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=St Pius X - 3rd July 2009= =Web 2.0: Practical ideas for the effective use of technology presentation= The following resources were discussed in the presentation:

Scootle
Access thousands of ready made resources including film clips, audio files and more through [|Scootle] Teachers use email address and a password to login. [|Sign-up here]

Word Clouds
[|Wordle] is a tool that allows you to create word clouds based on frequency of words in a given text. [|This blog post] gives a nice explanation of how it works. See the subject specifc links page for exmaples from your curriculum area.

VoiceThread
[|Voicethread] Create a video that can be collaboratively voice annotated if you wish. Also works for documents and images. [|Click here]for lots of examples. [|Click here for an explanation of Ed Voicethread] (the educator version) Best Practices for Using VoiceThread [|Hamlet's Ophelia] K-2 Examples [|K-2 example] [|Weather Poetry] [|Kim's Train] Voicethreads in Education [|Art Appreciation] Tutorial: [|Sharing Voicethreads] Tutorial: [|Comment Moderation]

Flickr
[|Flickr] - Very popular online photo management and sharing application [|Flickr Creative Commons] Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a [|Creative Commons] license, search through content under each type of license. [|FlickrCC] was created so that you can easily find images on flickr that were released under the [|Creative Commons license]. Click the [|About] link to find out how to correctly attribute the author.

RSS
[|RSS: A Quick Start Guide for Educators] written by Will Ricardson.

Aggregators/Feed Readers
[|Bloglines] [|Google Reader] [|Newsgator]

Personal Customisable Start Pages
[|igoogle], [|Netvibes] and [|Pageflakes] are customisable Web 2.0 home page or start pages with a very simple interface. Personalise a page with a wide range of content such as RSS/Atom feeds, and Web 2.0 services. Access your page anywhere, anytime.

RSS Feed Creators
[|Feedburner]

Google Earth
Google Earth [|http://earth.google.com] is a virtual globe, map and geographic information program that allows users to investigate not only maps of the world but superimpositioned images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS 3D globe. Use the Layers palette to access • current and historical ABC news data [] • ocean data including fish tracking and more • historical and archeaological sites • literature tours such as those on [|Google Lit Trips] • amazing ultra high def images like the ones found at the [|Museo del Prado in Madrid].

Google Docs
Google's Google Docs are great tools for collaboration. You can have a spreadsheet, presentation or document in a shared space online. Use the forms facility as a survey tool. A simple guide can be found [|here]. [|Google docs for Educators] Google Apps Education Edition lets tech administrators provide email, sharable online calendars, instant messaging tools and even a dedicated website to faculty, students and staff for free. There's no hardware or software to install or maintain, since everything is delivered through a standard web browser -- anytime, from anyplace. [|Google Docs in Plain English] [|How to Use Google Docs: Spreadsheet Toolbar] [|How to Use Google Docs - Understanding Spreadsheets in Google Docs]

Google Sketch-up
[|Google SketchUp] is software that you can use to create 3D models of anything you like

Maths Specifc Resources
Include a range of interactive applets and can be found at the top of our subject specific links page