Wallwisher
Wallwisher is a pretty cool site and best of all, easy to use!!!
Wallwisher is an online notice board and can be used in many ways in the classroom. Students can brainstorm their ideas and continue to add to them over the period of a unit. The example here is of a vocab list, students are looking into different rock types and as they find new vocab they are adding it with a definition or description. You can also add pictures (I found it easiest when you went through google images - just copy and paste the url address) and websites. If you wanted you could use it for a pretest before a unit - ask a question and have students respond, or just use it as a class notice board or somewhere where students can ask questions and either other students, whanau or teachers can answer. The possibilities are endless.
If you have any other uses please let us know and leave a comment.
Scribd
Scribd is another exciting online tool that lets you publish any document onto your blog. This enables students to put word documents of work, pdfs from sessions on the white board, or scanned in work done into books onto their blogs. Another really easy to use site, you just sign in - just a user name and password required - and upload your work.
Once work is uploaded find the embed code and add to your post via the HTML code. An example of what it looks like is below. This is a students work on landforms.
Volcanoes
Youtube
Everyone has heard of YouTube, and if you are able to use it at school it can be an amazing resource. It is fantastic for presentations, introducing new units/topics, for research and for assessment. A way you can use YouTube is for pre assessment and post assessment. An example below shows a recording of the first game played in a Physical Education Unit. Students self assessed themselves by answering the questions and then embedding the video and their answers on their blogs. Students are able to add to their ideas, update their ideas or reflect on what they knew at the start of a unit. This mode of assessment could also be used in other areas such as Mathematics and Reading.
Copy this video to your blog and do the following:
Publish all of this under your video on your blog.
- Write what you think good attackers do.
- Write what you think good defenders do.
- Watch the video of our first game of our "Attack/defence" unit.
- Write what you think you did well and what you need to work on.
- Write what you think the class did well and what we need to work on.
FlickrsLiDR
flickrSLiDR allows you to easily embed the classic flickr slideshows on your website or blog. All you need to do is enter the flickr URL address of the user, photo set or group you would like to embed along with some options. You'll receive the HTML embed code in return.
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
Slide Share
This site is similar to scribd. You can use it to upload slideshows,videos or documents. Open up an account,upload items then grab the embedded code for your blog.
Below is an example of a powerpoint.
