Independent Schools of St. Louis Digital Learning Academy 2007
The Digital Learning Academy is a three day, hands-on educational workshop focused on helping teachers blend collaborative learning technologies into creative, powerful lessons and projects for K-12 students. Digital Learning Academy 2007
ISSL_DLA_Agenda.pdfWhat in the World Wide Web is Web 2.0 Webquest?
You will be creating several accounts online for use during, and hopefully after, the DLA.
- Download the following file and save it to your desktop:
DLA2007 Accounts.doc -
Create a Yahoo!ID before Flickr. Flickr authenticates with Yahoo! ID
- Use this page to record your login information. Be sure you are recording the information in the correct location.
- Save the completed document.
- Delete from the desktop, if necssary.
Social Bookmarking with del.icio.us
del.icio.us is a website that allows you to bookmark your favorite sites and access them from any computer.
My del.icio.us links for apples
I am klmontgomery on del.icio.us
Diigo - Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff combines social bookmarking, clippings, in situ annotation, tagging, full-text search, easy sharing and interactions.
Photo Sharing with Flickr
Flickr is a photo sharing resource that allows you to upload and tag your photos for free. Explore classroom applications using Flickr and create visual stories with a digital camera or camera phone. Upload pictures from a camera phone.
NOTE: Create your Yahoo! ID before a Flickr Account
- Take photos using a digital camera and upload from the “Upload photos to Flickr” page
- Add title, details, change date and tag pictures
- Add notes to a photo
- Flickr slideshow
- Organize photos, i.e., batch organize, sets, etc.
- Geotag pictures
- Upload several photos using the Flickr Uploader
- Send a photo to Flickr from a camera phone
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Create cell phone projects with pictures page using Flickr Mobile Site.
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Tell A Story In 5 Frames - Visual Story Telling
- Tell A Story with 5 Photos for Educators
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- Search Flickr using a third party Flickr search engine
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Create photo projects using third party Flickr tools and upload or embed in pbwiki
Additional Flickr Resources
Tracking Down Educators that Use Photo Sharing
How To Get The Most Out of Flickr
Social Networking with Ning
Ning is the only online service where you can create, customize, and share your own Social Network for free in seconds.
Join August Digital Learning Academy Group
Add photos and videos to Web 2.0 for Teachers.
Use the Ning for Reflective Writing.
Educational Podcasting - Create a Podcast of The True Story of the Three Little Pigs! Using Audacity
Audacity audio editor & LAME MP3 encoder - free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds
Other Digital Storytelling and Podcasting Resources
iTunes - a digital media player application for playing and organizing digital music and video files
Windows Movie Maker 2.1 for Windows XP - create, edit, and share movies right on your computer
Jumpcut - a free online location where you can use all your media, create great looking movies and publish to anyone you choose
Wikis
Looking for place online that will allow you and your students to add, edit and share quickly, build a community, collaborate, create picture galleries, manage a project or team, plan an event, share stories, store documents and files and more. You need a wiki.
PBwiki - free easy-to-use wiki farm with free public and private wikis
My pbwiki Resources
Think Educational Podcasting with Windows
MICDS Digital Learning Academy
Group Wikis:
Find online videos on YouTube
YouTube is the leader in online video, and the premier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips on YouTube and across the Internet through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email.
Upload educational videos with TeacherTube
TeacherTube is a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill. Videos are screened for inappropriate content.
This & That
AutoScreenRecorder - Screen Recording Software
SlideShare - SlideShare is a free service for sharing presentations and slideshows.
Google/Gmail - Internet search engine and a free Web-based email (Webmail) and POP3 e-mail service among many other things
Filamentality - a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet links and turning them into online learning activities without knowing anything about HTML or serving webpages.