Bloom's+Understanding

Understanding **Definition: ** //Understanding allows students to construct meaning from a variety of information sources ////such as newspaper, internet, multimodal texts, emails, text messages, images, illustrations, comics ////and Web 2.0 tools. //

These tools could be also relevant to other parts of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. The activity you assign with these Web 2.0 tools has a huge impact on what verb the Web 2.0 tool comes under. Click the Tool Logo to visit the its website. and sharing (**interpreting**) || Podcasting is a great way to allow students to show their understanding, opinion or interpretationof a book, character and so forth. Students record their thoughts and this can be placed on a blog or wiki. ||  || Free ||   ||
 * Verbs to describe Understanding: ** Interpreting, summarising, inferring, paraphrasing, classifying, comparing, explaining, exemplifying (Anderson and Krathwohl)
 * Technology verbs: **Blogging, twittering, advance searching, tagging, commenting, annotating, subscribing.
 * Web 2.0 Name || Web 2.0 tool || Type of tool || Description || <span style="background-color: #006fff; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;">In the Classroom || <span style="background-color: #006fff; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;">Cost || <span style="background-color: #006fff; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;">Example ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;">Podcasting || [[image:Podcasting 1.jpg width="78" height="106" link="@http://audacity.sourceforge.net/"]] || Voice recording
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;">Movie Maker

<span style="display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;">iMovie || || Movie Maker Software (**interpreting**) || Movie maker and iMovie is great software that allows students to create a short movie with ease. Students/teachers can upload this to blogs and wikis. ||  || Movie maker Free (on PC only)

iMovie $10.99 (on macs only) ||  || processor (**summarising**) || Spring none allows students to create pages and work on them collaboratively. It is an easy way for students to summarise information together. ||  || Free ||   || <span style="display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;">highlighter || || Highlighting Webpages import a webpage and summarise through highlighting important information on the computer. Students can then export this information and email it to other students in their group. ||  || <span style="display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; text-align: center;">Free ||   || post-it-notes (**summarising**) || Students can post information and upload files, photos and videos. Great way to collaborate. ||  || Free ||   || way for students to develop a greater understanding of a topic. Students should utilise Boolean searching. Google has a wide variety of tools. Students can look at online books, maps, create online documents, translation, google earth. ||  || Free ||   ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;">Spring note || [[image:Spring Note.jpg width="97" height="25" link="@http://www.springnote.com/en/"]] || Online word
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;">Awesome
 * (summarising**) || Awesome highlighter allows students to
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Lino It || [[image:Lino it.jpg width="87" height="57" link="@http://en.linoit.com/"]] || Online
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;">Google || [[image:Google advance search.jpg width="112" height="85" link="@http://www.google.com.au/advanced_search"]] || (**Researching**) || Using google advanced research is a great
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;">Bubbl.US || [[image:Bubble US.jpg width="118" height="24" link="@https://bubbl.us/"]] || Mind map

(**classifying**) || Online mind mapping tool. ||  || Free ||   || Students can upload images, videos, music and voice recording. ||  || Free or subscription ||   || wikispaces. com/Bee-Bots || Robotics (**comparing**) || Bee-bots are robots that have many different functions. Students are able to create games, and play a wide variety of educational games. ||  || Free ||   || construction a variety of flowcharts ||  || Free or $4.95 user/month ||  || word Processor (**explaining**) || This is a tool that allows students to work within a collaborative environment while working online.There is a chat section for students to talk to each other while they are constructing a deeperunderstanding of the subject at hand. ||  || Free ||   || Wordsmyth ||  || Word Cloud (**Understanding)** || A great word cloud website. After signing up you can create word clouds you can edit at any time. You can link words to a website. This is a great tool to use as a interactive word wall. In my classroom I have used this dictionary site and linked each word to a definition from this online dictionary: http://www.wordsmyth.net/ ||  || Free ||   || educational videos (**explaining**) || A wide variety of short videos aimed at students in K-12. ||  || Free ||   || for students to share their understanding in a safe, online environment. Students are provided with individual passwords. The administrator (teacher) can invite new students and can also stop students accessing the wiki. In my classroom I use this in conjunction with bloged. ||  || Free ||   || DEC Portal || Blog collaboration. Students can express their opinions, understanding and interpretation of particular subjects, books and so forth. This is password protected and comments can be moderated by the teacher. I use this in conjunction with Wikispaces. Bloged has been created by the DEC. ||  || Free ||   ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Prezi || [[image:Prezi.jpg width="103" height="36" link="@http://www.prezi.com"]] || Flowchart movie
 * (classifying and**
 * summarising)** || Prezi is an online flowchart that is interactive.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">Bee-bots || http://learn-c4e.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;">Gliffy || [[image:bloomsdigitaltaxonomy/Gliffy.jpg width="90" height="35" align="center" caption="Gliffy.jpg" link="@http://www.gliffy.com/"]] || Flow charts
 * (comparing)** || A website that allows students to develop
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;">Primary Pad || [[image:Primary Pad.jpg width="149" height="12" align="center" link="@http://primarypad.com/%20"]] || Collaborative
 * <span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 130%;">Tagul and
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: "comic sans ms",cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">WatchKnow || [[image:bloomsdigitaltaxonomy/watchknow.JPG width="124" height="27"]] || Online
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: "comic sans ms",cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Wikispaces || [[image:Wikispaces.jpg width="117" height="31" link="@www/home"]] || Blog
 * (All verbs from**
 * Understanding)** || Wikispaces is a collaborative environment allowing
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: "comic sans ms",cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">blogED || Accessed through
 * (All verbs from**
 * Understanding)** || BlogEd is a place for students to have online
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: "comic sans ms",cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Edmodo || [[image:edmodo.jpg width="121" height="59" link="@http://www.edmodo.com/"]] || Blog
 * (All verbs from**
 * Understanding)** || This is a great resource that allows you and your students to create discussion online. It is password protected. Its a great place for collaboration, sharing opinions and developing authenic discussions. ||  || Free ||   ||