The Computer as a Door: Using Web 2.0 Tools to Communicate, Collaborate, Compose, Create, and Contribute from Kathy Schrock on Vimeo.
This is a great list of Web 2.0 tools for just about anything. There are a few links that didn't work, but all in all this is a one-stop shop! Image, Audio and Video tools
Great tool to organize your websites for a class, theme or workshop. http://www.jogtheweb.com/play/dOjH8c6ychjM/web-20-magical-myster-tour
WEb 2.0 Tools for kids---- http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/z1O1GPxm4bCR/Web-2.0-Tools-for-Kids
is a free digital whiteboard that users can share online in real-time. Sorta like pen and paper, minus the dead trees, plastic, and the inconvenience of being at the same place at the same time.
On the homepage you'll be immediately directed to a Scriblink board, which is free and requires no registration. Here you can take advantage of all kinds of useful features, such as:
When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate on text documents, useful for meeting notes, drafting sessions, education, team programming, and more.
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.
This is one of the BEST resources I've found on Web 2.0 tools and resources... Lots of tools and lots of examples of their use in the classroom...
The Glogster below will introduce you to the resources or you can visit the website: http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/Webtools4U2Use.
You can have your own Virtual Classroom-- FREE! WiZiQ is a place where you can teach and learn using an easy-to-use Virtual Classroom. http://www.wiziq.com/
Edmodo is a private microblogging platform that teachers and students can use to send notes, links, files, alerts, assignments, and events to each other. Teachers sign up for accounts, and then create classes/groups. Each class/group has a unique code which is distributed by the teacher to the class. Students then sign up (no email address required) and join the group using the code. Here's a quick video tour of Edmodo...
http://tltcommunity.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2215105%3ABlogPost%3A421
Check out this cool tool--- Flowgram. Create a presentation with any content and even narrate it.
Classroom 2.0-- Join the network for teachers!
The Complete Web 2.0 Directory
Is It Okay To Be A Technologically Illiterate Teacher?
This is Edublog's "Most Influential Post of 2007." Karl Fisch is the "Did You Know/Shift Happens" video that is instrumental in starting very serious discussions about technology in education.
Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education - Techlearning blog, which is Edublog's "Best Group Blog of 2007."
Apture provides the first rich communication platform that allows people to intuitively experience the web.
With just one line of code, publishers and bloggers can quickly and easily turn flat pages of text into a compelling multimedia experience. Apture gives content creators the power to find and incorporate relevant multimedia items directly into their pages. Readers can then access these items without ever leaving the page, providing them with a deeper and more meaningful web experience. Take a look at this example-- click on the links and see what happens!
Voika--- Create your own avatar to greet visitors on your wiki or blog.
AC_Voki_Embed(200,267,"285035ef74f2be96a0e03155df2a7ba1",456209, 1, "", 0);
Zaidlearn--- One excellent free learning tool (or site) for every learning problem, need or issue!
ReadTheWords.com is a free, web based service that assists people with written material. We do this by using TTS Technology, or Text To Speech Technology. Users of our service can generate a clear sounding audio file from almost any written material. We generate a voice that reads the words out loud, that you request us to read.
Experience live video. In just minutes, you can broadcast and chat online with a global audience. Completely free, all it takes is a camera and Internet connection. Experience live video. In just minutes, you can broadcast and chat online with a global audience. Completely free, all it takes is a camera and Internet connection.
Al Levine's 50 Tools for Storytelling
- some types of tools:
Curriki ---- The Global Education & Learning Community
There's a new feature on Curriki which allows members to meet, share ideas, and work
collaboratively with other educators. Members can form a Curriki group around any subject area,
grade level, or educational philosophy.
Blogs, Vlogs, Wikis and Podcasts
Kathy Schrock's Web Resource Page
Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teacher
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive
multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and
gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free
of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions,
who make their pages available on the web.
50 Must-Read Up and Coming Blogs by Teachers
TeachersFirst.com--- Loads of Web 2.0 tools and resources. You can join and it's free!
The Promise of Virtual Learning Activities
Simulations for the Classroom - Free unless followed by a $.
Use WiZiQ's virtual classroom equipped with live audio-video communication,
chat, content sharing, and session recording capabilities. No download is required since it
works with any web browser and on any operating system.
Video conferencing, web 2.0 apps help distance learners feel included...
Free services let homebound students enjoy classroom routines
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/best-practice/best-practices-articles/index.cfm?i=53234&page=1
Now watch the video to see how this classroom of 4th graders used Skype to include a homebound classmate.
4th Graders from New Zealand and Australia learn about each other.
http://anzaconnection.wikispaces.com/Introductions
Very cool online mindmapping tool-- you can even share with others and collaborate----mind42.com. This video show just how easy it is to create a mindmap.