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Friday

Glogster 101

Media Minute – January Glogster!

Glogster an online poster!

Glogstger is an engaging Web 2.0 product that allows students to communicate what they have learned.
And . . . teachers can present their lesson with Glogster.

With a Glog you may embed video, audio, link to information, embed other Web 2.0 tools . . . IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES! They are endless.

The following is a link to a SlideShare Presentation -- a great how to on Glogster - http://www.slideshare.net/skutchmom/glogster-a-quick-tutorial.

Take a look at the follow Glogs. They display some of the numerous possibilities.

Set up an educational Glogster account. edu.glogster.com.

  • Glogster will allow an educator to setup a class for up to 200 students.
  • A list of student username and passwords will be emailed.
  • You may access all your student accounts - that includes resetting usernames and passwords.

Students may view each other's work but can only edit theirs!

All links mentioned above can also be reached at www.sharetabs.com/?Glogstermediaminute.

ShareTabs (http://www.sharetabs.com/) is a great way to set up an Internet Scavenger Hunt for your students or just bookmark a bunch of sites you wish your students to visit :) ShareTabs and other similar sites were listed in your Daily Bulletin all last week. Websites will change weekly. Check out this week's TECH IT UP - Websites of the Week on WebQuests.

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TOOLS TO CREATE SIMPLE INTERNET SCAVENGER HUNTS:
There are several simple web applications that teachers can use to easily have a list of websites where students can go to find the answers to specific questions on a scavenger hunt. The sites listed provide screenshots of the websites as well as their URL addresses, and they also don’t require a teacher to register to use them. They include:

  • MinMu: With MinMu, all you do is paste the URL addresses of as many web pages as you want into a box (no registration is required), and you are given one URL address for all of them. Click on it, and you’re shown a screen that not only shows the links to all of the sites, but also thumbnail images of them.
  • Sqworl: Sqworl is very, very similar to MinMu.
  • ShareTabs: ShareTabs also appears very similar to Sqworl and Minmu.
  • Viewista: Viewista is similar to the last three tools. One neat feature of Viewista is that it allows various options on how to view the multiple sites, including vertically and through a slideshow mode.
  • Citebite: Citebite allows you to highlight specific areas of online text and then gives you a specific URL linking to what you’ve highlighted. For example, instead of students to find answers to some questions by reading an entire New York Times, you can highlight specific parts of the article for students to link to or you may link to the entire article without the highlighted parts. It’s an excellent tool for differentiated instruction. You can use the URL’s of the Citebite excerpts in the previously mentioned tools.
  • Daft Doggy, unlike the previous web applications, Daft Doggy requires registration in order to use it, but it only takes seconds. And the benefits make it worthwhile. Daft Doggy lets you easily create a slideshow of websites, and all the links on those sites are “live” in the slideshow. But the key advantage that it offers over some of the other tools is that you can also leave written and audio instructions for what students should do.
  • Fur.ly is a new tool that lets you combine multiple links into one. It’s a little different from others -- they show you visual snapshots of each site that you can then click on one at a time. Fur.ly, on the other hand, shows you the first link in the collection and you can then click on arrows to go review each one.

posted by Mignardi at 7:04 AM