Wow! What a fun two days I had working with staff members from Haysville! Thank goodness they were easy going and didn't mind going off on web tangents with me! We explored and created blogs and wikis, and published podcasts too. Because we were minus a very important fire wire, we weren't able to create vodcasts, but we did create slideshow style vodcasts! It was great to create and post to our blogs and wikis.
In addition to all this creative work going on, we explored a couple of fun sites:
www.quizlet.com a great site created by a teen for other kids to collaborate on studying for tests. Our favorite feature was Scatter, a game for study with embeddable html code. It is great that we can include the game right into our blogs, wikis or Bb courses.
We also took a look at www.visuwords.com which is a visual thesaurus. Very handy for students and staff alike. Finally, we looked at a great bunch of resources put together by Lynn Williams at Briarcrest Christian School http://www.briarcrest.com/images/3970/Whats%20the%20scoop%20on%20telecollaboration.doc. I was fortunate enough to attend her session What's the Scoop on Telecollaboration? at the Laptop Institute last week. Great stuff, Lynn!
Lisa provided us with a few treats as well:
http://www.scratch.mit.edu/ a great little tool created by the folks at MIT where students can create their own online games.
E-coach http://my-ecoach.com/project.php?id=9846, offers the coolest web 2.0 tools available.
And, www.senteacher.org which is a resource site for teachers of special needs students, but we found lots of stuff there that would be great for all students.
Thanks Lisa, for alerting us to these super sites!
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