Web+2.0+Links

General/Reference
[|Complete Web 2.0 directory] [|101 Web 2.0 Teaching Tools] Cool Tools for school Fantastic website with a whole lot of web 2.0 tools including conversion software, mapping, quizzing and video tools. [|Web 2.0 Awards 2008] - Nominees, place getters and winners Consequences of having an online profile from the social-networking week wiki (a school experiment) [|Simple Spark Catalog] Has a comprehensive listing of web 2.0 apps that gets larger every day. It also gives you the tools to organize and share all these apps with your friends. [|Appappeal] find reviews of web-based applications [|An A-Z of Web 2.0] How Web Savvy Parents Can Help Kids Learn The English Alphabet. Use an Alphabet representing a Web 2.0 tool for each letter. [|Web2.0 in education wiki] contains lists of web2.0 tools great for education with links and screenshots. [|Wallwisher] An online notice board, online post-it notes [|15 Interesting Ways to Use Wallwisher in the Classroom]

Twitter
[|Twitter] is a microblogging tool. Access the main site or use [|Twitbin], [|Twitteroo], [|Twitteriffic] (for mac), [|Snitter], [|Twhirl] or others as local application interfaces to send Tweets. [|Twittervision] shows tweets in real time on a map of the world. Search for interesting people to follow with [|Twellow]. Search topics with [|Twitter Search] and you might like to read 6 Twitter searches compared. See also The Ultimate Guide to Twitter Hashtags blog post to get and idea how to use Twitter hashtags. elearningtwits is an ever growing list of australasian twitterers with an interest in elearning.

Tagging & Tag Clouds
Folksonomic tagging means that average people are tagging information they post online with meta tags. Here are some [|Great examples] of tag clouds from Smashing Magazine. [|Zoom Clouds] cloud maker. Tag clouds for your site, about your site... or about anything you want! [|Make Cloud] a tutorial on how to add a tag cloud to your blog or site.

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. Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.

Social Networking
[|Imbee] is the first social network for young people [|Plurk] Microblogging service where 'plurks' or updates are arranged on a relative timeline. [|Edmodo] Student friendly microblogging service. Allows you to send short messages, alerts, calendar events, files, links and embedded objects such as YoutTube videos. Check oout this [|very useful introductory tutorial] [|Facebook] [|My Space] [|Friendster] [|Elgg] Create your own social network, quickly and easily. Great for organisations, groups and individuals.



Nings
[|Nings] Create your own social network for anything [|Classroom 2.0 Ning] (Global teacher community) [|Education Ning] Using Ning for Educational Social Networks [|ICT NSW Ning] (NSW ICT teachers community) [|Teacher Librarian Ning] [|Library Web 2.0 Ning] Network for librarians and others interested in Library 2.0 [|Library Youth & Teen Services 2.0 Ning] For youth services librarians and others interested in web 2.0 [|Oz/Nz Educators Ning] [|Second Classroom Ning] For educators with an interest in Second Life and 3D virtual worlds for education [|School 2.0 Ning] [|Stop Cyber bullying Ning] [|Young Adult Literature Ning] For those who love young adult literature in all its forms Primary Teachers Network Ning [|eclassics ning] Students and teachers of Latin, ancient Greek, and Classical literature can exchange ideas on the role of technology in the Classics classroom here. The [|Global Education Ning] is a great place for teachers to connect with other teachers for sister school or multi-school projects.



Wikis
[|Wikispaces] Free accounts for teachers (free of ads) Wikispaces, tips and Help for teachers [|eMINTS Teaching Tips: Wikis in the classroom] [|PB Wiki] (now PBWorks) This wiki is said to be as simple to use as making a peanut butter sandwich. [|Wetpaint] Here is a great [|year 7 Science example]. AIS Wonderful Wikis Some examples of how the wikispaces widgets work and other links about wikis. [|Curriki] Curriki ('curriculum' + 'wiki') is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of educational materials including lesson plans, videos and unitts of work. Wikis as a teaching tool - a Year 3 class's journey in writing a collaborative plot summary of Charlotte's Web

Blogs
[|Edublogs] Free, easy to use educational blogs for teachers [|Blogger] Popular, free blogging site. Be aware that some schools block access to Blogger so check first or reserve for personal use. [|21Classes] Create a virtual classroom and BlogPortal. Instant use, hosted, free. [|Global Teacher] The Global Teacher Project is a joint project between the Victorian Education Channel and The School Library Association of Victoria. [|Class Blogmeister] developed specifically for classroom use by David Warlick. Create a blog with built in student blogs. [|Scrapblog] Blogging meets scrapbooking. [|Posterous] sends blog posts via your email - couldn't be easier. [|Tumblr] Post anything. Tumblr makes it effortless to share text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be.

Podcasting
[|iTunes] Allows you to play music or pdcasts as well as to subscribe to podcasts from [|iTunes podcast directory] or other websites. [|Podomatic] Create your own podcasts and subscribe to others [|Podbean] Create your own podcasts and subscribe to others [|SpokenText] Allows you to record PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files ,RSS news feeds, emails and web pages, and converts them to speech automatically. You can download your recording as an iPod book or mp3 file. [|Odiogo] Transforms text into audio formats downloadable directly to the PC, iPods/MP3 players and mobile phones. Great tool for bloggers to turn a text-based post into something more like a podcast. [|Talkr] Allows you to listen to text-only blogs on your iPod by converting text to .mp3.

Virtual/ 3D worlds
[|Second Life] Second Life in Education Wiki and [|Second Life education event calendar Teen Second Life] Use [|Screenflow] to screen capture a drama acted out in Teen Second Life (or any other avatar based 3D environment) [|Skoolaborate] - Student friendly project-based version of Teen second Life [|Webkinz] - (K-6) virtual world [|Quest Atlantis]- 3D multi-user environment designed to immerse children, ages 9-15, in educational tasks. [|Edusim] Edusim is a free opensource 3D multi-user virtual world specifically for your classroom interactive whiteboard. Edusim is extendable allowing multiple classrooms to connect their interactive whiteboards for collaborative learning sessions. Take a tour of many virtual worlds with Gary Hayes [|Metaverse Tour] [|Free Realms] a family friendly gaming environment by Sony. Read the review at [|SLAV]

Online Book Marking
Store all your bookmarks online. Very handy for sharing with students or colleagues and a lifesaver if you move computers or you experience a crash. [|Del.icio.us] [|Furl] [|Edutagger] social bookmarking service for K-12 learners and educators. Store your web links online and share them, all within an educational context.

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]

Photo, Image and Video
[|YouTube] - Online video sharing portal [|Zamzar] - Handy free online file conversion tool (useful for downloading YouTube videos) [|TeacherTube] - Just like YouTube but full of educational videos for teachers and students [|NeoK12]the best selection of free online educational videos and lessons from all over the internet. [|ShoZu]- Upload pictures straight from your mobile phone to your (say) flickr page A guide to setting up ShoZu can be found here [|Odeo] Odeo makes it easy to find, play and enjoy the latest audio & video from around the web. Discover great shows, subscribe to favorites, create playlists and share with friends. From comedy to cooking, entertainment to education, if it's online, it's on Odeo. [|UstreamTV] - Broadcast and interact with a global audience in just minutes. All it takes is a camera and an Internet connection. [|Slideshare] Share your own or browse slideshows and presentations posted by others. [|Pixlr] a free online site that is similar to Photoshop and allows you to create, manipulate and save images without needing to download any software

Piclits team beautiful pictures with the right words to tell a story online. TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.

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. [|Tag Galaxy] Visual representation of flickr photos by tags and sub-tag groups represented as planets in a galaxy. Search a tag, click on an image to view it and click again to see it's original source in flickr. [|Illustration of poetry] with Flickr [|Classroom uses] of Flickr [|Using Flickr in the classroom] [|Art Teachers] For art teachers in the UK to share student's work via a collaborative area. Early days. [|Motivating language teachers] with Flickr [|Pedagogical uses] of Flickr [|Walk through Flickr] Video [|What can we do with Flickr?] Annotations, notes Flickrstorm **FlickrStorm** is a search for Flickr! It works by looking for //more// than what you enter to find related and more relevant images... Be suprised!

=Multimedia Tools= [|Glogster] Create your own interactive poster with audio, images, text and video

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] Different education options (re accounts)[|explained]

Creating Avatars & Profile Images
[|Be Funky] Includes digital media tools such as Cartoonizer and Unvatar that let you become an instant artist. Great for creating alternate avatars. [|Otaku Avatar Maker] Make character icons or avatars for your blog, wiki and other web 2.0 sites completely free of charge [|Voki] - Voki allows you to create and customise your very own talking avatar. Snap turn your webcam into a photo studio

Video conferencing /Online Conferencing
[|Talkshoe] - TalkShoe enables anyone to easily create, join, or listen to Live Interactive Discussions, Conversations, Podcasts and Audioblogs.

[|Elluminate] online video conferencing. Get a 3 person chat happening for free or pay to upgrade. [|YuuGuu] is a screen sharing and instant messaging service built to make working together simpler. [|Skype] is software that allows users to collaborate and make free calls over the internet. A brief overview is found here. [|Skype.doc] [|Skype in Schools wiki] is an educational directory of schools looking to communicate with other schools. The edublogger blog's post on [|Skyping other classrooms]gives lots of links and information. The [|Skype an Author Network]provides K-12 teachers and librarians a way to connect authors, books, and young readers through virtual visits.



Browsers
[|Flock] - Social web browser, that integrates a wide range of other web 2.0 applications

Screen Capture
[|Jing] - Jing is an online program that allows the user to instantly capture and shares images and video from your computer and allows you to send them anywhere. This is a great tool to easily capture narrated videos to create quick and dirty tutorials. [|Flowgram] Video screen capture software. Allows you to film and narrate a thread online. [|Shutter] is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website - apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window. This blog post gives a good description.

Research Tools
[|iBreadCrumbs.com] is a recording toolbar for your FireFowx web browser. It records all the web pages you visit while you research. Save, review, and share your research with friends or colleagues. [|Zotero]

Widgets
[|Frappr] - Frappr Maps are like a triple mash-up of an online guest book, a hit log and a map Cluster Map

Online Document Sharing
[|Scribd] 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. Here's an example of a shared google doc 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]

Other Web 2.0 Tools
[|A.viary] - A.viary is a website for artists of all genres to create, edit and share their works directly in their favorite browser. [|Tripit] organise your trip online, create an itinerary that can be shared, download to your mobile phone and more.

[|ReQall] is a memory tool, connecting all the ways you communicate in one seamless system from phone, to web browser, to instant messaging and news feeds. Now put everything in one place; available anywhere, any time.

=e-book Resources= 100 useful links for e-book lovers Google Books search over the full text of some seven million books through Google Books. Storybird short, visual stories that you make with family and friends to share and print (U.S site). [|Tikatok] crerate your own story as an e-book or print a hard copy to keep (U.S site) Bookemon Students and teachers can write their own original books, add their own images and artwork as illustrations, and read their published books in interactive, online form.

Google Docs
[|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] Here's an example of a shared Google Doc [|How to Use Google Docs: Spreadsheet Toolbar] [|How to Use Google Docs - Understanding Spreadsheets in Google Docs] The Power of Google Spreadsheets Google Spreadsheets - Forms Tutorial Google Forms - Tutorial 2 Google Forms - Self Correcting Auto-Fill Cells in Google Spreadsheets Quick and Easy IF Formulas for Grading Google Forms Using Forms in Google Docs Google Docs - Working Offline How to use Google Docs: How to share documents in Google Teachers and Principals talk about Google Docs Google Docs Collaboration Google Docs for Teachers - Introduction in 5 minutes Sharing on Google Docs Using Google Docs in the Classroom: Simple as ABC 32 Interesting Ways to use Google Docs in the Classroom Conditional Formatting - Google Forms

Google Maps
[|Basics - Google Maps User]Basics - Google Maps User Guide[| Guide] [|Using Different Views, including street view, - Google Maps User Guide] In the "My Maps" area there is lots of content that can be added to your Google Maps

Google's Picasa
[|Picasa] find, edit and share photos [|Download Picasa] [|Picasa] Getting started guide

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 a vast array of information including: • Current and historical ABC news data [] • Ocean data including fish tracking and more • Literature based tours such as those on [|Google Lit Trips] • Amazing ultra high def images like the ones found at the [|Museo del Prado in Madrid]. For more information on working with layers see [|this page] [|Google Earth introductory video from Atomic Learning] A quick cheat sheet and some things to look at in Google Earth 25 intersting ways and tips to use Google Earth in the classroom [|Google Earth in the classroom] Using the ruler tool to measure in Google Earth [|Ruler Tool] Using the Google Earth measuring tool. [|Measuring Tool]

iGoogle
[|iGoggle] your personalized Google page. Add news, photos, weather, and stuff from across the web to your page [|Social gadgets for iGoogle]

Mash-ups
Click here to see links to various mash-ups and mash-up reference sites and some examples.

Global Projects
[|Teachers Connecting] A place for K-12 teachers to find other teachers for cross-classroom collaboration. Flat Classroom Project and The [|Flat Classroom project from 2008] [|The Global Education Ning]