a lecture on the solar system.

Language Arts: A teacher can demonstrate how to properly conduct a speech. ||
 * Big Huge Labs

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|| Do fun stuff with your digital photos. Create and print personalized motivational posters, calendars, movie posters, magazine covers, badges, mosaics, collages, and more! || __Pros:__ -Fun and engaging way to use your own personal photos to create posters, calendars, badges, mosaics, collages, and more.

__Cons:__ I personally found this to be difficult to use. I had trouble getting my text to show up in the correct place while using my photo to create a poster. || Math: Teachers can provide students with visual models of shapes, angles, formulas, etc.

Science: Teachers can provide students with visuals such as food webs, plant and animal cells, rocks, the human body, weather patterns, etc.

Social Studies: Teachers can provide students with visuals of culture, maps, leaders, events, places, etc.

Literature: Teachers can provide students with definitions, events, characters, or settings from a story. || media type="custom" key="24600862" || A glog is an online multimedia poster with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more. || __Pros:__ -Glogster can contain many multimedia elements. -Students can be creative. -hands-on -Posters are eye appealing.
 * Glogster || http://brownar5.edu.glogster.com/aarons-economics-glog/

__Cons:__ -Can be challenging if your not used to using technology. -Time consuming || Math: A teacher can use Glogster to present a lesson on ratios and proportions. He or she can provide visuals, videos, audio, and other multimedia elements to present the lesson.

Science: A teacher can create a lesson on the moon's phases as well as on solar and lunar eclipses.

Social Studies: Students can learn about different cultures and how their ways of life differ from their own.

Language Arts: Students can learn about different types of poetry through visuals, audio, videos, and other multimedia elements. || || Photofunia allows you to select an effect, upload a photo, and create a graphic to use in a presentation or project. It also provides teachers and students with the opportunity to retouch, edit, transform, stylize, and redesign already-existing photos and other images || __Pros:__ -Students are given the opportunity to be creative. -engaging and fun -allows students to practice using visuals -allows students to use supplementary materials for projects, presentations, etc. __Cons:__ -allows some students to possibly take the easy way out by putting little effort into their creation -doesn't require a lot of effort to complete one || Language Arts: Students will use photofunia to create an image that demonstrates prepositions such as on, above, around, below,etc. In another assignment, students could use photofunia to include pictures in their individual presentations of nouns. For example, each student will use a photo of a person, place, or thing to include in a photofunia creation to present to the class.
 * Photofunia || http://photofunia.com/view/tL8H5ugQYRTAoTe5QsmfIA

Science: Students will individually be assigned a different phase of the moon. Each student will be required to obtain a photo of their particular phase of the moon and include the photo in a creation using photofunia. Students will then use their photofunia creation as they present their phase of the moon to the entire class.

Social Studies: Students will be required to give a presentation on their favorite president. They will be using photofunia to include a photo of their favorite president to present to the class.

Literature: Students will be required to give a presentation on their favorite book they have read and include a photo of their book in the presentation using photofunia. ||
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