Web+Two+Point+Oh!+Teacher+Tools





As best described in this wiki: http://web2tutorial.wikispaces.com/

Internet is undergoing an extreme makeover. In the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century, the World Wide Web was primarily a place for viewers to retrieve information. The information flowed in a one-way direction. Websites were mostly built by "techie" folk who knew complex HTML coding and FTP site management. If you're scratching your head, you're not alone.

Then around 2004 a birth of new web tools began to pop up. These tools allowed common people like us to add content to the web. People with no programming skills were suddenly publishing their own journals, photographs, videos, auctions, podcasts, wikis, slideshows and more. The web became a two-way street. Everyday people were now creating the content.

By 2007, a second generation of the web had taken over - Web 2.0. Also known as the Read/Write Web, the new web is a breeding ground for creative and engaging educational endeavors.

Teachers are using the new Web 2.0 tools to launch their classroom into the 21st century. Students are creating online content, collaborating with other students around the world and showcasing their work to a global audience. Web 2.0 facilitates professional networking. It provides authentic learning experiences for students, and it encourages global awareness, creativity, innovation, critical thinking and collaboration. The knowledge our students will gain from engaging with Web 2.0 technologies will foster the communication and information literacy skills that are required in the 21st century.

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The great thing about Web 2.0 tools is they are easy to use. And many of the services are free. Take some time to follow the links on the side, and you will soon be merging onto the information superhighway.

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 * [|Google Custom Search Engine]**: Create your own custom search engine and tell Google which sites you want it to index, and you’ll be able to offer your students the best of the web.
 * [|Google Docs]**: Google Docs offers teachers and students a web-based word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation editor that can be used securely and collaboratively from any computer.
 * [|Google Book Search]**: Search the full text of books ranging from popular best sellers to out-of-print books on Google’s Book Search.
 * [|Google Groups]**: Set up a discussion group for your classroom on Google Groups.
 * [|Google News]**: Google News is a wonderful place to look for news in newspapers and magazines around the world.
 * [|Google Maps]**: Your class can use Google Maps to build maps of your community, learn about cities, and more.
 * [|Google Page Creator]**: This Google tool allows teachers and students to create useful web pages without having to use complicated code.
 * [|Google classroom posters]**: Help your students search the web better with these posters that contain tips for using Google Search and other Google products.
 * [|iGoogle]**: iGoogle allows you to create a custom page for your classroom that includes components like a school calendar, bookmarks, news, and more.
 * [|Blogger]**: Start a class blog with Blogger, and you can share work, pictures, and more, all while staying connected with your classroom community.
 * [|Google Notebook]**: Use Google Notebook as an easy to use notepad for the web.
 * [|Google Calendar]**: With Google Calendar, you can easily communicate school schedule information with your classroom community.
 * [|Google classroom activities]**: Here, Google offers a few activity ideas for elementary school children

GO HERE FIRST! Making Teachers Nerdy Top 20 Sites that No Teacher Shout Start the 2010-11 Year Without. Websites for Students to Create Original Artwork Online Alternatives to Popular Desktop Software

The Ultimate Web 2.0 Toolkit [] Classroom 2.0 [] Science Interactives: [] CamSpace [] Social Bookmarking [] Need yahoo mail account

**Teacher Tools:**
Create mnemonics: [] Flash Cards: [] For Teacher/Departments: Assign-A-Day [] Create Your Own Exercises, Quizzes, and Tests [] Create free educational worksheets such as flashcards, gameboards, and quizzes to print directly from your browser. [|http://www.educationalpress.org] For any quick group discussion: [] A see and find browser: [] Shorten, Share and Track Links [] Email large files for free. [] Sharing Files []

**More:**
1. [|Kidblog] - Great way for schools to have kids blog. No student email is required and everything is monitored before being posted online. 2. [|Sweet Search] - Excellent search engine for students, as everything has been reviewed by educators. 3. [|Cacoo] - Nice site for creating online charts and graphs with a built-in chat feature for collaboration. 4. [|21 Classes] - Get students blogging in a safe and secure environment. 5. [|Story Jumper] -Excellent site for digital storytelling, with many educational resources for teachers. 6. [|Middlespot] - Innovative website for social bookmarking that allows users to collect sites in a visual way. 7. [|Education Eye] - Fun site for brainstorming with this visual search engine. 8. [|Kizoa] - Great site for creating animated slide shows with lots of different content to choose from. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">9. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|Drag on Tape] - Very user-friendly site that uses a drag-n-drop interface to edit and mix video. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">10. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|Shwup] - Great site for making collaborative slide shows. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">11. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|PreZentit] - Very similar to Shwup, a nice looking site for making collaborative slide shows. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">12. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|Quintura for Kids] - A search engine for kids that acts a bit like a tag cloud where results can be embedded into a site. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">13. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|TodaysMeet] - Create a real-time, private, back channel chat that brings in tweets from Twitter. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">14. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|MeMoov] - Very user-friendly site for digital storytelling that allows users to record their voice for narration. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">15. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|Wordia] - Brings words to life through the use of video. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">16. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|Encyclomedia] - Video encyclopedia where results can be embedded into a site. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">17. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|Zooburst] - Great site for for digital storytelling, where a user can make an online 3D pop-up book. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">18. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|Jay Cut] - Similar to iMovie that allows users to edit or create a video. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">19. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|Splashup] - Looks like Photoshop and is a great way to edit photos and manipulate layers and effects. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">20. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|Comic Master] - Fun site for digital storytelling that has a drag-n-drop interface. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">21. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|Knowcase] - Create collaborative outlines with this easy-to-use site. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">22. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|Cloud Canvas] - Great site for photo editing and drawing or painting, similar to Splashup. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">23. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|Magic Studio] - Great multi-media site for uploading photos,documents or video and then editing them. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">24. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|Googlios] - A way for students to create digital portfolios online using Google Tools. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">25. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|We are Teachers] - Social network for educators where lots of ideas and lessons can be found.

**Student Online Tools:**
> [] > [] > [] Project Interactive: [] Create a Graph: [] Project Poster [] TextMaker: [] Timeline Maker http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/timelines/
 * Bibliography Builder: []
 * Citation Machine: []
 * [|Citation Maker: Elementary]
 * [|Citation Maker: Secondary]
 * [|Citation Wizard]

**Other Interactive Sites**
[|**Word Magnets**] <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|http://www.triptico.co.uk/flashFiles/wordMagnets/Word Magnets.swf] <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Remember the word magnets for “Refrigerator Poetry”? Here’s an electronic version that’s even better than the original. You type or paste text into the box and the program scrambles the words on individual tiles. The really neat part is that you can choose the kind of background you want (boxes, columns, Venn diagrams, webs, timeline, etc. I counted 42 different backgrounds!). Then, students “click and drag” the words to the appropriate place. You can even change the color of each word magnet. You can easily add or delete words. After the brief advertisement (isn’t there always a commercial??), click “next” to move to the actual site. This would be great for __any subject area__ and __any grade level!__ Great for SmartBoards, too! <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The goal at TeacherTube.com is to provide an online community for sharing instructional **<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">teacher ** videos. Upload your lesson plan videos or watch student video lessons at our website. Share documents, audio, and photos.
 * <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Teacher Tube ** <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[]

<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">[] <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Wordle is for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like.

<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[] turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. This is wordle at a new level !

[] WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text into WordSift and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture! The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. This function is widely available in various Tag Cloud programs on the web, but we have added the ability to mark and sort different lists of words important to educators.

Blabberize [] Youtube tutorial [|www.youtube.com/watch?v=eodrCTzi44Q] Make pictures talk.

<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[] <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Just for Fun! Create unique title pages with Flickr

Quizlet [|http://quizlet.com] What teachers can do in Quizlet: -Give your students a study tool that's both powerful and fun, encouraging them to learn. -Share study materials online with your classes, or generate photocopy-ready flashcards for in-class distribution. -Host a group where your students can create and discuss study materials for your class. -Notify students by email when you've posted new study materials, and receive messages back from them. -See what other teachers are teaching at your grade level and in your subject area <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 150%;">.

[] Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!

<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">pptPlex uses Plex technology to give you the power to zoom in and out of slide sections and move directly between slides that are not sequential in your presentation. Find how pptPlex can help you organize and present information in a non-linear fashion. Test drive pptPlex and wow your audience with your next presentation. Get videos and get download here.
 * <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">http://www.officelabs.com/projects/pptPlex/Pages/default.aspx **

<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Creaza [] <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Creaza allows you to create and publish cartoons, movies, stories, soundscapes, images and artwork. Cannot get the full version for free. <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Jaycut [] <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Online video editor. (not sure of what the limitations are)

NOV 2010- My newest finds in the Web to check out! Also visit tutorials of these on YouTube.
[] - an online notice board maker [] - turn .pdf into flippable pages. Absolutely FREE [] - publish a children's book [] - video production made easy [] - create timelines and share on the web [] - helps you create a printable summary of a video by allowing you to take several snapshots from the video and add a title and description to each of them. The summary can be directly printed out or downloaded as a PDF file. [] - create your own talking photo [] computational knowledge engine

New links from TCEA
 * 1) <span style="color: #000033; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Pics4Learning - Very popular site to find free, safe-to-use images for teachers and students.
 * 2) <span style="color: #000033; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Cyclo.ps - Search engine that searches the most popular free image engines around and provides one-stop shopping.
 * 3) <span style="color: #000033; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">School Clip Art - Great site for free school clip art.
 * 4) <span style="color: #000033; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Ookaboo - Creative commons (free) site for finding great images for class work.
 * 5) <span style="color: #000033; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Picsearch - Excellent image search engine, if used with a district's filtering solution.
 * 6) <span style="color: #000033; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Veezzle - Wonderful free stock photo search engine.
 * 7) <span style="color: #000033; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Google Swirl - Innovative way to search for images and see their relationships with each other (use with Google Safe Search enabled).
 * 8) <span style="color: #000033; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Free Photo Bank - Easy way to find creative common images.
 * 9) <span style="color: #000033; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Open Clip Art - Great way to find free clip art.
 * 10) <span style="color: #000033; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Find Icons - Nice site for free icons.