Web 2.0 Tools
Prezi is a power point tool that allows you to make your slides into a map. The tool helps you navigate through the map and lets you put text, pictures, and videos onto the map. You can zoom in on the map rather than flipping through boring slides. I would use Prezi in all of my classes whenever I need to do a power point for notes. Continuing down the map allows students to see past slides and future slides to be able to get a sense of where the lecture is going and how events and concepts are connected with a visual effect.
Ninehub allows you to create a website for your classes. It allows you to make multiple tabs which make it easy to manage any online classwork you might have your kids do. Ninehub also allows for easy communication between users. With Ninehub, I could create a website for each of my classes, making it easier to manage them. I could post articles, videos, and links for my students to read or watch and have a discussion on.
Bookr is a tool that allows you to make a fast, easy book. You can create a title page, put yourself as the author, and create as many pages as you want. By simply hitting the page-turner you can create new pages, add as many pictures as you want, and write pages describing images or telling a story. I would use Bookr for multiple lesson plans, for example I could tell students to use it to write a short book about the life of an immigrant or someone that experienced the Great Depression. I could even have students pair up to present the class with their own brief overviews of lessons we do in class to make sure they understand the content.
Studiyo allows you to make as many quizzes as you want, fast. You can make multiple choice questions, throw in pictures, and even share the quizzes. Studiyo not only provides you with the means to send a quiz to your students via online without wasting paper and time printing said paper, but it also provides you with statistics from the graded quizzes. I would use Studiyo to create quizzes to cover material in class, for example I could do one quiz every week after I complete a lesson. Studiyo would even allow me to make tests that could be completed in class or in the computer lab.
Kubbu allows teachers to create quizzes, games, and crosswords. With Kubbu you could create fun games/crosswords for your students to liven up the classroom. You could also share all of your creations with the students via online and view results from the quizzes and games. With Kubbu I could create a crossword for important figures in history or sociology for students to answer questions on. I could even get creative and make a fun, specialized games for all of my different classes.
TimeMaps allows you to check out history maps, timelines, and stories of every civilization in the world. This tool lets you click on an area on the globe and check out that civilization from the beginning to present day. TimeMaps even allows receive in-depth information about who lived throughout the time periods and what important events occurred there. I would use this tool when providing students with a visual aide for seeing how countries came to be in geography. I could even use TimeMaps to show students how ancient civilizations came to be the current groups they are today in lessons.
ShowWorld is a tool that shows you all of the countries in the world shrink and grow in size when certain statistics are applied. This tool provides you and your students with relevant data on the entire world at the push of a button. ShowWorld provides data on "people, planet, business, politics, and living" to show students how certain countries are today. I would use ShowWorld in my sociology and geography classes to show statistics in a visual aide form, which would be more interesting than me reading numbers off of a page. This tool would also help me to show students accurate data on multiple subjects without having to leave the page.
SoftSchools is a tool that gives you numerous worksheets, games, and quizzes for social studies. The tool gives you Geography, History, Biographies, Flags, Ancient Civilizations, and U,S, Government as a multitude of categories to choose from for your different classes. This tool gives you the option of incorporating fun games into your lectures to get students interested in the lecture. I would use SoftSchools in my classes to get quick feedback through games and quizzes that the whole class can work through to let me know if they understand the lessons. I would also use SoftSchools for quizzes and worksheets to go along with the games so that I know students individually understand the information.
IfItWereMyHome is a tool that allows you to compare any two countries in the world. By selecting two different countries, the tool tell you differences such as crime, unemployment, class division, and lifespan. This tool can show students exactly what their lives would be like in different countries compared to the U.S. I would use this tool in my geography classes to show students exactly how different it is to live in different countries discussed in lessons by showing them the direct differences experienced based on location. This tool would also allow me to show students in my sociology classes the inequality of different countries and groups of people compared to others.
TheFlowofHistory allows you access to around 200 cross-referenced flowcharts and over 100 lectures to provide students with the visual aide needed to understand the causes and effects throughout lectures. The tool uses flow charts to show students how and why certain events happened in history. This tool fits entire lectures into flow charts that are easy for students to understand after listening to a lecture. I would use this tool in any of my history classes because understanding cause and effect is the main point teachers try to show in their lectures. This tool would allow me, for example, to show my students why wars were waged and other specifics that are involved in the Social Sciences.
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