Wallwisher as an image file
This a print screen saved as an image and attached to an email posted to Posterous.
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Mark on the map and say where you're from
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Some examples of Web 2.0 tools for History
This example posterous site comes from Daniel B, a student from Ridgewood School in Doncaster (http://danielb2.posterous.com/).
Thanks to his History/ICT teachers' input, Daniel has combined text, images, hyperlinks to further reading, a PowerPoint, a Wallwisher.com link and a Jaycut video.
Crucially for Web 2.0 tools, all are free and online and encourage wider community communication (via the blog at posterous or through the host creator sites).
Here are three versions of Bloom's Taxonomy that show a revised idea of the benefits of creating new information from your research - it may lead the learner to higher order processes.
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Working with Posterous as a teaching tool
Posterous.com send emails directly to a web page just like Tumblr used to but way easier for people who haven't time to mess about. Yes, this means teachers and sometimes students too - what if you want to collect online essays and give students a chance to collaborate or peer review each others' work?
Instructions:
Send an email to post@posterous.com from any of your emailing accounts. The subject of your email is the title of your first post and the body of the email the content of the post. Posterous emails back asking you to click to validate your blog. You are then logged in and ready to setup your username (giving you username.posterous.com) and password. You can set up an avatar or use a photo of yourself to allow people to see it's really your site (and not just another janesmith.posterous.com). Further emails make new posts to your account and it can even handle attachments intelligently! Word docs, pdfs, mp3s, Powerpoint etc - anything you attach to the email - gets embedded in the page! Even a link to a video files (e.g YouTube) get auto-embedded directly on the page. Advanced users can even send from mobile phones, Twitter, Flickr and more!
I'll attach a few examples to this email to show you how they look on posterous...
Bloom's image (jpg)
Cosmic.mp3
List.pdf
Link to a YouTube video -
Each blog post can be edited using normal formatting tools - including adding hyperlinks. Good example of this is to hyperlink to your students' posterous accounts by copying the address select the 'link' button (looks like a chain) and pasting into the link field - together with the student's name this makes for a link between your sites.
e.g Mr McDonald's blog - mrmcdonald.posterous.com
Hope this gets you started with the read-write web.
Cosmic by Sony Ericsson
(download)
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Links to GCSE History
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