Welcome to the Fayetteville Public Schools Web 2.0 Wiki
In an effort to share resources, a list has been compiled of tried and tested Web 2.0 Tools. If you are an FPS Faculty or Staff member and wish to add content as you find new tools that are appropriate for students and teachers, please request access. You may then edit and provide a links (that open in a new windows), details about the Web 2.0 tools, and share how you use these tools in your classroom. Thank you & have fun exploring these resources!
Kimberly Park, Administrator of this Wiki
Instructional Technology Coordinator
Fayetteville Public Schools
kim.park@fayar.net
More free and fun Web 2.0 Tools & Reources below!!!
Wiki Resources
NOTE: FPS has standardized on using PBWorks as the preferred wiki site creation tool, but there are many other wiki creation tools out there...
BEFORE YOU WIKI, BE SURE TO EDUCATE YOUR STUDENTS ABOUT DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP & PROVIDE RUBRICS FOR ONLINE DISCUSSION & COMMENTING!
Check out our PBwiki educator community (not a support forum).
EXCELLENT Blog Comment and Online Journal RUBRICS on Jim McQuire's The Reading Workshop Wiki!!!!
A very nice wiki full of resources for teaching digital citizenship
Digital Citizenship in Education - The Digital Citizenship and Creative Content program was developed to create awareness of intellectual property rights and foster a better understanding of the rights connected with creative content. This program was designed for grades 8-10, but easily adapts for use in grades 6-12.
Teaching-with-Technology Wiki - The Author of this wiki is Anne Baird who is Project Manager of the 1-to-1 Netbook trial in the Loddon Mallee Region in Victoria, Australia. This is a nice example of a wiki and how it may be used to communicate.
Faculty Ideas about Technology: Wikis Paper from Purdue University
Content Enhancement Tools
Wordle Wordle is a free tool 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.
Wordle Use with Students
- Copy speeches of significant people in history into Wordle to see what themes emerge
- Copy text from a student report to see what words emerge
- Copy poems, short stories, other works of literature to see what words emerge
- Use a tilde (~) between words in a phrase to keep words together (ex: Digital~Citizenship); the words appear to be separate by a space in the final Wordle
NOTE: There is no right-click, Save As type feature built in to Wordle... Best to download a free Capture Tool (see Jing below)
Jing is a free and easy to use capture tool, I highly recommend this if you do not have any screen capture tool installed on your laptop!
TagCrowd - TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any user-supplied text by creating what is popularly known as a tag cloud or text cloud. This tool is very similar to Wordle in function and has the added functionality of being able to right-click and Save As when you complete your word cloud. Give it a try!
Animoto - Animoto is a free tool that automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips and music. Fast, free and shockingly easy. (NOTE: Must be 13 or older to create an account.)
Animoto Use with Students
- Create an Animoto to quickly introduce topic for presentation
- Animotos are less than a minute...challenge students to get a point across visually using only 1 animoto
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google - Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
Adflip - Worlds largest archive of classic print ads. All the ads are subject to Copyright and may only be used for educational and historical purposes and may not be reproduced for commercial purposes under any circumstances. IMPORTANT: You may click on any of the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, Current, or Famous icons in the center of the page without requiring a subscription and this is what you would need to do in order for this to be free for educational use.
Adflip use with students
- Decades project, assign groups of students to investigate various time periods - use adflip to explore what items were being advertised (and how) during that particular decade
Footnote - View, save, and share original images of historical documents available for the first time on the internet. Some of the original source documents available are, primary source documents, historical documents, archives, history, project blue book, southern claims, Pennsylvania,Pennsylvania Archives, National Archives, NARA, genealogy, family history, revolutionary war, civil war, Vietnam war.
Motivator - create your own customized motivational poster
Scrapblog - combine photos, videos, audio and text to create stunning multimedia scrapbooks (NOTE: Must be 13 or older to create an account.)
"Dumpr Map your photo onto the sides of a Rubik's cube? Make a portrait look like it was snapped by paparazzi? Conform a picture to the curvy figure of an Easter egg? Once you start using the two dozen photo effects, you find they're addictively delightful." - PC World Article
Dumpr use with Students
- Give students a glimpse into the world of photo-editing with this free and easy tool, have them create their own work as a part of a presentation
Tattoons - Create a free Cartoon version of yourself as I did below! Choose the use on Website Option. This is useful as we advise that students NOT post personal information or use personally identifiable information on the web.
Foodtimeline - Ever wonder what foods the Vikings at when they set off to explore the new world? How Thomas Jefferson Made his ice cream? What the pioneers cooked along the Oregon Trail? Who invented the potato chip...and why? Welcome to the Food Timeline! Food history presents a fascinating buffet of popular lore and contradictory facts.
Foodline use with students
- This may be used in conjunction with research about a specific time period or location
Classroom Tools & Resources for Literacy
Penzu - Penzu is a free online diary and personal journal with a focus on privacy. Easily keep a secret diary of thoughts or a journal of notes and ideas secure and on the web.
Penzu Use with Students (NOTE: Must be 13 or older to create an account.)
- With parental permission for those under 17, Penzu is being used for online journaling for ESL @ FHS
Visuwords™ Free online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.
Visualwords use with students
- Students may use this to explore relationships between words and word associations
Voicethread - Free tool for collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to leave comments in 5 ways (voice (phone or mic), text, audio file, video (via webcam).
Ed.VoiceThread is a web-based communications network for K-12 students and educators. Simple, powerful and safe, Ed.VoiceThread is a place for creating and collaborating on digital stories and documentaries, practicing and documenting language skills, exploring geography and culture, solving math problems, or simply finding and honing student voices. Watch an overview
Voicethread use with students
- with voicethread, you have the ability to create a voicethread that ONLY the student may access...this allows for student portfolio creation and may be saved as a file and burned to DVD or other media to share with parents...the power in this tool is that it offers many different ways for a student to communicate and express themselves
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Bubble.us - http://www.teachersfirst.com/single.cfm?id=1207 Free flash-based mindmap creator allows you to quickly and easily make effective, attractive mindmaps that can be exported as images or as HTML outlines, or shared with others who can add new items or draw new connections between existing ones.
Gliffy - Free diagramming software that allows you to easily create professional-looking flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings and more. No account sign up required to use!
Science Resources
OLogy - OLogy is a totally free Web site for kids. It offers a unique Museum experience for kids through stories, games, and activities based on their interests in specific OLogies. Ology means “the study of,” and this American Museum of Natural History site offers excellent resources related to the “ologies” of several subject areas, including genetics, astronomy, biodiversity, and paleontology. Kids navigate each area accompanied by student “ologists,” who ask the questions your kids want answers to. Those answers -- and lots more information -- are provided by Museum scientists.
The Science Spot was developed in March 1999 by Mrs. Tracy Trimpe
8th Grade Science Teacher @ Havana Junior High, Havana, IL This is a wonderful site, particularly for GIS/GPS Activities in K-12 Education.
Free Multimedia Lessons and Resources for Teachers
World Wide Web Virtual Library - The World-Wide Web Virtual Library's History Index began operations in March of 1993 as HNSource, a lynx-based information server. The Central Catalogue of the History Network is located at the European University Institute. More information about this server made be found here:
The Learning Page for Teachers
The Library of Congress’s American Memory Collections has long been one of my favorite Web sites. These collections of more than 7 million primary source documents, photographs, films, and recordings offer a first-person look at America’s past -- and provide an invaluable resource for educators. The site provides so many resources, however, that it can be overwhelming for a busy teacher to sort through. In order to make the task easier and the collections more accessible, the Library of Congress has created The Learning Page for Teachers. These pages provide a tour of the American Memory Collections and tips on how to use them. If you haven’t used the lesson plans in the American Memory Collections or used the Collections to create your own lesson plans, this is the place -- and the time -- to begin.
HippoCampus - Free Multimedia lessons and course materials to help you with your instruction, homework, and studies. HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.
teAchnology - Free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students.
Academic Earth - MIT was the first university to heed the edupunk call: it started posting syllabi, course notes and videotaped lectures on ocw.mit.edu back in 2001. Harvard, Berkeley, Yale, Princeton and Stanford soon followed suit, with their own schemes for posting videos of their most popular courses. Now Academic Earth aggregates all this material so you can audit classes from the comfort of your computer.
National Library of Virtual Math Manipulatives - The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) is an NSF supported project that began in 1999 to develop a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis).
Sequence Graphic Organizers & Timeline Creation Tool
Chain Graphic Organizers: Sequence, Cycle, Time Line, and Chain of Events
Sequence Graphic Organizers
Create Custom Timelines - OurTimeLines web site generates truly fascinating personalized web pages for you. They show how your life (or the life of anyone else you choose - for instance, your descendants and ancestors) fits into history as we know it.
OurTimeLines use with Students
- Have students investigate a significant person in history and see what was happening before, during, and after this persons life...what may have influenced them
School Multimedia Production and Resources
SchoolTube - SchoolTube provides students and educators a safe, world class, and FREE media sharing website that is nationally endorsed by premier education associations. The SchoolTube Educator Community is your place to share ideas, videos, and tips. You can upload up to 100mb per video for free and then link to them in School Center. Terms of use: If SchoolTube learns that anyone under the age of 13 seeks to conduct a transaction through the Services, SchoolTube will require verified parental consent, in accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 ("COPPA"). Certain areas of the SchoolTube Service may not be available to children under 13 under any circumstances.
STN (Student Television Network) - STN is the largest scholastic broadcasting network comprised of Middle Schools to High Schools with interest in broadcasting providing resources anyone can use.
School Video News - Online video magazine for K-12 TV/Video production. You will find articles on all aspects of K-12 video production: lighting and audio, set construction tips, increasing production values, case studies, projects and profiles of other schools. In addition to technical articles by industry professionals, there are product reviews, student projects, event coverage, and industry/academic news as it relates to TV/Video production.
Music Resources
For Music Teachers - In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users. The videos can be played simultaneously -- the soundtracks will work together, and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders.
Resource for Compatibility Issues between Office 2003 & Office 2007
MS Compatibility Pack - With the Compatibility Pack, you can use some previous versions of Word to open Office Word 2007 documents that were saved in .docx and .docm formats. You cannot open Office Word 2007 template files that were saved in .dotx or .dotm format. NOTE: This is loaded on most all FPS laptops by default, but if your should find yourself unable to open Office '07 documents, you will want to load this compatibility pack.
"word cannot start the Converter MSWRD632.WPC" Error - see article below here resolution
Get Great Ideas!
- Learn what makes a good wiki project and see how other PBwiki customers are using their wikis. Check out our PBwiki educator community (not a support forum).
Need Help? We're here for you:
- The PBwiki Manual and 30-second training videos can help show you how to edit, add videos and invite users. (Note, these training videos are posted on Youtube & will not work while you are on campus as they are blocked by our state filter. They are very valuable, so I'm leaving the link so you may access when you are at home. - Kim
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