Online Notetaking 3

Continuing through our list of online notetaking tools as listed on our Syba posters:

6.  Google Docs (Google Notebook listed, but no longer available for new users)

From their website:

Create and share your work online

Upload from and save to your desktop

Edit anytime, from anywhere

Pick who can access your documents

Share changes in real time

Files are stored securely online

It’s FREE!

Take a tour  -  New Features

Hope you have fun exploring these resources.  Don’t forget that we have Kidspiration now as a site licence, and Inspiration on the library computers  and the teachers computer in each computer room so it is able to be projected via dataprojector.

Online Notetaking 2

Try some of these resources listed on the new online notetaking posters we have purchased from Syba Signs.

3.  mynoteit.com

http://www.mynoteit.com/about

From their web site:

“Take, edit and share notes online

• Take and store your notes online.
• Edit and revise notes with peers.
• Look-up and define words with your Workspace Utilities. “

4.  evernote.com

http://evernote.com/ View the introduction video at this link.

5.  Notestar

http://notestar.4teachers.org/

From their website:

“NoteStar is an Internet utility to assist in the preparation of research papers. Teachers and students can set up research projects with topics and sub-topics. Students may then take advantage of NoteStar’s many features to collect and organize their notes and prepare their bibliography page. “

Online Notetaking Tools 1

We just purchased some posters from Syba Signs that teach about notetaking online.  They cover a number of really useful tools.

1.  ReadWriteThink Notetaker http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=55
From their website:

“This hierarchical outlining tool allows students to organize up to five levels of information for reading and writing activities. During or after reading, the Notetaker can be used to compile and organize reading notes, research, and related ideas. During the writing process, students can use the tool to organize their information and plan texts in the prewriting stage and to review and structure their ideas during writing and revision.

Students can choose the format that the outline will use (e.g., bullets, Roman numerals, letters) as well as enter up to five levels of information. The Notetaker includes a tutorial, which demonstrates how to use the tool, as well as a Notes area where students can track information that does not fit into the outline. The Notetaker creates an HTML file of students’ outlines, which can be printed or saved and edited later in any HTML editor. “

Visit this interactive tool at: http://interactives.mped.org/notetaker722.aspx.

2. UberNote

http://www.ubernote.com/webnote/pages/default.aspx

From their website:

What is UberNote?

“UberNote was developed to address a need for an advanced, all purpose web-based notes application. It is a productivity tool which requires no installation, and notes are accessible from the home, office, client site, or anywhere.”

View a demonstration video at: http://www.ubernote.com/webnote/pages/tour.aspx

Blogging

A blog is a web-based journal.  It can be a regular diary (class journal / homework diary?), an unfolding of developing ideas (topic review?), articles posted for others to comment on (poetry, notes?), a serialised story…let your imagination run wild!  There are a number of blog hosts, and blogs can be made public or kept private.  You can add pictures, videos, all sorts of widgets (like calendars, lists, surveys) to your blog. 

 

http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs

 

Adrian has been blogging with his classes for a while I think.  Has anyone else any experience?  You might like to share your ideas with us. 

 

Year 2’s blog is on the K-6 library site.  I set it up using EduBlogs – a safer alternate to general blogging sites for littlies.  It is set up so that the children can comment without having to log in, and they use nicknames, not real names.

 

You are reading my ICT blog http://jennyw12000.wordpress.com/.  It would be a great place for us to share ideas about using technology.  Add comments to the posts about ways that you are using ICTs in class – both positive and negative so that we can all help with problems.

  

Happy blogging - let me know if you start one.  I’m happy to do the setting up for you, as well.

 

Next time – Wikis

ICT Talk and Social Bookmarking

What is ICT Talk?

I am going to do some mail-out professional development, and see how it works! Please feel free to come and see me to learn more, or try something, if you prefer the personal approach. They will have the subject ICT Talk if you would like to create a rule so that they go straight into a folder. Just remember to look at them!

Other sources of ICT

PD Learning Journeys with ICT by Angie Simmons. We have the whole of this series in the library, and even though it is basically written for use with K-7 students, it is VERY helpful in explaining technology and how to apply it in teaching. You can find the ones we have on the Alice catalogue. They are reproducible for use within our school community only – no-one outside school may use them.

Commoncraft videos

http://www.commoncraft.com/show  A good source of ICT PD is the video series by Commoncraft. These are very simple explanations of sometimes very complicated technology! They are available under a Creative Commons licence – http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Attribution.

1. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
2. Attribute this work: You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
3. No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.

Now… Social Bookmarking

This ICT Talk is about social bookmarking – or keeping favourites online so that you (and friends, family or colleagues) can access them any time you are using an Internet linked computer. You can start by uploading all your current Favourites from your web browser on your computer. You can organise them by allocating tags (like key words).

You can add buttons to your browser so that you can easily and quickly add sites to your bookmarking page. We can share our bookmarks by creating a network that links us with the people we want to link to. You can bundle people, so you could have a TCS bundle, a family bundle, a KLA network bundle…you get the idea. You can bundle your tags, as well, for extra organisation. You can keep some links private and others public. Probably the best known social bookmarking site is del.icio.us. http://delicious.com/ Create a del.icio.us account and see if you can add me to your network. My user name is jennyw12000.

For a very simple explanation of how this all works, have a look at the Commoncraft video on social bookmarking http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english

It uses del.icio.us as an example. Happy bookmarking – I hope I’ll meet you on del.icio.us! Let me know your user name if you have an account or if you start one.

GoGooligans

Here is the address for this safe educational search tool for children.  Also contains information about cyberbullying. http://www.gogooligans.com/ Thanks Judy O’Connell (Hey Jude) for passing on this website.

Internet search tutorial

Thanks to Judy O’Connell (Hey Jude) for sharing these links.  Try this searching tutorial to improve your searching skills  http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/index.html

Have a look around the Pandia Search Central site http://www.pandia.com/index.html to check out information about searching and for access to many, many search engines and directories.

 Judy also recommends GoGoogligans.  Will try to confirm the link.

Experimenting with adding videos…

Hopefully you’ll be able to watch this YouTube video explanation about Web 2.0.  Using the Web 2.0 write up in Wikipedia this video is to help teach educators about Web 2.0 tools.  Posted to YouTube by jutecht

New Web 2.0 PPT

Hi all,  I have uploaded a new Syba Signs PPT to the library intranet all about Web 2.0.  It is on the home page under the Internet Searching column.  Great explanations about many Web 2.0 tools and, more importantly, how you can integrate them into your teaching.

Hello world!

Hello to any TCS staff intrigued enough to visit this blog!  I hope this becomes a place to share ideas and discoveries with each other.

For some plain-talk explanations of some great ICT tools, go to http://www.commoncraft.com/work  and watch some of the videos at the bottom of the page.  Try the wiki, social bookmarking and blogging ones to start.