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Padlet is like your own online bulletin board. It was created in 2013 by Nitesth Goel and Pranav Piyush. For classroom use I could use this to post the weekly homework examples, weekly classroom news or anything else I want to share with my students and their parents. They can post questions to me or suggestions also. I could even make another one for all the teachers in my grade level to use to share ideas and messeges. The class could make one of their own to help others remember homework or classroom assignments due or questions on how to do a certain math problem. I think it is very appropriate for the classroom, teachers and students alike can use this tool for others to see or even just for themselves. My opinion of padlet is that it is helpful and clever although I do not like how limited it is. There are few background choices and few image choices. You can make your own which seems better though. It is easy to use and fast to post so overall a good tool for the classroom. I found this under the top 2.0 web tools but I'm not sure if it qualifies to be in the top. I think it is a good tool,and a helpful tool but it is not fantastic like googledocs or animoto. It has it uses but it is also limited on creativity and imagination.
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EasyBib is an online tool that helps you create proper citations in MLA, APA, or Chicago/Turabian styles. Currently EasyBib boasts half a billion citations with over 34 million students utilizing it. EasyBib can be accessed on mobile smartphones, iPads, Twitter, Chrome Web Store and many more. There are options that also allow you to create works cited list and parenthetical citations. Sometimes EasyBib can recognize a book, website, or journal article and a citation can automatically be done. Through EasyBib you can take notes, organize them, and link them to the citations for project purposes. EasyBib can typically be accessed through most school libraries. Using this website is nice because MLA has constant changes in the rules and by using EasyBib these changes are already taken care of for you so you don’t have to worry about not being up to date. Accounts are obtained through registering and can be signed in with Facebook, Yahoo, Google, AOL, or OpenID. I like EasyBib because you are able to collaborate with others and your citations and can be edited or viewed by sharing permission. EasyBib is closely related to fifth grade writing standards, when students are to research to build and present knowledge from research papers. Within the common core students should use 21st century skills that require a list of sources. I use EasyBib often when I am citing my sources to have an easy and efficient check of my references. EasyBib is simple to navigate, quickly to sign up for, and very useful throughout a variety of assignments. Teachers could also use examples that EayBib offers to demonstrate citations to students for a better understanding how what is expected. This is a web based tool that can be used throughout their education once properly taught and students can benefit from this in elementary, high school and college.
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Bitstrips
Recently I have researched a Web 2.0 tool that is called Bitstrips. Bitstrips is a way that you can create avatars and comic like pictures. This Web 2.0 tool was not as user friendly that I had hoped. Other than being able to create how your avatar looked that seemed to be all of the customization that you could do. One of the downsides of Bitstrips is that the user would have to have Facebook because it is a Facebook app. However; considering how popular Facebook has become that may not be that big of a downside. When I first started giving Bitstrips a test run I thought that it would be similar to another Web 2.0 tool that I used which was Toondoo. Toondoo has a lot more customization
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Slideshare
Recently I have looked at a Web 2.0 tool that lets you add PowerPoint presentations on the internet. It also allows you to create your own PowerPoint on that particular website. This would be a great tool for students to use in school if they did not have PowerPoint presentation software on their computers. This is a very inexpensive tool to use and you would not have to download anything in order to be able to use it. I think that this would be good for 2nd grade and up because at that age they are beginning to make presentations in the classrooms on different assignments. I think that this website would be great for all schools to use in their classrooms because it gives students a chance to learn to navigate their way around the internet and get used to being on the internet. Also, it is less software that schools need to purchase.
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Wallwisher
Recently I have researched a Web 2.0 tool that was called Wallwisher. Wallwisher is now referred to as Padlet. This is a very interesting tool for students to use because it is like a virtual bulletin board. This Web 2.0 tool can easily be used for 3rd grade and up. One of the examples that they give you that this Web 2.0 tool could be used for would be to have teachers assign a book for their students to read and then have the students go on to Padlet and leave sticky notes about favorite things from the book or little notes that they would like to remember to show that they read it. I believe that this Web 2.0 tool would be great for classroom use. It could be used in several different classes because everyone has a chance to personalize it. Padlet is a way for students to express their opinions and even express their creativity because they can also add in media to their wall. With Padlet you can share your work with Facebook or twitter by using R.S.S. feed or even embed it. Padlet would be a good way to ease students into the technology world because it is so easy to use. To add in media all you would have to do is drag and drop it on to the wall and then you can stretch it. In a way it is like Glogster but Padlet doesn’t let you customize as much as Glogster does.
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Storybird is a new literacy tool used to inspire students to read and write better and more often. Storybird is used in over 125,000 schools and can be used K-12 and be applied to any curriculum area. Storybird allows making visual stories and collaborating artwork from artists and animators from around the world to any age into one storytelling community. There are many benefits of using Storybird in school settings such as being able to use gorgeous artwork, it is an enjoyable way to read and write, it is printable, shareable, and increases participation in the classroom by building confidence in personal creativity. Storybird also has lessons on themes and ideas which are done through puzzle solving for a more engaging activity. I like this website because as a teacher you can assign each student a username and password and your class is private. All student stories are private and are not allowed to be viewed publicly or allowed to be added into the library. The teacher can create a class library that becomes a collection of all the students ‘stories. There are forums that can be used for discussing topics relating to a particular story. However students can view publicly posted stories some monitoring may be needed, but during my exploration of this website I did not find anything that was not appropriate to school aged children. Teachers can also make and post assignments on Storybird which students can view on their dashboard. I think this type of tool though may be more appropriately used in 5-6 grade when determining the key ideas and details, craft structure, or ranging in reading and level of text complexity that all relate to the NC Essential Standards. This is a very user friendly and school oriented web based tool. I would definitely use this website in the future for my classroom.
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EasyBib is an online tool that helps you create proper citations in MLA, APA, or Chicago/Turabian styles. Currently EasyBib boasts half a billion citations with over 34 million students utilizing it. EasyBib can be accessed on mobile smartphones, iPads, Twitter, Chrome Web Store and many more. There are options that also allow you to create works cited list and parenthetical citations. Sometimes EasyBib can recognize a book, website, or journal article and a citation can automatically be done. Through EasyBib you can take notes, organize them, and link them to the citations for project purposes. EasyBib can typically be accessed through most school libraries. Using this website is nice because MLA has constant changes in the rules and by using EasyBib these changes are already taken care of for you so you don’t have to worry about not being up to date. Accounts are obtained through registering and can be signed in with Facebook, Yahoo, Google, AOL, or OpenID. I like EasyBib because you are able to collaborate with others and your citations and can be edited or viewed by sharing permission. EasyBib is closely related to fifth grade writing standards, when students are to research to build and present knowledge from research papers. Within the common core students should use 21st century skills that require a list of sources. I use EasyBib often when I am citing my sources to have an easy and efficient check of my references. EasyBib is simple to navigate, quickly to sign up for, and very useful throughout a variety of assignments. Teachers could also use examples that EayBib offers to demonstrate citations to students for a better understanding how what is expected. This is a web based tool that can be used throughout their education once properly taught and students can benefit from this in elementary, high school and college.
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