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= Beyond LMS Boundaries: Web 2.0 Enriching On-Line Learning and Assessment = toc //Session 1: Thursday, November 10 from 9:30 - 10:30am//
 * //Michele Gill,Vice President, Online Education,Performance Learning Systems// ** mgill@plsweb.com
 * //Barbara Moran, Director, eLearning, Wilkes University// ** barbara.moran@wilkes.edu
 * Session Information **


 * **Location:** 102 //(Click Here to View the Session Map)//
 * **Track:** Technology
 * **Grade Level Focus:** K-5|6-8|9-12|High school to college transition
 * **Experience Level:** Level 101 - For beginners new to the field (0-1 years experience in K-12 Online Learning)|Level 201 - For intermediate level participants (2-4 years experience in K-12 Online Learning)|Level 301 - For advanced participants (5+ years of experience in K-12 Online Learning)
 * **Exhibitor:** Yes
 * **Requires Purchase of Product to Implement:** No

**Session Description**
//In the transition to online learning, excellent face-to-face teachers often ask "How can I do that online?" Great online courses elicit a better question: "How can I get these results in the classroom?" In this session we'll be presenting web 2.0 tools that allow teachers to supplement their online or classroom instruction with open source content, collaboration, and creativity tools available for free (or nearly) on the web. Leave with a list of resources and ideas to implement immediately.//

Session Twitter Hashtag: // #vss102s1 //
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Presentation Materials and Contributions
21st Century Education in New Brunswick, Canada produced by the New Brunswick Department of Education

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Links shared in the Popplet Presentation below (and many others listed on the Popplet, but not demonstrated in the session).

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 * Content Resources **

Juried, open source content resources, geared to university level courses. Could easily be used by higher level HS courses. [|http://merlot.org]
 * High School and College level**

Open Courseware Consortium. Another open source course resource. Again geared to College/upper high school. []

Open source college text books. []

MIT Open Courseware for High School []

P2PU College level course content [|http://p2pu.org]

Open High School of Utah: Complete online, open source courses for 9th and 10th grade subjects. [|http://www.ocw.openhighschool.org]

Connexions open source content chunks for hs and college courses. []

Khan Academy a VAST collection of video lessons, practice sessions, and review activities covering math from basic addition to advanced calculus. Also includes some additional subjects. [|http://khanacademy.org]
 * Middle /High School**

Pennsylvania Department of Education Standards Aligned System Portal: Karpele’s documents with e-reader, lessons, PhET simulations, and much more! [|http://pdesas.org]

Discovery Streaming : Discovery Channel content available online. http://www.discoveryeducation.com//teachers

Debategraph: visual maps on nearly any debate topic. Public, constantly growing perspectives on hundreds of topics. [|http://debategraph.org]

Teacher LED Whiteboard/ipad resources for elementary and middle school. Mostly math. Some primary letter/number material. http://teacherled.com
 * Elementary Level**

ABCYa.com Educational Computer Games for kids. Amazing volume of resources for each grade level, in multiple subjects. Don’t miss the animation program! [|http://abcya.com]

Kinetic City from the American Association for the Advancement of Science provides games, activities, challenges geared to elementary students. [|http://www.kineticcity.com]

Audio and video story books, activities, karaoke, and much, much more for elementary students. [|http://speakaboos.com]


 * Demonstration Resources for all subjects and levels**

SimpleBooklet a brand new, simple and quick way to create mashups of audio, video, images, text, and embedded code. [|http://simplebooklet.com]

Museum Box: create a multi level/multi compartment museum box containing cubes. Each cube has multiple faces, and each face contains resources…text, documents, images, audio or video files. Customizable for number of levels and boxes. [|http://museumbox.e2bn.org]

Glogster for education: create posters and have students collaborate creating unique resources. [|http://edu.glogster.com]

Voki: create speaking, custom avatars [|http://www.voki.com]

Blabberize: change any image into a talking video. [|http://blabberize.com]

Animoto: create slideshows to music, including text. [|http://animoto.com]


 * Creation**

Floorplanner allows anyone to create detailed floor plans. Great when a project requires this type of demonstration. [|http://floorplanner.com]

Go!Animate allows quick, computer generated voices to be added to a series of characters, creating simple animations with your content. [|http://goanimate.com]

Domo Go Animate allows the creator to move cartoon figures, add detailed movements, expressions, and interactions in a series of scenes. [|http://domogoanimate.com]

Xtranormal now has an EDU site. There are significant fees involved. []

Stick figure animation [|http://stykz.net]

Create online games, from pixilated basics to third person adventure games. Create tours and walk-throughs. [|http://www.adventuremaker.com]

Jumpcraft: Another online game creator. [|http://jumpcraft.com]


 * Collaboration**

Connect with another webcam user, record video and audio on a shared screen, and share that video with the world. [|http://wetoku.com]

WallWisher: share a single website with your group, and everyone can add brief sticky notes to your wall. [|http://wallisher.com]

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**Math**
Digital Photography Resource []

SketchUp []

Construction of a Golden Rectangle using SketchUp []

GeoGebra []

GeoGebra: Is your face symmetrical? Using GeoGebra []

The flash videos in this presentation were created with Jing: []

**Other Math sites**
Algebrahelp.com is a collection of lessons, calculators, and worksheets created to assist students and teachers of algebra. [|http://algebrahelp.com]

The Federal Government produces an immeasurable amount of data each day. DataMasher helps citizens have a little fun with those data by creating mashups to visualize them in different ways and see how states compare on important issues. [|http://www.datamasher.org]

BrainNook is a new online game that helps kids develop Math and English skills while exploring the Earth and playing safely with others. [|http://www.brainnook.com]

Math games, lessons, practice, puzzles, books (Geometry, algebra, pre-calculus) [|http://www.coolmath.com]

Graphing Calculator [|https://www.desmos.com/calculator]

Illuminations is designed to provide standards-based resources that improve the teaching and learning of mathematics [|http://illuminations.nctm.org]

The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) is an NSF supported project with web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis). [|http://nlvm.usu.edu]

Math, Geography, and English Worksheets [|http://www.worksheetworks.com]

**Language Arts**
VoiceThread []

VoiceThread Example: [|http://voicethread.com/#q+english.b153041.i816684]

Storybird [] Storybird Example: []

**Other Language Arts sites**
Books Should Be Free makes the world's public domain audio books available for browsing in a visual and entertaining way. [|http://www.booksshouldbefree.com]

The lessons are free. There is a new lesson every three days. All lessons are based on stories currently in the news - as the world's news breaks, teach it. [|http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com]

Dictionary, word of the day, etc. [|http://www.merriam-webster.com]

Create tag clouds [|http://tagul.com]

Writing Workshop on Persuasive Writing [|http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/writing/minilessons.asp?topic=][|Persuasive]

Multilanguage dictionary [|http://elovivo.com]

The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience. [|http://www.poetryfoundation.org][|/]

**Social Studies**
Google Sites []

Google Sites []

Google Historical Voyages and Events []

Google Historical Voyages and Events Example - Walking Tour Of The "Make It Right" Neighborhood []

**Other Social Studies sites**
Provides webcam content, technology and services [|http://www.earthcam.com]

Games, videos, animals & pets, photos, countries [|http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids]

Atlapedia Online contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world. [|http://www.atlapedia.com]

Ancient Egypt reference from The British Museum []

AwesomeStories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites. [|http://awesomestories.com]

The Library of Congress American Memory []

PBS Teachers []

Ken Burns (PBS) [|http://www.pbs.org/kenburns]

The National Archives – Docs Teach [|http://docsteach.org][|/]

The Library of Congress []

**Science**
Digital Age Approach to MS Science []

Blog with Egg Drop Experiment Video [] []

iMovie []

Movie Maker []

Diigo []

Egg Drop experiment []

The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. []

An online, interactive Periodic Table of Elements []

ClassroomEarth is an online resource designed to help high school teachers include environmental content in their daily lesson plans. []

Computer animations of physical processes []

EarthSky has science interviews and other audio and video content available via both broadcast and Internet outlets. []

Edufy provides a free platform to find, share, and edit high quality learning activities shared by other teachers with a focus on STEM education. []

Knotebooks provides users with the tools to create, collaborate on and share customized, self-guided physics lessons. []

NASA Kid’s Club []

Another Periodic Table []

The CyberSurgeons simulation provides an authentic way for high school and college students to apply science knowledge and skills. []

**Music**
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**Art**
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**All Areas**
ICT Magic – Great resource to find web tools for video editing, photos, science, music, etc. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite [|http://www.blender.org] Flubaroo - Grade online assignments in a single step, free! [|http://www.flubaroo.com] eduTeacher is a way to keep track of the growing number of web tools that can be used in the classroom setting [] Mini-Geek Fest Resources [] Curriculumbits.com offer free online access to a growing range of interactive multimedia e-learning resources. The online Resource library contains games, quizzes, animations and videos in a variety of subjects. [|http://www.curriculumbits.com] Cybrarian – provides help for kids in grades 3-8 with homework assignments, current events, research papers, science fair projects [|http://www.cybrary.org] EduHound – educational topics, templates, technology tutorials and practical tips [|http://eduhound.com] Gapminder - statistical time series, which converts boring numbers into animated and interactive graphics displaying the trends in some cases back to the year 1800 [|http://www.gapminder.org] Google for Educators [] Smithsonian Education – resources for art & design, science a& technology, history & culture and language arts aligned with state standards [|http://smithsonianeducation.org/educators] Verizon Thinkfinity offers comprehensive teaching and learning resources created by our content partners – the most respected organizations in each academic subject and literacy. [|http://www.thinkfinity.org][|/] SLR Camera Simulator [] Best Practices for Fair Use for 21st Century Educators []

Media Education Lab Free Resources []


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