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Prezi allows anyone who can sketch an idea on a napkin to create and perform stunning non-linear presentations with relations, zooming into details, and adjusting to the time left without the need to skip slides. |
Prezi was used both as a presentation tool (in lieu of MS PowerPoint), and as an interactive image viewer. When used as a presentation tool, Prezi creates a natural interface to present information, and interact with and analyze primacy sources. Prezi is also useful as an image viewer due to its ability to place a set of resources in front of an audience and allow them to explore them in an organic way.
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Land Inquiry Presentation: http://prezi.com/92847/
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With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install.
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies.
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Not used (yet) for the Jeffco Colloquium, but was requested after the first day.
To the right is an example created by Mary J. Johnson (who is a TPS-Colorado Fellow and instructor).
A few primary sources were posted with brief audio instruction, and then particiapants posted comments and questions.
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http://voicethread.com/share/163846/
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Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, create interactive learning experiences, save your creations and toured places, and share with others. |
This project was created by using the image overlay feature in Google Earth to show how land division changed over time. There is a description and link to each map within the description box for each location. Also, the placemark for each map was created using the custom placemark feature. |
Land Division KMZ File (Google Earth required)
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PBworks (formerly PBwiki)
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This website was created using a free, online tool called PBworks. A wiki is a website that allows visitors to become participants in the collaborative effort of creating and editing the site. Participants can easily add, remove, and edit the content without any special technical knowledge or tools apart from a computer with an Internet connection. This ease use and accessibility make a wiki an ideal tool for for class communication and collaboration. Permission levels for viewing and editing the wiki and its pages are set by the instructor. Several companies offer free wikis for educational use. The following webpages contain various examples from three of them:
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This wiki was developed by creating the desired pages, linking the pages together with hyperlinks and then editing the pages with the content about Westward Expansion. |
Guess what? You're looking at it!
http://jeffcocolloquium.pbworks.com/
An example of a wiki that was developed based an Annotated Resource Set about Pearl Harbor may be found at http://tpstechex.pbworks.com/.
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Bubbl.us is an online brainstorming tool that makes it easy for anyone to quickly start planning and sort out their ideas through the use of linked text bubbles. Each bubble of information is connected to its "parent" bubble and color coordinated based its position in the heirarchy. |
Bubbl.us was used to create a bubble tree of ideas about "The Oxbow" painting.
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See The Oxbow page for an interactive version
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MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global brainstorming sessions. Users can create, manage and share mind maps online and access them anytime, from anywhere. In brainstorming mode, fellow MindMeisters from around the world (or just in different rooms) can simultaneously work on the same mind map and see each other's changes as they happen.
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MindMeister was used to collaboratively create a mind map about how land was distributed during the Westward Expansion era. |
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(From www.wordle.net) "Wordle is a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends." |
Wordle was used to visually compare the Cherokee Constitution with the U.S. Constitution. First, the text from the Cherokee Constitution was copied into the input field in the Wordle web application. A Wordle image was created. Clicking on the "Randomize" button displayed the same text using different fonts, colors, and arrangement. Then, the same process was used for the text of the U.S. Constitution. The last step was to create a link to the images from within the class wiki. This was done by simply copying the code provided by the Wordle application and pasting it into the wiki page.
Slave's Friend Example Text
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Cherokee Constitution
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U.S. Constitution
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A blog is a frequently updated web page of short journal entries (called posts) about the author’s opinions and thoughts, current news, links to interesting web sites, and much more. A blog is written in a relaxed, conversational style. Readers of the blog may make comments on the posts made by the author, allowing them to contribute to the conversation. Blog entries are listed in reverse chronological order – the most recent entries are at the top of the page.
Teachers can use blogs to communicate with their peers, students, and their students’ parents. Some schools also provide individual blogs for their students. This provides a way for students to post their journal entries and for their teachers and classmates to respond back with their comments. Check out an extensive list of educational blogs on the Support Blogging wiki.
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A general internet search was performed using terms relating to the Cherokee Indians and personal accounts of the Trail of Tears. Next, a search at the Library of Congress was conducted where a few more stories were found. A few books on the subject with a few examples were used as well. A blog entry in the style of a personal narrative was then written, incorporating all of the examples found while researching.
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First-hand narrative blog on the Trail of Tears
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