eT@lking: Playing on the Internet

…. and play we did. Tonight our guest presenter was to be a dear teaching colleague of mine, Jess McCulloch who has an amazing ability to tease out some amazing websites for use in the classroom or education. However, at the last minute Jess was unable to attend, so the participants who came from across the globe jumped in, and shared some great websites with us. The participants came from USA, China, India, Australia and the time of day and night varied greatly.g

Things began differently tonight. Those participants who were in the room, were told that they could ‘play’ with the whiteboard and grafitti. Instead of the usual experimentation with tools, the participants were sharing websites and things they had done during the week. See what was shared below:-

Participants were asked to share tools that they might have experimented with during the week. Here is the result of the whiteboard sharing:-

From the chat:-

twiddla – collaborative learning space
titanpad – works for up to 16 interactive participants at once.
PLENK2010 Personal Learning Environments Networks and Knowledge online course
Lynette Barr used app sharing to demonstrate Labyrinth maths game online
Cris from USA demonstrated symbaloo, video about 7th grader using Symbaloo, evernote, and community walker and dipity (for making timelines)
Britt Gow demonstrated flashcards flashcards for making quizes etc for revision, testing knowledge etc, mystudiyo making quizes, and story jumper
http://www.diigo.com
Search cube
spezify Thanks Lynette Barr for app sharing this one
mindmapping with bubbl.us
(Cris): One nice mashup is to use TitanPad and paste the results of sharing into a Wordle
http://www.dropbox.com/ for immediate sharing of large files
gaming in the classroom wiki