Gail Lovely is a education technology consultant and speaker at the FETC 2009 conference, which is one of the largest educational technology conference in the US. She has organized a list of her top 10 web 2.0 tools for students/teachers. She makes the point that Web 2.0 "It's about sharing and collaborating." And, she insisted, it's about putting the power to learn and create in the hands of the students.
The first two tools student have explored are:
1. Kerpoof.com
Kerpoof is a site that provides a variety of creative tools for animation, drawing, and movie
creation. Users can choose from a range of preset characters and environmental options, or they
can create their own. The site offers drag-and-drop simplicity coupled with advanced animation
and editing capabilities that open the platform up to a range of curricular
applications.
2. Voki.com
Voki, a text to speech generator that has a lot of very interesting applications as it works with a student created avitar which can speak text or recorded audio segments.
As students become familiar using these two tools we will be using them to enhance their current learning objectives.
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Clive
Creator of Pixton - Interactive Web Comics
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