Wow! What a wonderful tool! Very intuitive and user-friendly.
You just make a search, find your favorite songs, and the playlist is there for you. Also, the PodCrawler just keeps moving as people listen to music. Fun and with great potential for the classroom. There’s much more to it. You can easily grab the lyrics of the chosen song, among other features.
SeeqPod – Playable Search
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I just prepared this slideshow and would love some feedback. Did I miss something something essential to add to it? I’d love some feedback as to make it a nice one that can be shared with learners and educators, as well. There are some wonderful resources on social bookmarking. However, most of the time they are related to one service or the other. I wanted to give a broader view of the concept and why it can be so powerful in knowledge construction.
When you are open to explore what out there, ideas, resources seem to converge. Coincidence, convergence, whatever…The fact is that for the past days I’ve been giving a lot of thought on how to best engage, hook students up front from the beginning of their e-learning journey. I’m devising an online course for Brazilian educators and the point is that if they don’t get excited with the possibilities ahead of them, how could they inspire their own learners? So, I’ve been reading, thinking and exploring a lot and just yesterday I read two interesting blog posts on how to use starters, grabbers, icebreakers in the beginning of a course. It doesn’t mean it needs to be online. How could we use attention grabbers to hook our learners, to have them motivated to take the risk, to collaborate, to inspire them to go beyond?
As always, Michelle Martin’s Web2.0Wednesday idea has a perfect timing to what I’ve been mulling over. So, here are a few digital ideas for the classroom we could use to have a grand beginning: Kevin Shadix suggests hooking learners with simple stories. To do that, for example, you could use Slideshare just like he did.
Rupa talks about the use of comics as an attention grabber. You could use ToonDoo, for example, to produce and customize your own comics, or even have your learners produce a comic strip to introduce themselves. Cool! Need to test that.
If they are a Face2Face group, I’d ask to take a photo of their partners and using a mobile, they could send it to a Flickr account (Flickr gives you an email to send photos to) with the title having the name of the person, and some thing curious the photographer found about their peers.
This could also be done using Picwing . Beforehand, just set up an email at picwing that students can send photos to, like classxxx at picwing.com. Then, students can send their photos to this email with their names and a curious fact in the Subject line. Another possibility is to ask them to email a photo of their favorite room, place, city, etc. This would be really fun!
One more idea with photos: students could choose one of the geeks drawn by Extra Life and blog it saying why they chose that specific geek. The photos are copyrighted, but we could get in touch with the artist to see if he could let us use it for educational purposes. I’d love to see this into practice.
Wow, ideas are popping up!
Another one that I tried with a group of moderators in the beginning of the year and it worked well was recording our introductions in Voicethread. We, then, could invite learners to add their intros and ask questions to the instructor.
Here’s what we did:
Well, some ideas that might help me and others! There are tons to add. What’s your idea? We could certainly make a pool of nice web2.0 icebreakers!
Just got this nice idea from Nik Peachy. He suggested the site Yearbookyourself to make up a version of you in old times. Totally fun! Here’s one of the results:
As always, Michelle Martin’s Web2.0Wednesday idea has a perfect timing to what I’ve been mulling over. So, here are a few digital ideas for the classroom we could use to have a grand beginning: Kevin Shadix suggests hooking learners with simple stories. To do that, for example, you could use Slideshare just like he did.
Rupa talks about the use of comics as an attention grabber. You could use ToonDoo, for example, to produce and customize your own comics, or even have your learners produce a comic strip to introduce themselves. Cool! Need to test that.
If they are a Face2Face group, I’d ask to take a photo of their partners and using a mobile, they could send it to a Flickr account (Flickr gives you an email to send photos to) with the title having the name of the person, and some thing curious the photographer found about their peers.
This could also be done using Picwing . Beforehand, just set up an email at picwing that students can send photos to, like classxxx at picwing.com. Then, students can send their photos to this email with their names and a curious fact in the Subject line. Another possibility is to ask them to email a photo of their favorite room, place, city, etc. This would be really fun!
One more idea with photos: students could choose one of the geeks drawn by Extra Life and blog it saying why they chose that specific geek. The photos are copyrighted, but we could get in touch with the artist to see if he could let us use it for educational purposes. I’d love to see this into practice.
Wow, ideas are popping up!
Another one that I tried with a group of moderators in the beginning of the year and it worked well was recording our introductions in Voicethread. We, then, could invite learners to add their intros and ask questions to the instructor.
Here’s what we did:
Well, some ideas that might help me and others! There are tons to add. What’s your idea? We could certainly make a pool of nice web2.0 icebreakers!
Just got this nice idea from Nik Peachy. He suggested the site Yearbookyourself to make up a version of you in old times. Totally fun! Here’s one of the results:
Some friends contacted me because Fay was approaching Key West. We are alright.
By now, it’s only a tropical storm, violent, noisy, wet, but nothing to worry about.
We’re safe and prepared with food supplies and water.
I made two videos, but now reality is much noisier!
I’ll update things at twitter (carlaarena).
By now, it’s only a tropical storm, violent, noisy, wet, but nothing to worry about.
We’re safe and prepared with food supplies and water.
I made two videos, but now reality is much noisier!
I’ll update things at twitter (carlaarena).
I just tested Picwing to make a photo album.
Interesting tool for collaboration. Once you start the album, others can join you and send photos to it via email. For example, I created this album with Brasilia photos. If others have photos of Brasilia to share, they can just attach their photos in an email post and send them to brasilia at picwing.com . The photos will be posted to the album.
Possibilities: imagine a collaborative effort in a class on a specific theme? You can start the album and have students add photos to it. If they have a mobile with email, they can send it straight from their mobiles. How fun would it be to have something like that with photos of the “First Day of class”?
Interesting tool for collaboration. Once you start the album, others can join you and send photos to it via email. For example, I created this album with Brasilia photos. If others have photos of Brasilia to share, they can just attach their photos in an email post and send them to brasilia at picwing.com . The photos will be posted to the album.
Possibilities: imagine a collaborative effort in a class on a specific theme? You can start the album and have students add photos to it. If they have a mobile with email, they can send it straight from their mobiles. How fun would it be to have something like that with photos of the “First Day of class”?
At this moment I’m admiring photos posted by Vance and aggregated in technorati for the WorldCall08 Conference in Japan.
Vance among the bright WebheadWomen is a sample of our spirit and the cultural diversity and connections only possible by such an inspiring Community For Practice and People.
Have fun, guys!
If you wonder who’s in the photo, here it goes:
Jen Verschoor (Argentina), Nina (Ukraine), Susan Marandi (Iran), Nelba (Argentina), Bobby (UAE), Vance (UAE), Evelyn (Venezuela), Nenny (Indonesia), Erika (Brazil) and Hala (Sudan).
The team has been keeping us updated at http://webheadatwc3.posterous.com/
Vacation, trips. Maps are part of our reference, our guide.
Just found out about UMapper and couldn’t resist testing it. I had fun playing with it, getting different perspectives from the city I love. It’s easy to use and has great potential for the classroom, as students can collaborate to create a roadmap for others to learn more about their countries, hometown, or neighborhood.
Here’s my first example, but I plan to explore more and add photos and more information about the city of my heart, Brasilia!
Just found out about UMapper and couldn’t resist testing it. I had fun playing with it, getting different perspectives from the city I love. It’s easy to use and has great potential for the classroom, as students can collaborate to create a roadmap for others to learn more about their countries, hometown, or neighborhood.
Here’s my first example, but I plan to explore more and add photos and more information about the city of my heart, Brasilia!
I had signed up for Utterz, but haven’t tested it. Today I decided to give it a try from my mobile phone just dialing the number they gave me when I created my account. Clear instructions, recorded message, magic! Already online. It’s an effective way for moblogging. You can make short interviews on the go, record your own thoughts, whatever you can think of.
In addition, you can crosspost it to services including blogs, twitter, Tumblr, youtube (if you happen to have a cell phone with video capabilities), Flickr. Worth giving it a try.
Oh, not to mention the feature of audio discussions, in which you can join a conversation replying to your friend via cellphone.
Here’s my test:
In addition, you can crosspost it to services including blogs, twitter, Tumblr, youtube (if you happen to have a cell phone with video capabilities), Flickr. Worth giving it a try.
Oh, not to mention the feature of audio discussions, in which you can join a conversation replying to your friend via cellphone.
Here’s my test:
BobSprankle, AliceBarr,CarlaArena,CherylOakes at Muqueca
Originally uploaded by carlaarena
This is exactly what happened today with Cheryl Oakes, a dear webhead friend and mentor at the Webcastacademy. Fun moments, magic mixed with a Brazilian flavor, different colors, food textures combined with a fantastic human touch. The special treat? Having Bob Sprankle and Alice Barr there with us, too. One more treat? the Passion fruit for dessert with Brazilian coffee. A perfect match of people, place, food all connected!
Thanks, guys, for the wonderful time together. Next time we could meet in Brazil!
This is the digital world. It allows me to be at home with my kids and still being in two other different spaces in different corners of the world with different groups I’m part of. And I’m just talking about UStream, didn’t even mention Twitter, blogging… Learning in a speed faster than light. It’s a quantic perspective of learning through the use of social media. Do I need to say something else?
BRAZ-TESOL Live, Ustream.TV: Live from the BRAZ-TESOL conference in Fortaleza, Brazil. Education via kwout
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Here’s Cheryl Oakes’s notes of the Edubloggercon East get-together.
