1. Best Web 2.0 Tools for Educators Best Web 2.0 Tools for Educators Wilkes University – Internet Literacy Cathy W. Dowd Spring 2009 – Session 8

2. What is a Web 2.0 Tool? The term "Web 2.0" refers to a perceived second generation of web development and design Aims to facilitate communication, secure information sharing, and collaboration on the World Wide Web Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and applications; such as social- networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis & blogswikisblogs Definition adapted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

3. Organize your Photos and Videos

4. Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing Photobucket Site

5. Video sharing site. This school has it listed as an R-rated site.

6. Easy to create and edit videos

7. Easily create a collage of all your photos by pasting the URL into the box and watch Collagr work its magic

8. Create posters and blogging all in one. This is a top Web 2.0 tool because of tweenies http://www.glogster.com/edu

9. Meebo is a new communications and media company that's re- writing the way people have conversations and communicate on the Web. They provide instant messaging and group chat to over 40 million people at meebo.com and via partner sites across the Web.

10. Online service where users can create, customize, and share your own social network for free in seconds. Blocked.

11. Google Docs – Google Reader – Google Calendar docs.google.com/ www.google.com/reader www.google.com/calendar Free web-based word processor and spreadsheet, which allow you share and collaborate online Organize your schedule and share events with friends With Google Reader, keeping up with your favorite websites is as easy as checking your email.

14. IWantSandy I Want Sandy is an automated e-mail assistant You simply add "her" as an e-mail contact Add a small message System scans what you wrote and converts it into an e-mail reminder or calendar appointment that will be sent back to you at whatever time you note. It also has been designed to work with the popular microblogging service Twitter, letting users remotely set reminders while away from their regular e-mail. Productivity tool

15. YouTube and TeacherTube Download and upload videos. TeacherTube has restrictions that YouTube does not. YouTube is rated R by this district.

17. wordle.net

19. Create a Graph http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/index.asp

20. Big Huge Labs http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/

21. online graphical dictionary & thesaurus

22. Collaborative brainstorming software. Not a free site – trial available.

23. Creates polls and surveys quickly and in an interesting format.

24. Internet highlighter tools http://awurl.com/t0pUbNMgN

25. PicLits

26. Free video chat and conferencing

28. http://museumbox.e2bn.org/

29. http://blabberize.com/

30. Easy comic creator

31. Wiki A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable users who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language.

32. Blocked. Wetpaint lets you build a rich, online community around the whatever-it-is that you’re really into. Utilizing the best features of wikis, blogs, forums and social networks, Wetpaint mixes everything you need so you can create, collect, and organize content on your own social website.

33. Free – requires a download http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

34. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digital photography/photostory/default.mspx

35. Create a Project Choose Any Three 1.Animoto 2.Big Huge Labs 3.Museum Box 4.Blabberize Download Audacity and PhotoStory