Monthly Archives: November 2012

Digital Story and Augmented Photos

I am including a digital story about my family that I created for ETEC565. I used it with my kindergarten students to introduce the concept of family groups. I uploaded my own photos to www.befunky.com and turned them into cartoon … Continue reading

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SpringPad

I’ve found Spring Pad is a very useful aggregator tool.  It easily replaces your bookmark bar and allows you to group your links into different notebooks.  You can personalize those notebooks (colours, titles, etc.) and share them or keep them … Continue reading

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Lino for Bookmarks and Resources

Among all of the new Web 2.0 tools that I have browsed this past week, the one that I wanted to experiment with the most was Lino.  (linoit.com). I have created a few “canvases” with different purposes. My main canvas … Continue reading

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Toward a Community of Learners

The following is a digital story outlining the process by which we (almost accidentally) became a professional learning group in my school and rather intentionally fostered a community of learners. If the embed code doesn’t load, click here to be … Continue reading

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Digital Literacy Concept Map – Using Gliffy

For my Rip.Mix.Feed activity, I decided to remix the Digital Literacy Wiki our class developed as a concept map in a Web 2.0 tool called Gliffy.  Here is the concept map in progress.  Although Gliffy allows collaboration, the lack of … Continue reading

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Symbaloo Webmix on Cinemagraphs

For this week’s Rip. Mix. Feed. activity, I chose to collect a set of resources on Symbaloo, a PLE bookmarking tool.  Since I have a particular interest in cinemagraphs as a form of text, that it the theme I chose … Continue reading

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Storytelling through KerPoof

After looking through some story activity links, I fell upon Kerpoof. Looking to increase my list of creative websites, since I’m teaching art this year, this website makes the cut. It has some great features. The interface is clear and … Continue reading

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Diigo: Sharing Wisdom From the Cloud

For this assignment I chose to use Diigo.  It is a social bookmarking site which also offers the ability to present your collection of bookmarks into a slide show.  I have been collecting elementary-focused blog sites for some time now … Continue reading

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Expand our Personal Learning Networks (PLNs)

This year, I’m getting the teachers and staff at my school ready for a 1-to-1 implementation next year. Since I cannot provide complete support all of the time, I would like to show them how to set up and make … Continue reading

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A Web 2.0 Adventure!

In the creation of my Rip, Mix, Feed – Reloaded artifact, I chose the theme of digital storytelling. Although this assignment asks to document the story of how we might incorporate the use of Web 2.0 tools, I felt that … Continue reading

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