| New IT - Web 2.0 Tools Most of the items on this page are for teachers to use with their classrooms as part of a lesson. Blogs What is a blog? 10 Tips for Beginning Bloggers http://edtechpower.blogspot.com/2010/01/10-tips-for-beginning-bloggers.html Blog Sites for Educators & Students Blog Sites - General Collaboration Etherpad -lets people work together on creating a document. Polls Twiddla - Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Vuvox - allows you to create interactive slideshows and presentations from photos, video and music from Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, etc. Google Google has many great tools - go to google.com - try the links - make sure to go to more and even more! Google - After you search on something in Google - click on show options. Try Wonder Wheel. Try some other options too. Google Blogger - Create a blog Google Books - Can do an online search through books online. Google Docs - create and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with anyone Google Labs - see some of the stuff Google has been working on Podcasting What is a podcast? Audacity - record and edit sound Photography Editing -
ImageChef - Creative site for adding animated frames, create word mosaics, etc. -
Sharing Presentation Tools Prezi - put your presentation on one big page (instead of many PowerPoint slides) - works well with a IWB SlideShare - upload and share PowerPoint, Word, and PDF documents. Vyew - With Vyew you can conduct meetings in real time using a shared workspace, webcam, voice over IP (VoIP), free teleconferencing, text chat and desktop sharing. In addition to uploading, sharing and presenting content you can invite participants to annotate and collaborate on content during the meeting. Participants can be allowed to navigate the workspace independently to collaborate on different portions of the content. You can also record the meeting for playback. Technology Integration Video CoolIris - easily find, navigate, and subscribe to shows you like most LiveStream Create your own channel or watch others. UStream Create your own videos or watch others. Xtranormal - create movies with animated characters by typing in the words the will say. This is for teachers to create a movie - not for kids. Vocabulary Web 2.0 - Directories - Where you can find more... |