ISV – 5 Day Series: Day 2

Enriching the Your Site

• Download the handout packet
• Download the Web 2 Tools Overview handout
• View the Calendar for session dates

The main purpose of today is to explore Web 2.0 tools and resources that enrich your main online platform – for most of us this is our WordPress blogs.  There are a lot of great things to explore and get familiar with and immersing ourselves in this is the first purpose of the day.  The second is to brainstorm how you might use the construct of a “ClassPortal” to engage students in ongoing personal learning and knowledge-building.  Let’s get started!

Review Look to Learn

Before getting started on new things, let’s review the Look to Learn activity format and see if anyone had a chance to use it with students or colleagues.  Here are the Help Links again:

• Look to Learn – overview
• Look to Learn Web site
• Look to Learn Sample Prompts
• Thinking Routines overview
• Thinking Routines from the Visible Thinking team at Harvard
• Article on Making Thinking Visible by David Perkins

Adding Rich Feeds with NetVibes

• Add Netvibes tutorial
• Netvibes Tour
• Tom’s Tech Feeds (and others – years 3 & 7 + Studies of Asia)

Podcasting & Audio

• Add a Podcast Player to WordPress
• Explore
  • Audio: ABC’s Background Briefing, BBC Documentaries, NYTimes Front Page,
  • Video: National Geographic’s Dangerous Encounters, Washington Post Video News, The Onion

• Get Inspired!
  • Radio Willow Web – First Grade “Blast Off”
  • Large Collection of Fairytales read online
  • PodKids (Australia)
• Resources for Podcasting
• Podcast Booklet from Tony Vincent

Web 2.0 Tools Review

• Download the Web 2 Tools Overview handout
• Explore the Tools Panel (Copy and Paste it into a page for your site!)
• Choose from different Web 2 icons
• Create a menu for navigation including Pages, Categories and Links (Netvibes)

Social Bookmarking & Personal Research with Diigo

• Social Bookmarking explained by Common Craft
• What is Diigo? Watch the Intro video for Diigo version 5
• Diigo Education sign-up
• Download Diigo Toolbar
• Join the Diigo Early Years Group

ClassPortals

• What is a ClassPortal?
• Chapter 1
• Why ClassPortals?
• Using a Blog as your ClassPortal (create a new blog?)

Participants Sites

AGQTP Group

• Gary H
• Marion N
• Brendan V
• Allister R
• Tim H
• Luke S
• Catherine B
• Sarah H
• Jackson B
• James J
• Lisa F

Real, Rich and Relevant Group

• Lynda C
• Jamie W
• Dale S
• Carol D
• Andrew S
• Graeme Y
• David G
• Sophie K
• Yasmine