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WEB 2.0 ToolsBy Nikki Beaton
Popplet is a platform for your ideas! It can be used to outline, create mind maps, take notes, and collaborate with others!!
www.popplet.com
Educators can apply for a free Animoto Plus account for use in the classroom.It’s powerful features can be used to create stunning presentations incorporating, images, text, video clips and music.
www.animoto.com
“Create interactive presentations - insert images, videos, YouTubes, PDFs or other media. Visualize your ideas. Pan Left, Move Right, Zoom-in on a detail, or Zoom-out to show the big
picture.”
www.prezi.com
“Information delivered visually – a tool where information can be heard and seen.”
www.qwiki.com
“Is an online web sticky note service that can be used to post memos, to-do lists, ideas, and photos anywhere on an online
web canvas.”
www.linoit.com
“Fun and easy for you to collaborate online! Create tasks, files, photos,
notes, and bookmarks on your Stixyboards, organized in whatever way
you like.”
www.stixy.com
“An online tool that provides students with ready-made interactive ‘thinking guides’ to support their own enquiry and research. These thinking guides
help students to work through an issue, topic or question and prompt .”
www.exploratree.com
“A free tool for turning PowerPoint slides into rich
video presentations right from your web browser.”
www.knovio.com
“ A tool that creates word clouds from text and develops students’ creativity and critical thinking – important 21st
century learning skills.”
www.wordle.net
“If you can type, you can make movies... ... Enhance your lessons with
a movie; have students create their own, suits a variety of learning styles!”
www.xtranormal.com
“A free service that allows educators to create personalized speaking avatars
and use them in the classroom to motivate, excite and teach students.
!”
www.voki.com
“Poster yourself - Make your interactive poster easily and
share it with friends. Mix Images, Text, Music and Video.
It is fantastic!
www.edu.glogster.com
“LiveBinders is your 3-ring binder for the Web. Collect your resources;
Organize them neatly and easily. It is the knowledge sharing place
www.livebinders.com
“A social learning network for teachers, students, and
parents. We help teachers make their classroom a
community.”
www.edmodo.com
“Is a simple online start page that lets you easily organize
and access favourite sites and web services on one page.”
www.symbaloo.com
“A tool that lets you keep at hand the web pages you like, discover some new ones in your areas of
interest and share them easily with your friends!”
www.pearltrees.com
“An online curation tool that allows you to ‘scoop’ topics you would like to learn more
about!”
www.scoopit.com
“An online social networking and microblogging service that enables
its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters,
informally known as tweets.”
www.twitter.com
“Is the complete reference and resource for educational technology web tools.”
www.edutecher.net