Web 2.0 Applications For History

Web 2.
0 Applications for History
AIS Annual History Conference 2010: A Brave New World

The King’s School Parramatta. Friday 26th March
Tom Lee (ICT Integration Project Manager)

Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College 128 Miller Street North Sydney, NSW 2060 E: tlee@monte.nsw.edu.au
Twitter: twitter.com/motik YouTube: youtube.com/tleeict Blog: motik.edublogs.org iChat: td_lee@me.com
Summary
I. What is Web 2.0?
II. Wordle - Create word clouds
III. ClassTools.net - Create your own online activities
IV. Eight online resources that will change the way

teachers and students learn
Web 2.0 Applications for History - AIS Annual History Conference 2010: A Brave New World 1
I. What is Web 2.0?
The term "Web 2.0" (2004–present) is commonly associated

with web applications that facilitate interactive information
sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and
collaboration on the World Wide Web. Examples of Web 2.0
include web-based communities, hosted services, web
applications, social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis,
blogs, mashups, and folksonomies. A Web 2.0 site allows its
users to interact with other users or to change website content,
in contrast to non-interactive websites where users are limited
to the passive viewing of information that is provided to them.1
1Citation. (2010, March 25). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:27, March 25,
2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
II. Wordle: Create word clouds
What is Wordle?
Wordle is a web 2.0 tool used for creating 'word clouds' out of
any text you choose.
The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more

frequently in the source text.
Wordle extracts common words such as ‘a’ and ‘the’ from the
paragraph you use.
You decide the way the word cloud is presented (the colour,
direction of word placement, organization of words etc.)
You can then save your word cloud for individual use, or allow
others to view and comment on it for personal feedback.
(i) Go to http://www.wordle.net
Click on [Create] to
get started.
(ii) Type or paste in text
Once you have finished

typing or pasting in
text, click on the [Go]
button.
(iii) Customise your word cloud, print
(export as PDF), save to the public
gallery or print screen image.
Customise your word

cloud via the menu bar
Click here to print Click here to add

or export word your word cloud to
cloud to PDF the public gallery
III. ClassTools.net: Create your own
online activities
How do I use ClassTools.net?
ClassTools.net is very easy to use. You can easily set up a quiz or

game for students to play in less than a couple of minutes.
Follow these two simple steps to interactive success:
(i) Choose your template

(ii) Enter your data, information or questions
(i) Choose your template
Go to http://classtools.net
Click on the [Select a Template]

menu to choose your template
Need some inspiration?

Try some of the samples by
clicking here.
(ii) Enter your data, information or
questions
Depending on which template you choose, enter the
appropriate information.
When you are ready, click on

[Proceed]. Some templates
might have the word [Play].
More options
Once you have successfully created your interactive resource,
you now have options to save as a webpage or embed into your
blog, webpage, wiki or Moodle course. There’s even a option for
you to view sample lesson plans in relation to your interactive
activity.
Click here to embed

Click here to save Click here for more
into blog, webpage,
as a webpage (html) information on the
wiki etc.
template including
(URL or source code)
sample lesson plans
Integration ideas for ClassTools.net
• Use ClassTools.net to make a Q&A matching game to

revise important facts and dates
• Create a sorting activity for the students to group causes

and countries in World War I
• Have the student create an ClassTools.net activity to

revise a History concept of their choice.
IV. Eight online resources that will
change the way teachers and
students learn
YouTube EDU
http://www.youtube/edu
iTunesU
via iTunes
TED
http://www.ted.com
Teacher’s TV
http://teacherstv.com.au
Teacher Tube
http://teachertube.com
Academic Earth
http://academicearth.org
National Geographic
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/
BBC - Learning
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning

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AIS Annual History Conference 2010: A Brave New World

Tom Lee (ICT Integration Project Manager)

I. What is Web 2.0?

II. Wordle - Create word clouds

III. ClassTools.net - Create your own online activities

IV. Eight online resources that will change the way

The term "Web 2.0" (2004–present) is commonly associated

The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more

Once you have finished

Customise your word

Click here to print Click here to add

ClassTools.net is very easy to use. You can easily set up a quiz or

(i) Choose your template

Click on the [Select a Template]

Need some inspiration?

When you are ready, click on

Click here to embed

• Use ClassTools.net to make a Q&A matching game to

• Create a sorting activity for the students to group causes

• Have the student create an ClassTools.net activity to

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