Web+2.0+Tools

Web 2.0 Tools > ===[|Animoto] – An online slide show creator that allows you to add music, pictures, images, and videos to your presentation.You can get up to 12 slides for free, and there is also an educator version available. === > > ===[|Blabberize] – Add a voice to pictures you upload using text you compose.The website adds the same voice to all pictures, and makes the mouth move (rudimentarily).Younger students especially would find this amusing, however, there is not much educational content for older students. === > ===[|Blogmeister] – A site for blog creation with an easy interface.Registration is required. === > ===[|Buzzword] – Adobe Buzzword is an online word processor that allows you to create, edit and comment on documents collaboratively. === > ===[|Classroom Learning 2.0] - Free online tutorial from the California School Library Association for teachers to learn about becoming more tech savvy. Includes resources from the web and instructions on how to use them, plus blogging information and guides to creating your own webpage. === > ===[|Create a Graph] – An interactive, easy way for kids to create graphs; no spreadsheet is required. They can create a bar chart, pie graph, line graph, area graph, or an XY chart just by entering data. Good for younger students and non-spreadsheet users. === > ===[|Delicious] - An online tool that enables teachers and students to save URL's or web addresses to a personalized account. Participants can then share and collaborate with other people in their network. === > ===[|Diigo] – A site for social bookmarking where you create folders of bookmarked URLs to share, collaborate, or limit access to specific persons.It has a special registration site for educators with an upgraded version. === > ===[|Easybib]– A free, automatic bibliography and citation maker.It offers MLA, APA, and Chicago style citation and footnote creation.It includes a school edition with helpful resources for librarians and educators.Registration is required. === > ===[|Engrade] – A free online grade book and classroom management tool that allows educators to manage their classes online, while providing parents and students with 24/7 real-time online access. === > ===[|Flickr] – A user-friendly photo-sharing site for images and photos, with on-line storage for single photos or albums. === > ===[|FlauntR] – An image editing program that allows you to resize, crop, rotate, edit, add captions and backgrounds, manipulate and add effects to any image.It also offers free photo storage. === > ===[|Fotoflexer] – A flash-based image editing tool that will crop, resize, rotate, remove blemishes, add captions, change eye color, distort, or add effects to photos. === > ===[|GIMP] – GNU Image Manipulation Program.It is a UNIX-based, image editing, photo retouching and manipulating website. === > ===[|Gliffy] – An online diagram software program with plenty of examples for creating diagrams, flow charts, technical drawings, and more. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Glogster] – An interactive poster creator site where students can create personalized posters with embedded videos.There is also an educator version called [|Glogster EDU] where students and teachers can display their work. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Google Earth] – An online globe that contains large-scale maps, satellite images, and detailed regional maps of anywhere in the world, including 3D buildings, images from outer space, and canyons in the oceans. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Google Reader] - A tool for gathering, reading, and sharing all the interesting blogs and websites you read on the web. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Google Sketch-up] – A sketching software program that allows you to create, modify, and share 3D models. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Irfanview] – This is free software that you can download from the website and use for movie and video playing, image and photo editing, slide show creation, and Photoshop. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Jaycut] – This is a dependable site where you can upload raw video footage and edit, modify content, create videos, and publish the end products. It is an app similar to Movie-Maker and iMovie, and very user friendly. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Library Thing] – This is a great site that allows you to catalog books, share book lists, join book clubs, talk about books, and find new books. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|MindMeister] - This site brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow global brainstorming sessions. Users can create, manage and share mind maps online and access them anytime, from anywhere. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Mixbook] - An online desktop publishing application that allows you to collaboratively create books that can be viewed online or printed in hardcopy (for a fee). You can upload photos to your Mixbook, add text to it, and decorate it with a variety of built-in layouts, backgrounds and stickers. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Mixedink] – A free, collaborative writing tool and document creation site.You can access previous versions of the pages that you've edited. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Museum Box] – Students gather virtual artifacts and display them in a virtual box to create a description of an event or of themselves.Thomas Clarkson, an anti-slavery campaigner that gathered artifacts and documents and carried them around in a box to illustrate his anti-slavery argument, inspired the site.There is a teacher’s area with extra resources and ideas for teachers. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|OpenOffice.org] – Anopen-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used for free and is an easy alternative to Microsoft Office Suite. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Pageflakes] – A personalized web page and web page starter tool where you can personalize and share your favorite things online.Contains places for weather, calendar, news, to-do lists, etc. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Pbworks] – A wiki creation site, a place where students and teachers can collaborate their writing, share files, edit pages and communicate. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Photoshop] - Photoshop.com is a free online tool allowing you to store, organize, modify and share any of your digital images and photos.It’s easy to use, but you must pay if you want more tools for organizing files.Go to the education tab for more resources. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Picasa] – Photo editing software from Google that can be used for photo sharing, editing, restoring, and storage, such as creating classroom photo albums. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Picassohead] – A drawing application using inspiration from Pablo Picasso’s cubism styled faces, where kids can create their own portraits or masterpieces.It is somewhat limited in the available designs, but still a good sight for artistic expression. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Prezi] – Presentation creation website that takes slides shows up a notch.The software is free to the public to an extent, but be sure to check out the perks available for teachers and students before registering. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Primo PDF] – Software that converts files to pdf format.Compatible with Windows XP/Vista/7, not for Mac users.Free download unless you want the Professional version. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Readability] – A downloadable program that removes clutter from webpages to make them more accessible and easy to read.The programs allows you to set the font size, margins, and style to view the text, for example to look like a novel, newspaper format, etc. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Rubistar] – A rubric resource center.There are templates for every imaginable type of rubric for every subject. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Skype] – VOIP (voice over internet protocol) Skype is a free, interactive communication program that allows visual and auditory communication on-line.The newer version works with cell phones too, but there is a charge. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|SlideShare] – Site where you can share slide shows, presentations, and professional videos.There are good educational slide shows to view.Free unless you want the professional version. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Spurl] – Online bookmarking service and search engine site that saves URLs and saves a copy of the web page, so if the page changes, you still have a copy of the previous version. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Strip Creator] – Comic strip creation site with a limited number of slides.You have to check to make sure it allows you save your file or you will have to do a screen capture.It has an obscenity filter that can be turned on and off to monitor comic content. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Survey Monkey] – Online surveys and quizzes with templates to create surveys, quizzes, and tests. The site aggregates data and so makes it easy to make multiple choice, true/false or essay questions. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Teacher Tube] – Online educational video sharing that features information intended for educators. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|TinyURL] - allows you to take long web address (URL's) and shorten them into a form that is easier to work with. A few instances where you may use Tinyurl would be when using applications that limit the number of characters you can post (Twitter) or ones that can’t handle special characters in the URL's (Prezi). === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|TPS Connect] - An online community built for collaboration and sustained interaction among advocates of Teaching with Primary Sources. It allows members to create unique groups (among your school, district, friends, or discipline), invite friends and colleagues (or create new ones), send private messages and comment on walls, share photos and access the growing database of Annotated Resource Sets. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|TrackStar] – A well-established site that is stable and used by many educators where you collect web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a track.You can create your own or search the database for tracks already made by educators. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Tuxpaint] – A free drawing and painting software application for young kids (K-5). It contains tools such as bricks, grass, mirror images, rubber stamps, shape tools, and sound effects.Can be run on Windows or Mac. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Twiddla] - Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. No plug-ins or downloads, it's all here, ready to go when you are. Browser-agnostic, user-friendly. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Twitter] - Allows you to share and discover what's happening with other Twitter users instantaneously. You can share brief comments, web links or pictures with anyone following you. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Ustream] – A site to upload videos from live broadcasts onto the internet via webcams. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|VoiceThread] – A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Vuvox] – A free video and photo slide show presentation creator.If you register on the site, you can save your presentations and edit them later. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Tips] on how to use [|WallWisher] in the classroom. WallWisher is an online communicaton forum where students can post replies to questions and create discussion panels online. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wikispaces – A collaborative wiki creation site.It is similar to Pbworks, but easier to use with resources for educators such as a classroom wiki creation link. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Wordle] – A word cloud creator that can be used for vocabulary, anticipatory sets, and concept attainment. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|WordPress] - A blogging tool that allows for the sharing of topical information such as thoughts, opinions, interesting weblinks, and news. It can also be used as a collobrative tool to simulate such things as a shared journal or diary. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Word Sift] - This program allows teachers to cut and paste words from any text and sorts the words. Words can be sorted into most important (ones that show up most in the text). Then you can customize the visualization of the word relationships. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Writeboard] – A shareable online white board for web-based documents that saves your work and can track previous versions and changes of documents.It allows you to access your documents from any computer. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|X Timeline] - A free web-based timeline. Easily create and share timelines with pictures and videos. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Xtranormal] – This site offers text to movie software.You just type in text, choose characters, camera angles, gestures, etc., from templates, and a digital move is created and can be saved to the site.The content is not screened for children, so be cautious when using this program. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|You Tube] – A video sharing website that recently surpassed Google as the most accessed site on the web.The contents are not always appropriate for kids and there is a need to be aware of copyright issues. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Zamzar] - Converts files online from one format to another with no software downloads. An example of how this could be helpful would be: Say you have an image file in .tiff format, but you you have a program that only will only take the .jpg format. It can do convertions for not only images, but audio, video, documents, and others. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Zoho Show] – Free, online presentation creation software that allows you to access presentations, share photos, and import and edit presentations collaboratively from any computer.It also enables you to embed presentations into a blog or website. === > ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|ZohoWriter] – An online word processing program where you can create, edit, and share documents from any computer.It is a Microsoft Word alternative that accepts many formats including PDF, RTF, HTML, and DOC; it also offers support for multiple languages which can be helpful for ELLs. === <span style="display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; text-align: center;">

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