Hype to Opportunity

Kasumi Kato, UW Whitewater

Lauren Rosen, UW Collaborative Language Program

Deana Zorko, La Follette High School

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Digital Stories

   Voicethread

• Japanese
  • Daily Schedule
    • Raymond
    • Frank Jr.
• Spanish
  • Accidents
    • Picnik: photo editing
  • La Familia Rivera

Desktop Videoconferencing

• Tokbox: multi-person videoconferencing with whiteboard capabilitites
  • Tokbox How-To
  • Jing: record your screen to save your videoconference
• Skype: one-to-one videoconferencing or multi-person audioconferencing

Mobile Computing

• Poll Everywhere

Social Networks

• Twitter: microblogging tool
• Facebook/MySpace
  • Facebook Intro Activity Handout

Digital Sharing

• Glogster

Honduras Glog

• Big Huge Labs

Reference Materials

• Cellphones In Learning: blog/podcast on the many uses of cellphones in learning.
• World Language Instructor Resources: list of many useful links and references for Web 2.0 tools and information.