Once you’ve built a wall, you can either spread the direct URL to your contributors, or you can embed the wall into a blog, webpage, wiki, etc . Below, I’ve shared links to some fantastic Wallwisher classroom ideas. My favorites currently include: student responses to a book, piece of artwork, or video; reflections/advice for a school year; vocabulary practice (give a word and students must create sentences using the word); Red Ribbon Week pledges; online thank you card for a classroom helper; and definitions for the different pieces of a paragraph!

Wallwisher — 105 Classroom Ideas

Twenty Three Interesting Ways to use Wallwisher in the Classroom

Wallwisher in the Classroom

Glogster EDU is a Web 2.0 platform that allows teachers and students to upload photos, videos, text, audio, and other media to create an online, interactive poster! Glogster creates an environment that stimulates subject integration while being visually appealing and engaging for all students, regardless of location, grade level, gender, etc. Try Technology for Kids: Glogster and What Can You Do With Glogster? for great Glogster ideas and examples!

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Whereas a businessman might use a postcard to mail his recent offer to potential clients, you and I might introduce our students to a new school year, personalize a postcard exchange, challenge our class to keep their desks clean, send out a conference reminder, ask parents about absentee work, send a birthday message, or attempt to show students how to solve their own problems. Postcards are an unbelievably versatile medium.

Business cards, one of the most familiar pieces of the traditional business landscape, can be made into behavior incentives, homework cards, test-taking tips, additions to a mastery club, reward passes, book order reminders, or donation announcements. A good first order, though, is to make your own business cards to share with parents, colleagues, or potential administrators. Add your contact information, class website, and any other important data, depending on your recipient. You can even click on “Personal Business Cards” if you’d like a smaller quantity.

Return address labels can be used in the customary way (it’s always handy to have some on hand), but they can be adapted for the classroom in many other capacities as well. You can use them to edit writing assignments, label your classroom library books, direct students and parents to your class website, share inspirational quotations, or address any other small item you’d rather have stand out with colors and graphics, as opposed to a stamp.

This brings us to, of course, stamps! This is every teacher’s hidden obsession, with good reason. They can be some of the most timesaving items in your desk, especially if paper grading isn’t your idea of a fantastic afternoon. VistaPrint stamps can be made for incomplete sentences, showing math work, punctuation reminders, parental review, donations, or a simple quotation you want to share.

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What an amazing introduction to the interconnectivity of the web! Anthropologist Michael Wesch, famous for his “The Machine is Us/ing Us” video about the evolution of hypertext, also created this gem called “An anthropological introduction to YouTube”. We’ll forgive the poor capitalization in the title!

The video itself is actually a presentation given to the Library of Congress on June 23rd, 2008. The video focuses on YouTube as the basis for discussion, but its appeal is the amalgamation of traditional academic research and our new media landscape. It integrates a variety of Web 2.0 features (Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Delicious, YouTube, various blogs, Technorati, etc.) and links them with the culture surrounding the applications and their users.

This anthropological perspective shares such a seemingly boundless optimism that you can’t help but feel inspired! For instance, while many might dismiss YouTube videos and their creation as mere self indulgence, Wesch appears captivated by even the most trivial of videos, which is unbelievably refreshing. Everything from “Numa Numa” to the original vlogs to “Free Hugs” is captured and evaluated. A wonderful presentation!

As the video itself is rather long, Podcasting News was gracious enough to break it down for those of us on a tight time frame: http://www.podcastingnews.com/2008/08/02/the-anthropology-of-youtube/

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