Infusing+Web+2.0+and+cloud+Apps

=//Infusing Web 2.0 and Cloud Apps //=


 * [[image:infusedarrowtransparent.jpeg width="15" height="16" align="left"]]//Wallwisher//: An online “parking lot” Cloud application: **



//Wallwisher’s// interface presents refreshingly simple, with users posting short messages (typed in, 160 characters or less) on digital “stickies” to an online “corkboard” wall. However, for the innovative music educator, the app can inspire and facilitate an abundance of creative, and cognitively sophisticated (bumping into Quadrant D in the Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships Framework: []) learning strategies for music lessons, projects, and activities.



**Music Classroom //Wallwisher//Project Examples:**


 * 1) Student “ethnomusicologists” post “stickies” with names and information data about African instruments on gathered from cultural arts web sites during WebQuests focused on West African music and dance drumming ensembles (process can apply to any music research project) (Quadrant A). Student “ethnomusicologists” then, categorize the “instrument stickies” into world instrument classifications (Quadrant B).
 * 2) Choir students complete definitions of music vocabulary words written (typed) on “vocal vocabulary stickies” posted to the wall and the reverse, where they write (type) in “vocal vocabulary” words correlated to definitions on teacher posted “stickies”(Quadrant B).
 * 3) Students post “stickies” with short reflections about a listening of Johann Sebastian Bach’s, The Well Tempered Clavier, No. 1, in C Major, or Paul Winter’s, Wolf Eye’s (Quadrant C). The possibilities are limitless here.
 * 4) Students post “critique stickies” guided by teacher posted “leading question stickies” following an in-school local philharmonic ensemble concert, or their own student performances (Quadrants B and C).
 * 5) Students post “stickies” with recorder assessment criteria data (things they think make a good recorder player), then, sort the “criteria data stickies” into component categories to develop their own recorder class assessment rubric. Same process can be applied to rubrics for choir and band class. (I’m thinking this one bumps right up and over there into Quadrant D).

 **//Wallwisher//** ** Resources: **

//[|Wallwisher]//: [|http://www.wallwisher.com]


 * //Web Sites With Suggestions For Using ////[|Wallwisher]// // in the General Ed Classroom (can translate to music classroom): //**

[] [|http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/XcfT46klpR] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|http://seanbanville.com/2010/06/26/wallwisher-105-classroom-idea] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> []


 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Apps Similar To //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//[|Wallwisher]// //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">: // //﻿//**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://www.edistorm.com] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//[|Wallwisher]// //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Tutorials: //**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Wallwisher// Tutorial
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[[image:infusedarrowtransparent.jpeg width="15" height="15" align="left"]]How To Set Up A //[|Wallwisher]// Wall: **

media type="custom" key="7288659"
 * [[image:infusedarrowtransparent.jpeg width="15" height="16" align="left"]]<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Example Student //[|Wallwisher]// ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Wall:** [|Haley Comets Sticky Note Wall] :


 * [[image:infusedarrowtransparent.jpeg width="15" height="16" align="left"]] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Infusing //Wordles// For Cross-Curricular Projects In The Music Classroom: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From //[|Wikipedia]//:

//The adage [|“A picture is worth a thousand words”] refers to the idea that a complex idea can be conveyed with just a single still image. It also aptly characterizes one of the main goals of visualization, namely making it possible to absorb large amounts of data quickly.//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0.1pt 0in;">One of the most facilitative and effective Web 2.0 vehicles for music educators to fuel collaborative, connective, cross-curricular, creativity and critical thinking driven, 21st Century Learning opportunities //[|21st Century Learning]// (on [|//Prez//i]) in the music classroom is an uncomplicated and simply accessed word cloud application called.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A //Wordle// is a Cloud app where you can create a word cloud (similar to a tag cloud) from any source text that you copy and past into an import window, paste the URL from a blog, blog feed, or any web page that has an [|RSS feed], or paste the URL from a social bookmarking web service (like //Delicious //<span class="wiki_link_ext">and //Diigo//). //Wordle// word clouds give greater visual prominence to words that appear most frequently in your text and you can edit your //Wordle// with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The word cloud images that you create with Wordle can be embedded into your school blog site or web page, you can print them out to use with your document camera, and/or you can save them to the //Wordle// gallery to share with friends.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**How To Create A //Wordle//**:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open the text source that you want to make a word cloud with.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Go to: @http://www.wordle.net
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Click on the Create tab in the top menu.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Copy and paste the text from the text source into the create window, then click on Go. //<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Note: // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Wordle// will delete punctuation marks, italic text, bullets, etc. from your text.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Click on the Font tab to select which font you want to use in your //Wordle//.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Click on the Language button to format the text in your //Wordle//. //Among the options here are removing common words, removing numbers, presenting words upper and lower case, and getting a word count.//
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Click on the Layout tab to select the layout of your //Wordle//. //There are several options here, but I like to use round edges and half and half horizontal/verticle. You can also opt for the words to appear in Alphabetical Order if you prefer.//
 * 8) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Click on the Color tab to edit your color scheme of your //Wordle//. There are several pre-created options here, but you can edit a custom color palette with up to five colors if you prefer.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You'll need to enter the standard html color codes (ex. #000000-black and #FFFFFF-white, etc.). You can access a great HTML color code chart (//VisiBone//) here: @http://html-color-codes.com
 * 10) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Click on the Open in Window button to view your //Wordle// bigger.
 * 11) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Think twice before clicking on the Randomize button to scatter the words in your //Wordle// unless you really want to do this.
 * 12) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Click on the Save to public gallery button to give your //Wordle// a title, put your name on it, and/or include a comment about it for the gallery post. When you click on the OK button your Wordle will post to the public gallery and an embed code will appear in a window below it for you to copy and paste. //<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Important: Be sure to add a bookmark for your Wordle in your browser and/or at your favorite social bookmarking web service (like Delicious). I also like to also copy and paste both the web address from my browser address bar and the embed code into a text document for "just in case" storage and I also always capture a screen shot of my//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Wordles //and save them as jpegs.//
 * 13) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Click on print to simply print out your Wordle to use a hard copy with your document camera.

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//<span class="wiki_link_ext">Infusing Wordles<span class="wiki_link_ext"> For Cross-Curricular Projects In The Music Classroom Resources:// **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Infusing Wordles For Cross-Curricular Projects In The Music Classroom handout (Google doc): <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">[]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Infusing Wordles For Cross-Curricular Projects In The Music Classroom// Handout: **

**//Infusing Wordles For Cross-Curricular Projects In The Music Classroom Slideshare// Presentation:** media type="custom" key="8065746"
 * [[image:infusedarrowtransparent.jpeg width="15" height="15" align="left"]]//Infusing Wordles For Cross-Curricular Projects In The Music Classroom PowerPoint// Presentation:**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//[|Wordle]// and //[|Prezi]// URLs an [[image:infusedarrowtransparent.jpeg width="15" height="16" align="left" link="http://www.wordle.net/"]]<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">d Embed Codes: **

//I//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//nfusing [|Wordles] For Cross-Curricular Projects In The Music Classroom// URL and embed code: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0.1pt 0in;">[]

media type="custom" key="8063352"

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//21st Century Learning Prezi// URL and embed code: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">media type="custom" key="8063358"

// I //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//nfusing [|Wordles] For Cross-Curricular Projects In The Music Classroom// URL and embed code: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

media type="custom" key="8063414"

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//The Dream Keeper Project Wordle// URL and embed code: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="8063366"

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Related Web Sites: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Wordle//: @http://www.wordle.net

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">21st Century Learning: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://www.p21.org]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cloud Computing: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Word/Tag Clouds: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://www.wordle.net] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://www.tagxedo.com] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://worditout.com]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Social Bookmarking Social Bookmarking Web Services: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website]) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://www.delicious.com] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.diigo.com

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Web Color Chart: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://html-color-codes.com] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://www.visibone.com]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Embed Code: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">RSS Feed: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> []

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Infusing //Wordles// Into Music Lessons, Projects, and Activities: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By infusing music lessons, projects, and activities with //Wordles// derived from literary works in various language arts //genres//, such as poems, prose, limericks, nonsense words, haikus, stories, legends, folk tales, fairy tales, nursery rhymes, proverbs, narratives, song texts and lyrics, student authored writings and compositions, various forms of //information// and //reference text//, //vocabulary words//, and //standards, anchor, KWL, rubric component// and //data charts//, and //learning scaffolds//, music educators can unleash the <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">power of the written and spoken word <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> to:

//<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Prepare Students To Learn //


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Introduce learning settings, //map// learning landscapes, and //frontload// and //launch learning contexts// to //build background// for learning, //prompt// students' writings.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Initiate //essential questions// to //activate prior knowledge// and instigate students to make //learning connections// from their own experiences and //filters//, determine student //knowledge base// and //transition// to interface //windows of further learning//.

//<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Clarify Purpose //


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Impel student //engagement// and //interaction//, //focus students' attention// on //new information// to be covered, and //frame the lesson to make information meaningful and relevant// by telling //“compelling stories”//.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Integrate //standards visuals, KWL charts, anchor charts, rubric component charts//, and //learning scaffolds//.

//<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Present New Learning //


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Invigorate //rigor// and //relevance// in instruction by providing //visualization// for the //visual/linguistic learners// (statistics say 60% of the population) in the classroom.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Intensify and clarify //explicit instruction// through //visualization//, //chunking// information, and providing visually focused //think time//.

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Model


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Transport// and //transfer modifications// for //learning styles// (visual and linguistic learners) and //accommodations// for Special Needs and ESL learners during //teacher modeling//, //mini-lessons, think alouds, read alouds//, and //re-teaching// (formatting, language, font, color coding, layout).

//<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Check for Understanding //


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Navigate //differentiated instruction// (//content, process, product//) learning activities by //entry levels, interests//, and //learning profiles// (//multiple intelligences, cultural differences, modalities//, etc.) (especially useful for facilitating //questioning, flexible grouping//, and //enrichment//).


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Interpret //critical words// in stories, songs, and students' own creative, //narrative// and //persuasive writings//, locate //power words//, and sort and categorize music and other //content area vocabulary word sets//, organize //inferences//, and implant //music concept words//.

// Practice //


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Propel //critical thinking// into //synthesis// by offering a format for //manipulating newly learned information// in //rehearsal// (//rote and elaborative//), //guided practice//, and //review//.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Connect learning //across the curriculum// to various //content areas// and accelerate //information literacy//.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Integrate (the written and spoken word) as the //framework// for music and movement activities (//Orff// methodology).


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Inspire //creativity//, //re-creation//, and //composition// in music and other //content areas// (with //Wordles// serving as //prompts// or student //end products//).


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cultivate //connectivity, collaborative learning//, and //innovation//.

//<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assess //


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Drive //formative// and //summative assessments//.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Steer //summary//, //journaling//, //reflective analysis, closure//, and //follow-up// activities.

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Infusing //Wordle// For Cross-Curricular Projects In The Music Classroom Project Example: **

media type="custom" key="8063400"

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In an ongoing project entitled, //The Dream Keeper// (in conjunction with Dr. Martin Luther King Day on January 17), the Haley Elementary School Fifth Grade students will interact with the following //[|Wordle]// [|word cloud] created from the words of three jazz poems by Langston Hughes, //The Dream Keeper, Dreams//, and //Dream Dust// from the book, //The Dream Keeper and Other Poems// (Langston Hughes, illustrated by Brian Pinkney, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (The Estate of Langston Hughes), 1994). <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Note: You can access //The Dream Keeper// Project Plan and other resources at the //@Infusing Mus Across The Curriculum// page at the.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Wordle] Related Project Objectives:


 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students will perform and record (with a digital recorder) improvised and canonic readings of the Langston Hughes jazz poems (preceded by improvised chantings of the words in //The Dream Keeper [|Wordle]// to enter into the context of improvisation) accompanied by improvised //Dream Keeper// motives on pitched percussion Orff instruments (metallophones and glockenspiels).
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They will sing 3 //Dream Ostinatos//, accompanied by an improvised //Dream Keeper// jazz accompaniment using //Orff// instruments and unpitched percussion (teacher created //Orff// arrangement), then, perform the combined creative elements in rondo form.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They will create //Dream Cloud// visuals (by writing on //Dream Clouds// on their class’s //The Dream Keeper Project SMART Notebook// file page) about their own dreams and aspirations (by answering leading questions derived from the words in //The Dream Keeper [|Wordle]// and cultural arts information web sites about Langston Hughes, then, write reflections (narrative writings) about their //Dream Clouds// (using a //Dream Cloud// prompt template) in comments posted to the //Haley Musicbloggers Weblog// (as “Music Buddies” in the Haley Music Technology Lab).
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They will create //Dreamers// dance improvisations to portray both the words from the poems in //The Dream Keeper [|Wordle]// and their own //Dream Cloud// visuals.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They will create their own notated jazz //Dream Keeper// compositions (using a teacher created template).
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They will creatively communicate a performance which will include all of the creative elements of the project both during an all-school assembly and in a videoconference collaborating with students from a partner school.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students will storyboard and videotape the presentation using //Flip cams//, edit the video in //iMovie//, then, will post the edited video of the presentation is posted to //SchoolTube//.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students will critique their performance of //The Dream Keeper Project// by posting comments (using the //The Dream Keeper Project Critique// template) in comments posted to the //Haley Musicbloggers Weblog//.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students will collaborate in varying creative roles in the completion of the project: //Readers// (poetry), //Singers// (ostinatos), //Writers// (//Dream Clouds// on //SMART Board// and //Haley Musicbloggers Weblog//), //Researchers// (Langston Hughes) //Players// (//The Dream Keeper Orff// arrangement and jazz improvisation), //Dancers// (//Dreamers// dance improvisations), //Artists// (//Scratch Dream Clouds//), //Composers// (notated //Dream Keeper// improvisations), //Conductor//, //Technicians// (//Smart Board// files, digital recorder, music technology workstations, //Tandberg Machine//), and //Videographers// (//Flip cams//), //Critics// (//The Dream Keeper Project Critique// template).
 * 10) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During the course of the project the students will review the criteria included in the //Music Project Collaboration Rubric// and utilize the //Music Project Collaboration Checklist// as they collaborate as “Music Buddies” in varying roles in the completion of the project.