Web+2.0+Tools

The space below can be used to share Web 2.0 tools that are available. Jump in and experiment!
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Photo by Bill Ferriter

Skype in the Classroom
Skype in the Classroom is offering for teachers to upgrade to their Premium account for free! Having a premium account allows for video conferencing with more than one party at the same time. Click here to read a blog post with additional information. Skype in the Classroom also features a variety of Skype Lessons and Guest Speaker opportunities.

Symbaloo EDU
Organize and share the best of the web with your students with Symbaloo EDU. You can also organize teaching materials all in one place. Check out the Symbaloo User Guide for detailed instructions.

Tips for Tech Cautious Teachers

TodaysMeet TodaysMeet is a great way to have interactive conversations and brainstorm with your class. This can be an excellent use for the iPads! Here is the description from the website: Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs.<<
 * >>TodaysMeet** helps you embrace the [|backchannel] and connect with your audience in realtime.

SafeShare.TV This is a safe way to share YouTube videos. All you have to do is paste a YouTube link to generate a safe view of the video without the distracting, and sometimes inappropriate comments.

Bloomin' Apps This page highlights resources and apps that support Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.

Take the 29-Day Web 2.0 Challenge in February! A partial description from the website: >>Each day in the month of February we will blog about a web 2.0 tool, a digital resource, or educational/productivity apps. We encourage you to read each blog entry and think about how the resource can help you enhance student learning or better do your job.<<

PhotoPeach The description from the website: >>Our idea is to help you tell better stories online using photos. You can create a rich slideshow in seconds to engage your friends or family in a natural way. This is done by allowing two-way commenting right at each photo in the show and automatically pausing so you have time to express yourself before continuing. We also support zooming comments, sound-effect smilies, and music so you can elaborate on your story further. You have heard again and again: “A picture is worth a thousand words”, but what if you could add a thousand words to your photos, and some music? We think the whole slideshow is greater than the sum of the photos, words, and music.<<

Clay Yourself! This is a very cool website where you can make a claymation type avatar. Once complete, you can download it as a JPEG file so that you can insert it and use it any way that you would like; a profile picture for example.

My Favourite Web Tools of 2010 by Ozge Karaoglu This blog post includes a bunch of great resources that you might find interesting.

Ozge Karaoglu's Blog - A-Z Web Tools

Voki You can embed a voki recording onto a wiki or webpage. media type="custom" key="8922104"

Kitzu Description from the Kitzu website: At kitZu, you will find a collection of free, educational, copyright-friendly media resources. Students and teachers around the world can access pre-made collections, or "kits," of various digital assets - still images, background music, narratives, video and text. Each kit is built around a common theme, or curricular topic. For students, this becomes the construction paper of the 21st century --allowing them to create reports and projects filled with rich, immersive media for communicating their vision of whatever subjects they chose. AS they master the technology, they will progress from building projects with supplied materials to projects where they find or create their own resources -- a strategy that results in truly authentic assessment as measured by the projects produced. Kit Contents A digital kit is meant to provide students with the building blocks necessary to build video and multimedia projects that tell a story and demonstrate learning. A kit can be made up of:
 * - Photos
 * - Illustrations
 * - Animations
 * - Video Clips
 * - Audio Clips
 * - Document

PlanbookEdu.com - Free online lesson plan book that can be accessed from anywhere. There is a premium version that offers additional features for a fee.