Web 2.0 Tools
Education 210
Devin Radcliffe
3 March 2014
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Mosey
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MindMeister
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UDL Book Builder
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Mosey is a Web 2.0 tool that allows users to share photos and videos and categorize them by city. Mosey is available on the Apple App Store and through any modern web browser for free.
This tool would work well for geography lessons by showing the modern appearance of the places that students may learn about in class. Students can also contribute to Mosey by capturing significant places in their city and posting them to the website.
Mosey is primarily a tool for representation. Using Mosey, a teacher can present the places of history in a variety of time periods and in different mediums. This tool increases engagement and allows for multiple means of action and expression and providing flexibility in terms of student strengths. By seeing the modern-day reality of historic places, some students may also find history lessons more engaging.
Mosey can also help remove barriers for people with reading and writing difficulties, because it helps to remove the written word from places and makes the abstract exploration of the world more concrete using pictures and videos.
Mosey's Terms of Service prohibit its use by students under the age of 13.
MindMeister is a collaborative mind mapping tool. It allows students and teachers to collaboratively brainstorm and organize their thoughts and ideas in a visual format. It also supports the use of images and videos.
This tool can be used by teachers and students in any discipline to organize their thoughts when engaging with a new concept or to strategize and outline the parts of a project.
Many learners have trouble strategizing and organizing their thoughts and abstract concepts. MindMeister gives these students a tool to break down that barrier and externalize the strategic steps required to accomplish a given task. It also presents this organization in a variety of modes (video, image, writing) and does not depend solely on a grasp of language like more traditional brainstorming.
MindMeister's Terms and Conditions do not dictate a minimum age for sign up.
UDL Book Builder from CAST.org allows you to create, publish, and share your own ebook with a range of accessibility tools like reading coaches and multimedia support.
UDL Book Builder allows teachers and students to create and share ebooks. Its intended use is to improve accessibility to learning for all students in accordance with Universal Design for Learning (UDL). The tool supports text-to-speech, student responses, student creation and sharing, and many other uses.
One of the most exciting features of this program is the ability to collect student responses. Many textbooks offer some sort of questions for consideration or review, Book Builder ebooks allow the teacher to collect those responses at source from students wherever they happen to be.
Most teachers already share their presentations and handout materials with their students through a networked learning program like Moodle or MOOC. UDL Book Builder allows teachers to generate knowledge for their students with more evaluation features and accessibility options. It also expands the options available for evaluation, students can create and share their own eBooks.
UDL Book Builder removes and reduces barriers to learning by allowing for the creation of multisensory presentations, particularly through its support of text-to-speech. Reading is a significant barrier for students with many disabilities including learning disabilities and blindness.
CAST's Accessibility and Privacy Policies and Legal Disclaimer do not prohibit the use of UDL Book Builder for any ages, and even recommend its use for children as young as 3 years old.
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