Web+2.0+Resources

Web 2.0 Resources
jotspot pbwiki wikispaces wetpaint
 * **__Wikis__***

blogger Class blogmeister Drupal Edublogs Gaggle Blogs
 * __Blogs__***

GIMP Google SketchUp iPhoto Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows Picasa Tux Paint
 * __P__****__hoto and Drawing__***

Grokker Rollyo Squidoo Technorati
 * __Search Tools__***

GoogleEarth
 * __Mapping__***

TheOpenCD OpenOffice.org
 * __Desktop Tools__***

Google Personalized Homepage Netvibes Pageflakes Protopage || **__Aggregators__*** Bloglines Google Reader
 * __Web Start Pages__***

Backflip Blinklist delicious furl simpy spurl
 * __Social Bookmarking__***

EyeSpot Grouper JumpCut VideoEgg Video Furnace YouTube TeacherTube
 * __Video__***

Ta-da Lists Voo2doo
 * __Task Management__***

Numbler Num Sum Zoho Sheet Google Docs & Spreadsheets
 * __Web-based Spreadsheets__***

Zoho Polls || **__File Sharing__*** Allmydata Glide Personal Google Docs & Spreadsheets
 * __Surveys and Polls__***

Flickr Webshots Zoto Rock You
 * __Photo Sharing__***

Slideshare [|Thumbstacks.com] Zoho show Bubbleshare
 * __Presentation Tools__***

CalendarHub Google Calendar WebCalendar
 * __Online Calendars__***

__**Web-based Word Processing***__ ajaxWrite Google Docs & Spreadsheets Writeboard Zoho Writer

Moodle || ==How to Blog:== A **blog** is a type of [|website], usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.  Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal [|online diaries]. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, [|Web pages], and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art, photographs, videos, music ( [|MP3 blog] ), and audio ( [|podcasting] ). [|Microblogging] is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts.
 * Content Management***

*This information was compiled from //__Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms.
 * **__ Classroom Uses of Weblogs __** ** You might like to create a reflective, journal-type blog to... *** Reflect on your teaching experiences
 * Keep a log of teacher-training experiences
 * Write a description of a specific teaching unit
 * Describe what worked for you in the classroom or what didn't work
 * Provide some teaching tips for other teachers
 * Write about something you learned from another teacher
 * Explain teaching insights you gain from what happens in your classes
 * Share ideas for teaching activites or language games to use in the classroom
 * Provide some how-tos on using specific technology in the class, describing how you used this technology in your own class
 * Explore important teaching and learning issues
 * You might like to start a class blog to... *** Post class-related information such as calendars, events, homework assignments and other pertinent class information
 * Post assignments based on literature readings and have students repond on their own Webblogs, creating a kind of portfolio of their work
 * Communicate with parents if you are teaching elementary school students
 * Post prompts for writing
 * Provide examples of classwork, vocabulary activities, or grammar games
 * Provide online readings for your students to read and react to
 * Gather and organize Internet resources for a specific course, providing links to appropriate sites and annotating the links as to what is relevant about them.
 * Post photos and comment on class activities
 * Invite student comments or postings on issues in order to give them a writing voice
 * Publish examples of good student writing done in class
 * Showcase student art, poetry and creative stories
 * Create a dynamic teaching site, posting not only class-related information, but also activities, discussion topics, links to additional information about topics they are studying in class, and reading to inspire learning
 * Create a literature circle
 * Create an online book club
 * Make use of the commenting feature to have students publish messages on topics being used to develop language skills
 * Post tasks to carry out project-based learning tasks with students
 * Build a class newsletter, using student-written articles and photos they take
 * Link your class with another class somewhere elese in the world.
 * You can encourage your students to blog... *** Their reactions to thought-provoking questions
 * Their reactions to photos you post
 * Journal entries
 * Results of surveys they carry out as part of a class unit
 * Their ideas and opinions about topics discussed in class
 * You can have your students create their own Weblogs to... *** Learn how to blog
 * Complete class writing assignments
 * Create an ongoing portfolio of samples of their writing
 * Express their opinions on topics you are studying in class
 * Write comments, opinions, or questions on daily news items or issues of interest
 * Discuss activities they did in class and tell what they think about them
 * Write about class topics, using newly learned vocabulary words
 * Showcase their best writing pieces
 * You can also ask your class to create a shared Weblog to.... *** Complete project work in small groups, assigning eachg roup a different task
 * Showcase products of project-based learning
 * Complete a WebQuest (an online, structured research activity)
 * Share ideas you have for using Weblogs in education

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