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Explore each these Web 2.0 applications: Glogster (www.edu.glogster.com)you can create interactive posters Jing (www.techsmith.com/jing)you can create videos of the computer screen Prezi (www.prezi.com)presentation software (like what PPT does, but in a different manner) Toondoo (www.toondoo.com)you can create cartoons to teach concepts PowToon (http://www.powtoon.com/)you can create animated videos and presentations Select a minimum of three of these applications and develop a short/small theme based instructional activity using those selected applications. For example, if your theme is art history then you may want to consider using Jing to create a short video that walks students through a section of the Musee du Louvres web site. Or you may want to create an interactive poster with Glogster that would describe and illustrate the works of specific artists of the 18th century. Or you may want to create a short Prezi presentation of the different brush techniques of the artists of the Renaissance. Or even a PowToon for two artists discussing the work of a different artist. NOTE: You can create three different instructional activities and use a different Web 2.0 app in each of the different activities or you can develop one instructional activity and present it 3 different times using a different app to show how that specific app would be used with that same activity. Post links to your Project 2 instructional activities on your Project 1 website and include a description of the context in which you would use each of the instructional activities that you created. On your blog page of your website (Project 1), make a minimum of two posts: 1) Your thoughts and ideas of how each of these five Web 2.0 applications could be used in your future classroom, training, or work environment and your opinion if you would ever really use such software. 2) A specific post about your experience of developing your instructional activity(ies) using each of your selected three different Web 2.0 apps
a description of the intended learners and environment for which the activity
was designed an explanation of how the activity will be used in a specific lesson specific standards that the activity addresses
_____ Linked to Project 1 (10 pts. possible) Each of the activities embedded/linked/attached to the Project 1 website. _____ Narrative blog posts (20 pts. possible) A minimum of two well written, clear posts were made on the Project 1 blog page that discussed the use of the 5 designated Web 2.0 applications and specifically what was created using three of those apps.