Tech Talk Tuesdays

Jess McCulloch – an early uptaker of and innovator with web2.0, a young mother, a treasured colleague and vivacious presenter, talked about “My Use of Web 2.0”. Jess ably walked us through her blog and other favourite websites, featuring a number of web2.0 tools, answered questions and demonstrated their purpose. Jess talked about the Interactive Whiteboard Challenge which she organises and showed the wiki that is used for this project. Her audience came from a large number of countries – Germany, England, Canada, USA, Australia, Vietnam, South America and Ukraine. Listen to the recording.

From the chat:

• The link for Diigo Classroom 2.0 is http://groups.diigo.com/group/classroom20
• Plurk is conversations, twitter = announcements
• http://schoolnotes.com/
• PhotoPeach is a slide show with a quiz
• photopeach allows you to annotate your slide show with text as well as add music or audio to it
• http://edgate.com/ and http://snhelp.edgate.com/
• Top 100 Web 2.0 tools for educators at
• Storybird is a site for collaborative storywriting.  Uses work from professional illustrator work, students write about it and can create a story book.
• Sample photopeach work from Peggy George
• Tweetdeck or hootsuite both for managing twitterfeeds
• Tweetdeck just as useful for tweeting from multiple Twitter accounts
• Emapey’s blog is his PhD
• http://www.diigo.com
• Tutorials and resources on diigo from Peggy George.Thanks
• you can actually save your Diigo lists to iGoogle because it has an RSS feed
• Interactive White Board Challenge
• Online teachers could also use Google Docs new Drawing collaborative tool for online WB as well, I suppose. I haven’t worked with large groups, but we have used it with up to 6 people at a time.
• http://popurls.com
• For those of us who want to get fit, lose weight etc http://www.dailymile.com
• #pics4school
• you can add photos to that page you saw just by tagging your pics with pics4school
• don’t forget the Reform Symposium this week too-starting on Fri http://reformsymposium.com/schedule/day-1-friday/
• Virtual worlds – book club http://grou.ps/twitterlits
• Fantastic work by a US teacher using Reaction Grid
• Powertunes