Web+2.0+Tools

Web 2.0 Tools...   **Prezi** is a presentation tool. Students are able to create and share their original work. A great deal of planning goes into making the presentation which makes creating a **Prezi** presentation a great collaborative effort for students. **Prezi** requires students to examine what they want to prioritize and how that will translate into their presentation. This is a very versatile tool which can be be used by teachers to present ideas within a lesson. An example of how students could use **Prezi** would be to teach younger stduents about polygons. Students could incorporate definitions, pictures of polygons in the "real world", and include one of the many polygon videos available.

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**Penzu** is an online journaling site. Students can share their journals and have other students share comments on their entries - a great way for students to collaborate with one another on projects and problem solving. Teachers can also give writing assignments that will allow for assessing understanding on a given topic. Teachers can use the journal as a tool to increase the clarity of students' written explanations of their work. With the comment feature, teachers can give students feedback and then have students do rewrites. Below you can read a sample journal entry. Note the comment to the entry on the top of the page.



**Juxio** provides students with an opportunity to collaborate on a poster. This tool can be used to present information, summarize data, or to just share strategies. This tool could be used in a probability/statistics unit as students could share conclusions about their data. Click on the link to see a sample poster. [|Juxio Poster] **Jing** is an awesome tool. It allows the user to capture screen images or create videos of the computer screen. It is a great way for students to share work and create presentations. The tool can also help to communicate information when students are collaborating. Students could use **Jing** when they work on Geometer's Sketchpad. Students could share their findings by narrating the work they have done in Sketchpad. Students could also create technology tutorials for students in younger grades. **Jing** has been used throughout this **wiki** to capture screen images and create videos. Again, the applications of this tool for both teachers and students is endless! Click on the right arrow below to see how **Jing** can be used to not only collaborate with colleagues, but also to share work that is being done in an application.

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**Wikis** are web pages that can be edited by multiple people. As a result, **wikis** are a great collaboration tool. Click on the link below and see how a **wiki** can be used to allow communication between students while problem solving. Click on group one, and you will go to a page that has a problem for group one to solve. Click on discussion and you will see how the wiki allows for collaboration. Also notice the **wiki** provides a method of communication not only between students, but also between teachers and students. An example is on the first page of the **wiki** which includes a link to a google calendar which posts all assignments for the class.

Wiki There are so many useful **math tools** available. A random number generator is great for probability problems. Students begin to see how the generator can be used when creating simulations for events. An example, what is the probability that in a room of thirty people, you will have a birthday twin? Students could generate random numbers between 1 and 362, using each number to represent someone's birthday. An exploration of the probabilty would follow.

[|Generator]      **﻿**  <span style="color: #0d8768; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 20px;">**Animoto** is a fun tool to make presentations. Students express their original works along with choosing music. Also, with the ease of **Animoto**, all students could create quality professional work. Teachers could use **Animoto** as a tool to differentiate for students who may struggle with technology. Click on the right arrow to view. media type="custom" key="8431380" align="center"

<span style="color: #0d8768; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 20px;">**SketchUp** is a google application that works with 2 and 3-dimensional shapes. This tool would have many uses in a unit on three dimensional geometry. Instruction of content standards that would benefit from the use of **SketchUp** would be** creating and studying three - dimensional shapes, identifying edges, faces and vertices, surface area and volume. Because SketchUp** has so many capabilties, it could easily be used to differentiate instruction when studying these topics. Click on the right arrow to view. media type="file" key="2011-02-21_0928.swf" align="center" width="360" height="270"