Web+2.0+Tools


 * YOU CAN EXPLORE IMPLEMENTATION OF THESE TOOL WITH YOUR CLASSES: **
 * Be sure all of the information you choose to share follow the //HCPS Responsible Wikiuse Guidelines.// **
 * You can possibly add an introduction at the top of the page to introduce how you will be using this within your classroom. See example: [|Web 2.0.doc] **


 * https://hawkesapart.wikispaces.com/**
 * A Wiki example, as utilized with Ms. Hawkes' art class.**

[|http://www.myavatareditor.com] save and //export// your avatar, so it can be used in various locations. select PNG without background. Save in H drive, defaults to boy or girl.

Think Outside the Blog Wikis In The Classroom [|Wikis In The Classroom - Joyce Valenza] Pedagogical Potential of Wikis [] - Article featured in ASCD from Boston Globe [|Wiki Wiki Teaching]: The Art of Using Wiki Pages to Teach [|Defining Wiki Goodness] 7 Things You Should Know about Wiki's Wold Language applications of Wikis This features a 'slidecast.' [] Some simple examples of using wiki's in math classrooms. [|Teaching and learning online with wikis] [|Wikis in education: and other tools for Co!aborative Writing] [|Baltimore County rolling out Wiki Use for ALL teachers and students]
 * Wikis**

[] GLOGSTER Are you tired of student PowerPoint presentations? Are you looking for new ways to include technology in note taking & making related to Visual Art? Why not give these assignments a Web 2.0 twist with GLOGSTER? It's a website where students can make "interactive posters" by adding images, sound and video clips, and other material into one cool product. How's that for Visual Literacy? It's paperless, accessible with any computer, and now has a content-restricted "edu" only component that comes through the HCPS filter.

[] Example assignment with Glogster

[] Guide for educators, with sample Web 2.0 rubrics.

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[|TAGXEDO] It's advanced **wordling..Tagxedo** is another word cloud maker. It allows you to create a visually interesting word cloud from a chunk of text, a file or a URL. (OR YOUR OWN UPLOADED ART/DIGITAL PICS) You can play with the shape, font, colour scheme in much the same way as Wordle, then save the finished image as a png file or add it to the online gallery.

After completion of assignments, my AP students had a chance to play around on their own with Tagxedo as they imported their own shapes and then wrote their own text to personalize into another form of art. My Drawing and Painting class will be using it to generate an artist statement to go along with their completed composition. Microsoft Silverlight must be accessible/downloaded for in-school use, so the visually appealing feature that is used to bring out words as you use your mouse over them. The words will flip horizontal and fly out from the picture plane. This is going to be a great aid to teachers, who want to work through a tag cloud slowly for example. [|Microsoft Silverlight] is needed in order to see the words 'dance'.