5/6C’s Class Blog 2008

Here are some great tools for teachers! Students should only access them under teacher or parent supervision - none have inappropriate content, but links may change.

 This is a screenshot made with JING.

Here’s a great explanation of podcasting use on TeacherTube. And from the same author, a great video on Wikis and Blogs for beginners.  There are more videos in the series (with social networking, bookmarking, Twitter and Google Docs, amongst others). Check them out here.

Twiddla <!–[if gte mso 9]&gt; Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 &lt;![endif]–><!–[if gte mso 9]&gt; &lt;![endif]–> is an online collaboration tool that’s easy to use, doesn’t require any downloads or complicated firewall stuff, and is totally free.

It’s like having a whiteboard skin on top of any web page or uploaded image (or nothing at all –you can use it as a blank canvas). You can mark up this whiteboard layer and interact with the web page at the same time – all in real time, with people from all over the world.

You can invite people to join your page by email or just send them the link to the page you open. Everyone can add their own bit of scribble (or even make an intelligent contribution!)

Make Beliefs Comix - an easy online way for kids to make a comic strip. These can be printed out or emailed. There are pre-made characters that each have four emotions, and there are plain color choices for the backgrounds.

Mike Temple has a great edublog where he gives tutorials and gives links to sites of interest to educators. I’ve discovered some great stuff here!

Here’s a link to Sue Wyatt’s blog post about using images and attributing them correctly when blogging. Her whole blog is a great example of a class blog - it’s also listed in our blogroll.

The Edublogger has a great post on how to make a blog post directly from Flickr - it automatically attributes the picture. This really works - I tried it for this post.