Web 2.0 Resources

Some of my favorite web 2.0 resources are

Prezi.com  This website puts a fun spin on presentations allowing you to add videos, and other digital enhancements to your slideshow

Text2mindmap.com 

  This website is a good tool for digital brainstorming. Students can outline essays presentations, group collaboration plans, note taking, character maps etc

Amap.org.uk/

This website is a good tool for enhancing critical thinking skills, can be used to ask  guiding questions, debates, teachers can post questions for students to blog about. Students can provide feedback and answers with classmates, teachers and other global students. This is a UK based site.

 Schooltube.com/

This is a fun website where student can watch fun child and school safe videos such as math raps, science experiments and world changers. Students can even provide feedback on videos and post their own videos.

Rhymezone.com/

Students can you this website to find definitions, images synonyms, rhyming words antonyms and many other things just from searching a single word.

I felt the Ken Robinson video was very informative .I agree most strongly with the points it made about children with ADHD being a epidemic today .I believe that doctors are just diagnosing children and medicating them without really examining the real problems. I agree these children should not be drugged up with different medicines because this is not helping them. "This medicine is deadening the senses instead of awakening them". These children just need to be taught differently.  Teachers need to find a better way to guide these children to the appropriate content.We see so many of these situations in today's classroom. I have had a teacher tell me her student is on ADHD medication and he is like a zombie, he is barely functioning. The video moved so fast that was all that really stuck out to me, and grasped my attention.