Web_2.0

=Web 2.0 Utilities (NETS-T: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)= toc

__Your Challenge__
1. In teams of three, select one of the Web 2.0 Utilities to use 2. With your photos that were brought to the session or other resources that you have, create a product using the assigned utility. 3. Reflect on your creation process using the discussion tab. 4. Present to our group.

Animoto

 * 1) What is it?
 * 2) Animoto is a website where you (or your students) can upload pictures and video clips, then integrate them with text and a soundtrack to make a 30 second (or 1 minute) movie.
 * 3) Sign up for an account at [|http://www.animoto.com]
 * 4) You can sign up for an educator account for free which will open up more possibilities in the movie making process.
 * 5) Sign up with your school email address
 * 6) It will take a few days to get the approval of the website supervisors.
 * 7) Check out an example:  [], [] , [] , or []
 * 8) Sign in to your account and click create.
 * 9) Helpful hints:
 * 10) Look through the Help section: []
 * 11) Storyboard your project so you know what you want and how you want it (order of pics, text, etc.)
 * 12) Save all photos and videos that you will use in your movie to a folder on the desktop so you can upload them easily.
 * 13) <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">You can always change things around (order of pics, spotlighted slides, soundtrack, etc.)

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">﻿VoiceThread

 * 1) <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">What is it?
 * 2) <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install. VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
 * 3) <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies.
 * 4) <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Sign up for an account at <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|http://www.voicethread.com]
 * 5) <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">While there are classroom accounts, they cost money. Sign up for a free account.
 * 6) <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Check out an example: <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[]
 * 7) <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Sign in to your account and click on My Voice
 * 8) <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">There are 7 training videos that will assist you in your creation.
 * 9) <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">When you are ready to create, click on the Create tab at the top of the screen.
 * 10) <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Helpful hints:
 * 11) <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Storyboard your project so you know what you want and how you want it (order of pics, text, etc.)
 * 12) <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Save all photos and videos that you will use in your movie to a folder on the desktop so you can upload them easily.
 * 13) <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">You can always change things around (order of pics, spotlighted slides, soundtrack, etc.)

<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Blabberize

 * 1) <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">What is it?
 * 2) <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Blabberize is an online application that will create a moving mouth (that you draw) on a picture file. Once you add your voice to the blabber, the mouth will move to match your speech. You can do this with any picture type file. (Think more than just photos...try diagrams, equations, shapes, historical monuments...
 * 3) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|Check out an example: just click on the llama after you go to http://www.blabberize.com]
 * 4) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Sign up for an account at [|http://www.blabberize.com]
 * 5) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Click on My Stuff and it will take you to the screen to sign up for an account.

Wordle

 * 1) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">What is it?
 * 2) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Wordle is an online application for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
 * 3) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Check out an example: [] What famous text has Wordle made into art? See answer here --> <span style="color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The Declaration of Independence <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (highlight the area)
 * 4) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">There is no account to sign up for.
 * 5) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Click on the create button.
 * 6) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Find a text that you would like to use.
 * 7) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Copy and paste that text into the input area.
 * 8) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">You can also put in a URL or the user name of someone from delicious to see their tags...
 * 9) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Click on the Go or Submit button
 * 10) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">To be able to find your wordle again, you have to click the "Save to Public Gallery" button in the bottom right corner.
 * 11) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">A pop-up window will open.
 * 12) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Title your piece and use your username (login) as the author
 * 13) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">To find it again you will need to use this URL: http://www.wordle.net/gallery?username=your user name here
 * 14) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Example: All of my wordles are by the author misterabrams <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.5pt;">[]