The Digital Natives are Restless 6/24/13

The digital natives are restless (21st century pirates)

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/21stcenturypirateteachers/the-digital-natives-are-restless-web-tools-that-captivate-students

Socrative: http://goo.gl/nnMNA (room #iste13)

This session introduced free websites and online tools that students can use for creativity and collaboration in the classroom: The presenters used Socrative to poll the audience, and used inkle writer to present instead of power point. Inkle writer is a choose your own adventure presentation Web sites and tools presented included (by category):

 MAP programs for digital trips (see their site for more)

 1.  Tripline - a travel blog (used by students to show a trip to the class that they could take- use for Philadelphia field trip , immigration journal, Spanish class!) 

 INFO GRAPHICS

 1. Google drawing 

2. Info gram - used to show tragedy of a war, compare deaths to size of their population (Conflict project)

 PHOTOGRAPHY 

1. Thing link- favorite webtool of presenter. Can tag and put videos on an image!

 2. Narrable - photo story type project, see all photos on one main paige 

 SOCIAL MEDIA

 1. Fake Wall- create a Facebook interaction between multiple parties. What would the characters say? 2. Fake tweet builder- 140 character summaries from historical figures (sentries?) 

 MOVIE MAKERS (on web): 

1. Animoto - basic, good for introducing a topic, traile. Good for photo story 

2. Go Animate- what Carolina used in Spanish class 

3. We Video- online video production website 

 NEW TYPE OF PRESENTATION (no poster boards)
1. Google drawing - collaborative drawing 
2. Prezi - now has many templates. Don't just use as a zooming power point.
3. Powtoon- video tutorial 
4. Story bird- make a story book online, has pre-made digital pictures