TeechMeet Presentation

Lecture Without Power Point

Web 2.0 Lecture Tools:

• Prezi and Ahead (3D Infinite Canvas)
• Cartoons and Comics
• Glogster
• Wiki's
• Back Channeling
• Digital Story Telling

Virtual Poster Board Software

Cartoons and Comic Strip Creation Software

Back Channel Chat

3-Dimensional Presentation Software

Glogster

• A Digital Poster Board Canvas
• You can add pictures, videos, audio, and links that will take you to an external websites
• Textboxes are infinite, so more space for more information
• You can add animated effects.
• You can create a virtual class and monitor students as they create their Glog
• Can be easily presented to the class. Makes presentations more interactive.

Pixton

• Provides you the ability to create a page from a comic book
• Complete Character Control of Movement
• Complete Character Creation and Customation
• Complete control of scenery and layout
• Great for creating are large scene for lecture.

GoAnimate

Not Comics, but Cartoons

Complete Scene and Character control

Easily move characters from one scene to another.

Allows for voice over and/or text bubbles

Very Easy user interface.

Toondoo

• Creating a Comic Strip, like in the Sunday Paper
• Have the Ability to create a comic "book"
• Have the ability to create a custom character
• Can upload own pictures into cartoon
• Can doodle on cartoon (great for creating angles if doing a math problem
• Very user friendly and easy to use even for upper Elementary grades.

TodaysMeet and TypeWith.Me are two types of site for Back Channel Chat

• When showing a movie, allow students to discuss and ask questions about the movie
• During lecture allow students to ask questions and discuss your lecture in this open chat forum
• Require students to answer questions from other students
• Allows students to ask you to repeat lecture they might have missed with out stopping

Ahead

• Works just like Prezi, but with more options for inserting text, pictures and video.
• More difficult to use in my opinion, but it comes with more features, so that is expected.
• The website is actually the software, so when you visit the website, you are seeing it in action.
• No education Account and is still in Beta and Free while in Beta, so expect improvements.
• Uses scenes like Slides in a Power Point, but allows for Zoom feature.

Prezi

• Offers the ability to create a presentation on a 3-Dimensional Canvas
• You can get a teacher account that offers several features that are not included on a regular account
• Twist and Turn your presentation.
• You can upload video, PDF, and Images to the presentation
• You determine the path.
• Great for looking at certain parts of an image

Wiki

Lecture with Comic Strips

• Take Lecture and create cartoons and comics as a supplement or as main form of lecture
• Assign students to finish lecture from your unit/lesson by creating comics and then have them share with class
• Have students create comics from your lecture, making your lecture INTERACTIVE
• Create "Mad Lib" comics and have students fill in the blanks of the Cartoon as you lecture
• Create cartoons with JUST PICTURES and have students tell you the notes that belong....and vise versa

• Have students compare your lecture with a Wiki
• Have students compare a textbook with a Wiki
• Put your Lecture Notes on a Wiki and give certain sections to students and have them add information to it, especially videos.
• Create a Wiki for students to create lecture notes for your classes. Have classes compete for the creation of the best Wiki.
• Have students check the sources on Wikipedia as part of your Lecture.

Digital Story Telling

Lecture With Glogster

• Take your Power Point Presentations and provide them to students. Have them create a Glog based on your slides and then have them present to the class. You will know that your main points were covered and then students added to it
• Take those Power Point Slides and create your lecture in a Glog
• Create a video/audio montage
• Create a Glog of Resource Links to share with students in class.

Photo Peach

• No education account feature.
• Add pictures and text (within the photo). No Music or Video
• Bonus Feature: Create a quiz out of your Digital Story.
• Transitions and effects are not as advanced

Animoto

• Visit the education page and create an account with your school email address. You will then be emailed a code that you can give to your students who can then join the site and get complete features
• Add pictures, text (between photos), music, and even videos.
• Site takes care of all the transitions and effects on the photos.
• Also available as an iPhone App.

Web 2.0 - The New Way To Lecture

• Are you prepared to make a change how you lecture?
• Will these ideas help you change how you lecture in your classroom?
• Are YOU ready to move from your comfort zone?

Lecture Using Digital Story Telling

• Less text means easier note taking for students and more focus on you and presentation
• Math teachers could take pictures of the steps in an equation and then play for students. Keeps from having to rewrite problems when you have similar preps.
• Science teachers could take pictures in the stages of an experiment
• Great for discussing people, places and events.
• Great for showing sequence of events.
• Create regular lecture with PhotoPeach. Create separate Quiz and test your students to see how much they remember from the lecture.

Change is like the Sun. You either change because you feel the heat, or because it causes you to open your eyes.