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Friday 1 February 2013

Web 2 Resources

Below are a couple of links to Web 2 Tools that may be handy. These were mentioned on the teacher librarian listserv today and got good recommendations from others as well.

Kidblog is designed for teachers who want to provide each student with an individual blog.  Students publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroon blogging community.  Teachers are able to maintain control over student blogs and user accounts.   

You can use Kidblog to:
  • Create classroom discussions
  • Learn digital citizenship
  • Reflect on learning
  • Practice writing skills
  • Assess writing
 http://www.voki.com/

Voki is a free service that allows you create avatars, give them a voice by recording speech and then publish them to a blog, website or a profile.  Voki itself is free, however if you decide to upgrade to Voki Classroom, there is a small charge.  I guess it depends on what services you want from it.

http://www.wibbitz.com/

Wibbitz is a text-to-video platform that can apparently change any text based article, post or feed into a short video. This seems to be in beta mode at the moment, but turned the titles of my blog posts into a headline type announcment and made choices of pictures to add to it.  Quite fun to play with. Again, a free service.

Have a great weekend all.


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