Archive for the 'Web 2.0' Category

Please Meet My New Friend Voki

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

 
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Voki is a free Web 2.0 tool that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.
Voki is a combination of the Latin word “vox” meaning voice and “Loki” the mischievous god of Norse mythology. Now, there [...]

Webquests 2.0

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

   In my workshops with educators this week, I was asked to revisit a cognitive strategy from the creative mind of Bernie Dodge.
Webquests are the inquiry-oriented activity that transfer learning from teacher and textbook to students. My updated Handouts and Powerpoint retained the information, discarded old links, and included examples for customization.
One educator asked, “How [...]

Rebus 2.0

Monday, March 17th, 2008

   I love Rebus stories! I love the layers of meaning that pictures convey. Phrasr is a free, Flickr-based photo-word-slideshow maker that allows users to input sentences, phrases or even entire paragraphs and then chose from a group of suggested Flickr images to illustrate.
Here is a sample of a Phrasr I made using the first line [...]

TCEA Teachers Soar as Squids!

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

“Squid” is the affectionate name for authors of Squidoo pages and that is just what Linda, Pam, Jennifer, Stephanie, Angie, Melissa, Ruth, Pam, Liu, and Barbara became in our “Squidoo for You” session at TCEA. See their great work and leave them an encouraging comment in the Guestbook: http://www.squidoo.com/tcea

P.S. Kicking yourself for missing out [...]

Squidoo for You? YES!

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

The The 5 W’s of Squidoo:
What is Squidoo? an interactive web-editor portal interface with lots of cool modules!
Where can you Squidoo? anywhere on any computer connected to the Internet
Who can Squidoo? You, me, another can become a “Squid.”
When can you Squidoo? Anytime and Anyplace because the Internet doesn’t close!
Why Squidoo? Because it reflects the interactivity [...]