Other Web 2.0 Tools

Voicethread - collaborate on videos, images or documents. Users can leave comments or doodles. Apply for the free VT Educator account which allows 50 Voicethreads totally up to 250 MB for free.

Glogster or Edu Glogster - create an online poster with audio, video, images, and links.

Animoto for Education (get a free upgraded account and then forward access code to your students) - designs a video from your images instantly

Zoho - online collaboration for slideshows, documents, wikis and MUCH more

Jing - free download - screen capture program - video can be saved to your computer or automatically to Screencast

Screencast - storage for documents, images, presentations or videos

Voki - Speaking Avatar creator; no account needed to embed voki into a blog or wiki.

Prezi - Create zooming presentation

Bubbl.us- Create mindmaps collaboratively

Ning - Create a social/educational network site

Diigo - Social/educational bookmarking site with web-highlighter and sticky note features

Delicious - Social/educational bookmarking site

What is Web 2.0?

Check out some videos:

1) Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0 (2.06)

2) Web 2.0 (audio is uneven - it's not you!) (2:07)

3) The Machine is Us(ing) Us (4:34)

4) Shift Happens/Did you know (4:55)

NEED MORE:
5) Networked Student (5:10)

6) Web 2.0 basics

7) A vision of today’s students (4:45) – College perspective

8) Tim O’Reilly on What is Web 2.0 (0:51)

9) Web 2.0 The 24 minute Documentary (24:00)

10) Evolution Web 1.0, Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 (3:57)

What are Blogs and Wikis?

A wiki is simply an editable website.

Some popular wikis include:

• Wikipedia
• Tripadvisor
• Teach Web 2.0

Wikispaces offer free accounts for teachers that are private and without ads.
Some teachers prefer to create a website with discussion areas like those offered on Wetpaint.

A blog is an online journal.

Blogger and Wordpress are popular blogsites.

Where do I find Web 2.0 Resources?

A few suggestions:

• Go 2 Web 2.0
• Teach Web 2.0 wiki
• Cool Tools For Schools
• Web 2.0 Resources for 21st Century Instruction

Please comment if you have other sources to recommend.