Funnelbrain.com
Through the practice of experiencing web 2.0 applications one can create a professional learning environment that promotes Career Technical Education and digital media literacy, where learners have the opportunity to learn with the use of new technologies. Funnelbrain.com is a web 2.0 application that supports digital media literacy within the modern classroom for all academic disciplines.
Funnelbrain.com is a web 2.0 application that allows users to electronically create flash cards on a specific topic, as well as search topic and other individuals or groups of learners. Users can use Funnel Brain as a social network to create study groups and the ability to create tests. Funnel Brain is easy to use and applicable to all academic disciplines. Educators and students interested in vocabulary development and content enrichment can use funnel brain to incorporate other media literacy resources that promote language development: www.wordsmith.org and www.dictionay.com
Funnelbrain.com is a useful application for high school learners who are exploring different professional careers. As users can create electronic flash cards to support vocabulary development related to industry specific vernacular.
Funnelbrain.com will allow all educators and students to add Director to their resume, as learning environments can easily become one’s very own Multi Media Video Production Studio rich with industry vernacular. Each classroom, across academic disciplines, can now be could be set up to be a pod, video, broadcasting with the group project being a collective news show. Where learners practice the specific vocabulary and rotate through the different responsibilities of the professional careers of a reporter, writer, researcher, announcer, technical crew, videographer, editor and producer.
Funnelbrain.com Objectives:
- Increased Media Literacy Skills
- Practice of Professional Skills
- Increased Cyber Etiquette
- Interpersonal skill development
- Job vernacular readiness skill development
- 21st Century Technologies skill development
Flickr.com
I am fairly new to the flickr.com web 2.0 application, I have become familiar with flicker.com for 2 months. I think it is a resourceful application that is easy to use and accessible for all learners to upload their digital pictures of their class projects and to document their learning process. By using flickr.com learners are able to further develop media literacy, both visually and written, to communicate with classmates and instructors.
Suggestions on how to implement Flickr.com into a unit of study and your content lesson plans:
Materials Needed:
Parental Notification to introduce the use of web 2.0 applications for Yahoo and Flickr. Parents and Guardians need to be aware of their students learning with technology. One can add the links to videos explaining flickr.com as suggested by our instructor, Rena Hanaway:
Flickr:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLo4355l6QE
http://theroxor.com/2009/06/09/a-simple-guide-to-flickr/
http://www.flickr.com/help/screencasts/vol1
All students will need a Yahoo account to access flickr.com
Students need access to a digital Camera and Internet
Objectives:
- To introduce 21st Century Technologies and social media into the learning environment.
- To use digital photographs to archive the process of learning.
- To use technology as an interdisciplinary platform that can transcend academic content areas.
Aim:
How to use web 2.0 applications to share digital images with your classmates and with peers in cyber space?
Do now:
Write an paragraph that introduces your belief on how digital images can document a one’s progress as well as connect to peers, to form a group of learners.
Mini Lesson:
Teacher shows examples of their flickr.com account.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kingkenny3
Discussion on Tags.
- What are tags?
- How to tag your work?
Homework:
- Share your link with parents and family members and ask for their comments on your digital photos.
- Research tags with similar interests to your uploaded images.
Post lesson discussion and continuing practice:
- Accountable Talk
o How was the experience in creating a flickr.com account?
o How user friendly is the flicker.com application?
o What response did you receive when introducing your
people to your flickr link?
o How else can we use flickr to reinforce content learning
within the classroom?
With the question:
“What do you bring to the table?”
GroupTable is a web2.0 application that promotes organization with groups of learners, organizers and 21st century shakers. Marketed for the collegiate learners and populations, GroupTable aims to support group project planning and communication within all group organization of members detailing responsibility, times to come together for study groups, group projects or organization meetings.
GroupTable offers one to: create a profile, create a class of learners, join and create groups, write group to-do lists, online file storage for archiving one’s work, private group chats, discussion boards and a template for success.
GroupTable offers users to create a Binder that allows one to upload and share files with other members. As a web 2.0 application, GroupTable is a web-based software and success network developed specifically to help student groups improve upon document management, project planning and communication.
One can easily send an invite link to join GroupTable to classmates, coworkers, and other organizers. GroupTable was developed to help you learn and interact with others the most efficient way possible to achieve common goals.
GroupTable’s website offers a link to their find a textbook search, offering bargain prices to current textbooks. It is a link to amazon.com
As I signed up for my account, the application did not have Full Sail University as an option, however it asked for me to send an email to notify them of our University. In addition there was a Feedback link asking for comments related to site improvements and suggestions.
Congrats to GroupTable as the were listed in the top 10 classroom web2.o applications http://huddlemind.net/profiles/blogs/10-best-classroom-20
