Web+2.0+Resources

//Web 2.0 Resources //

What is Web 2.0?
The use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to facilitate creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. Key ideas of Web 2.0 tools include: collaboration, participation, interactivity, read/write web, user creation, control over data, and cloud computing.

Taken from: http://60in60.wikispaces.com/web2.0

Here are some of the online resources that I learned about while I was in Philadelphia this past summer at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE ) conference, formerly known as National Educational Computing Conference (NECC).

//Some of these were from a session called 60 in 60. //
 * Create a wiki at wikispaces.com
 * Make a word cloud - Wordle
 * Make a shaped word cloud - Tagxedo
 * Image capture - Skitch
 * Make flashcards - Quizlet
 *  Provide reinforcement in all subjects while earning rice for third world countries - Freerice
 * Create a bibliography - Easybib
 *  Online platform to express creativity, knowledge, and ideas in the classroom at Glogster edu
 * Animation with Xtranormal (free trial or small monthly fee)
 * Animation with Doink
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Drawing and image editor Sumopaint
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">share ideas instantly with Jing
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Publish and share your files free at GE.TT
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Easily create a google maps from your data at Batchgeo
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Free online teleprompter at Cueprompter
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Find free music for podcasts and classroom lessons at Free Play Music
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Answer questions, do math, get facts, create plots, unit conversions, scientific data and statistics, homework help and more at WolframAlpha
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Make a crossword puzzle at Crosswordlabs
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Create free timelines that are easy to share at Timetoast
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Make free rubrics to use with your students at Rubistar 4 Teachers
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Testmoz is a free test generator that offers four question types, automatic grading, a really simple interface and detailed reports. Does **not** require you (or your students) to register.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Diigo is a great tool for highlighting and sharing the web with your students.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Resize a picture for free at mypictr.com
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Museum Box provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Funny-Google is a search engine that uses the search technology of Google ™ (though without any direct association with the brand), the results are presented with the same effectiveness and speed with that the North American brand is recognized in all parts of the world. The difference is only in the logo, which may be your name or another you like..
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">100 Free Web Tools for Elementary Teachers Great set of resources to tag or bookmark for use with your students.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**This page is a work in progress. Check back later for more cool web 2.0 tools.**