BP 18- Reflective Media Asset #2 REPOST

This is a re-post

BP-17- Comment of Charis blog

Sunday, October 18, 2009

BP#14_Kideos_Web 2.0 Tool

Kideos videos for kids is a wonderful website for parents and teachers to use with kids. This free website with no ads is a great alternative for children to securely watch videos online. Each video has been screened by a Video Advisory Council consisting of parents and teachers. This enables them to be in control of what their children/students are watching. What is appealing about this site is that the videos are grouped according to age. It is a very kid friendly site because they can navigate the site on their own. Parents and teachers can also have their own personal tools to choose videos that are age appropriate so that the child will only access videos that match their age. Kideos has videos added to the site daily after it’s reviewed by the Council. So kids will always have new videos to view.Much of the content is very diverse. It includes children’s television shows, movies, educational videos, music videos, songs, cartoon and book characters, cute animals, and much, much more. As I perused the site I clicked on a Berenstain Bears video. The video had been posted on youtube. Below the video, there was a short summary of the video along with the age level the video is for. Also, I could add to a playlist if I desired. Below the video there are related videos. After clicking on the video I was able to click on full view and the quality of the video was good. The age levels are 0-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, and 9-10 years. The implication for education allows teachers to utilize this to access the educational videos that are available. This site can be recommended by teachers to parents to give parents a safe alternative for their children. This allows parents to have control and be comfortable over the type of videos their children view.

BP16-Web 2.0 #6 Delicious

Delicious

This is a great resource for teachers and students. How many times have you saved a website in your favorites, only to get to work or somewhere else and can’t remember the site address? Do you have a website you would like your students to view for a special assignment or project? Social bookmarking is the answer! Many schools would like to include a list of online resources for our students for educational purposes. An easy way for this to be accomplished is to create a social bookmarking section on your school website and linking to www.delicious.com You can create accounts by departments, or individual teachers.

What is social bookmarking you might ask? And Why do we need it? Do a Youtube search for the video Social Bookmarking in Plain English. (PS.. it’s not a bore, it’s cool J)

Delicious Social Bookmarking.
A great resource for teachers and students

Social Bookmarking in Plain English

I think this is a wonderful resource for any individual who wants to locate and share resources with others.

BP-15 Web 2.0 #5 WIkis

Web 2.0=Wikis

Wikis have several educational benefits to teachers and students. They are becoming more and more popular. It is great for collaborative learning and exploration. Students can easily create simple websites, without learning HTML code, and extensive web design. The wiki provides a ready to use site with a simple user interface, ability to easily add pages, and simple navigation structure. This allows students to spend more time developing the content of the site, instead of trying to learn how to make one. The simplicity of the wiki syntax, or language for formatting text, inserting images and creating links, means students spend less time trying to figure out how to make the site do what they want. As more organizations adopt the wiki for collaboration & information, students will be well prepared to use it in their careers.

A wiki makes it easy for students to write, revise and submit as assignment, since all three activities can take place in the wiki. A student can be given a wiki page to develop a term paper, and might start by tracking their background research. This allows the teacher, and peers, to see what they’re using, help them if they’re off track, suggest other resources, or even get ideas based on what others find useful. Next, the student can draft the paper in the wiki, taking advantage of the wiki’s automatic revision history that saves a before & after version of the document each time s/he makes changes. This allows the teacher and peers to see the evolution of the paper over time, and continually comment on it, rather than offering comments only on the final draft. When the student completes the final draft, the teacher and peers can read it on the wiki, and offer feed-back.

Students are exciting about learning these days because of wonderful resources like wikis.

BP15- Web 2.0 #4

Blog Post for Web 2.0=Puxxle Maker

Puxxle Maker is a great web 2.0 tool http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/ This website can provide a wonderful resource for teachers, parents, and students to create puxxles crossword, and word searches. This is a way to create creative and unique documents for student learning.

This site can be used by all who want to create a great resource, or just want one for fun.

I can use this resource as a vocabulary builder, and a non-traditional assessment tool for students.

BP14-Web 2.0 Blog 2

BP13- Flickr Lesson Plan

This lesson involves using digital cameras, flickr, and poetry.

I will have my students take pictures on a digital camera, choosing one that they would like to write a poem about. Each student will upload their own picture on Flickr and add text within the picture that reflects their poem. The poem can be posted onto the Flickr website along with the picture. One of the main objectives of this lesson is to get each student to take ownership of their writing, and to feel like they have some "say" in what they can write about. It will get them thinking about key words that reflect the mood and topic of their poem. Also, the movement of going outside or around the building to take pictures will hopefully get their creative juices flowing, and create excitement about a task (writing poetry) that is difficult for some.

I could definitely use this in my classroom. I would probably use it in a computer applications course with a language arts integration. I could further enhance this lesson by incorporating digital storytelling. Students would record a their poems, or write a story about the picture they uploaded to flickr. They could blog about their story, and share it with their peers.