Web 2.0 Teaching Tools

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- So it has been quite a few months since I was last inspired enough to talk about something on this blog. However, I was going through my list of new Twitter followers today (again, something I have not done in a few months) and found http://twitter.com/russeltarr, who is a history teacher in Toulouse, France, and who developed the ClassTools.net website. According to Russel:
- This is very cool for anyone who teaches online or has a class website. Russel has created 17 templates that are available for teachers to fill in the blanks and images. Some are interactive games, others are fill in the blanks. Students can save their work, which is saved for 12 months on the Classtools.net website.
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- Web 2.0
  Ideas for Educators - eBook
  
  TeachingHacks.com provides a free and
  very interesting eBook titled:
  
  "Web 2.0
  Ideas for Educators: A Guide to RSS and More"
  by Quentin d'souza
  
  Download
  the PDF book here
  
  and go to the
  blog page that supports the book here
  
  The guide is designed for K-12
  educators, but with the current state of Web 2.0 in Higher Education (very
  limited in my view), I do not think there is really that much
  difference.
  
  Here are two chapter from the Table of
  Contents:
- Top
  5 Quiz Generators for Online Educators
  
  Top 5 Quiz Generators
  for Online Educators
  
  Building out
  quizzes for both traditional and online classes can be a time-consuming chore.
  Luckily, there are now many online "generators" being designed that take much of
  the work out of online test taking. If you need to create a simple online test,
  look to the five user-friendly tools below.
  
  Exam
  Builder – With this exam
  generator, you can create an online test in a Web browser, and then publish it
  in one click. You can customize each test for online registration and individual
  retests, plus the site provides an analysis on how your students scored as a
  whole.
  Quiz
  Center – Brought to you by the
  Discovery Channel, this easy tool will allow you to create, publish and grade
  quizzes online. This generator is very flexible and, perhaps even more
  importantly, is free of charge. Teachers should find this tool useful at both
  the K-12 and college level.
  Easy
  Test Maker – Here, you can create a
  host of different tests at no charge. Your answer options will include multiple
  choice, fill in the blank, matching, short answer, true or false and more. This
  robust tool includes a spell check function, as well, which comes in very handy
  for those of us creating tests late at night.
  Charles
  Kelly's Online Quiz Generator – This multiple choice
  test generator is very popular amongst tech-savvy college instructors. It allows
  you a lot of freedom in terms of formatting the data.
  JavaScript
  QuizMaker – As the name suggests,
  this is a quiz generator that provides JavaScript that you can cut and paste
  into your own Web page. If you are operating your own classroom site, this can
  be an easy way to host a test on your page.
  
  The above tools
  have proven to be very useful and popular amongst online instructors. Although
  more complex tools do exist, most teachers are looking for easy-to-use
  generators to maximize their productivity. These resources will certainly save
  you time and make online test taking easier on your students.
  
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  This post is by guest blogger,
  Heather Johnson. Heather Johnson is a regular commentator on the subject
  of top
  online universities. She welcomes your
  feedback and potential job inquiries at heatherjohnson2323 at gmail dot
  com.
  
  Posted by Alan A. Lew
  at 5/23/2008
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  generator
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- - Twitter
    Tweets for Higher Education
    
    I love Twitter.com. I usually post a couple of items a
    day, on average, and tend to follow and interact others who also post in a
    moderate fashion. Some people post dozens of twits a day and use Twitter as a
    kind of instant messaging client. I see, and use it, more as a mini-blog. When I
    click on my name, I see all my posts, which is a sort of summary of things that
    I do and think about that I want to share with others.
    
    For the
    uninitiated, Twitter limits you to 140 characters and spaces per post (or per
    "tweet"). You can follow others Twitter uses on your home page. The graphic
    above is a snapshot of my Twitter homepage, showing three of the people whose
    Tweets I follow. They also follow me, though that is not necessary. To see all
    my posts, go to my Twitter page at: http://twitter.com/alew.
    
    I actually
    had not considered it as a tool for education until I saw a link posted by Twittown to a blog post on that
    subject. Doing a little online searching (emphasis on the little), I found the
    following items related to Twitter and education.
  - Collaborative
    Learning Tools (updated)
    
    Collaborative Learning Tools (updated)
    
    I discussed the
    comprehensive office and organizational website, Zoho.com,
    in my last blog posting. After looking at Zoho.com, and talking about it
    with a colleague, it seems to me that one of the more valuable skills that
    university students need to be exposed to is working collaboratively with other
    people.
    
    Unfortunately, this is also one of the more difficult skills to
    teach! The most common complaint of "group assignments" is that the share of
    work is not evenly distributed among group members. Well, what if we structured
    our classes using "groupware"? Personally, I think this has potential, and I may
    going to give it a shot in one of my classes this Fall semester -- though I have
    not yet decided which product to use. If anyone
    has experience doing this in the classroom, I am open to
    recommendations.
  - Top eLearning Tools - -
    Survey Results
    
    The Centre for Learning
    & Performance Technologies, in Somerset, England has an ongoing survey
    in which they are asking eLearning professionals to list their "Top 10 Tools." This is being compiled in a Top 100 Tools
    website.
    
    Unfortunately, I was a bit disappointed in the list. First, I
    was surprised to see Firefox topping the list and Google Search in the #3 spot,
    and wondered how people are using Firefox and Google Search in their teaching
    assignments. I was also surprised to see and Microsoft Word on the list, but
    then realized that these are not Web 2.0 tools.
    
    However, when you click
    on the tool to see the comments made by the respondents, you quickly learn that
    these are actually the Top 10 personal productivity tools of the respondents. In
    that sense, I basically agree with the list. It is not, however, as useful
    readers of this blog as I had initially hoped. Though, it does give some insight
    into the views of the eLearning and tech support people that those of us who are
    teaching online occasionally come into contact with.
    
    AND - The survey is
    still open so you can add your own votes and comments on your "Top 10 Tools." So
    go to the Top 100 Tools list and
    cast your votes.
    
    Below is a list of the top 15 tools (as of when I am
    posting this blog, it will likely change over time). I have highlighted in Bold/Red the ones that I
    consider the most obvious teaching tools that you can build an online class
    assignments around. (This does not include tools
    where you are just teaching students how to use the technology, like Powerpoint,
    Word, Audacity and others would be.)
    
    1 Firefox
    2 del.icio.us
    3 Google
    Search
    4 Gmail
    5 Google Reader + Skype
    7 PowerPoint
    8 Blogger + WordPress
    10 Bloglines
    
    11 Google Docs &
    Spreadsheets
    12 Word
    13 iGoogle + Audacity
    15 Dreamweaver + flickr + Ning + Wikispace
    
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    Top 10 List
  - Read/WriteWeb.com's
    list of Web 2.0 Apps for Students
    
    The popular Read/WriteWeb Blog has posted a fairly
    long list of Web 2.0 tools for students. Many of them have been covered in Web
    2.0 Teaching Tools in the past, but there are also quite a few that I have not
    reviewed. In particular, I have always been a bit skeptical of the value of
    online Notetaking and Mindmapping applications. But from the comments to the
    Read/Write Web blog, I guess there are students who use and like them.
    
    Web 2.0 Backpack: Web Apps for Students
    
    Posted by Alan A. Lew
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    06:26:00 PM 0
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  - EDUCATIONAL PODCAST
    DIRECTORIES
    
    EDUCATIONAL PODCAST
    DIRECTORIES
    
    Here is a list of directories to educational podcasts.
    Educational podcasts range from university classes, to elementary school news,
    and from pay-per-download ebooks to free DIY (do it yourself) tutorials. All of
    these are worth checking out.
    
    Learn On The Go - Nice, clean
    interface; Nice organized list of university podcasts; Designed for general
    public interest
    
    Learn Out Loud - Includes a lot of
    pay-per-download audio books mixed in with the free stuff -- made it somewhat
    confusing to me; Designed for general public interest
    
    Podcast
    Directory for Educators, Schools and Colleges - More educator and
    school-oriented (all levels) than the those above, though also includes
    professional training and learning about podcasting.
    
    The Education Podcast
    Network - Podcasts are listed by academic discipline so they can be used in
    classrooms and for home schooling. This one is the most school-oriented of these
    four directories.
    
    Open
    Culture: University Podcast Collection - A listing of links to university
    websites where podcasts can be found, with xome comments on what is available.
    (I reviewed this site in more detail previously.)
    
    Posted by Alan A. Lew
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    Labels:
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  - MERLOT - Multimedia Educational
    Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
    
    MERLOT = Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and
    Online Teaching
    
    MERLOT is the probably the largest social
    network for sharing educational resources in higher education. At the time that
    I am writing this, the site claimed to have 16,566 Materials (learning materials
    and assignments), and 45,057 members (faculty, students, librarians, and
    others).
    
    The website is divided into the following
    sections:
  - SlideShare.net - The Joys of Powerpoint!
    
    I always use Powerpoint for my presentations (there are no
    alternatives), and after almost every conference presentation that I have made
    in recent years, I have had students asking me for a copy of the Powerpoint
    file. This is especially true in Asia, where students must have gigabytes of
    .ppt files on their computers. When this first started happening, I was wary of
    giving my work away, but now I pretty much let anyone who wants to make a copy
    -- life is too short to worry about it!
  - WikiMatrix - Wiki Comparison Tool
    
    WikiMatrix.org is a
    website that allows you to compare different wiki tools available on the web. It
    is amazing how many wikis are out there -- currently 77 on the WikiMatrix site.
    Click on "Choice Wizard" to get started. Comparisons cover an incredible amount
    of items, including cost/fee options, storage and bandwidth quotas, intended
    audience, security and spam controls, editing and history features, formatting,
    media, and statistics. The wikis with the floppy disk icon next to them require
    server installation, while those with a hand icon are web-based. There is also a
    Discussion Forum on the topic of wikis.
  - Fleck
    - Annotate Any Webpage
    
    If you click on the title link above, it will take you to the
    Fleck.com homepage that I just
    annotated (same as in the photo above). While not intended to be an educational
    tool, like many other Web 2.0 sites these days, it has a lot of
    potential.
    
    Fleck allows you to go to any web page, start the Fleck tool
    (I dragged the link to my favorites toolbar), and then start adding post-it
    notes on the web page. You can then click on "Share" and get a URL for the
    annotated page, which you can then send to other people. When the other person
    goes to the URL, they can move and edit your notes, as well as add their
    own.
    
    I was just in the process of preparing a class for next semester in
    which one of the options I will have is for students to create their own web
    pages about the topics we will be covering. Initially, I will have links to Google Page Creator and to Weebly.com. With Fleck I now have an easy way to
    comment on and grade their work. And, according to TechCrunch,
    Fleck is the easiest tool of this kind currently available. Plus, they
    say:
  - Quikmaps.com -
    Maps for the Masses
    
    Quikmaps.com
    - Maps for the Masses
    
    This site is online mapping made easy. It is
    limited to points and lines, but looks like a nice tool to get students to think
    spatially about locations and connections.
    
    Quickmaps.com allows you to "Draw pictures and
    label things on a google map using simple clicks and drags." This is Fun! It is
    still in beta, and the "draw Lines" tool did not work for me in Firefox, but the
    "scribble" line drawing tool did work. This is a neat way to draw the maps that
    you want - to your house, to the party, and to the beach!
    
    I have not
    tried these other options yet, but according to the website, once you have drawn
    your maps you can:
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