Christina's+Web+2.0+Tools

=Web 2.0 Tools = = =

Here you will discover two unique Web 2.0 tools that can be used to enhance the teaching of my Greatest Common Factor lesson plan. Web 2.0 tools are excellent resources to have while teaching.They provide unique ways to present material to the classroom while having students engage in the tool.Below you will find two Web 2.0 tools that I find incredibly useful. The first one is TubeChop, and the second is Toondo.

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**TubeChop**
TubeChop is a fabulous Web 2.0 tool that is used to "chop" educational YouTube videos down to a specific "chunk" of the video that you desire to teach with.If you click on the link , you will see that there is a box where you can type your search, similar to a regular YouTube search. Then, once you find your desired video a pink strip will appear below the YouTube video. Additionally, there will be a pink pause button on the bottom of the YouTube video screen. It is rather simple and easy to use. There are two gray rectangles at each end of the pink stripe. If you move these, they are what "chop" the video. The start time and the end time of your video are then displayed below the video. Once you have moved the gray rectangles to the desired start and end point, then you can click the "chop it" button below the pink belt. Then, you will be directed to a new website. This website will show a link. This is the new link to your chopped educational video that you just created. For instance, you can see a "chopped" video below. Chopping this video, Math Sets Venn Diagram Part 2 was extremely helpful and useful.This video is apart of my Resources Tool Kit , which illustrates a list of supplemental resources that can be used in a mathematics classroom. The benefit of "chopping" is that now when implementing the video in my lesson plan on greatest common factor, it will be more beneficial to my students learning. This is because, instead of presenting my students with a lot of information all at once, I am now only presenting my students with a little information that prepares them for the procedure that they will be doing. Applying this video will engage students visually in arranging factors appropriately in a Venn Diagram, while reviewing the definition of prime and composite numbers at the same time. It is essentially a "mini clip" that will draw students attention in a unique manner.

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 ToonDoo
Toondoo is a Web 2.0 tool that easily allows users to create fun, personal, cartoon strips. Students, teachers, and parents can sign up for ToonDoo for educational purposes or just for fun! It is a free site, all that it is necessary is to create a free account. You can access the sight here. Once you are at the homepage, the first thing you will need to do is create a free account. You do so by, going to the top right hand corner of the screen and clicking //Sign up for free//. Once you create a username and password, you may sign into the site as a user. Once you are officially logged in, you can go to the top left side and drag your cursor over the drop down Toons button, and then select //Create Toon//. Then, you may select your desired layout. Once you have done so, all of the feature tabs will then appear at the top of your screen with your toon strip (white strip that you will create your cartoon on) in the middle of the webpage. Then, you will notice that the bottom of the page is like the "edit" portion of the page. Here you may shrink or rotate pieces in your cartoon, and so on. It takes some time to get used to all of the different features. There are many opportunities, so take some time and explore. Once you have created your comic, you can go to the top left hand corner and scroll over the ToonDoo start here, and click save. Then, your masterpiece will be saved to your account and may be retrieved at anytime. Take some time with it, explore, it is rather fun! On the educational side of ToonDoo, I have created a cartoon that is rather unique. It illustrates the concept of greatest common factor through a cartoon about a royal family and whom the King and Queen shall crown. Using this cartoon in my teaching will allow students to see the concept from a different perspective while having fun doing so. This could be used as a component of my Greatest Common Factor lesson plan, as it illustrates the concept while being informative. Below is a link to my ToonDoo cartoon, enjoy and please consider adding cartoons once and a while to your lessons, it spices them up!

