Web+2.0


 * COOL WEB 2.0 TOOLS **


 * ﻿Sites with Lots of Resources for Classrooms **

﻿Bloom's Taxonomy Bloomin Pinwheel - Web 2.0 tools aligned to Bloom's Taxonomy!

Web 2.0 Resources for 21st Century Education

Hundreds of resources here, including the author's top 10 must-haves for every classroom!

Barbara Haeffner's Wiki Another great starting point for Web 2.0 resources!

﻿﻿Visual Online Conversations - And More!

﻿﻿﻿ Tiny Chat Set up your own free chat or video chat room! Great for collaborating with other classes.

Chatzy Quickly set up a free chat room - no downloads necessary!

Jing Like a free SMARTboard recorder! Add visuals to your online conversations!

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Great for having students explain how to do a task, i.e. solve a complex math problem!
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">of your screen.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">of onscreen action.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">over the web, IM, email.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Voicethread for K-12 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Group conversations around documents, images, or videos. Post a problem, and have students collaborate. Also a great tool for digital storytelling!

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Word Cloud Generators **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tagxedoturns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Web 2.0 and Education - This blog post gives lots of information and examples for using word clous generators such as **Wordle** and **Tagxedo**. (And if you check out the right side of the blog, there are many more Web 2.0 resources and ideas!)


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Social Bookmarking **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Delicious

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows you to tag, save, manage and share Web pages all in one place.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Weebly <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Create a free class website, and let your students build sites, too!
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">More Cool Tools & Gadget ****<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">s **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">TimeToast <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Create timelines and share them on the web! Great for documenting sequence of events in history, current events, a novel, or an autobiography!

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">MindMeister <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Interactive, collaborative, online mind mapping and brainstorming tool!

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Geogebra <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Free math software for learning and teaching


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Interactive graphics, algebra and spreadsheet
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">From elementary school to university level
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Free learning materials

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Glogster <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Take a look at this valuable teaching tool that integrates diverse core subjects including math, science, history, art, photography, music and more for individual learner portfolios, unique alternative assessments, and differentiated instructional activities.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Wallwisher <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">An online NOTICE BOARD maker!! Great for making announcements, keeping notes...anything you can do with Post-its, and MUCH more! And this is a Wallwisher How-to Guide which is quite helpful.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Stixy <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Similar to Wallwisher. Check them both out, and YOU decide!

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Flash Card Machine - Create, study and share online flashcards!