Web 2.0: Free Online Tools for Your Classroom

Contact Info: Allison Powell, apowell@nacol.org

 

Web 2 Professional Development

 

Web 2.0 Whirlwind Presentation - Document -

K-12 Online Content Vendors Wiki page

Last Updated April 2008

The presentation given at the CCSD ECS Conference, 2007 Virtual Schools Symposium (VSS), and the November 8, 2007 CUE-SN Monthly Meeting offers an introduction to many different Web 2.0 tools. Quick exposure is enough for educators to decide whether each tool might be useful to them, then they can explore it more on their own after the presentation. There are many new web applications that are free and easy to use listed below. Many of these services have specific applications in education.

 

 

 

Alerts

Alerts provide the user with notifications on new websites, postings, articles, etc. related to topics entered by the user.

·         Google - http://www.google.com/alerts

·         GoogleAlert - http://www.googlealert.com/ (Not run by Google)

·         Search Alert - http://www.searchalert.net/

·         Yahoo! Alerts - http://alerts.yahoo.com/

 
 

Blogs

·         Blog.com - http://blog.com/

·         Blogger - https://www.blogger.com/start

·         Facebook – http://www.facebook.com

·         Live Journal - http://www.livejournal.com/

·         MySpace – http://www.myspace.com

·         Open Diary - http://www.opendiary.com/

·         TypePad - http://www.typepad.com/

·         Typo - http://www.typosphere.org/

·         Windows Live Spaces - http://spaces.live.com/

·         Xanga - http://www.xanga.com/

·         Vox - http://www.vox.com/

Calendars

Communications Tools

Instant Messaging (web-based, no client):

Instant Messaging (Download):

·         AOL Instant Messenger – http://www.aim.com

·         Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/

·         ICQ - http://www.icq.com/download/

·         MSN Messenger – http://get.live.com/messenger/overview

·         MySpace IM - http://personalweb.about.com/od/myspacecom/ss/myspaceim.htm

·         Yahoo! Messenger - http://messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php

·         Zoho Chat – Instant Messaging and group chat tool: http://zoho.com

Internet calling:

Voice email and Voice discussions:

Document Delivery/Display

Groups

Miscellaneous Tools

·         Google Teacher Resources

o    http://www.google.com/educators/tools.html

o    http://www.google.com/educators/activities.html

o    http://www.google.com/educators/community.html

o    http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html

o    http://www.google.com/educators/gta.html

 

Photo Sharing Sites

Flickr - http://flickr.com

Fun with flickr:

Other photo sharing alternatives:

Podcasting

·         Odeo: http://odeo.com

·         PodOmatic: http://podamatic.com/

·         Clickcaster: http://www.clickcaster.com ($4.99/month for basic)

·         Gcast: http://www.gcast.com/

·         Talkr - turn any blog post into a podcast http://www.talkr.com/

Podcasts to download/subscribe to (education related) 

  • Free Educational Podcasts - iTunesU (Go to the iTunes store and click on iTunesU)

 

 

Open Source Editing Tool  

·         Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net

Creative Commons Legal Guide for Podcasting: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide

Portal Pages

RSS Feed Readers - Blog Aggregators

First Type: When you always use the same computer. Use Firefox Browser with the Sage ExtensionSage Extension(http://sage.mozdev.org/)

·         Home Page: http://sage.mozdev.org/

Second Type: When you want to access your feeds from any connected computer (web-based readers)

Use Bloglines or Google Reader

Search Engines

General

Scholarly

VIsual Search Engines

·         Grokker - http://www.grokker.com/

·         Kartoo - http://www.kartoo.com/flash04.php3

·         Quintura - http://www.quintura.com/

·         Quintura for Kids - http://kids.quintura.com/

Social Bookmarking

·         Backflip - http://www.backflip.com/dir_start.ihtml

·         Blinklist - http://www.blinklist.com/

·         Blogmarks - http://blogmarks.net/

·         Connotea - http://www.connotea.org/

Social Networking

 

 

 

To Do Lists

·         Remember the Milk - http://www.rememberthemilk.com/

·         TaDaList - http://www.tadalist.com/

·         Voo2do - http://frassle.net/

 

Video Sharing & Capture

 

Virtual Worlds

 

Web Conferencing

Web Office Tools

Databases

·         Lazybase database: http://lazybase.com/

·         Zoho Applications – http://zoho.com

Notebooks

·         eDaily Diary - http://www.edailydiary.com/

·         Google Notebook: http://www.google.com/noteboook/

·         Zoho Note Book – Online Notebook: http://zoho.com

Presentations

·         AjaxPresents – http://www.ajaxwrite.com (Firefox browser only)

·         Empressr web presentations: http://www.empressr.com/ - (Embed video, charts, graphs, etc.)

·         SlideFlickr – http://slideflickr.com

·         SlideShare for PPT slides: http://slideshare.net/

·         ThinkFree - http://www.thinkfree.com/

·         Thumbstacks Presentations: http://www.thumbstacks.com/

·         Zoho Show – Online presentation tool – http://zoho.com

Spread Sheets

·         AjaxXLS – http://www.ajaxwrite.com (Firefox browser only)

·         EditGrid spreadsheets: http://www.editgrid.com/home(free, with collaboration $5.00 per month)

·         Google spreadsheet: http://spreadsheets.google.com/

·         ThinkFree - http://www.thinkfree.com/

·         Zoho Sheet – Online spreadsheet service – http://zoho.com

Word Processing

·         AjaxWrite – http://www.ajaxwrite.com (Firefox browser only)

·         Google word processing: http://docs.google.com/

·         ThinkFree - http://www.thinkfree.com/

·         Zoho Creator – Online web applications creator: http://zoho.com

Web Page Building

Web Polls

Wikis

·         EditMe - http://www.editme.com/95 per month) (Starts at $4.

·         Flexwiki - http://www.flexwiki.com/

·         Jotspot - http://www.jot.com/ (recently acquired by Google)

·         MediaWiki - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki (Used to build wikipedia)

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