My Tech Reflection

Social media includes the various online technology tools that enable people to communicate easily via the internet to share information and resources. In education, social networking goes way beyond Facebook and Youtube. The power of blogs, wikis and nings to communicate with either a class, parents or the school community is a good start for [...]

Chartle
Chartle. Create a pie charts, graphs, bar graphs( bar and column charts) , maps, interactive maps (uses googe maps data to produce maps), plots and diagrams (Venn diagrams, scatter plots, radar charts), interactive motion chart (explores indicators over time), timelines and organisational charts. 
The images and interactive charts you create with chartle.net are yours to use in [...]

If you’re looking for online tools to make timelines of historical events or  personal milestones, here are three programs available online.
Some planning  before tackling your timeline would be beneficial. For example, make a list of all the events in chronological order, adding date/year, collect images you can add to each event, videos can be embedded [...]

You can create videos using flip cameras, using tools like Moviemaker and Photostory and you need some skill and techie know how to make something that looks reasonably good.
Animoto will create a video using your images and your selection of music,  match your music to your images and render your video for you.  No technical [...]

Today I attended a Web 2.0 professional development workshop with Will Richardson. It was held at Koonung Secondary College for Eastern Metropolitan Region teachers.
Will demonstrated Twitter, RSS feeds, screencasting, podcasting, blogs, wikis and discussed the need for education to shift along with the students and prepare them for the world of tomorrow.
I had my Pulse [...]

Glogster
Glogster is a revolutionary way of expressing your mood, feelings and ideas, and it goes miles beyond text or video! Creating a Glog lets you express all those things you haven’t been able to describe by words. It opens the door to a whole new world of communication – just choose a background, throw in [...]

What is Web 2.0 and why should I bother?
Every conference or PD session you go to these days has something on using Web 2.0 tools in your classroom.  The traditional methods of teaching and presenting information leave our students cold.  For the networked student, learning is acquiring, managing, creating, discussing, challenging critiquing, sharing and creating [...]

If you are looking for alternative ways for students to present information, a concept, a summary, a definition, try Toondoo. Toondoo is an online comic creator. Totally free, available via Connect (so it’s free to use at school), G rated.
ToonDoo takes a few seconds to sign up, is easy to use and very addictive. You [...]