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General Web 2 Apps - - Blogs - Podcasts - Wikis - RSS Feeds
| Flauntr An online photo editor that lets you add frames and wonderful overlays to your photos. |
The Best 100 Web 2 Apps From WebWare. See what the web2 community is voting for. |
Moonk Embed a slide show, movie, or audio files into your web page or blog. Just upload the media and you are presented with the code to paste into your online document to play the Flash-created version of your media. |
| Classroom 2.0 "Welcome to Classroom20.com, the social networking site for those interested in the practical application of Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in learning. We especially hope that those who are "beginners" will find this a supportive community and a comfortable place to start being part of the digital dialog." |
TokBox Free video chat with anyone, anytime, anywhere. a Flash web-based video chat tool with numerous features which could be used in schools. |
Web 2.0 for the Classroom A series of links to help classroom teachers find web 2 resources for the classroom |
| Go
Web2 Explore this directory of Web 2 Apps to help understand what makes an application "web2" |
WidgetBox An online directory of widgets for blogs and web pages. They work with Wordpress, Blogger etc. They're free. |
Pageflakes An easy-to-use online aggregator for reference tools, your favorite blogs and podcasts, and more. |
TeacherHacks |
Innovative
Classrooms Innovative classrooms from EdNA. See all the latest info |
South
Oz E-Learning Exploring the potential of blogs, feeds and podcasting in education. |
| EdTechTalk "A site where we discuss, comment and generally mull-over all things related to educational technology." |
WetPaint Establish your own website using blogs, wikis and social networking. It's free |
Buzztracker Track the top news stories from around the world |
Gcast |
Vaestro Vaestro is audio forum software that you can use on your website for free. Talk to your friends, host interactive podcasts, or use it like an audio blog. |
FreeWeb "Looking for a fast and easy way to create a free website with blogs, photo albums, video, profiles, polls, chatrooms and hundreds of cool templates? |
| Kathy Schrock's List of Web 2 tools A summary of tools and links |
YackPack The Beta version is currently free (Oct 2007). YackPack is a new way to stay connected with a group of friends, family, or work colleagues. Our web-based service makes it easy to send audio messages to one or many people inside a private group |
BackPack
It It’s hard to keep track of all the birthdays, anniversaries, and other events in your life. If you’re in charge of planning one of these celebrations or managing a project it takes even more organization. That’s why it you should sign up for a free to-do list that you can store and manage online! |
| Google
Docs and Spreadsheets Share your work online |
Skype It’ll let you make free calls to your friends all over the world. And it's free! |
Tiny
URL At this site you can convert a long web address into a short one, making them much more useable |
| A real teen talks about blogging and social networking Listen to the podcast at this site |
Frappr Get a free map for your website to help you track guests |
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| Clustr Maps Get a free map to track visitors to your site |
Thumbstacks "With Thumbstacks.com, you can make presentations - like slideshows, or outlines - right in your web browser. When you're done, you can share your presentations with anyone, anywhere, just by sending them a link. " |
Smilebox Smiliebox your photos and videos. Send via email blog or print |
| Ning Create your own social networking for any purpose |
SketchCast Draw your own sketch, with our without a voice. Explain something. Have fun. Then add it to your blog or point people to it. |
Voki Create a character, make it talk, then take it anywhere - blogs, social networking, |
| Kwout A new way to add quotes to your website. Grab a screen shot, cut out an area and post it anywhere. All hyperlinks in the cut out area will still be active. |
Glogster Create your own multimedia web presentation.Share on Facebook, My Space, etc |
Our Stories
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Mini
Legends Another example, from South Australia, of using blogs in the classroom |
The
Simple Machine Blog See how two schools worked together using a blog |
| Mighty
Writers A blog by Room 12, Mark Ahlness's Third Graders |
Weblogg-ed The read-write web in the classroom |
EduBlogs Lots of info about blogs, and easy to make your own free educational blog. |
| Adrien Bruce's Blog Lots to explore |
Blogger Create your own free hosted blog at this site |
TeacherHacks A Blog for teachers. It provides "a clever solution to a problem a teacher might have. " |
| Bloglines Bloglines is the most comprehensive, integrated service for searching, subscribing, publishing and sharing news feeds, blogs, and rich Web content. It's free and easy-to-use. |
Blogmeister BlogMeister is a blogging tool developed for teachers as an authentic publishing environment to promote the development of effective communication skills in students. Teachers establish a blogging account,to which they can publish their own articles. They can then set up blogging accounts for their students, which the teacher maintains publishing control. |
VoiceThread An online media album that allows people to make audio or text comments, and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows an entire group's story to be told and collected in one place. " Creating VoiceThreads will always be free for educators and the students that fill their classrooms. This includes publishing them on the web, and sharing them with the child's friends and family. It's really important to us that there are no barriers; no cost to fully participate, no software to buy or download, and no contracts to manage." |
| What's
It and How To? Learn about Blogs and RSS Feeds at this site |
Wordpress Make your own free blog. |
Tutorials
for Wordpress A fabulous guide to help you develop your skills in using Wordpress. |
| Keeping
Children Safe while Blogging From Net Alert |
Stardock Download this free Blog Navigator |
Educational
Technology Blogs A compilation of sites prepared by Kathy Schrock |
| Introduction to Blogs An introduction to what a blog is, with some advantages and disadvantages |
EduBlogs
Awards Explore some of these excellent educational blogs |
Learner Blogs Provides free blogs for students |
| So you want to be a vidcaster? Learn how TILT technologies make their videocasts using free software |
How
to Podcast A free online tutorial written in simple language |
Introduction
to Podcasting Learn the basics at this site with Kathy Schrock |
| It's
Elementary Podcast presented by John Pearce for the k12online.conference. He tells the story of his journey through developing blogs, wikis and podcasts with his grade 3/4 students. |
An
Overview of Podcasting From the University of Arizona |
Podomatic
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| Podcasting
Tutorial From Lockergnome |
Podcast
Revision From the UK. Established as revision for GCSE students in the UK it has lots of podcasts for download. Also explains how to make your own |
How to publish your podcast Focuses on Mac platform but has links to a rangeof sites and ideas |
| Podcasting
in Education Lots of excamples of podcasts, instructions to get you started and reasons for podcasting |
Education
Podcast Network A compilation of sites that are using Podcasts for education |
Podcasts Examples of how one school has used Podcasting |
Gcast |
PodCasts
from Semaphore SA Have a look at this great site from a Yr 7 class at North Haven School |
Judy's
Podcast And a link to her blog, too. Judy O'Connell is an educator from Sydney, Aust |
| Room
208 Another example from a classroom using blogs and podcasts |
Sixes
R'Us An example of how a school has used podcasting |
Intelligenic - KidCasting Dan Schmit's blog about podcasting with students |
| Juice An online podcast receiver. Its free, and cross platform. |
Podcasts for Educators, Schools and Colleges A directory of educational podcasts |
| Wiki Walk Through What is a wiki? Take this tour and find out. Also compares wikis with blogs |
Tiddlywiki A re-useable, non-linear personal web notebook. Similar to a blog, but uses links |
Wiki
Spaces for Educators Freee space for students and teachers to work together |
| Blogs
and Wikis from EdNA Explains what blogs are, how they are used and links to several examples |
Wikipedia The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit |
Seedwiki Make your own free wiki at this site |
| WikiHow The How-to manual that anyone can write or edit |
Using
Wiki in education An online book (wiki) about using wikis in education |
wwwtools
for education |
| Wiki Tools Links to various sites to get your wiki started |
| What's
It and How To? Learn about Blogs and RSS Feeds at this site |
What
is RSS? A simpole tutorial to get you started. |
Protopage Free personal start pages - for RSS feeds, photos, info - share or keep private |
| TagCloud TagCloud searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds. Clicking on the tag's link will display a list of all the article abstracts associated with that keyword. |
RSS
News Feed Generator This web tool is designed to help teachers create RSS feeds for aggregating news stories from Google News, that are related to curriculum topics and issues. |
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| What
is RSS and why should I care? An article from Search Engine Watch |
RSS
Search Engines Part two of the previous article, looking at how you find websites that provide RSS feeds |
Choosing
an RSS Reader Part 3 of the previous article |
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