For Web 2.0 The tool I chose is called Photo sharing “Photos”
http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=photos
This site is a social networking site for those interested in collaborating and sharing their work through pictures and photos. This is a latest collaborative technology in education. This site is a supportive community and a comfortable place to start being a part of the digital dialog. We can explore many tagged threads under this site to find out about more details. This site has many educational sharing areas available.
Many workshops, forums and tutorials.
Video hosting/Streaming.
K-12 open source lesson plans that are free.
Wikis and blogs.
This site has been awarded “best educational” use of social networking service” by Edublog directors in 2007. This provides “positive power” of social net working in education.
The photo sharing has many benefits. I visited several sites and this is what I found out.
· We can share pictures with family and friends.
· Free web site.
· Animoto software Upload pictures and it turns the slides into a beautiful fast paced slide show like TV commercials.
· Upload music from the library to our videos and pictures.
· Information on Flickr and creating hot spots.
· Free online picture storage.
· Digital picture projects for classrooms.
· Photo story 3 , Movie maker, Voice thread.
I visited the following sites;
Elizabeth Davis, Jeremy Aldrich, Barbara , Ginger Lewman. All these are tagged under (pictures,profile,photos,reviews,backupfiles,upload,flickr,hotspots,help,needed,save,storage,videos,digital) Everything under this photo sharing is positive. Students and teachers from other countries can share pictures of class with each other and benefit educationally.
1. How did you choose your profile photo? By Elizabeth Davis
She talks about how people choose their pictures to post on their blogs. Some want just a pretty picture of their face and some don’t care how their picture looks on their photo sharing. We can participate in a forum discussion or e-mail to this site. http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=photos
This site gives us some ideas about the options we have posting our photos to share.
2. Domo arigato Mr. Animoto ! By Jeremy Aldrich
www.classroom20.com/forum/topic/show?id=649749%3ATopic%3A56905
This site talks about the Animoto software site that can take our uploaded pictures and makes them into a fast paced beautiful slide show just like the commercials we see on the television. There are several free music pieces available on the library or we can add our own to our slide shows. This site also talks about how some teachers are using this site to do classroom projects and how much the students are enjoying the hands-on activities.
3. Need help with Flickr? By Barbara
http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topic/show?id=649749%3ATopic%3A37404
This site talks about how we can use the Flickr to create beautiful photos and how to set a hot spot on the pictures. In the classroom this is used for Visual Literacy Projects by Mr. John Maklary. This is also great feature for old family photos and reunions. There are many more uses of this in academic and personal. This was also shared in the Global education ning program. We can visit the site for more information and uses.
4. Suggestions needed for online storage! By Ginger Lewman
http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topic/show?id=649749%3ATopic%3A21244
This site talks about how one can get free on line storage and how students can access their photos from any where. We can also get upgraded storage areas. The other storage sites mentioned were http://mediafire.com/ and http://www.box.net/. Students are able to use these sites a lot to store their documents and share with each other.
I visited the following sites on our class blog that had a different tool than mine.
Ms. Ashlee wrote about GOOGLE EARTH and its benefits. I learned that this is a very beneficial tool for all people .This site has satellite imagery,maps and 3D buildings to access on line just by typing the address and pressing search we can receive the information for travel. This site is always useful to locate hotels,restaurants,schools, parks,hospitalsand any other information about the community we are interested in.Schools can use rhis site for geography and science projects especially intermediate levels. This is very helpful for visual learners like me.
I visited Casey's blog on Collaborative documentation. I learned about many new sites that allow the collaborative documentation.Google docs was very interesting and provides documents from scratch,such as bulleted, lists, sorting by columns,adding tables,images,comments,formulas,changing fonts and more. This helps to create on-line collaborative documents for research and presentations and it is free.Your draft is another one she mentioned in her tools which allows us to use our document as a WYSWYG, then we can edit online editor then we are able to share, publish documents as HTML and no password is needed to share with others.Write wirth is another important tool she mentioned which lets us upload our documents, share with other people,chat, assign tasks and track everyones actions. we are able to receive feed back and are able to blog.She also described about the Zoho writer is also a free tool she mentioned on her blog that is very beneficial which creates spread sheets,presentation ware,word processing and free templates that can be added as pages to a notebook. Write board is another site she mentioned that is very collaborative tool. The special feature allows us to edit and save every edited copy so you can always go back to every copy edited.This is very useful for students, professors,authors,songwriters,poets,editors,publishers,bloggers and comedians etc.
Ivisited Laura's blog and enjoyed learning about the Shared calendars. These are very very useful especially when we need to collaborate with other teachers and administrators. I liked the idea of everyone posting their calendars on to this online calendar so it can be viewed by the group of teachers or administrators that we need to collaborate with. There is no wasted time or arguments when everything is on our calendar so it is right there to view and plan for the activities and field trips. I think when schools use a very organized calendarthey should all this type of tool. This can be useful with any family that has a busy schedule. All family members can post their busy calendars on to this paperless calendar and stay organized.
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I loved the way you listed the specific benefits we can get from Kidspiration, and I loved your concept map too, way to go!
Hi Asha,
I loved your information about photo sharing. I love taking pictures and showing them off. This Photo Sharing seems like a great way for me to share my pictures with my friends and family who don’t live near me. Usually, I just send pictures through snail mail. This would be a fun, new way to get my pictures to my loved ones quicker. I could also see this being used in a classroom setting. The teacher may take photos at a museum or on a trip to a different country and share her educational photos with students. Thanks for the information, Asha!!
~Tammy Earnhardt~
Your web 2.0 source of photo sharing sounds great! It wasn't completely clear to me how the site allows sharing of free lesson plans, but that sounds great! Free lesson plans are the best kind! I like the idea of collaborating through the open source, since I work on all different computers, home, school, laptop, etc.
Asha,
You have just reduced by ignorance about Photo Sharing. I guess I will need to experiment and develope a new technology skill. This tool will help me to collaborate with other teachers, as well as with family and friencds.
Thank you,
Tawn
Hi my dear friend
I read your amazing journal. I like the tool you chose because taking photoe is one of muy hobies and as my parents and relatives live abroad, I can use this site to share my photoes with them easily.It cam save my time and money too. I can also use it in future in the classroom and I am sure that the students will enjoy working on it for their projects too.
Maryam
Asha,
Photo sharing seems very interesting to me, as I can apply it in my future classroom as well as for my personal use. Few months ago, one of my friends told me about this great site, that he shares his photos with people around the world, and I did not have any knowledge about this till today. Thanks.
Asha, this is Ron from Hawaii, who knew you and Tawn, my "angels", at BYU 25 years ago. I've been searching for you both all this time (through the years, checking with the national telephone directory assistance, etc., with no success.) As a last resort, on a whim, I Googled your names, and soon came upon this (CSUSM Ed422) G-Blog! Only just now, I realize I didn't have to blog in this site's homepage (which I just did, after failed attempts from last week), but could have just come here to your "corner". (I'm not too blog savvy--my first experience!) At any rate, I'm blogging you first, instead of Tawn, because somewhere herein I read that you visit your (library's) computer almost everyday. (I come to a public computer room also.) As I included in the homepage, you may contact me at gimkun@gmail.com I'll write more personally after contact. For now, Aloha! I still can't believe I've "found" you! (Though, I don't even know if you'll find this message.) I pray so. Ron
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