This is the PPt from Gormley, McDermott & Dermady at NYSRA 2011 -- Multiple LIteracies to Engage Learners: Advanced Web 2.0 Tools.

1. Kathleen A. Gormley, PhD,
Peter McDermott, PhD, &
Debbie Dermady, MSED
Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the NYS Reading Association,
Saratoga Springs, NY, April 3, 2011.

3. Kay Gormley
Faculty Member,The
Sage Colleges
Teaches face-to-face,
online and hybrid
courses in literacy and
digital literacy
Co-Chair, NYSRA
Contact: gormlk@sage.edu Digital Literacy
Committee

4. Pete McDermott
Faculty Member at
The Sage Colleges
Teaches face-to-face
and online courses
in literacy,
particularly
adolescent literacy
and digital literacy.
NYSRA, Vice
President
Contact: mcderp@sage.edu
Co-Chair, NYSRA
Digital Literacy
Committee

5. Debbie Dermady
Fifth grade teacher at
Guardino Elementary
School, Thousand
Island School District,
Clayton, NY
President, NYSRA
Member, NYSRA
Digital Literacy
Committee
Contact:
dermadyd@1000islandsschools.org
Facilitator, PBS
Teacherline

6.  Content
◦ Web 2.0 Tools for
Composing
◦ Web Authoring
◦ Collaboration
◦ Video Messaging
◦ Interactive
Whiteboards
 Breakout Portion
 Questions

7.  Feel free to ask Join us on Diigo:
questions ! NYSRA
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 Help Sessions on  Sharing
Monday!  Tags
 Highlighting
 Identify tools/
websites
 Commenting
Social  Following
Bookmarking  Groups

8.  Multimedia world
tudents are writing and reading online
 Social nature
(Facebook, MySpace)
 Open source (Free)
Easily used
 Tools for task, not reverse
Engaged, motivated students
 Complex reading and writing

9.  Collaborative
 Multimedia
 Communication
 Problem solving
 Visual arts
 Photography
and digital
imagery

10.  Donald Leu and colleagues
◦ Hear him at NYSRA Conference -
Monday at 11AM
 NewLiteracies (IRA Position Paper,
2009)
 Harrington, Hodgson & Moran
(2009)

11.  Free open source
tools
 Web-based
 Interactive
 Producers and
composers
 Participatory

12.  Dropbox
 https://www.dropbox.com/
 Free 2 GB cloud storage
 Give Kay your email and we will
share:
◦ PPt
◦ Handout

13.  http://www.slideshare.net/
 Slideshare (free version) allows:
◦ Unlimited uploads (PPt, PDF)
◦ Three videos
◦ Recent feature—sync PPt with mp3
◦ Converts to Flash file and can embed

14.  Free!
 Time’s Best NO
Websites (2007) Advertisements!
 70 Templates
 Drag and Drop Tummy Fat and
 Multimedia
Viagra be
Features
 Free hosting
damned!

15. http://
ddermady1000islandsschoolsorg.wee
bly.com/about-me-mrs-dermady.html

16. http://education.weebly.com/

17.  Composing versus
Writing
 Favorites
◦ Google docs:
documents,
presentations and
Excel (good for
groups)
◦ Zoho Writer (good
for 2-3 people)

18.  Googledocs
 Advantages
◦ Saves automatically
◦ Share options and edit options
◦ Synchronous writing allowable
 Disadvantages
◦ Formatting Issues
◦ Only saves most recent version

20.  Zoho Writer
 Advantages
◦ Much like Word processor
◦ Easy Sharing
◦ Earlier versions available
◦ Can determine who made which changes
 Disadvantages
◦ Glitchy in saving with many people
◦ No spell check or grammar check as write.

21.  Allows many to edit variety of items
 PDF, PPt, Word. Web pages
 Feedback Opportunities
 Share and Embed
 Caution: Cannot track changes with
free version.

22.  View documents without opening
Office.
 Edit: PPts; Excel, Word
 Convert to PDFs
 1GB storage
 Mobile apps
 Spelling checks
 Cautions:
◦ PDF conversions -- slow

23.  VoiceThread
 Viddler
 Zipcast (from Slideshare—online
meetings) NEWEST!
 Vyew
 Wiggio
 Slide.com

24.  New from Slideshare (2011)
 Online meetings
◦ No downloads
◦ Public (free) and Private (cost)
Meetings
◦ Uploads for meeting
◦ Join from anywhere (mobile apps)
◦ Personalized meeting room with
Slideshare login
◦ Caution: cannot video for archiving

25.  Real time meeting (e.g., webinars,
presentations)
 Upload documents, images, files
 Collaborate
 Annotate
 Shared workspace (vyewbooks)
 Easy navigation
 Chat feature
 Free version (unlimited meetings;
participants limited to 10)
 Caution: Best features are paid

26.  Collaborative work
 Email, voice mail group members
 Host meetings
 Private list-serve and web address
 Shared folders
 Shared calendar with ‘to do’
 Poll group members
 Created for students (Terms of
usage)

27.  Eyejot
 Screenr

28.  Free video message
 1 minute in length
 Send as email and ‘clicks’ open.
 Can respond to Eyejot with return
recording
 Need webcam and microphone
 Group Creation
 Mobile App
 Cautions
 Must upload emails individually initially
 Picture and voice can be out of sync

30.  Glogster
 Scribblar

31. Uses • Interactive
Whiteboard
Teacher Presentations
Student Projects (group) • Video
◦ Book reviews
◦ Unit summaries • Images
◦ Assigned topics
◦ Introduction of self
• Text
Cautions
◦ Some content
problematic • Voice
◦ 13 and older

32.  Eileen’s National
Poetry
http://emathena.edu.glogster.com/
glog-3398/
 Dan’s art glog
http://gribbd.glogster.com/alexis-
rockman-/

33.  Multiuser, interactive whiteboard
 Live audio
 Text chat
 Good for brainstorming
 No limitations—length of time,
number of users
 Revise images, artwork, and graphics
 Can have pages for specific group
 Note: rated 5/5 by AppAppeal (see
review)

35.  http://www.scribblar.com/
ksffq5z

36.  Conceptual
Understanding
◦ Big and related ideas
linked
◦ Images and/or words
 Our favorites
◦ Inspiration
◦ Bubble.us
◦ Popplet

37.  Easy diagramming
 Add words/images
 Hyperlink
 Many color, link and
font choices
 Outline
 Switch between
diagram and outline
 New with 9th: can
view Inspiration on
computer without
software!

39.  Free
 Basic connectors
 Flexible layout
 NEW—drop and drag sheet sharing
 Folder options
 Caution—can only link once

41. Bubble.us is very basic!
Source: http://teacheng.us/?p=3

42.  Mindmapping, browser based
◦ Text, links, images, files, tasks
◦ Change color, multiple connections
◦ Works well for complex concept maps
 Free version—limited to 3.
 Paid version: $59/year—a bit pricey.

46.  Kay:
gormlk@sage.edu
 Peter:
mcderp@sage.edu
 Debbie:
 NYSRAPresDermady
@1000islandsschools
.org