2-Student+Generated+Content

Many of the same tools mentioned in the //**Manage and Deliver Content**// category can also be used for students to represent their learning.

[|Toontastic]
This is actually an app for the iPad. Students can design their own cartoon story and then share it with the world. The app includes a "story arc" that gives students a framework for their cartoon and has various settings, characters, and background songs to choose from. Students can also use a simple drawing tool to create their own settings and characters. Students animate their cart oons much as they would conduct a puppet show and the app records the students' voices. The app is free, but additional character "puppets" cost extra. It's appropriate for young learners. Submitted by Brandon

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==== Storybird is an interactive collaborative story-making tool. Storybird is an easy to use tool that students can use to create any genre of stories. Students can make their own creative story and can create a story with another collaborator. Students in primary elementary grades can create a story by just including a few simple graphics and some words. Older elementary students can become more involved and can create elaborate stories using all of the resources. ====

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==== Befunky is a web 2.0 photo tools that makes photo editing easy and fun for students. Students can turn their photos into exciting new photos by using the befunky effect. Students can use this tool to fix their photos by adding speech bubbles, frames and shapes to their photos.This can be used in the classroom a site to create projects. For example, students can create old fashioned pictures for social studies. Also students can create an autobiography about themselves and tell a story through the pictures they created. ==== By: Rachel Berkowitz

=Flickr= ==== Flickr allows users to upload and share pictures with anyone over the web. Students can take pictures of their projects created, they can illustrate what they have learned through pictures and also comment on each other's submissions. Flickr is a great tool to add a different way of assessing to the classroom. I have used Flickr in my classroom to have students take a picture of themselves doing an activity then add captions and labels to identify the parts of speech in the caption. It worked really well and the students were so excited about seeing what other groups created. ==== Submitted by: Kelly Lannon

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Creates an online community of learners for your class and allows students to communication with teachers and as a class. Edmodo is being used as a way for students to generate their own content and share their ideas with each other. They collaborate in their class page and are also able to ask the teacher questions and submit assignments. Edmodo is also used for adults through professional development trainings and webinars. =====

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Glogster[[image:jhu-e-learningcourse-summer2012/images-1.jpeg caption="images-1.jpeg"]]
Glogster allows users to create an online poster to share with others. Users can include links, videos, images, and text in their posters. Students can create posters as a presentation of new information, a prewriting activity, a graphic organizer, and many other possibilities. Teachers are able to create accounts for a group of students so that students can view and comment on each other’s blogs. Glogster has provided this to help teachers assign tasks using Glogster to address student needs. (Shannan Senftle Fratto) = = =[|ToonDoo]= ToonDo allows students or teachers to create comic books that can be shared with others. Toons can be created collaboratively or individually. Several examples on the site show students' understanding of topics like photosynthesis and the way in which a bill becomes law. There are also several examples of students creating toons in world languages perhaps as practice using vocabulary or grammar structure in a second language being studied. Sign up is free and it's free to get started, but some elements require purchase. One of these fee-based elements is ToonDooSpaces, which creates a private space to share cartoons, which may help to manage the work done within a class for a particular school or teacher. (Jen Bean)

=[|MuveeCloud]= This site allows multiple users to upload content to the same project, that can them be developed into a "muvee" complete with music, "styles" and the like. It's private, as contributors must be invited to the project. Contributors who have been invited do not have to join or sign in - their contributions are like replying to an email. Once the project is complete, it can be shared more publicly by being posted on a blog, on facebook, or other social networks. This seems like a great way for students to work independently or collaboratively on a presentation, especially if students within a group are assigned different elements of the content that then gets pulled together for the final product. (Jen Bean)

__**My StoryMaker **__

My StoryMaker is a publishing writing tool. It has many resources available for kids, parents, and educators. Within the educators link there are sample lessons that a teacher can incorporate in the classroom. The purpose of this tool is for children to create stories online. It is a free tool that allows students to be creative with their pictures. Included in the program students are able to choose backgrounds, objects, characters, movements, emotions and actions. After you apply an action, movement or emotion, then the character will apply it, and then the sentence will be formed. You are allowed to add or change the text as you create the story. (Dina Manevich)

http://www.lycolibrary.org/kids_my_storymaker.html

__** Pixie **__

Pixie is a awesome tool for students to use to enhance their imagination, share ideas, create original artwork, voicing, and images. It supports all students and all learners. It allows students to think literally and artistically. This program helps students develop skills such as collaboration and cooperation. Pixie is similar to a drawing program where students can save their individual pictures, movies, or webpage. There are different tools included in Pixie that students can use to create their drawings. They are clip art, backgrounds, sound, and stickers. One is allowed to use drawings from other programs and include it in their Pixie work. As you create different slides, you could turn your art into a slideshow or movie. (Dina Manevich)

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__** Animoto **__ Animoto is a short video/presentation making tool. Students can insert pictures, videos, music, and text into their video clip. It is very easy to learn how to use and navigate. There are four different versions of Animoto, the lite version being the free option. It allows for 30 second clips and limited designs and music. Other versions range from $2.50 a month to $41.60 per month and features full-length videos and extended music options. (Karalee Nagel) []

Quizlet is an online flash card website that can be used by students and teachers for vocabulary, foreign languages, etc. Students can customize already created flash cards or create their own with text and/or pictures. Flash cards can be shared with other users to aid in studying and promote retention of information. This tool also provides customizable review games. Quizlet is a free and fun way for students to study. (Karalee Nagel) []
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SpicyNodes[[image:jhu-e-learningcourse-summer2012/Unknown.jpeg caption="Unknown.jpeg" link="@http://www.spicynodes.org/"]]
SpicyNodes allows users to view and create interactive maps. Teachers are able to present information on a broad level first, then as students explore the nodes of a map, more and more detail is revealed. Students can publish their own maps or can choose from a gallery of maps created by others. SpiceyNodes provides a bank of sample lessons in which teachers guide student exploration through the creation of detailed maps. (Shannan Senftle Fratto)

Museum Box
Museum Box is a free graphical organization and presentation tool (from England) that allows students to "curate" information on a topic from the web as well as their own pictures/recordings/presentations/documents, and store that information in a multi-compartment virtual "box." They can then organize and edit the information they've stored in the various compartments to build a cohesive "museum" of information on their topic. Teachers can register their schools and classes so that they can view the boxes of their students, and boxes can be shared in a gallery for others to view. This tool could be used by later elementary or middle school students to gather and build information for presentations in a wide variety of content subjects, in lieu of traditional web capture+graphical organizer+presentation tools approach. [Unfortunately, I was unable to test it out and build my own box, as my browser ground to a halt when I tried it. This site has a pretty rigorous registration process for teachers/schools; it may be that, although not explicitly stated, only teachers and students associated with registered schools may use Museum Box.] (JCurrotto)

Zotero
Zotero is a free web research curation tool that allows students to keep track of web sites and content to support research assignments. It operates as a downloaded plug-in to a web browser. The student's curated "library" is then accessed via an interesting "iTunes"-like interface of identified items that is fully searchable and which allows the student to create and organize "playlist"-like collections of information. For research papers, Zotero can also create citations in a variety of standard formats. This tool also allows development of collaboratively-created libraries for group projects. The strength of this tool would best be leveraged by students in high school classes in support of assignments that require numerous resources, such as term papers. [Do they still call them that?!?] (JCurrotto)

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 * Kids Vid uses a storyboard format to help students and teachers script, edit, and produce research based videos. The site includes a section to advise teacher how to interate video production into curriculum. The site also includes a gallery of video's created by students. Kids' Vid is full of tips, advice and ideas for producing educational videos. It also space to create a network of classrooms around the world that instigate joint productions. (T. Core) **

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=== The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. The Visual Thesaurus is an ideal teaching resource for children of all ages, with a visually captivating display that engages students in learning new words and concepts. It’s a fun and educational way to play with words. (T.Core) ===

=__** DrawAnywhere **__= A drag & drop drawing application for diagrams & flow charts. These tools are very useful if you have to create charts for a class or any class project. This application is very easy to use; all you need is an email address, username and password and you are reading to begin. All students from K-12 can use this application. submitted by **Tashana Johnson** == = = =**__VoiceThread__**= VoiceThread is an application that allows students to create a character and add audio to the character. They can either text what they want their character to say or call a number that allows them to do a voiceover. This application is very easy to use and it allows students to become very creative. submitted by **Tashana Johnson** [|www.voicethread.com]
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Blabberize.com
Students can use Blabberize when they need to present a material in the form of conversation or speech. This tool allows the user to add background score to any image and animate the mouth to match the speech. This helps create engaging introductions or for imparting short amount of information. It can also be used to make announcements on the site. - Meera

Wallwisher.com
This is a low-key tool that has a sticky-note /notice board interface for communicating on the web. Users post information on the wall in the form of a small box. It helps to look at different pieces of information at one glance. Ideal for posting notices, making list, watch and share videos, collect feedback, etc. There are beautiful examples on the site for ideas and applications. - Meera

__Flat Planet__ Flat Planet is an awesome wikispace designed and implemented by two teachers, one from Canada and one from the UK. The teachers each have a high school class learning about the environment. Students work together to develop wikispaces to teach each other about different environmental issues. (Oren)

Found this great blog with 33 uses for blogs in the classroom. Uses for young students to older and for parent to teacher communication as well. Enjoy!

__Skype__-A couple of years ago I collaborated with another business teacher on my team and we allowed students to practice mock interviewing as if they were in one location and the interview was across states or the country. (We were next door to each other). The students were prepped for the interview. They got to ask questions as well as be the interviewee. It was a great learning experience! (S.Scott)

__Skype__-I read in an article, I think on Edweek.org that a class was using skype to talk with students in maybe China, or some classroom that was literally half way around the world. This reminded me of how we used to have pen pals in school and write letters to them. Now they can talk in real time, face time, and incorporate other lessons like learning a different language, geography, business and economic systems of that country. The possibilities of integrating lessons and crossing curriculums are endless. Technology can be powerful when used effectively! (S. Scott)

[| Mindmeister] - Mindmeister allows users to create extensive mind maps. In my exploration I found it fairly intuitive to use. I think it would work well in upper grades. Here is a description of how a ninth grade teacher uses mind meister to promote critical thinking and discussion in his class. (Googash)

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//is a collaborative and playful writing tool in which students select the characters, setting, and language for the digitized speech (male and female voices) and then type the text (or cut and paste from a pre-prepared Word document). By selecting the camera angles and put in actions, students can create a movie that can then be embedded into a common website or wiki space. (D. Mizza)//======

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//__“Jing” (http://www.jingproject.com__////) has an easy-to-use interface that allow learners to practice speaking skills.//======

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//__"Voki"__// //- already mentioned above - is a more animated one, because enables language learners to create their avatar, a computer user’s representation of himself/herself. The finished avatar could then be uploaded in a Wiki or Moodle Site to further collaboration and sharing. (D. Mizza)//======

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//__“Cartoon Story Maker” (http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/games/cartoon/csm_help/default.htm__//====== //Among the online educational games based on the Web 2.0 constructivist approach, “Cartoon Story Maker” allows to make 2D screen based cartoon stories to illustrate conversations and dialogues. Stories can include an unlimited number of frames and are view frame by frame. (D. Mizza)//