Concept Map of Five
Senses with bubble.us
The Five Senses with Glogster: http://bullardshan.edu.glogster.com/edit/the-five-senses/
Big Huge Lab
http://bighugelabs.com/jigsaw.php
http://bighugelabs.com/cube.phpAnimoto video of The Five Senses: http://animoto.com/play/NaAvSwG0JTbfjwft3QO5ow
My opinion on Web 2.0 Resources
1.) Bubble.us: I really enjoyed working with bubble.us. I am a visual learner myself, so I try to incorporate thinking maps into many of my lessons. I enjoyed producing my own thinking map with an online resource.
2.) Glogster: I enjoyed working with Glogster. I feel that this site will be very useful with many lessons. I did find the site a little difficult to navigate. However, with time I am sure it will become like second nature.
3.)Animoto: I really like the Animoto site. I found it to be very easy to nagivate. I can see myself using this site often as a neat way to introduce a topic. I look forward to seeing what I can do with Animoto with a full membership.
4.) Free Choice: I tried to use the tikatok.com site, but a code is required. Instead, I used bighugelabs.com. This site was also easy to use and was appealing to the eye. I think this site would be a great tool to use in order to catch students' attention. For older students (high school students, perhaps), I think it would be appropriate to have them use this site to create a project.
Many of the sites are free for lite versions or nominal fees for teachers. I wonder if schools buy licenses for teachers of if this is one of the expenses that needs alternate funding. I'm still trying how to figure out how to manage the email login requirement for students. Questions I won't be able to answer until I am teaching in a school, I suppose. I am looking forward to putting some of these tools to use!
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