Web 2.0 Tools Teachers Should Know About
These are free Web 2.0 tools that teachers should know about for productivity, creativity, collaboration and communication.
Author Sherryz
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If you can't find a Web 2.0 site here, it doesn't exist! Go2Web constantly finds new Web 2.0 sites.
http://www.go2web20.net/
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Share tabs is similar to jog the web - it shows multiple websites on a page. You can even customize the web address!
http://www.sharetabs.com
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A little bit like Jog the Web, Sharetabs lets you add a list of URLs, and turns them into a single page
http://www.sharetabs.com/?lincoln
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MapVivo is an online travel journal. As a mashup with Google maps, you can add points on the map, add text, images and video to each place holder, and even export it as a kml to be opened in Google Earth. Search for Abraham Lincoln to see a journal of the trip that Lincoln's funeral train took in 1865.
http://mapvivo.com/
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5Map Vivo - Ivy Hill - Revolutionary War Project
The MapVivo people worked with AHSD25 to create a project for Fifth grade students at Ivy Hill who studied the Revolutionary War. They were assigned a topic and they researched the topic from what happened then and what the area is like now.
http://edu.mapvivo.com/edu/project/1
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Adobe brings us Acrobat.com, a new suite of tools that includes Buzzword, an onine word processor and page layout tool. Adobe ConnectNow is an online meeting room where you can gather people together to discuss issues and share computer screens. You can convert files into PDF files and store and share them on Acrobat.com
https://www.acrobat.com/
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Bubbl.us is a simple brainstorming application that is simple to use. Click on the beginning bubble and build from there. Of course, you can share your mind map with others.
http://bubbl.us/
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Free Rice doesn't exactly fit into the definition of a Web 2.0 site, but you can reinforce your vocabulary skills and help to feed the world's hungry! For every three words you answer correctly, you move up a vocabulary level and you donate 60 grains of rice. For every word wrong you move down a level - but you don't lose any rice.
http://www.freerice.com/
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FreePoverty is similar to FreeRice. You play a geography game and if you are right, you donate water to needy areas of the world.
http://www.FreePoverty.com
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Letterpop is a place to make well designed newsletters, invitations and collages. The free plan allows you to publish 10 documents a year with a limit of 25 email contacts. There are many templates available to get a creative head start on your documents.
http://letterpop.com/
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Capzles lets you tell a story with your pictures and other media. Choose a title for your story, upload pictures (singly or as a stack) and videos. Arrange the media in the right order, then add tags, titles and descriptions to each item. Make a statement with your own background picture or use one of the built in themes to showcase your story. You can decide if you want to make your capzle public or private, or allow only invited friend to see. You can also designate who views each single piece of media. Do a search for Revere to see my capzle about Paul Revere's ride.
http://capzles.com
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Have you ever wanted to record your computer screen to show your students how to do something? You can do that here at ScreenCastle. Set up a window on the computer that you want to record and open ScreenCastle in a new window. Simply click the big red button, allow the applet, move to the area on your computer that you want to capture, press record, and go! You can imbed the screencast into a web page or copy the link to provide to your students.
http://screencastle.com
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Do you remember Storybook Weaver? This is an online version to create your own stories with beautiful artwork provided by professional illustrators. Pictures are worth a thousand words, but kids will find out that coming up with those words isn't easy! This is a new site, and features will be added as it grows.
http://storybird.com
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Upload a picture, choose a difficulty and puzzle piece shape, and create your own online jigsaw puzzle game. Your puzzles remain private unless you choose to share them by mousing over the picture and choosing 'Send'.
http://www.jigsawplanet.com
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Kids will love this one - upload a picture of the head of someone or something, draw an area around the mouth, and then speak into a microphone. The mouth will magically move with the sound of your voice!
http://www.blabberize.com/
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Picnik is an online photo editor. You can really improve your photos, crop and rotate them, and add special effects to them. Some of the filters require a subscription cost - but many tools are free.
http://www.picnik.com
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Once you have made your photos look fabulous, go to Big Huge Labs to make things from them. CD envelopes, calendars, flash cards, posters and picture cubes are just a few things that you can create.
http://bighugelabs.com
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Created by a retired educator, MakeBeliefsComix.com is an easy way for even younger students to create comic strips. Choose a character, then choose an emotion. Drag your character to a panel and add a talk balloon. There are even dialog prompts.
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/
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Create a work of art with any words you enter. Print it or save it to the Wordle gallery. A great way to illustrate vocabulary! Printing is a little wonky, at lease on a Mac in Firefox. Clicking on window to open the document in a separate window and then clicking the Print button worked.
http://wordle.net/
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There are tons of things to do with your pictures and video in Vuvox. Under the create tab, you (currently) have 4 choices, but the coolest is collage. You can make an interactive collage of collection of pictures that slides from left to right, telling a story. You can embed other media within the collage including hyperlinks and video.
http://www.vuvox.com/collage
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Did you ever want to blow up and image into poster size? Block posters is the way to do it. Simply upload an image, slice it into letter-size pieces and download the images. Print them and piece your poster together.
http://www.blockposters.com
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Prezi is a unique presentation site that makes Powerpoint and even Keynote presentations look boring. You or your students can present a subject in a whole new way - with a fun and simple interface. Prezi is not like anything you've seen before!
http://prezi.com
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Create online quizzes to put on your website. You can add images, text or video to each question. Studiyo even keeps track of the scores!
http://www.mystudiyo.com/
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You've heard of the granddaddy of all the photo editing software - Photoshop - now it's online! For free! Edit your photos and add filters, organize and share them with Photoshop.com from Adobe.
http://www.photoshop.com
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Create a Graph is an online graph creator presented by the National Center for Education Statistics. The interface is easy to use - the hardest part is thinking about how to design your graph! You don't have to sign in to use it. You can download your completed graph as a pdf or in various image formats. You can even have them email your graph to you! NCES will retain your graph on their system as long as there is activity on it. They will delete it from their system after 30 days of inactivity.
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/
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This is a graph I created with Create a Graph illustrating Olympic Medal Counts.
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx?ID=c99d8d414a704468afa7adf53c5f1f6e
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Create online slideshows with your photos. This is an excellent way to create digital stories. Make your own Ken Burns documentary with Slideroll!
http://www.slideroll.com
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Sliderocket is a way to make professional looking online presentations that you can access from any computer. A full range of effects, builds, and transitions are available and you can even upload existing Powerpoint or Keynote presentations.
http://www.sliderocket.com
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Upload your photos and make an online scrapbook for free complete with backgrounds, stickers and borders. Share your book online or pay for a print version.
http://www.scrapblog.com
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Newsmap is a unique way to display the news of the world. The more the topic is reported on, the larger the box in which the headline appears. Categories can be turned on or off depending on what your interest is, and different countries can be added to the mix to compare the importance an issue has around the world.
http://newsmap.jp/
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Voicethread describes itself as an online media album. You can import images, documents or videos into Voicethread and then add comments by using voice, text, or audio file. You can then share your Voicethread with whomever you want, embed it on your website or blog, or download it for viewing. The educational possibilities are endless!
http://voicethread.com/#home
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This is a wiki to showcase ways Voicethread has been used in the classroom. Add your own!
http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com/