http://player.vimeo.com/video/27544004 is a 13 minute presentation aimed at K-12 teachers, but it applies to higher education, too.
KEY MESSAGE:
"Teachers Need to Prepare 21st Century Students by Using 21st Century Online Tools."
Here are a few tools that the speaker mentions.
todaysmeet.com
Do away with traditional staff meetings. Use a tool like todaysmeet to capture all participants' thoughts during a meeting. The tool allows a meeting host to set up a dedicated Internet page for each meeting. Each participant signs in with his or her name, and can contribute thoughts throughout the meeting and interact with other participants. The transcript can be downloaded and saved for future reference. This tool has some similarities to Twitter and its hashtag functions, but it's nice not to have to tag every message, and TodaysMeet transcript is easier to save and use later.
ooVoo.com
A free videoconferencing service that's very much like Skype, except that it allows for up to six simultaneous video conversations at once. An added bonus? Many district filtering devices has yet to catch up with ooVoo.
wordle.com
Wordle creates word maps out of web pages, Word documents, and PowerPoints. The words that are used the most appear the largest on the word map and, conversely, the words that are used the least can be miniscule. A practical application? Feed your school's mission statement into Wordle to see what values stand out the most. Now feed other paperwork, such as staff agendas or curriculum, and contrast the two word maps. Another useful way to use it is to feed student work into Wordle and critique the result with the student.
Find these, and many other tools on Hayes Jacobs' website, Curriculum21.org.
KEY MESSAGE:
"Teachers Need to Prepare 21st Century Students by Using 21st Century Online Tools."
Here are a few tools that the speaker mentions.
todaysmeet.com
Do away with traditional staff meetings. Use a tool like todaysmeet to capture all participants' thoughts during a meeting. The tool allows a meeting host to set up a dedicated Internet page for each meeting. Each participant signs in with his or her name, and can contribute thoughts throughout the meeting and interact with other participants. The transcript can be downloaded and saved for future reference. This tool has some similarities to Twitter and its hashtag functions, but it's nice not to have to tag every message, and TodaysMeet transcript is easier to save and use later.
ooVoo.com
A free videoconferencing service that's very much like Skype, except that it allows for up to six simultaneous video conversations at once. An added bonus? Many district filtering devices has yet to catch up with ooVoo.
wordle.com
Wordle creates word maps out of web pages, Word documents, and PowerPoints. The words that are used the most appear the largest on the word map and, conversely, the words that are used the least can be miniscule. A practical application? Feed your school's mission statement into Wordle to see what values stand out the most. Now feed other paperwork, such as staff agendas or curriculum, and contrast the two word maps. Another useful way to use it is to feed student work into Wordle and critique the result with the student.
Find these, and many other tools on Hayes Jacobs' website, Curriculum21.org.
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