Share Your Links with Live Binder

LiveBinder is a free webapp that allows you to add in bookmarks directly from your browser. The links can be viewed by others as they access your LiveBinder. His presents an interesting way for teachers to share useful and informative websites with students and/or other teachers. The ability to add in websites directly from the browser is key as it does not require a lot of set up afterwards.

LiveBinder.com

Visit the Learning Classroom Webpage

http://www.tvdsb.ca/programs.cfm?subpage=82973

Quick and Easy Screen Casts to TWITTER with Screenr

Screenr is a very easy way of creating screen casts which can be easily posted to TWITTER quickly and easily.  The recorder can be accessed right away without having to create an account.  You are able to record up to 4 minutes of screen footage.  If you have a microphone enabled, you are able to simultaneously record a voice-over for your screen cast.

Screenr

Using pictures and media in VUVOX

Vuvox is another free Web 2.0 app that gives you yet another cool way to display pics and videos in an interactive and animated montage. Navigating your way through the application is fairly straightforward and there is the option of using wizards which automatically arrange photos and media for you.

For students, this would be a spin on creating an informational poster on a particular subject or concept but instead of creating, arranging and displaying their information on a piece of Bristol board, they are now creating it on a scrolling and interactive medium.

Check it out - very slick.


Visit the Learning Classroom Webpage
http://www.tvdsb.ca/programs.cfm?subpage=82973

Make Interactive Timelines on Dipity

Here is a webapp which allows you to make nice looking timelines and enables you to make links to other websites and media.  Using these timelines presents a very interactive and informative experience.  For students it can serve as another great way to organize and connect events as they create their own timelines.

Check it out...  Dipity.com

Here is a timeline (from Dipity) outlining the events and efforts around Haiti...

Haiti Earthquake on Dipity.

Lexipedia - defining words and terms through mindmaps

A great way to visually show the meaning of words and terms through their connection to other words.  Great for the visual learner...

http://www.lexipedia.com/
 
Showing a few examples from this site also serves as a great way to start discussion and to have students generate their own definition from the mindmap.  Constructing mind maps can be challenging for many students - particularly when they are just starting out with this type of visual organizer. Lexipedia offers students the opportunity to see mind maps in action and also highlights the benefit of using visual organizers to help deepen understanding and retention.

Web Resource - Wallwisher (an online, interactive bulletin board)

I'm just playing around with this web 2.0 app and it is pretty cool.

www.wallwisher.com

Quick to set up and the interface is easy to use. You can send out the 'wall' as a link and have students post ideas, words, etc. on the wall without having to login or open an account. As an adminstrator of a 'wall' you can select the option to have all posts approved by you first. The wall itself can be made public or only visible to you. You can also embed it or follow it via an RSS feed.

A great little tool - it will be interesting to see how teachers can use this in the classroom.

Here is one that I have started...

My wall on Differentiated Instruction