hi fellow educators... u will absolutely love this web 2.0 tool especially if you are like me and many others who need to embed kool stuff for your students to use so they can take advantage of all the awesome tools to make education more fun and meaningful! in my district... we are so limited as to what students AND teachers can do without restrictions... this is one tool that can make your life so much easier and take the control back when it comes to providing awesome tools for you and your students... can begin to tell you how many times I wanted to demonstrate something or show a tutorial during class only to find out that i could not do it because technology guru would not allow us to use quicktime or flash player or a myriad of other plug-ins necessary to provide a great learning experience!
EDITORIAL NOTE: in case you are about to question my lack of capitalization and all the elipses in my blog posts... well there is a reason for this... this method of posting, while not always grammatically acceptable or correct, it engages my students and grabs their attention because this is the way most of them text; I still can't bring myself to use all of the text-ease language, but I am working on that as well because I don't want anything to hamper grabbing and holding their attention. I do however, stress the use of strong sentence structure, grammar, and spelling when they write journals and formal papers!
WEB 2.0 TOOL REVIEW BY EDUCATORS:
According to all of the reviews from other educators from the embedit.in site, you can upload and embed all kinds of different types of files (PDFs, Word docs), images and websites, all kinds of media files, and provide permissions and privileges for printing, sharing, and viewing.
Teachers who posted reviews also stated that the tool is very easy to use, rarely caused problems, and that there was lots of help and tutorials to use to make learning how to use the tools simple to master in a very short time.
I can't wait to try this for preparing screencasts and "groovy movies" for my students for the next school year. If YOU would like to know more about this tool, check out the link that follows: http://www.go2web20.net/app/?a=embedit.in
Hey Kathy,
ReplyDeleteI think your approach to being able to relate to your young students by writing like they text is genius, and congratulations on being so flexible as to not be limited by convention!
I just took a look at the EmbedIt tool you reviewed and think it is an excellent and elegant way to embed documents on a website. I could benefit from such a tool in my personal practice so that readers to my website will not have to load a separate page for pdf's of articles, worksheets and articles.
Thanks, and keep leading towards positive change!
Thanks Emil- glad someone else thinks I am on the right track besides my students. So many administrators do not agree with my philosophy but at least I am keeping my students engaged and excited about learning and not uptight about all those silly rules about grammar, etc. :-)
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