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Monday, October 19, 2009
BP#18_Kido'z_Web 2.0
image retrieved from http://www.kidoz.net
This web 2.0 website is a great web browser site for parents to have control over what their kids view on the internet. This site is free and is free of ads. In fact, it’s downloaded on your desktop. This site is very easy to navigate and very colorful. In fact kids don’t need to know how to read or write to use this site. Parents don’t have to stand over their kids and monitor them as they navigate through the internet because they can add the sites that they want their kids to view. There are a plethora of wonderful sites that are already available. Parents can add or delete websites if they want. One of the assets of kido’z is that it’s offered in a variety of languages. It supports games, websites, and videos. It is a very colorful and inviting site that kids from 0 to 8 years would love. Kids can do just about anything that adults can do on the internet, again, without knowing how to read and write. There is also a Parent Control Account that allows parents and teachers to rate videos, websites, and games by clicking the number of stars that apply to their ratings. In order for this website to work your computer needs to have Adobe Air, which can be downloaded. Kido’z blocks links that lead to sites that have not been approved. Kido’z is a wonderful site for teachers to use with their students and for them to also recommend to parents for their kids. There are many uses for teachers. They can download website content that is related to their academic content as well as download videos that are related to course content.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
BP#17_Comment Web 2.0
Web 2.0=Wikis
Wikis have several educational benefits to teachers and students. They are becoming more and more popular. It is great for collaborative learning and exploration. Students can easily create simple websites, without learning HTML code, and extensive web design.
The wiki provides a ready to use site with a simple user interface, ability to easily
add pages, and simple navigation structure. This allows students to spend more time devel-
oping the content of the site, instead of trying to learn how to make one. The simplicity of
the wiki syntax, or language for formatting text, inserting images and creating links, means
students spend less time trying to figure out how to make the site do what they want. As
more organizations adopt the wiki for collaboration & information, students will be well
prepared to use it in their careers.
A wiki makes it easy for students to write, revise and submit as assignment, since all three activities can take place in the wiki. A student can be given a wiki page to develop a term paper, and might start by tracking their background research. This allows the teacher, and peers, to see what they’re using, help them if they’re off track, suggest other resources, or even get ideas based on what others find useful. Next, the student can draft the paper in the wiki, taking advantage of the wiki’s automatic revision history that saves a before & after version of the document each time s/he makes changes. This allows the teacher and peers to see the evolution of the paper over time, and continually comment on it, rather than offering comments only on the final draft. When the student completes the final draft, the teacher and peers can read it on the wiki, and offer feed-back.
Students are exciting about learning these days because of wonderful resources like wikis.
Posted by my4brownsons at 8:53 PM
1 comments:
Educational Uses For Blogs said...
@Patricia, before my Fullsail experience the only wiki that I heard about was wikipedia. I've used it a few times but then I heard that it was not accurate because people were allowed to put whatever they wanted on wikipedia. But since this program I've learned otherwise. It is a great tool to use in education especially with the writing process. Thanks for the additional information.
Wikis have several educational benefits to teachers and students. They are becoming more and more popular. It is great for collaborative learning and exploration. Students can easily create simple websites, without learning HTML code, and extensive web design.
The wiki provides a ready to use site with a simple user interface, ability to easily
add pages, and simple navigation structure. This allows students to spend more time devel-
oping the content of the site, instead of trying to learn how to make one. The simplicity of
the wiki syntax, or language for formatting text, inserting images and creating links, means
students spend less time trying to figure out how to make the site do what they want. As
more organizations adopt the wiki for collaboration & information, students will be well
prepared to use it in their careers.
A wiki makes it easy for students to write, revise and submit as assignment, since all three activities can take place in the wiki. A student can be given a wiki page to develop a term paper, and might start by tracking their background research. This allows the teacher, and peers, to see what they’re using, help them if they’re off track, suggest other resources, or even get ideas based on what others find useful. Next, the student can draft the paper in the wiki, taking advantage of the wiki’s automatic revision history that saves a before & after version of the document each time s/he makes changes. This allows the teacher and peers to see the evolution of the paper over time, and continually comment on it, rather than offering comments only on the final draft. When the student completes the final draft, the teacher and peers can read it on the wiki, and offer feed-back.
Students are exciting about learning these days because of wonderful resources like wikis.
Posted by my4brownsons at 8:53 PM
1 comments:
Educational Uses For Blogs said...
@Patricia, before my Fullsail experience the only wiki that I heard about was wikipedia. I've used it a few times but then I heard that it was not accurate because people were allowed to put whatever they wanted on wikipedia. But since this program I've learned otherwise. It is a great tool to use in education especially with the writing process. Thanks for the additional information.
BP#16_Kido'z_Web 2.0 Tool
image retrieved from http://www.kidoz.net
This web 2.0 website is a great web browser site for parents to have control over what their kids view on the internet. This site is free and is free of ads. In fact, it’s downloaded on your desktop. This site is very easy to navigate and very colorful. In fact kids don’t need to know how to read or write to use this site. Parents don’t have to stand over their kids and monitor them as they navigate through the internet because they can add the sites that they want their kids to view. There are a plethora of wonderful sites that are already available. Parents can add or delete websites if they want. One of the assets of kido’z is that it’s offered in a variety of languages. It supports games, websites, and videos. It is a very colorful and inviting site that kids from 0 to 8 years would love. Kids can do just about anything that adults can do on the internet, again, without knowing how to read and write. There is also a Parent Control Account that allows parents and teachers to rate videos, websites, and games by clicking the number of stars that apply to their ratings.In order for this website to work your computer needs to have Adobe Air, which can be downloaded. Kido’z blocks links that lead to sites that have not been approved. Kido’z is a wonderful site for teachers to use with their students and for them to also recommend to parents for their kids. There are many uses for teachers. They can download website content that is related to their academic content as well as download videos that are related to course content.
BP#15_Kideos_Web 2.0 Tool
Kideos videos for kids is a wonderful website for parents and teachers to use with kids. This free website with no ads is a great alternative for children to securely watch videos online. Each video has been screened by a Video Advisory Council consisting of parents and teachers. This enables them to be in control of what their children/students are watching. What is appealing about this site is that the videos are grouped according to age. It is a very kid friendly site because they can navigate the site on their own. Parents and teachers can also have their own personal tools to choose videos that are age appropriate so that the child will only access videos that match their age. Kideos has videos added to the site daily after it’s reviewed by the Council. So kids will always have new videos to view. Much of the content is very diverse. It includes children’s television shows, movies, educational videos, music videos, songs, cartoon and book characters, cute animals, and much, much more. As I perused the site I clicked on a Berenstain Bears video. The video had been posted on youtube. Below the video, there was a short summary of the video along with the age level the video is for. Also, I could add to a playlist if I desired. Below the video there are related videos. After clicking on the video I was able to click on full view and the quality of the video was good. The age levels are 0-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, and 9-10 years. The implication for education allows teachers to utilize this to access the educational videos that are available. This site can be recommended by teachers to parents to give parents a safe alternative for their children. This allows parents to have control and be comfortable over the type of videos their children view.
BP#13_Edu 2.0_Web 2.0 Tool
image uploaded from http://www.edu20.org
Edu 2.0 is a web 2.0 web hosting tool that allows you to create your own online school, similar to the learning management system blackboard and moodle. It’s geared to university, high school, or home schooled students. You can have as few as 1 or 2 students and as many as over thousands. When you register your school you get a custom url. When you first go on the site after registering there is a home page that is customizeable. As I perused the site, I noticed that it is easy to navigate. The home tab has other tags that allow you to have messages, a calendar, a friends section. You can upload photos, add groups, and there is a section for blogs. There is also a school tab. On that tab, everything about school, students, parents, teachers, administrators, policies, and classes are found. Then there is a teach tab. This is the area that teachers would upload the classes they’re teaching. The Teach tab also contains the teacher’s class schedule, the syllabus, lessons, and teachers can upload videos & photos. There are other educational resources, a teacher can add attachments, reset passwords, and send students messages. A calendar is also available as well as an area in the teach tab to post events and assessments such as team assignments, tests, quizzes, student grades, attendance, wikis, chat, debates, and blogs. There is also an area that allows teacher to make a master class if teaching more than one class. Then there’s the Learn Tab, this area is used by students currently taking classes. The Resources section of Edu 2.0 tool contains a 20,000 plus library of educational resources that includes videos, quizzes, self paced courses, best practices, experiments, blogs, and curriculum. Also, in that section there is free online support, forums, faq, training, blog, and a guided tour of the site. The great thing about this site is that anyone can use this website and it is so similar to the things that you can do on Blackboard. I teach an online community course and use blackboard for my class. What I like about Edu 2.0 is that you can create your own course and you also have access to over 20,000 other resources.
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