The free Earth clock provided by Poodwaddle.com. Again another embeddable flash object.
Great for generating class discussion, analysis and collating all students responses. Most useful is that this constructivist meaning generation in accessible in one easily managed archive with it’s own URL that can be transferred into a students own PLE.
Tags: Community · Flash · Maps · Web App
At the bottom right of the sidebar you can see a ClustrMap - kids love to know who is viewing their hard work and endless discussions could arise from math, patterns, geography to time and space. Edublogs integrates the free website analysis tool called Google Analytics.
Below is a screenshot made with the fantabulos Skitch of just some of the graphical feedback the service provides:
Tags: Community · Maps · New paradigm · Social Software
Oh oh! We’re embedding the web again! Teachers can use SlideShare to upload their PowerPoint, Keynote or PDF slideshows. You can do so with ease using the kml insert shown in the tutorial that will soon appear here……. SlideShare is the world’s largest community for sharing slideshows on the web and allows for greater collaboration around these works-of-art <sic> after they have been presented. Sound recordings in mp3 can be attached to the presentations for greater immersion. When I get a moment I would like to do that for this one here too.
This was presented at ECAWA 2007. The blurb:
Empowering Inquiry Based Learning with Web2.0 Mash-Ups
‘Web 2.0′ and the new models of communication and research that it enables means teachers and students can embed and automate the inquiry based learning process. Instant messaging, blogging, podcasting, Skype, wikis, RSS are but some tools available in the ‘participatory social web’ that allow students to become knowledge creators and teachers to become facilitators. And the impact that this has on education could be enormous.
If you are interested in my usual opinionated diatribe on social constructivist use of the internet - my main blog is here.
This Edublog is intended to be a sandpit in which I throw together a mash-up of the embeddable web into a free Edublog without breaking it. It is a proof of concept - a free personal learning environment (PLE) can be built that includes video chat, blogging, folksonomy, instant messaging, tagging, social bookmarking, text-to-speech, RSS, XML, embeddable flash learning objects, podcasts, wiki, video chat, conversation, privacy and many other nifty flexible learning tools.
As we try to develop personal learning environments (PLEs) to help bring curriculum to 21C learners the open-source web is moving fast through the scalaeability of flexible mash-up structures - this blog demonstrates that any teacher can build a powerful PLE for free from the open-source web.
Any kid worth their Wii will tell you the same - "teh internet is my PLE dummy!" It's not about control it's about being flexible enough to be part of the conversation.
