You may notice that I have only a couple of handouts. In fact, I was asked to send in a couple or would not even have them for you! I am going green! I will cover lots of material today, but all can be accessed on my wiki Visit wiki. We will come back to the wiki throughout the session, too.

Yes, cool tools. But won’t make a poor teacher cool. Still much planning involved. Still teaching the content—not just copying loads of text to a blog or wiki.

Using good sources embedded in technology makes a difference.

Wikipedia definition:A widget is anything that can be embedded within a page of HTML, i.e. a web page. A widget adds some content to that page that is not static. Generally widgets are originated by third parties, though they can be home made. Embeddable chunks of code have existed since the early development of the World Wide Web. Web developers have long sought and used third party code chunks in their pages. Early web widgets provided functions such as link counters and advertising banners. See handout: explain widgets, looks at some examples (voki, slideshare, photosharing, voicethread). Explain Copy/paste code that allows EMBEDDING. No need to use Zamzar to change format. Code can’t be embedded in ppt. No need for html knowledge.

Widgets---just like blogs, nings, wikis—require no knowledge of html code. If you can copy/paste, you can add a myriad of widgets that bring content to your pages.

Image based. Many of the sites now have educational versions which allow better monitoring, downloading to offline, limited use of advertising.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dailygrindphoto/3207116213/sizes/m/ . Todd Mickael.M. Flickr Creative commons. KET EncycloMedia and Web2.0: Don’t be left in the past!

Be more than this!

Thoughtful Classroom What skills do students need to achieve at high levels? What instructional strategies enable greatest gains? How can we address the diversity of our students? How can we design units of instruction for different learning styles and still address the skills and core content knowledge?

Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cinstatearchives/3886833683/sizes/m/

Widgetize your blogs, wikis, and EncycloMedia

Vokis

Animoto