Web+2.0+Resources

How to use Web 2.0 in your Classroom and Education:
12 Web 2.0 Tools to Use to Publish Slideshows Online including Google Docs, Slideshow, Slide Boom, and others. 20 Essential Tips and Tricks Every Flickr User Should Know on MaximumPC's blog 25 Awesome Virtual Learning Experiences Online from Ace Online Schools 32 Things to Do With a Digital Image a Google Doc Presentation created by Anthony Evans 100 Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers Enquiring Minds list of digital tools that may be helpful in education.  Google Tools to Use in the Classroom

10 Free Screencasting Tools to Check Out from EmergingEdTech Blog! 10 Interactive Geography Games and Maps 100 Apps for Tech-Savvy Teachers! BigHugeLabs and Education is an amazing resource for teachers to use in the classroom because it allows you to create posters, trading cards, mosaics, magazine covers, and much more. By signing up for a teacher account, your students do not need their own account and can easily share what they have created with you and others. Cacoo  is a feature-rich collaborative diagram creation Web 2.0 tool. With Cacoo you can draw shapes, type, and drag and drop elements of your diagram. Images can also be uploaded into your Cacoo diagrams. Cacoo  allows you to chat with your collaborators in real-time while you work on your diagrams. Discovery Education's 20.12 list of Web 2.0 Tools Drop.io easy to use, online collaboration and file sharing service that provides users with a simple, real time and private way to chat and share images, video, audio, documents and other digital content through unique, user-created and controlled sharing points called 'drops.' [|watch our how to video]Once you have the hang of the basics, check out what it means to [|do it all in realtime for seamless collaboration]. 5 Ways to Use Dropio in the Classroom  [|Etherpad]  - A wonderful shared space, great for building stories as a whole class. Also wonderful for collecting ideas from group discussion you can then transfer to a tool like [|Wordle] .  Fresh Brain  provides teens with the opportunity to explore, engage, and create through activities and projects. FreshBrain takes advantage of the latest technologies, such as web conferencing and social networking, to provide a very progressive environment where teens can complete activities and work together on projects. This experience is enhanced with Advisors, available to support and mentor teens who are working on projects, with the intention of increasing the likelihood of success. In addition, FreshBrain provides teens with tools and training in the latest technologies to complete these projects.  <span style="font-family: georgia,-webkit-fantasy; line-height: 16px;">Glogster Edu <span style="font-family: georgia,serif; line-height: 19px;">is your original educational resource for innovative and interactive learning. Glogster EDU was conceived to imaginatively, productively, and collaboratively respond to the dynamic educational landscape and exceed the needs of today’s educators and learners. <span style="font-family: georgia,-webkit-fantasy;"> <span style="font-family: georgia,fantasy; line-height: 16px;">ISTE's TOP Web 2.0 Tools List contains tons of amazing web 2.0 tools to use in the classroom! <span style="font-family: georgia,fantasy;"> JMS Technology has a great chart of Web 2.0 tools on their wiki! <span style="font-family: georgia,Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">kidsVid is an instructional website to help teachers and students create videos for educational purposes. <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana,'BitStream vera Sans',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> kubba <span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;"> is an e-learning tool to help facilitate teachers' work and enhance the learning process. You can create games, crosswords, and quizzes making them available to your students and others online. kubba even lets you tracks and analyze the results of these tools. Shmoop <span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small; line-height: 26px;">mission is to make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age with literature guides and homework help. <span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia,fantasy;"> <span style="color: #ac0cac; font-family: georgia,-webkit-fantasy; font-size: small; line-height: 26px;">[|S][|t][|a][|t][|u][|s] [|C][|l][|o][|u]d, a new application on Facebook, would be a great tool to use with students. <span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia,-webkit-fantasy; font-size: small; line-height: 26px;"> Here are some ideas how you could use it in your classroom. <span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia,-webkit-fantasy;"> [|Stixy]<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;"> - Another way to approach putting up instructional materials online. Think of it as a bulletin board for your classroom that's online. Easy to use, easy to share and collaborate if you wish. <span style="color: #741b47; font-family: georgia,serif;"> <span style="color: #741b47; font-family: georgia,-webkit-fantasy; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Technology and Education Box of Tricks <span style="color: #800080; font-family: georgia,-webkit-fantasy; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"> was created by <span style="color: #800080; font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">J Picardo to support his belief " <span style="color: #800080; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;">that the effective use of technology in our schools ensures that education remains relevant to our students in their increasingly digital lives." This blog contains the awesome <span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;"> A-Z Internet Resources for Teachers! <span style="color: #741b47; font-family: georgia,'Times New Roman',fantasy;"> <span style="font-family: georgia,-webkit-fantasy; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">The Connected Classroom contains 450+ web 2.0 tools which are sorted by category! Great resource! <span style="font-family: georgia,-webkit-fantasy;"> <span style="font-family: georgia,-webkit-fantasy; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">The Digital Narrative - Finding your story with new media! <span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Amazing new media narratives, news about teaching digital story writing and much more. <span style="font-family: georgia,-webkit-fantasy;"> <span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"> Toolkit A-Z for Education ....this is an amazing list of web 2.0 tools organized in alphabetical order. <span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: georgia,fantasy; font-size: small; line-height: 19px;">Wallwisher lets you build a wall to share ideas, online notices, notes, and much more. You can add images, music, videos, and pages to your Wallwisher too. <span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">We Seed<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> i s a free service that allows adults and students to try their hands at investing in the stock market. We Seed<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> provides users with fake money to conduct fake trades of real stocks. For example, use fake money to buy 15 fake shares of Google stock. We Seed<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> does more than just give you an allocation of fake money to make fake transactions. We Seed<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> provides a series of market analysis tools that you can use to determine if you want to buy, sell, or hold your stocks. We Seed<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> also keeps you updated on the performance of your portfolio. We Seed<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> offers teachers the option to create private classroom groups through which they can monitor their students portfolios. We Seed<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> also offers teachers free lesson plans<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> for teaching stock market analysis and investment. <span style="font-family: georgia,fantasy;"> <span style="font-family: georgia,fantasy; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Web 2.0-21st Century Tools is a Great WIKI of tools! <span style="font-family: georgia,fantasy;"> [|Wiggio] <span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;"> - Great tool for working in groups. This is more of a fully featured service, with emails, polling, group chat features and more. <span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: georgia,Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">You Are Here<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> is a virtual shopping mall. The purpose of You Are Here<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> is to share information with middle school students about business practices, advertising, identity theft, and general consumer education. The You Are Here<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> virtual mall is divided into four sections that students can walk through. Each section of the mall is addresses a different set of topics. The teachers' section of You Are Here<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> offers four lesson plans for each of the four sections of the virtual mall. Classic Web 2.0 Tools for Educators Hundreds of Web2.0 tools in a large variety of categories including these categories for educators Teach Web2 This site was created and is maintained by a group of curious teachers who explore and brainstorm ways to integrate Web 2.0 technologies into our teaching. Some of these teachers meet face-to-face at an independent school in St. Petersburg, Florida. The rest are from all over the world. Web2.0 Cool Tools for Schools This is a portal type site that has a large number of web 2.0 tools for education. Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teacher This site was created by Sue Summerford. All sites are categorized to help find Web 2.0 tools that might be of use to the K-12 classroom teacher. Web 2.0 Teaching Tools This site lists Web 2.0 websites and web tools have potential for use for high school, college and university teaching.
 * Wading the Web2.0** This site has a number of useful Web2.0 tools for educators as well as some other related sites and info.
 * Top 25 Web 2.0 Search Engines** This site from online Educational Database lists 25 Web 2.0 search engines. Some offer functionality that's slowly making its way into traditional search engines. Others further the attempt to traverse the invisible Web and index other previously unsearchable research sources.

The following are printable booklets that can serve as resource guides to the Web2.0 world:
Conquering Technophobia – Web 2.0 Explained. A Teacher Resource Guide Web 2.0 From Curious to Competent eBook from Tech & Learning