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South Google Calendar	Google Calendar is a collaborative Web 2.0 tool that can be used to organize personal and professional activities.The online calendar feature of Google can be used as an online scheduler for businesses, families and educators. Other calendars can be imported into Google Calendar.The calendar can be created in Google and downloaded to the calendar in Microsoft Office and shared with staff members. As a media specialist, I hope to use this tool to make it easier for classroom teachers to schedule research, group check-outs, lessons or specific instruction they need in the media center. Teachers, administrators and others can share calendars as needed. A media specialist can assign color codes to groups for visual organization. The calendar can be viewed several ways including by day, week, month or agenda.The interactive calendar will help promote the media center and media specialist as collaborative instructional partner.	Google Calendar pdf
South MEDT 7462 Blog	I created a blog on TinyChat, which can be found at http://www.tinychat.com. As a media specialist, I could invite classroom teachers (by grade level or subjects...) to discuss upcoming research needs or show language arts teachers how to use our new library automation system. (We're getting Surpass Centriva this August!) I could moderate staff development for teachers using Web 2.0 tools -- like TinyChat or creating a classroom blog for research. Teams of teachers could use TinyChat to discuss topics for professional book studies. For the classroom? Teachers could have students work in pairs to video chat about lessons or question/answer sessions on assignments. Students could chat together in small groups with the teacher as moderator. The chat would be recorded and embedded to the classroom website for parents to view. Administrators could quickly conference with team leaders if he/she were at an off campus location and needed to discuss something that couldn't wait. Useful features include real-time discussions that can be recorded, password protection, a moderator and the use of audio and web cameras in a video conference format. A dozen friends or colleagues can chat together free in one session. This is a cool Web 2.0 tool that educators will find useful in the classroom and in professional learning.	Google Blog pdf
South MEDT 7462 Wiki	Wiki -- This tool would be useful to me as a media specialist. I would use it to create a wiki with my book club members so they could discuss topics such as visual literacy, technology literacy, books, authors... We blogged last year, but monitoring was a little difficult. This tool looks like I could make our wiki private and secure so we could really interact and use audio and video to do so. It would be helpful to me as a media specialist if I could be linked to all classroom wikis showing topics being studied. The teachers and I could truly work together and I could make sure resources and assistance were available. I created a page in my wiki called Cool I-Tools. I chose WiZiQ because it is a web-based, teacher-powered platform for teachers who want to teach students online or network with other educators world-wide. Membership: free.Synchronous [live] and asynchronous teaching through Virtual Classroom, Online Tests, Content Sharing, Messaging System...are all part of this cool Internet tool. Teachers can plan online classes with their F2F students and interact with learners around the world. Classes are recorded and the teacher can decide who may watch. Communication tools: audio, video, text chat, shared whiteboards, presentations, documents, multimedia files through a virtual classroom. Embeddable. This classroom tool can be an economic, organized way to incorporate 21st Century Learning Skills and national technology skills into standards-based lessons.	Wiki pdf
Tinycha t WiZiQ	Google Reader can be used in research by choosing the RSS feeds that match the research topic. Teachers and students should make sure the source is reliable by looking at who produced the RSS. The number of subscribers can also be an indication of a good RSS. Researchers use the feeds as resources. A class studying the solar system could subscribe to a feed produced by NASA. A teacher could keep informed of new technology by subscribing to a Web 2.0 or technology RSS. A class could also create a group blog and invite other classes to join their RSS. A sixth grade group could discuss their findings on scientists or inventors. They could invite other classrooms to add their research. With teachers moderating, this collaborative effort could become a respectable RSS and would be an example of media and technology literacy.	Google Reader pdf
South/Snidow/Wetherholt MEDT 7462 SlideShare	Slide Share is an online collaboration tool, where people with Internet access and modern computer can work together privately or publicly. Audio can be implemented for a webinar. The presentation document can be easily embedded into blogs or websites. Students could use Slide Share to work on projects and create group presentations to share with the class, parents, even a class located across the country or globe. Slide Share could be an excellent way to learn about another country's culture or to share our culture with students somewhere else.	Slide Share pdf
BlinkList	Google Docs can be used by teachers and students to communicate in collaborative projects. Student research groups can each type facts, responses or their portion of an assignment to a computer with Internet access. The individual responses are combined into one document with Google Docs. This tool can be used in local classrooms, with classrooms in another state or country. One really cool part of using Google Docs is how groups can stay organized by assigning each individual group member a specific color. That way, everyone can see who has typed something (or is typing something). The document can be edited, refined and saved in a Word document or presentation.	Google Doc pdf
	BlinkList advertises itself as the "Itunes for web pages." This free website allows the user to "blink" or add useful websites and keep then handy in one location. As an instructor, I would have students (researching in the media center) login in with user accounts created for their class. Each one would be linked to me so I could view the websites they visit for research. The student would use the class login throughout the research project. The students will be allowed to collaborate with each other by sharing websites with good information. We would discuss reliability and legitimate information. I would remind them that Wikipedia is an edited encyclopedia; if they choose to use this site, they should check the info for accuracy on another site or source. (Media Literacy) I would also use the websites gathered and blinked to show students how to correctly site them as sources in their research projects. I would provide information on creating an individual login for Blinklist so the middle schoolers could create their own Blink resource site with parental permission. If I were a classroom teacher, I would use Blinklist each morning and have students look up a current event (or fact on something being studied) in one of the websites listed on my daily blinks (NY Times, CNN...). This would be an activity done in a center if there were only a couple of computers in the classroom. If I were a lab teacher, I would have each student look for current events at their station on the class blinklist. I would also use Blinklist to show students how to organize research by including important websites for information and citations. Another way to use Blinklist with students would be do do what we've just done: Blink and share websites, then discuss how to use the information gathered. Oh...and I just thought of another way to use Blinklist:A Georgia history teacher (or other subject) could use Blink to search for online resources on the Civil War in Georgia. Students could blink sites to each other and find an almanac with information on what happened on the current day. What was the weather like? Where was the Confederate Army? How was President Lincoln handling the situation -- anything in the newspapers for that day? Any Naval incidents? Propoganda? Did the news report tell the truth?... Ahh...media literacy again!	Blinklist pdf Blinklistgroup.pdf
	Google Sketch Up is a tool that allows the user to create scale drawings in 2D or 3D. I used it to create a simple plan for renovating my kitchen. Students could use this tool to draw or re-design their home, bedroom, landscape design...or other project designated by the instructor. Students would measure the actual dimensions and project those into Google Sketch Up. They could also create simple projects (like a shelf, chair, table), include dimensions and build the project in a vocational classroom. Art students could use it to look at perspective and design. Technology students could use the program to create a scrapbook or brochure on a project designed or found through an Internet link in the program.Students could use Google Sketch Up to replicate their face and look at biology elements such as spacing between eyes, ear/nose/mouth size, hair type/lines, and face shapes.	Google SketchUp pdf
	Picasa is a photo editing tool available free through Google. With Picasa, one can quickly edit and add effects to photos -- taken digitally or scanned. Upload them to a web album and share with family and friends! In the classroom, students can use Picasa to search for images to use in multimedia projects. Searching is quick and efficient and can be done through tags that include locations. They can play the game, "Where in the World?" and guess where photos were taken. Students can also create a slideshow right in Picasa and project the images for their presentations. Images can also be downloaded into a movie format and made into a collage. The best part is how Picasa works with Google Earth! Take a picture, edit in Picasa and add it to Google Earth images! That's a real wow! Picasa allows 1024 mb of storage and albums can be private or public.	Picasa
	Google Translate is a really cool web tool that allows the web searcher to type a URL in one language and have it translated into another. Currently, Google translates 34 languages including Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Hindu and others. Need to know how to say "hello" in another language? Just type "hello" (or other word) and translate to one of the supported languages. In my screenshot, I translated this home page from English to Japanese! 非常にクール！(That's "Very cool!" in Japanese)! Obviously, ESOL learners could use this tool, but students could also use Google Toolbar and Word Translator to mouse over words to show meanings -- in English and other languages! The Translate Gadget can be added to web pages for easy access. Check out the Google Translator Toolkit (Beta) and collaborate with other translators; use translation memories and multilingual glossaries...you can even publish translations to Wikipedia or Knol. Very, very cool!	Google Translate
	Google Custom Search Engine is another Web 2.0 tool that can be used by educators or anyone who wants to direct searchers to specific websites. For my Custom Search Engine, I included this website, the Library of Congress, History Explorer, Yahooligans, Thinkfinity and Galileo. It's easy to customize, use and share the search engine with colleagues or students. Embed the code and the custom search feature is added to your blog, wiki or website. This is a definite "Must Do" and will enhance learning for students and adults!	Google Search 1 Google Search 2 Google Search 3
	Google Earth. Wow. Wow! Dive under oceans, look through historic ruins, tour the earth...the heavens! This is one of the best educational tools available and the best part? It's free! Use Google Earth tours to put students IN history. View the earth through historical satellite images. Link to educational videos with National Geographic. You've seen NG photos in the magazine...just take a look at them with Google Earth! Don't just learn about the planets... EXPLORE them! Map skills, calculating distance, rock formations, volcanoes, fault lines... Upload tours to the Google Earth forums. Edit and import photos from Picassa into a student-developed tour. Record comments... Think visual literacy, technology literacy...21st Century Skills... Beam me up, Mr. Scott! :-)	Google Earth South Tour
	Screencast-O-Matic is a tool used to capture screen shots without having to download a program. Teachers can use Screencast-O-Matic to visually show students how to work a complex math problem, explaining the steps verbally. Students can demonstrate scientific experiements or show how to build or make something step by step. (How about showing the famous "egg drop project" in high school?) I will use Screencast-O-Matic to record tutorials on how to use our new library automation software, Surpass. Students and teachers will also need step guides for the new Renaissance Place program that is replacing the regular Accelerated Reader program at our school. I can see using this tool to record how to use Galileo and find the correct resources needed. This program, along with Jing and SnagIt, are tools developed by TechSmith. Understanding is the key and Screencast-O-Matic can be the key to understanding just about anything! Check out these sample lesson plans using this cool web tool: Go to Plan 1 and then Plan 2...I'm sure you'll find something in there for you! :-)	Internet Tool: ScreenCast-O-Matic
MEDT 7462 Final	Screencast-O-Matic is a Web 2.0 tool that can easily be used to create step-guides through video screen capture technology. This tool doesn't have to be downloaded and could be incorporated into a lesson where students create their own step guides in many educational areas. Screencast-O-Matic South Presentation/Screencast-O-Matic Lesson Plan on Screencast-O-Matic Lesson Plan 7th Grade	Final Handout PPT Slides Final Handout: So how can students use this tool? Final PPT


	Web page designed by Glovis South: graduate student University of West Georgia: Updated 9/18/09	Email G. South:

Links to online sites and pdfs

Description

MEDT 7462

Assignment web links

Assignment pdf links

MEDT 7462 Web Page

This web page was created in MEDT 7462 at the University of West Georgia.

Gmail pdf

South Google Calendar

Google Calendar is a collaborative Web 2.0 tool that can be used to organize personal and professional activities.The online calendar feature of Google can be used as an online scheduler for businesses, families and educators. Other calendars can be imported into Google Calendar.The calendar can be created in Google and downloaded to the calendar in Microsoft Office and shared with staff members. As a media specialist, I hope to use this tool to make it easier for classroom teachers to schedule research, group check-outs, lessons or specific instruction they need in the media center. Teachers, administrators and others can share calendars as needed. A media specialist can assign color codes to groups for visual organization. The calendar can be viewed several ways including by day, week, month or agenda.The interactive calendar will help promote the media center and media specialist as collaborative instructional partner.

Google Calendar pdf

South MEDT 7462 Blog

I created a blog on TinyChat, which can be found at http://www.tinychat.com.
As a media specialist, I could invite classroom teachers (by grade level or subjects...) to discuss upcoming research needs or show language arts teachers how to use our new library automation system. (We're getting Surpass Centriva this August!) I could moderate staff development for teachers using Web 2.0 tools -- like TinyChat or creating a classroom blog for research. Teams of teachers could use TinyChat to discuss topics for professional book studies.
For the classroom? Teachers could have students work in pairs to video chat about lessons or question/answer sessions on assignments. Students could chat together in small groups with the teacher as moderator. The chat would be recorded and embedded to the classroom website for parents to view.
Administrators could quickly conference with team leaders if he/she were at an off campus location and needed to discuss something that couldn't wait.
Useful features include real-time discussions that can be recorded, password protection, a moderator and the use of audio and web cameras in a video conference format. A dozen friends or colleagues can chat together free in one session.
This is a cool Web 2.0 tool that educators will find useful in the classroom and in professional learning.

Google Blog pdf

South MEDT 7462 Wiki

Wiki -- This tool would be useful to me as a media specialist. I would use it to create a wiki with my book club members so they could discuss topics such as visual literacy, technology literacy, books, authors... We blogged last year, but monitoring was a little difficult. This tool looks like I could make our wiki private and secure so we could really interact and use audio and video to do so. It would be helpful to me as a media specialist if I could be linked to all classroom wikis showing topics being studied. The teachers and I could truly work together and I could make sure resources and assistance were available. I created a page in my wiki called Cool I-Tools. I chose WiZiQ because it is a web-based, teacher-powered platform for teachers who want to teach students online or network with other educators world-wide.
Membership: free.Synchronous [live] and asynchronous teaching through Virtual Classroom, Online Tests, Content Sharing, Messaging System...are all part of this cool Internet tool. Teachers can plan online classes with their F2F students and interact with learners around the world. Classes are recorded and the teacher can decide who may watch. Communication tools: audio, video, text chat, shared whiteboards, presentations, documents, multimedia files through a virtual classroom. Embeddable. This classroom tool can be an economic, organized way to incorporate 21st Century Learning Skills and national technology skills into standards-based lessons.

Wiki pdf

Tinycha t WiZiQ

Google Reader can be used in research by choosing the RSS feeds that match the research topic. Teachers and students should make sure the source is reliable by looking at who produced the RSS. The number of subscribers can also be an indication of a good RSS. Researchers use the feeds as resources.
A class studying the solar system could subscribe to a feed produced by NASA.
A teacher could keep informed of new technology by subscribing to a Web 2.0 or technology RSS.
A class could also create a group blog and invite other classes to join their RSS. A sixth grade group could discuss their findings on scientists or inventors. They could invite other classrooms to add their research. With teachers moderating, this collaborative effort could become a respectable RSS and would be an example of media and technology literacy.

Google Reader pdf

South/Snidow/Wetherholt MEDT 7462 SlideShare

Slide Share is an online collaboration tool, where people with Internet access and modern computer can work together privately or publicly. Audio can be implemented for a webinar. The presentation document can be easily embedded into blogs or websites. Students could use Slide Share to work on projects and create group presentations to share with the class, parents, even a class located across the country or globe. Slide Share could be an excellent way to learn about another country's culture or to share our culture with students somewhere else.

Slide Share pdf

BlinkList

Google Docs can be used by teachers and students to communicate in collaborative projects. Student research groups can each type facts, responses or their portion of an assignment to a computer with Internet access. The individual responses are combined into one document with Google Docs. This tool can be used in local classrooms, with classrooms in another state or country. One really cool part of using Google Docs is how groups can stay organized by assigning each individual group member a specific color. That way, everyone can see who has typed something (or is typing something). The document can be edited, refined and saved in a Word document or presentation.

Google Doc pdf

BlinkList advertises itself as the "Itunes for web pages." This free website allows the user to "blink" or add useful websites and keep then handy in one location. As an instructor, I would have students (researching in the media center) login in with user accounts created for their class. Each one would be linked to me so I could view the websites they visit for research. The student would use the class login throughout the research project. The students will be allowed to collaborate with each other by sharing websites with good information. We would discuss reliability and legitimate information. I would remind them that Wikipedia is an edited encyclopedia; if they choose to use this site, they should check the info for accuracy on another site or source. (Media Literacy) I would also use the websites gathered and blinked to show students how to correctly site them as sources in their research projects. I would provide information on creating an individual login for Blinklist so the middle schoolers could create their own Blink resource site with parental permission. If I were a classroom teacher, I would use Blinklist each morning and have students look up a current event (or fact on something being studied) in one of the websites listed on my daily blinks (NY Times, CNN...). This would be an activity done in a center if there were only a couple of computers in the classroom. If I were a lab teacher, I would have each student look for current events at their station on the class blinklist. I would also use Blinklist to show students how to organize research by including important websites for information and citations. Another way to use Blinklist with students would be do do what we've just done: Blink and share websites, then discuss how to use the information gathered. Oh...and I just thought of another way to use Blinklist:A Georgia history teacher (or other subject) could use Blink to search for online resources on the Civil War in Georgia. Students could blink sites to each other and find an almanac with information on what happened on the current day. What was the weather like? Where was the Confederate Army? How was President Lincoln handling the situation -- anything in the newspapers for that day? Any Naval incidents? Propoganda? Did the news report tell the truth?... Ahh...media literacy again!

Blinklist pdf

Blinklistgroup.pdf

Google Sketch Up is a tool that allows the user to create scale drawings in 2D or 3D. I used it to create a simple plan for renovating my kitchen. Students could use this tool to draw or re-design their home, bedroom, landscape design...or other project designated by the instructor. Students would measure the actual dimensions and project those into Google Sketch Up. They could also create simple projects (like a shelf, chair, table), include dimensions and build the project in a vocational classroom. Art students could use it to look at perspective and design. Technology students could use the program to create a scrapbook or brochure on a project designed or found through an Internet link in the program.Students could use Google Sketch Up to replicate their face and look at biology elements such as spacing between eyes, ear/nose/mouth size, hair type/lines, and face shapes.

Google SketchUp pdf

Picasa is a photo editing tool available free through Google. With Picasa, one can quickly edit and add effects to photos -- taken digitally or scanned. Upload them to a web album and share with family and friends! In the classroom, students can use Picasa to search for images to use in multimedia projects. Searching is quick and efficient and can be done through tags that include locations. They can play the game, "Where in the World?" and guess where photos were taken. Students can also create a slideshow right in Picasa and project the images for their presentations. Images can also be downloaded into a movie format and made into a collage. The best part is how Picasa works with Google Earth! Take a picture, edit in Picasa and add it to Google Earth images! That's a real wow! Picasa allows 1024 mb of storage and albums can be private or public.

Picasa

Google Translate is a really cool web tool that allows the web searcher to type a URL in one language and have it translated into another. Currently, Google translates 34 languages including Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Hindu and others. Need to know how to say "hello" in another language? Just type "hello" (or other word) and translate to one of the supported languages. In my screenshot, I translated this home page from English to Japanese! 非常にクール！(That's "Very cool!" in Japanese)! Obviously, ESOL learners could use this tool, but students could also use Google Toolbar and Word Translator to mouse over words to show meanings -- in English and other languages! The Translate Gadget can be added to web pages for easy access. Check out the Google Translator Toolkit (Beta) and collaborate with other translators; use translation memories and multilingual glossaries...you can even publish translations to Wikipedia or Knol. Very, very cool!

Google Translate

Google Custom Search Engine is another Web 2.0 tool that can be used by educators or anyone who wants to direct searchers to specific websites. For my Custom Search Engine, I included this website, the Library of Congress, History Explorer, Yahooligans, Thinkfinity and Galileo. It's easy to customize, use and share the search engine with colleagues or students. Embed the code and the custom search feature is added to your blog, wiki or website. This is a definite "Must Do" and will enhance learning for students and adults!

Google Search 1

Google Search 2

Google Search 3

Google Earth. Wow. Wow! Dive under oceans, look through historic ruins, tour the earth...the heavens! This is one of the best educational tools available and the best part? It's free! Use Google Earth tours to put students IN history. View the earth through historical satellite images. Link to educational videos with National Geographic. You've seen NG photos in the magazine...just take a look at them with Google Earth! Don't just learn about the planets... EXPLORE them! Map skills, calculating distance, rock formations, volcanoes, fault lines... Upload tours to the Google Earth forums. Edit and import photos from Picassa into a student-developed tour. Record comments... Think visual literacy, technology literacy...21st Century Skills... Beam me up, Mr. Scott! :-)

Google Earth South Tour

Screencast-O-Matic is a tool used to capture screen shots without having to download a program. Teachers can use Screencast-O-Matic to visually show students how to work a complex math problem, explaining the steps verbally. Students can demonstrate scientific experiements or show how to build or make something step by step. (How about showing the famous "egg drop project" in high school?) I will use Screencast-O-Matic to record tutorials on how to use our new library automation software, Surpass. Students and teachers will also need step guides for the new Renaissance Place program that is replacing the regular Accelerated Reader program at our school. I can see using this tool to record how to use Galileo and find the correct resources needed. This program, along with Jing and SnagIt, are tools developed by TechSmith. Understanding is the key and Screencast-O-Matic can be the key to understanding just about anything! Check out these sample lesson plans using this cool web tool: Go to Plan 1 and then Plan 2...I'm sure you'll find something in there for you! :-)

Internet Tool:

ScreenCast-O-Matic

MEDT 7462 Final

Screencast-O-Matic is a Web 2.0 tool that can easily be used to create step-guides through video screen capture technology. This tool doesn't have to be downloaded and could be incorporated into a lesson where students create their own step guides in many educational areas.

Screencast-O-Matic

South Presentation/Screencast-O-Matic

Lesson Plan on Screencast-O-Matic

Lesson Plan 7th Grade

Final Handout PPT Slides

Final Handout: So how can students use this tool?

Final PPT

Web page designed by Glovis South: graduate student University of West Georgia: Updated 9/18/09

Email G. South: