I had the pleasure of attending the MACE (Mid-American Association for Computers in Education) conference last week in Manhattan, KS. I learned so much! I learned about a number of fantastic Web 2.0 tools. Some of these are: http://www.search-cube.com/: a search engine that builds a visual cube of your search results; http://www.polleverywhere.com/: a site that allows you to build online polls that participants send their responses via text messages; http://www.mywebspiration.com/ which is an online version of Inspiration (although rumor has it that this one will be going to a paid subscription once it goes out of beta.) But my favorite is Glogster. Basically glogster is a single page site (although you can build multiple glogs on one account) that is sort of like a cork board. You can add images, videos, text, links, graphics to portray your message.
So how can you use a Glogster in your classroom? Why not build a glog for next week's lesson(s) about fractions? You can put a quick video about fractions, a couple of links to websites for practice, an image or two that show how to reduce fractions, and then the assignment that they will turn in to you. Or maybe you're covering the water cycle and you want to put a link to an interactive site about the water cycle, a video about acid rain, a graphic that details the parts of the water cycle, and then the directions to the hands-on exploration you'll be doing in class. Below is my glog from my Web 2.0 session from the MACE conference. You can view the glog on Glogster at http://erinmisegadis.glogster.com/MACE-glog/.
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