Other Content Areas

 

A place to share Web 2.0 ideas for use in the other content areas such as the arts, physical education, vocational education, etc.

 

Kindo

by Elfreda Benally

 

Kindo is a great website where you can create your own family tree. It’s completely private so only your family and friends can see it. This would be a good site where students can contact people in their family who live out of state and get information for their tree without them having to be there.

 

 

 

SlideBoom

 

by Elfreda Benally

 

SlideBoom is a free service for anyone to share a PowerPoint presentation on the web. You can embed a presentation into the content of your blog or web site.

 

 

 

Tux Paint

by Patti McFeely

 

Tux Paint is open source paint software. It is a great alternative to Kid Pix that will be useful even with older students. Although the screenshots may look more suitable for lower primary students, the variety of tools will allow even upper intermediate students to create some interesting drawings. One included background was an outline map of the United States; students could label the cities and draw pictures of local interest in each of the states.

 

 

Gutiar Playing on Line

 http://www.songsterr.com/

by ann marie jackson

Great site for music teachers or an after school club. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

by Pam Lang

 

Pikikids is a site to create comic strips where you can select the strip layout and add text to each cell.  This could be used to create a book report.

 

 

 

CTC Music Mixer

http://audiomixer-d.oddcast.com/php/ctc

 

Ann-Marie Jackson

WOW!!!  What a great and fun site for music teachers to use in their classrooms.  With this site, students are able to play with all types of sounds of different instruments and then create a music mix to share with the class.  This allows the teacher to let students hear instuments that they may not have in the classroom. 

 

 

TJoon

by Lydia Horstman

TJoon is a site that allows you to use your webcam to combine video on a split screen.  For the musically inclined, this is a good tool to make your very own one man band.  This site could also be used by multiple people to combine multiple video.  I thought it was interesting and immediately thought of students that are musically motivated.

 

 

 

National Center for Technology Planning

By Patrick Schwab

The National Center for Technology Planning is a clearinghouse for the exchange of many types of information related to technology planning. The NCTP was created for those who: need help, seek fresh ideas, or seek solutions to problems encountered with planning.

 

 

 

Gliffy

by Adam Hunt

 

Gliffy is an online diagramming program that not only allows the user to create mind maps (like Inspiration) but to create other types of diagrams as well.  For this entry, I'd be looking at it for a vocational education class dealing with architecture or home design.  It allows you to create a floorplan using a variety of pre-loaded images-but you can add your own as well.  My sample is fairly simple but I'm sure you could get much more complex with this.

 

 

Offtype.net

by Ann-Marie Jackson

http://offtype.net/

 

As an art teacher this would be a great site to use to have the students display art work on the web.  Offtype.net is a fast, fun, free and easy way to create your own images online.  Students in the class can rate each other piece of work.  It really shows who can truly draw using computer paint brush which I find very hard to do and I draw as a hobby. 

 

 

 

Cyberlink 

 

 By LaCresha Williams

 

Cyberlink is a great way for you to upload videos directly to You Tube, have live chats, add free effects to your videos, capture photos and video with special effects, and email to friends.  I first encountered Cyberlink when I was in Best Buy and couldn't believe the clarity and non-echoing movements of Cyberlink.  There is a free 30 day download before you make any final decisions and I think this is great for Web 2.0 for kids and even contacting friends and family.  Check it out!  It's great across the curriculum.    

 

 

 

 

 

Journal of Technology Education

By Patrick Schwab

 

 

Digital Library and Archives, Scholarly Publishing, Library Services, and Archives: a web resource site provided by University Libraries at Virginia Tech.  This site provides an amazing library of restored and reconstructed images and made digital.  They also house and incredible arrangement of videos and other multimedia materials for the use by educational institutions and the public.