Friday, June 28, 2013

Summer of Learning 2.0 - Week 3

Hope you are finding time to enjoy the summer and that your basements are dry!   


Did you pick up a few twitter followers this week?  Add any circles or communities to your Google+?  Hope so.  Continue to build your Twitter and Google+ communities through the summer. 

Week 3 Is starting to look at some WebTools for presentations and places to find free resources for your classroom. Whether it's teacher presentations or student products.  These are three tools every educator should have in their tool box-  Prezi, Voki and Animoto.  Your first blog post for this week will be after Activity 10, Animoto.


The second part of the week is more free stuff.  This time, it's not about the tools, but places to find free resources for use in the classroom.  Every educator in the 21st Century should be able to find things for free, vet them and know how to give credit where credit is due.


I'm sure you've searched YouTube and found videos you've liked, possibly even shared them with your students.  Have you found entire textbooks?  Animated lessons?  That's what you will be exploring this week with Activity 11 (Creative Commons) and 12 (OER).  


The resources for Activity 12 are science and math heavy, that just seems to be where the OER world is going deep.  For those of you outside of math and science, spend some extra time in Creative Commons area of Activity 11 and exploring the MIT content of Activity 12.  


I have a favor to ask this week, in posting comments to your blogs, I have to enter captchas every time.  Those are the jumbled up words and numbers that verify whether or not you are human.  If you watch this short Jing (screen capture) you'll see where to turn these off in the "settings" of your blog.

Note:  One resource not covered in the activities for this week is iTunes U.  iTunesU is a great resource, but is limited to Apple users, the content does not work on PC's or other tablets.  If you have an iPad or a Mac, it's worth exploring.




After this week- only 4 more activities to completion of your Learning 2.0 voyage!


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