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Howard D. Gunther Educational Technology Specialist

Howard D. Gunther Educational Technology Specialist ACES Professional Development School Improvement 205 Skiff ST Hamden, CT 06517. Merging Literature with Web 2.0. Session Overview E2 T2 Grant E nhancing Education Through Technology Di scovery Education

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Howard D. Gunther Educational Technology Specialist

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  1. Howard D. Gunther Educational Technology Specialist ACES Professional Development School Improvement 205 Skiff ST Hamden, CT 06517

  2. Merging Literature with Web 2.0

  3. Session Overview E2T2 Grant Enhancing Education Through Technology Discovery Education Integration with Social Studies Newport Field Trip Edmodo Podcast - Celebrity Casters Glogster Voicethread Tagxedo - Wordle Animoto Google Lit Trip

  4. Why Web 2.0? ·Paradigm Shift ·Teach to ANY standards/content ·Highly motivating ·Multiple learning styles ·Multi-sensory ·Interdisciplinary ·Key to collaboration ·“Gen Me”, special needs, enrichment

  5. A Note On Blocking ·Some Web 2.0 sites may be blocked at your school… you can sometimes get around this. ·Provide a rational, pedagogical justification for the site to be unblocked at your school during a certain period of time. ·Describe how you will keep students safe.

  6. Podcasting Celebrity Casters

  7. Word Clouds Tagxedo Wordle Forty-three Interesting Ways To Use Wordle

  8. ANIMOTO App iPhone iTouch iPad App Droid

  9. Google Earth - Google Lit Trip Traveling The Novel by Melissa Wert & Scottie Girgus Google Lit Trips

  10. What Do You Think? ·How did you use Web 2.0 tools for collaboration? ·How did Web 2.0 change the way you did assignments? ·How did using Web 2.0 tools enhance or detract from your learning? ·How has the use of Web 2.0 changed the way you use the web? ·What were your concerns regarding this?

  11. Questions Resources http://my-tech-wiki.wikispaces.com/ hgunther@aces.org

  12. Google Earth The Interface Information in Google Earth is presented in placemarks. These are the push-pins or other icons that you click on when you are using Google Earth. Clicking on a placemark opens a placemark window, and displays the associated content. Placemarks can hold many different types of information: • Text • Image • Hyperlinks to other Web content • YouTube video (only on PC machines) • Other specialized Web content, such as podcasts (from Evoca.com) and PowerPoint files (Slideshare.net)

  13. Google Earth Cheat Sheet Adding text to Placemark: Once you create the placemark, right click on the placemark and click on Get Info. Type in what youʼd like to be seen once one clicks on the placemark. Adding a Hyperlink to Placemark: As with adding text, right click on the placemark and click on Get Info. Paste in the URL of the hyperlink, which means you need to go to the site first copy the url then go back to your placemark in Google Earth. Once one clicks on the hyperlink, the viewer will see the blue hyperlink. Creating the Link to the Picture on the Web: 1. Find the picture on the web. NOTE: In order to avoid scrolling, avoid using file sizes over 600 x 600. 2. Right click on the image and click on Copy Image Location 3. Right click on the placemark and click on Get Info. 4.Type in <img src=” and then paste in the URL (Control / V) and finish the link by adding “> at the end of the URL. Ex: <img src= “http://l.yimg.com/g/images/home_photo_welshboy.jpg”>

  14. Saving Your Tour: (Saving as a .kmz will embed the images!) 1. Click on tour folder or placemark. 2. Click on File / Save / Save as (Pick the location and save it!) Embedding Video: For those sites that display embedding code, simply copy the code and paste it inside the placemark. For example, YouTube posts the code on the right side of the screen under the url of the video. Copy this html and paste it into the placemark in Google Earth.

  15. Now it's time to jump over to Google Earth. Open up Earth, locate the area in the world where you wish to place the placemark, and go to the upper menu bar, and create a new placemark.

  16. This is the placemark, drag it to its location. Type the name of the placemark here. Exact positioning of the placemark can be done through latitude and longitude This is the placemark, drag it to its location. Paste the content from the online Web editor here

  17. Some other Simple HTML Adding a line break: Add a <br> at the end of the line after which you want a break. Italicize: Add <i> right before anything to be in italics and </i> at the end of what is to be in italics. Bold: Same as above but use <b> and </b> Underline: Same as above but use <u> and </u> Centering: <center> PICTURE or WORDS </center> Linked words: <a href=”URL”> Word </a> Resizing picture: <img src= "URL" width=400> (The height will change proportionally! HTML Quick List

  18. Attachments 02 Chapter 4 Surat.m4a

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