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Web 2 0 Tools

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Quick Guide to Web 2.0 Apps

(Free, easy, totally web-based, and paper free!)

	http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html	Full featured word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation tool available to any teacher or student from any computer with Internet access. Forget transferring, uploading, downloading and sharing files using USB drives or email.
	http://pbworks.com/academic.wiki	Blogging, displaying student web-projects, linking various websites for student use, student writing publication in a protected space.
	www.animoto.com	Presentations; high level analysis of concepts and vocabulary. Great for Marzano vocabulary study technique.
	wordle.net	Text analsysis tool. Makes high frequency words larger. Great for seeing what writing is really about. Makes "Beautiful Word Clouds." Encourages students to write more and better!
	www.glogster.com/edu	Blank slate with video, music, and image capabilities; an electronic posterboard with multimedia capabilities.
	http://voicethread.com/#home	Students can narrate with a microphone and explain with images or video.
	http://blabberize.com/	Characterization, explanation of ideas from another perspective.
	http://sketchcast.com/	Explanation of understanding; students can demonstrate with a virtual whiteboard while explaining on the microphone.
	http://www.toondoo.com/	Create comic strips to demonstrate understanding of concepts. (Science? Explain a weather phenomenon. Language Arts? Show you understand your vocabulary.) Now allows the creation of books.
	http://www.scribblar.com/	Virtual white board; similar to a webinar; free and PRIVATE; simultaneous student/teacher interaction. This tool is great for small grouping and collaboration.
	http://www.intel.com/education/tools/	Visual ranking tool allows students to place concepts and words in order (you decide the order: greatest to least, kindom to phylum; first step to last step, etc).
	http://www.teachertube.com/	Free online resources available as well as opportunity to post/host your students products. Can be protected.
	http://www.snagfilms.com/	Free access to documentaries. Remember to preview first!
	http://www.visuwords.com/	Free and highly visual thesaurus; word relationships displayed with color and line patterns.
	https://www.blogger.com/start	Students can keep daily journals, write about events, conduct interviews, etc. Gmail account needed.
	http://www.sumopaint.com/web/	Free alternative to expensive graphic and image editors. (Similar to Photoshop.) Powerful AND simple.
	http://www.jingproject.com/	Capture quick 5 minute screen casts or take snapshots of your screen to display images or to share what you see on your screen. (Must be installed on computer to create, but screencasts can be viewed on any computer with Flash and Internet.)
	http://www.capzles.com/	Impressive presentation tool. Incorporate images and text to create dynamic, interactive projects on any subject.
	http://posterous.com/	This is a great blog to post right from your iPhone the following: Audio podcast Video podcast Pictures Text.
	http://eyeplorer.com/	This is a very visual search engine. There approach is inspired by current research results from cognitive science, computational linguistics and neurobiology. They aim at radically improving the way users interact with knowledge and information online. Recent studies show that human thought processes have a strong visual component and that the brain can process images significantly faster than textual information. They are convinced that it is time for innovative, interactive, visual methods of working with and discovering facts and information instead of wading through ever longer lists of documents and search results.
	http://www.todaysmeet.com/	Talk. Listen. TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime. Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs.