List of Web 2.0 Tools:
21 Classes (http://www.21classes.com) is a free turnkey solution for creating your own customized multi-user Classroom Blog Portal. The $8.95 per month version adds these features:
- Access to portal can be restricted to your students only
- Powerful full text search
- 25 MB web space per student (instead of 2 MB)
- Up to 100 student blog accounts (instead of 50)
Animoto (http://animoto.com/) is a Web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music.
Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. Use it to record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit various types of sound files, and cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
Blogger (http://www.blogger.com) lets you start a blog in three simple steps: 1. Create an account. 2. Choose a template. 3. Post your first blog entry. Blogger is not specific to education, but it is easy to use and popular.
Celtx (http://celtx.com/) is a fully integrated solution for media pre-production and collaboration. It replaces old fashioned 'paper, pen & binder' with a digital approach to writing and organizing that's more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share.
Class Blogmeister (http://classblogmeister.com/) is David Warlick's free blogging software in which the teacher sets up the blog and student accounts, and students can add their own entries. The teacher reviews each post and either approves and publishes the entry or returns it to the student for editing before reviewing it again.
Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org) An alternative way to provide creators and licensors with a simple way to say what freedoms they want their creative work to carry, reserving some rights while releasing other. An easy place to share, or build upon, creative work. Use this site for copyright-free images for Web 2.0 apps.
Edutagger (http://edutagger.com) is a social bookmarking service for K-12 learners and educators that allows you to store your Web links online and share them with others, all within an educational context.
Gliffy (http://www.gliffy.com) makes it easy to create, share, and collaborate using a wide range of diagrams and graphic organizers.
Google Tools: To use these free online tools, you have to sign up for a Google account. This is just a small sampling of the available Google tools.
GoogleDocs (http://docs.google.com) Upload documents and edit them online with your team members. You can also work together on spreadsheets and presentations.
Google Web History: Sign up to view all your searches in Google, with links to results.
Google Notebook (http://www.google.com/notebook) Clip useful information and add clippings of text, images, and links from web pages. To organize notes, create multiple notebooks, divide them into sections, and drag-and-drop your notes. You can access your Google Notebooks from any computer by using your Google Accounts login. You can share your Google Notebook with the world by making it public. You can now access Google Notebook from your mobile phone, too.
Spresent (http://www.spresent.com) is a free Web-based alternative to PowerPoint. Create and edit high-quality Flash presentations online, send presentations via e-mail, or publish on your Web site or blog.
ToonDoo (http://www.toondoo.com) is a cool, comic-creating tool. Just drag and drop or click to create comic strips.
Viddler (http://www.viddler.com) lets you upload, enhance, and share digital video quickly and easily inside your web browser. Timed commenting supported.
VoiceThread (http://voicethread.com) is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents, and videos). It allows people to make comments in five different ways, using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam). A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.
Wikispaces (http://www.wikispaces.com) is for any kind of group--families, classrooms, sports teams, community groups, book clubs, fan clubs, party organizers, wedding planners. It offers free Plus spaces with no advertising to K-12 teachers.
WordPress (http://www.wordpress.com) offers versatile and free blog hosting on its own servers with more than 50 high-quality templates, an effective comment-spam prevention system, and no advertisements. WordPress is a great option for people looking to host a blog on their own domain for free.
xSpression (http://www.xspression.com) integrates its own publishing and social networking tools with those on the Web to create a rich and powerful learning and teaching experience for students and teachers. Publishing, social networking, and system integration merge together to create new opportunities for discussion and community building. "Not free, but almost."
Yahoo Avatars (http://avatars.yahoo.com) is one site where you can choose an avatar for yourself. An avatar is a character that you can personalize and use in e-mail, blogs, Second Life, or anywhere else you need an image of yourself. By changing hairstyles, clothes, accessories, and backgrounds, you can create your own unique persona.
Zoho (http://zoho.com) is a free online collaborative environment in which you can work on documents, spreadsheets, wikis, presentations, and other apps together.
The following Web 2.0 tools are currently blocked in Academy School District 20. If you work in D20 and you succeed in getting any of these sites unblocked, please move them to the top of the list IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER (I am a librarian, after all - MJJ), and put it in RED!
Bubbleshare (http://www.bubbleshare.com/) allows you to upload photos to share with friends, family, or the world. Unlimited storage means you’ll never run out of space to keep hundreds, even thousands, of your favorite pictures. Add fun clipart, audio captions, or video captions to your albums. Perfectly frame your photos with over 20 themes.
Del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/) is a social bookmarking website. The primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks (rather than folders).
Flickr (http://www.flickr.com) is a free photograph management system that helps you get photos into and out of whatever system you choose: from the web, from mobile devices, from your home computers, and from whatever software you are using to manage your photos. You can also "push" your photos out on the Flickr website, in RSS feeds, by email, and by posting to outside blogs. The process of organizing your photos can be collaborative. In Flickr, you can give your friends, family, and other contacts permission to organize your photos - not just to add comments, but also notes and tags. You can set up private viewing/sharing groups or make all your photos publicly available.
Pageflakes (http://www.pageflakes.com) is your personalized homepage on the Web. Your favorite news, weather, sports, entertainment, photos, videos, music, email, and much more--all on one page that you can access from anywhere. What's more, you can collaborate on your page with your friends, or publish it to the entire world. Pageflakes for Teachers lets you set up a personalized teacher homepage (http://teacher.pageflakes.com/).
PB Wiki (http://www.pbwiki.com) is a safe and easy way for teachers to get students collaborating. If you want to let students collaborate, add files, suggest links, and create a document that's comprehensive and up-to-date, use a wiki.
Scrapblog (http://www.scrapblog.com) is an easy drag-and-drop way to tell stories and create beautiful multimedia scrapbooks.
Slideshare (http://www.slideshare.net) is a community for sharing presentations on the Web. In "private sharing," you can control what, where, and how to share.
Twitter (http://twitter.com) is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
YouTube (http://www.youtube.com) is a free online video streaming service that allows anyone to view and share videos that have been uploaded by members.
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