Aug
18

Voicethread

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Voicethread is a Web 2.0 application that allows you to create and share digital stories over the net. This application is a great tool for getting students to build digital stories, or to annotate slides.

A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways:

- Using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. They can even be exported to an Archival Movie for offline use on a DVD or video-enabled MP3 player.

A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world. Read more

To understand the breadth of what this application has to offer, view the What is Voicethread video

You can create a Voicethread in 3 easy steps: in one minute according to the website:

For an overview, view the 1 minute Voicethread video

1. Browse & Create images, documents and/or video. You can import from Powerpoint, Word, Excel or PDF, and Flickr or Facebook too.

2. Comment: use your voice - record with a microphone, write text etc

3. Share: invite, email, embed etc. there are privacy options

See a sample Voicethread here: Beach

Controls

You can set privacy controls and moderate any comments before they are published by checking the options

Setting up your microphone

- Click on the My Voice tab/menu

- Choose microphone settings button: for Mac or Windows and follow the prompts

Video Doodling

This is a great feature for annotating video clips or drawing attention to details in a clip. View the Video Doodling video for more information

Aug
11

What is Gickr?

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Gickr is a partner Web 2.0 application to Flickr

Gickr.com lets you create online animated slideshows and share them online

Gickr is actually easier than Flickr to use. In minutes you can quickly upload images and create an animated slideshow that you can email to friends or link to a blog

Like Flickr, there are privacy options but the site warns you that once an option is set, it cant be undone

In the future you will be able to upload a Flickr set to Gickr, but for now its not functional. You will need to access images from your computer.

Aug
11

Flickr

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On Monday 11th August 2008, a group of 13 TIGS teachers and staff attended a workshop on using Flickr and Gickr.

Flickr is a Web 2.0 application that enables you to host and share your photos.

  • Access all your digital images in one place.
  • Show off your favorite photos to the world.
  • Share photos with your friends and family.

In 3 easy steps they learnt to:

- Share their photos using Flickr

- Edit, crop, add fonts etc

- Upload and organise files

- Make things like cards, photo books, prints etc

- Explore

You can:

Take a Flickr tour to learn of its potential: FLICKR TOUR

Jul
28

Slideshare

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Slideshare is an online presentation sharing tool.

  • If you, or your students create Powerpoint presentations, then you can host, tag and share them online in Slideshare. Your students can access them anytime on any web browser.
  • Slideshare is also a great resource where you can share other people’s presentations.

Click on this hyperlink to go to slideshare.net

Click on the slideshare tour to discover several reasons why you might use slideshare

Click on Sign Up to register for slideshare. it is free. If you have already registered, log in by entering your username and password. Its a good idea to record these somewhere

Check out this slideshare presentation that reveals something of the power of visual presentations

You can browse hot Tags to find slideshows related to your interests or topics

This is how I found a slidecast on Podcasting

Or, alternatively you can enter a topic in the Search option

This is how I found a slideshow on Project Based Learning

This is a ’secret’ url to my private viewing of a draft slideshow I setup on slideshare:

DE eLearningDraft

Mar
31

Starting Out

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The aim of this blog is to diarise my research and exploration of Web 2.0 applications. Each day, new ones appear on the net, and we read about them in articles and journals. If the growth continues at this pace, it will require enormous amounts of time to test and evaluate the effectiveness of such applications as possible learning tools for our students.

What appeals to me most about this new technology is its:

* accessibility

* affordability

* immediacy

* interactivity

* creativity

* and the way in which it challenges us to keep up with our students!