Best Web 2.0 Best Web 2.0 Tools for EducatorsTools for Educators

Wilkes University – Internet LiteracyWilkes University – Internet LiteracyCathy W. Dowd

Spring 2009 – Session 8

What is a Web 2.0 Tool?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 & blogs

Definition adapted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

Organize your Photos and Videos

• Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing

Photobucket Site

Video sharing site. This school has it

listed as an R-rated site.

Easy to create and edit videos

Easily create a collage of all your photos by pasting

the URL into the box and watch Collagr work its magic

Create posters and blogging all in one.This is a top Web 2.0 tool because of tweenies

http://www.glogster.com/edu

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.

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

Google Docs – Google Reader – Google Docs – Google Reader – Google Calendar 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.

IWantSandyIWantSandy

• 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

YouTube and TeacherTubeYouTube and TeacherTube

Download and upload videos.

TeacherTube has restrictions that YouTube does not. YouTube is rated R by this district.

wordle.networdle.net

Create a GraphCreate a Graph

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/index.asp

Big Huge LabsBig Huge Labs

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/

online graphical dictionary & thesaurus

Collaborative brainstorming software.

Not a free site – trial available.

Creates polls and surveys quickly and in an interesting format.

Internet highlighter toolsInternet highlighter tools

http://awurl.com/t0pUbNMgN

PicLitsPicLits

Free video chat and conferencing

http://museumbox.e2bn.org/

http://blabberize.com/

Easy comic creator

WikiWiki

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.

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.

Free – requires a download

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx

Create a ProjectCreate a ProjectChoose Any ThreeChoose Any Three1. Animoto2. Big Huge Labs3. Museum Box4. Blabberize

Download Audacity and PhotoStory