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Web 2.0 Tools

Free, easy to use tools for learning, organization , and sharing

25 Tools Every Educator Should Have in their Toolbox

Blogs for Educators

Tips on Blogging with Students

Tags vs. Categories

Blogging Challenge 2009 Good activities you can try with your students that help them understand the parts of a blog.

Blogger (Google): https://www.blogger.com/start4

Classblogmeister: http://classblogmeister.com/

Fun things for your Blog

WigFlip (personalized images, text)

Writing

Google Documents and Spreadsheets: http://docs.google.com These are fantastic for collaboration.

Create A Graph:http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/ Create, save, print graphs for free!

Zoho Writer: http://writer.zoho.com Free word processing–collaborate also!

Zoho Sheet: http://sheet.zoho.com Free spreadsheet–again, collaboration enabled!

Letterpop: http://letterpop.com/ Create and share newsletters.

Visuwords: http://www.visuwords.com Visual dictionary, thesarus.

Resource--New Tools for Digital Storytelling

Bookr: http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/ - create easy illustrated book reports

Visual Thesaurus

Lexipedia

Visuwords

Presentations

Google Presentations: http://docs.google.com

Zoho Presentations:http://show.zoho.com

Slideshare:http://www.slideshare.net/

Research

Notefish: http://www.notefish.com/ Keep track of Internet research you’re doing… images too.

Zotero: http://www.zotero.org/ A powerful plugin for Firefox. Amazing for students or teachers doing high power research and need to keep track of large bibliographies. Requires a download.

Creating citiations--

Bibme: http://www.bibme.org/ Free service to save up to 10 bibliographies… easy to use, you just need to have kids double check the info to make sure things like the title of the webpage matches up. Can export directly to Word.

Easybib: http://www.easybib.com/

Flashcard creators

Quizlet: http://quizlet.com/

Flashcard Friends: http://flashcardfriends.com/

MyStudiyo: Create quizzes and either share the URL or embed them on your website.

Concept mapping

Click here for student reviews of these concept mappying websites.

Thinkature: http://www.thinkature.com/

Mindomo: http://www.mindomo.com/ Online mindmapping/concept mapping tool. Similar to Inspiration.

Gliffy: http://www.gliffy.com/ Mind maps, diagrams, flowcharts

Mindmeister: http://www.mindmeister.com/ Also an online concept mapping tool. Easy to use. Here's a sample:

Photo sharing websites

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com

Flickr’s Big Huge Labs (make posters, badges and much more): http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/

Mashups that use Flickr…see this page for links: Classroom Learning 2.0

SmugMug: http://www.smugmug.com

BubbleShare: http://www.bubbleshare.com

GeneratorBlog: http://generatorblog.blogspot.com/ These are fun ways to personalize all kinds of images!

Social Bookmarking

Resources--Social Bookmarking 101

Add Delicious, digg, etc here

Timelines

Dipity: http://www.dipity.com

Mnemograph: http://mnemograph.com/

Videos

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/ View, share and upload videos

TeacherTube:http://www.teachertube.com View, share and upload education related videos.

GoogeVideo: http://video.google.com/ looks a lot like YouTube

Zamzar: http://www.zamzar.com Online conversion program that allow you to save YouTube and TeacherTube videos to your computer for offline viewing later.

Create your own videos:

Animoto: (you choose images + music and site makes you a music video)-http://animoto.com

Student examples of Animoto:http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2007/09/see-my-student-inventions.html

One True Media: You can create videos from photos/images, ecards, slideshows. http://www.onetruemedia.com/

Wikis