November 1, 2010
2:15pm
– 3:15pm
Oceanic 5

Montgomery County Community College
Blue Bell, PA
• Marie Hartlein
Associate Professor, Computer Science mhartlein@mc3.edu
• Linda Moulton
Professor, Math and Computer Science lmoulton@mc3.edu
• Patricia Rahmlow
Associate Professor, Computer Science prahmlow@mc3.edu
http://faculty.mc3.edu/prahmlow/Presentations/index.html

Web 2.0 is an expression that is used to describe the changes that have taken place in the usage and applications available on the Internet … specifically the World Wide Web…over the past five to seven years.

• WolframAlpha.com http://www.wolframalpha.com/
Examples: http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/WebAndCompute rSystems.html
• Posterous.com https://posterous.com/
• Google Translate http:/translate.google.com

Live.com
• Microsoft is providing students with 25
GB storage on a Skydrive …students can store their entire portfolio!
• Access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Onenote
• http://live.com

• Dropbox
A tool that let’s you easily synchronize files online and among several computers using a
My Dropbox folder. http://www.dropbox.com
• GradeGuru.com
An electronic study group for students by students.
http://www.gradeguru.com/sps/homePagenlu.do

• Poll Everywhere
Provides an audience response system for your students.
Poll Everywhere is free for audiences of 30 people or less
Students can respond via a web browser, twitter account or mobile device.
http://www.polleverywhere.com
/
• Survey monkey
www.surveymonkey.com/

• Instapaper
A simple service that allows you to save articles from a browser to read later on another computer, mobile phone or iPad.
http://www.instapaper.com/
Additional videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIGNfyCY1FA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F03DMkvSDU&f eature=related

• Classroom Game Templates & More http://www.murray.k12.ga.us/teacher/kara%20leonar d/MiniT/Games/Games.htm
• Quia – Costs $50 per year
Provides 16 generic Game templates such as hangman, battleship and scavenger hunts and online quizzing http://www.quia.com/subscription/
• Hot Potatoes (freeware)
Suite includes six applications to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the Web http://hotpot.uvic.ca
/
• Algebra Game mathplayground.com/algebra_puzzle.html
• GameShow Pro – Not free or Web 2.0, but my students love it!

– http://www.voicethread.com
– Upload PowerPoint, PDF
– Narrate presentation
– Students comment on presentations
– Asynchronous dialog

– http://www.ispringsolutions.com/free_powerpoint_to_fl ash_converter.html
– Free download plug-in for PowerPoint
– Create Flash videos from PowerPoint presentations
– Reduces size of PowerPoint up to 97%
– Allows insert of Flash movies and YouTube videos

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• Mash-ups, http://bucksmashup.blogspot.com
– Mix of images, video, and audio to create a story
– Requires higher level of technical expertise
Channel
– Create your own YouTube channel to organize videos

Synchronous classroom
– http://www.dimdim.com
– http://www.twiddla.com
– Broadcast slide show using Windows Live

– http://www.google.com/voice
– Virtual phone number
– Simultaneous ring of multiple phones, such as home, work, and cell
– Control hours you accept calls
– Decide if you want callers to be announced before you accept a call
– Make calls in the US for free
– Great for virtual office phone

– http://www.skype.com
– http://www.fring.com

(Tried & True)
• Snipping Tool (Vista, Windows 7)
– Capture, annotate, save, share screen
– http://windows.microsoft.com/en-
US/windows7/products/features/snipping-tool
• Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac)
– Capture screen (Shift-Command-3)
– Capture selection (Shift-Command-4)
• Jing (Windows & Mac)
– Screen capture & editing
– 5 minutes of screen recording (swf video with free version; swf or mpeg-4 with Jing Pro version)
– http://www.techsmith.com/jing/

(New Kids on the Block)
• ScreenToaster
(Firefox 2+, IE 7+,Chrome, Opera 9, Safari)
– Web-based screen recorder
– Rapidly create and share demos
– Can add audio and embed webcam
– http://www.screentoaster.com
• Screenr
– Web-based recorder,“ready-to-tweet” screencast in seconds
– http://screenr.com
• Screen Jelly
– Records screen activity with voice, no download needed
– http://www.screenjelly.com/

(Tried and True)
• Facebook, Twitter, …
• Social Bookmarking
– Save & share bookmarks online
– http://delicious.com
• College News Blog
– Uses wordpress.com
– big News is a weekly news blog published by the Office of Marketing and
Communications for employees and friends of Montgomery County Community
College
– http://mc3bignews.wordpress.com

(New Kids on the Block)
• Ning Networks
– Can set up social network for Classroom
– Free 30-day trial; $19.95/yr
– K-12 & Higher-Ed “eligible for free sponsorship by Pearson”
– Options( http://about.ning.com/plans/?xg_source=www.ning.com
)
• Cover It Live
– Live blogging
– http://coveritlive.com
– Mindcasting ( e.g. turn journalism college lecture into conversation ) http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/04/turning-a-college-lectureinto-a-conversation-with-coveritlive103.html
• Skribit – open source desktop publishing
– Can embed question box for students inside your blog
– http://skribit.com/

A few good Web 2.0 resources and lists
• http://academic.ursinus.edu/it/web20
• http://technologyinstruction.blogspot.com
• http://www.go2web20.net/
• http://deborah890.wikispaces.com/Activities

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