Web+2.0+Tools

=**The following are Web 2.0 tools for teachers and administrators:**=



__**Noted in PD:**__
> **Wiffiti publishes real time messages to screens. You can interact with Wiffiti from your mobile phone or the web.** > @http://museumbox.e2bn.org/
 * ==[|ww.voki.com]==
 * __[]__
 * [|www.wallwisher.com]
 * [|www.visualthesaurus.com] (14 day trial- then must purchase)
 * [|www.audacity.com] Podcasting tool
 * [|www.polleverywhere.com] Great way to integrate those pesky cell phones ;)
 * [|www.wordle.net]
 * [|www.worditout.com]
 * [|www.tagxedo.com]
 * [|www.storybird.com]
 * [|www.edmodo.com]- A place to collaborate and post writing, assignments, etc. Very secure!
 * [|www.glogster.com] - Graphic online poster maker
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 * [|https://bubbl.us/]
 * @http://wiffiti.com/ -
 * www.studyboost.com - use the cell phones for study questions
 * [] Make a video from your laptop
 * [|www.audacity.com] - make podcasts for instructional purposes
 * I Tunes Player-[]
 * http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/ Graphs words by commonality of usage
 * @http://freemusicarchive.org/ Free music for podcasts!
 * @http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/17-audacity-tutorial.htm Podcast tutorials for Audacity
 * Museum Box:
 * Online writing collaboration- @http://www.collaborizeclassroom.com/features
 * @http://remind101.com/4e0lb Send Text message reminders to students

Specific to vocational and business education

Using Cell Phones:
Letsgovote.com – Similar to polleverywhere.com

@http://www.textnovel.com/about_textnovel.php Write a novel, SS or poem through your cellphone and share!

@http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/p/resources.html Various sites to incorporate cell phones @http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/p/lesson-ideas.html Lesson ideas for incorporating cell phones

__**Other Web 2.0 Resources and Tools:**__
[] - some business, math, etc. tools

[] Web 2.0 in Business

[|http://www.go2web20.net/#tag:business] Business online apps and Web 2.0 http://digwriting.wikispaces.com/Home+Page - Digital Writing - A new Wiki connected to a National Writing Project

[] Web 2.0 Resources

[] Cool web of technology tools

[] 462 apps for education

[] Online Resource Sites for Students (and adults)

[|http://www.go2web20.net/#tag:e-learning] Online tools and applications

[] Signappnow- quick and easy to create and email out signup sheets- no registration to create one and no registration to participate.

[] _ Web 2.0 Tools

If your school blocks You Tube like mine does, you can download and save You Tube videos from home. []

Simplifying Web2.0 for educators http://www.web20erc.eu The Videos are part of a series produced to provide educators with simple How to Guides to get familiar with web 2.0 tools and techniques that can be used in education.

Some good tutorials on tools such as Voice Thread: [|http://www.youtube.com/user/jensenator1?feature=mhee#p/c/18B960B2C3E88FD2]

[] School town-

[] Evernote

@http://digitalenglish.weebly.com/ - Teaching English in the Digital Age

Cloud Based Storage Options:
[|Dropbox] - Dropbox is easily the most talked-about storage option on the tech blogs I follow. Its biggest strength is its simplicity. Dropbox installs a folder on your computer that instantly syncs the files it contains to a web server. Also, if you have dropbox installed on another computer, it will automatically sync your file to that dropbox folder on that computer as well. I'm not able to install dropbox at my school, but I am able to logon on to the website and gain access to any files. There is also a free iPhone [|application] that you can use to view most files and email those files to others when you are away from a traditional computer.

[|Evernote] - Evernote is more complicated, but it is the only free cloud-based storage service that I ended up paying for to go premium. I love its ability to tag the files you upload or save to Evernote. There are also many extensions with Firefox to easily save any article you've read (shareaholic or Evernote web clipper). There is a desktop application to help you organize your notes. You can also create "notebooks" that you can share with others so that they can upload to your collection. One feature I use frequently with Evernote is that I can take a picture of a book I'm reading if there's a particular quotation I'm interested in. Evernote is able to scan pictures for text and then recognize it. This becomes useful when I'm searching for a quotation from a novel. I don't have to search for the picture; I can search for words I remember in the quotation. Evernote is also integrated with many other iPhone [|applications] like FastFinga or JotNot. You can take pictures as notes, record sound clips, or simply write out a note to remember for later.

[|SkyDrive] - SkyDrive doesn't get a lot of attention. It doesn't automatically sync files and can only be added to your windows explorer through a plugin called SkyDrive Explorer (it appears they've changed this), but out of all the cloud-based storage options SkyDrive offers the most free space. At 25GB of free space, you'd be hard pressed to need more for the typical files you'd need access to.

**RSS Resources:**
RSS Resources: Slide Show- some ways to use in education: [] TONS of info on RSS for Educators: [] Education Week has RSS: []