The class is designed to teach students about web applications, digital citizenship, personal network building, and social media responsibility and practice. This blog will be used to share with our readers the tools, websites, and web resources that students are learning about. We hope that you find a tool that you can utilize.

There are so many web applications available on the Internet that students may not even know exist. In this course, students will explore the Internet and take advantage of all that it has to offer. Students will learn that Google is more than just a search engine. They will discover various web applications that will help make their time on the Internet more effective and efficient. The web applications that will be explored include, but are not limited to: sharing buttons, blogs, avatars, RSS, social bookmarking, photo sharing/editing, audio and video, presentation, drawing, collaboration tools, and screencasts. Internet marketing and shopping sites will also be explored. Students will explore applications of which they can utilize to enhance both their learning and social experiences. Students will learn and practice digital literacy and responsibility, collaborate, share, create, socialize, and organize content, while demonstrating internet safety. Upon leaving this course students will be informed digital learner/citizen!


I LOVE LOVE LOVE looking for new tools to share with my students! I explore the web daily in search of new tools. I also gain knowledge from other Social Media blogs/websites who have found resourceful tools. Thank you to all of those experts who share their love for technology with the rest of us!


I also enjoy looking at the students creativity - through their blogs! My students love exploring Social Media! And will walk away with a collection of tools (their own Personal Learning Network) that will enhance their Internet experience both personally, educationally, and professionally.

Final - Prezi


Using Prezi - Tutorial - Getting Started - Basic Steps

Today you will be utilizing Prezi to create a presentation. It is a very cool web app that allows you to create presentations with a cool twist. Literally. You create a single "page" with multiple pieces of info that you can guide your user to. Prezi is a neat way to show information when you want a change of pace from the standard presentation software. (If you have forgotten how to utilize Prezi, take a quick look at the "Learn" tab.)

Activity: You will be creating a Prezi about a Web 2.0 Tool! You are to create a digital presentation portraying information about a Web 2.0 Tool that you have researched and feel would be important for students to learn about.

You wil need to search for the following media elements to include in your Prezi:
• Video tutorial about your Web 2.0 tool (TeacherTube or YouTube)
• Explanation of the Web 2.0 Tool, tips on using this Tool, etc.
• Examples of the Web 2.0 Tool in use (pictures, etc.)

Be creative and have fun using Prezi!
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Vimeo - Example

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Thursday

Please take time to complete the following activities:


Activity #1: Create a Claymation Avatar to represent yourself in today's post!

Activity #2: Create a new post for your blog. Reflect upon some of the Web 2.0 tools that you have utilized during this course.  List 3 tools that you feel you would use in the future.

Activity #3:  If you were to create a new Web 2.0 tool:
  • What would you name it?
  • What would it do?
  • Who would you direct or market the use of the tool to?


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Consumer Jungle

Consumerjungle

Consumer Jungle is designed to help you navigate your way to becoming a smarter consumer. Take some time and get to know the cool games and fun activities that will make you increasingly aware of potential fraudulent schemes and dangerous opportunities that might separate you from your money! Have some fun navigating through the Jungle on your way to financial success!
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Playspent


PLAYSPENT HELPS US UNDERSTAND THE ECONOMICS OF POVERTY


PlaySpent is designed to help people understand the challenges and trade-offs faced by people with insecure employment. The “game” begins when you’ve been unemployed, have only $1,000 left in your bank account, and need to get a low wage job. This game helps us to better understand the many trade-offs that people are forced to make and the difficulty in making ends meet.
You begin the game by securing a job. You will then be given the choice to opt in for health insurance. The site then asks you to find a place to live, choose between things your children need/want, buy groceries, etc., and the game goes on.
See if you can make it through the month with money left!
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Thursday - May 10

Please visit your classmates blogs and view their online poster they created with Glogster.  Leave a comment on their Glogster post.

While at their blogs - take their quiz that they created on Quizlet.
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Wix

Create a free website using Wix!

Mrs. James - practice wix page

Wix tutorial

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Google - Remove Content


Removing Content From Google

This tool will guide you through the process of reporting content that you believe warrants removal from Google's services based on applicable laws. Completing this form will help ensure that we have all of the information necessary to investigate your specific inquiry and resolve it as quickly as possible.

If you have a specific legal issue concerning YouTube, please visit this link for further information. Please do not use this tool to report issues that relate to YouTube.
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Digital Millennium Copyright Act


Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Federal copyright law protects the author of intellectual works. This copyright ensures that only the author or the author's assignees have the legal authority to copy, distribute, create derivative works, or perform or exhibit protected works. These rights extend to the Internet and were supplemented by additional laws when Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA).

Copyright Violations

You could violate federal copyright law if:
  • Somebody emails copyrighted material to you and, in turn, you forward it to one or more friends.
  • You make an MP3 copy of a song from a CD that you bought (purchasers are expressly permitted to do so) but subsequently make the MP3 file(s) available on the Internet using a file-sharing network.
  • You join a file-sharing network and download unauthorized copies of copyrighted material you want from the computers of other network members.
  • To gain access to copyrighted material on the computers of other network members, you pay a fee to join a file-sharing network that is not authorized to distribute or make copies of the copyrighted material. You then download unauthorized material.
  • You transfer copyrighted material using an instant messaging service.
  • You have a computer with a CD burner that you use to burn copies of music you have downloaded onto writable CDs which you then distribute to your friends.
There is a common misconception that you may duplicate and distribute copies of copyrighted materials so long as you do not sell the duplications. This is untrue. Copying and distributing someone else's work may violate an author's rights even when you are not selling the copies.
Violations to federal copyright law may carry heavy civil and criminal penalties. For example, civil penalties include damages and legal fees. The minimum fine is $750 per downloaded file. Criminal penalties, even for first-time offenders, can be stiff: up to $250,000 in fines and five years in prison.

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Google Drive

Google Drive. Keep everything. Share anything.
Google Drive is everywhere you are—on the web, in your home, at the office and on the go. So wherever you are, your stuff is just...there. Ready to go, ready to share. Get started with 5 GB free.

Google Drive is available for:
  • PC and Mac
  • iPhone and iPad (coming soon)
  • Android devices

Store your files in a
safe place.

Things happen. Your phone goes for a swim. Your laptop takes an infinite snooze. No matter what happens to your devices, your files are safely stored in Google Drive

Go beyond storage. Collaborate.

Google Drive lets you do more than just store your files. Share files with exactly who you want and edit them together, from any device.

Google Drive gives you instant access to Google Docs, a suite of editing tools that makes working together better—even when your teammates are miles away.


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Glogster

Today's Topic:  Glogster

Express Your Creativity and Ideas! Share with the World!

Glogster  - Interactive Poster for you to express your creativity, knowledge, ideas and skills.  It allows you to create interactive, online posters complete with images, video, decorations and text.

--hyperlinks to other websites, video, images, photographs, and sounds.


Two versions:  Glogster EDU and Glogster

Glog is a kind of poster - fully designed by yourself! Glog is a fancy creation from text, images, music and video.  Your Glog will stand out. It gives you a perfect tool to express yourself.

Click here to see a blog I created for Business Law - Topic Fingerprinting!

Click here - To Kill a Mocking Bird example - video

Click here - Meez Blog - plays music

Explore other examples of glogs
   
Text

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRoFiRc-Z2cyEWyYzoxbk779bcMba0W3Aa5NDeHma69SfYhs6tmZU4PpKBQOOhKmkt496QmyqjKctW4_HAGTUi7uRbLlO-VPenC9rVJfNJCRixLIgXjSuzuWvfChSupgwGIORnSTrN2KoB/s1600/Picture+11.png
Tell the others what you think about yourself, about love, friends, school or about the world. Simply write what you have in your mind! Just choose the design you like and write a poem, joke, greeting, a letter or create a presentation.

Images 

Don’t forget to add images! Choose the best of your own pictures or the pics you got from the Internet. Cool celebrities, cartoons, characters, glitters or art. Just add them to your Glog and make it fancy.

Music

Words and pictures isn’t enough? Pump it up with some audio! Show the others what kind of music you are into. Pop, rock, hiphop, electronic, jazz or techno. Just upload your favorite mp3 or listen to the music on other Glogs.

Video

Have your own video? Watch your favorite band’s clips every day? Upload it to your Glog. It is easy: you can use videos from your fav video sites. Make your Glog rock and add a video or even a movie.

TODAY'S ASSIGNMENT

Create an account.

Edit your profile.

Your task is to create an online poster (called a Glogster) on your assigned topic Web Tool .  The purpose of the Glogster is so that others can use your site to learn more about you.

Become a F.A.N.

After everyone’s Glogster pages have been created, you are to visit ALL of them and become a F.A.N. of their page. To become a F.A.N. you must do the following: ►
View the Glogster site ►
Select a student page and scroll down to the comment section of the page ►
Do the following:
Find your Favorite picture on the page and state why it is your favorite

Name your favorite thing (attribute) about the page—be specific!

Create a new post - All About Me Utilizing Glogster

Explain Glogster
Insert the link to your Glogster for others to visit.
You may not have pictures to use - so this may have to be completed at home.
Due - Tuesday before lunch.

You will also create another Glogster on Tuesday - over web tools - so start exploring!
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I have created set of flashcards on quizlet.  Please add atleast one flash card.  Collaboration Study Tool




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Quizlet

Quizlet is the largest flash cards and study games website with over 11 million free sets of flashcards covering every possible subject. It's the best place to play educational games, memorize vocabulary and study online.


Assignment 1:


First spend time exploring what others have created.


Choose one of your classes and create a set of flash cards that will help you study for a final.  Minimum of 15 cards.
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