WEEK 16
This week was good because my classmates presented in front of the class the Web 2.0 tools that they were supposed to study and explain us applying the tool. The tools presented were:
- Twitter:
It is a free and social tool where we can send messages with specific
characters, and it is used like a mini-blog to publish small information using
videos and images too.
- Google maps:
Google maps are a service of Google that provides a very high technology
where we can see maps from the entire world, using specific information and
addresses.
- Podcast
Podcast is a system that permits the distribution of multimedia
(photographs, videos and audio) on the Web.
- Authorstream
It permits upload and share online presentations for example Power Point,
where we can get an URL. It can be download like a video in You tube.
- Wikispaces
Wikispaces are platforms where used for education and business. It is free
and permits a lot of activities.
- Flikr
It is a place where we can share images and photographs. It is very
particular to find new places.
- K12 Lesson
plans
It is a very useful web site where we are going to organize some activities
for our students in a very interesting way and prepare a lesson plan.
- Podomatic
Podomatic is a new service of podcasting online, it permits to register
videos and audio from our browser and people could write comments in our audio
files.
- Web quest
It is and activity that helps students to do researches very organized. It
permits to get information in an easy way with the specific name of the
assignment.
Unfortunately, I did not have agood presentation of my tool "Google maps", but I learned a lot from mistakes.