Web 2.0 Online Collaboration

This site is designed to provide teachers with current infomation about what kind of assets are available on the web and beyond that, what is it that kids are actually doing when they spend hours each day on the computer!

Find support here with online links and resources so that teachers can investigate and learn on their own.

Interactive Web Tools for Creative Classrooms

Interactive Web Tools for the Classroom
Audio Tools	Video Tools	Image Tools	Collaboration Tools	Educational Tools
Communication Skype - free communication through downloaded program Recording Audacity - free audio editor and recorder VoiceThread -transform media with voice commenting Free Music Freeplay Music - copyright free (non-midi) music Animoto turns your photos and video clips into professional video slideshows Prezi is a zooming story telling and presentation tool that helps you create outstanding visuals for your thoughts Voki are animated characters that say what you want to say!	Animation GoAnimate- create your own cartoons and animations Developing Jing - develop and share through flickr, website, IM, email	Photo Editing BeFunky - turn photos into incredible art with one click FotoFlexer - "world's most advanced online image editor" Fun photo editing Big Huge Lab - do fun stuff with pictures Stitching Hugin - for the creation of panoramic pictures Photo Storage Slideshare - upload/share PowerPoints and documents Find Images Internet 4 Classrooms Graphics Word Clouds Wordle - generate word clouds TagCrowd - paste page text for a word cloud Tagxedo-generate word clouds with shapes	Research Evernote - create, clip and find notes online EasyBib - bibliography and citation maker Diigo - highlight the web and share Shared Documents Google Docs - share documents for collaboration Zoho - online document use Office Live - Online document use Graphic Organizers Argumentative - software for manipulating argument maps Free Mind - mind mapping software ClassTools - create and embed templates into websites or blog Gliffy - flow chart organizers Text 2 Mind Map - text to map converter Webspiration Bubbl Word Use Wordle - generate word clouds TagCrowd - paste page text for a word cloud	Social Studies Google Earth Gapminder Statistics of the world in interactive maps. Math Shodor - java math and science activities Science Stellarium - download to display stars, constellations, planets, nebulas, etc. Polls and surveys Survey Monkey - easy online survey Poll Everywhere Other Tools Kahn Academy Online lessons especially math- An amazing ammount of content including History. Online Notetaking Google Docs

More Web 2.0 Sites	Writing Tools
Web 2.0 Sites Go 2 Web 2.0	Telescopic Text An exploration of scale and levels of detail in an interactive format. Make your Own Telesopic text An exploration of scale and levels of detail that you can manipulate. Scholastic Story Starter Ready to write? ThisStory Starter machine generates creative writing prompts. You never know how your story will start. Piclits is a really neat creative writing site that provides pictures and a word bank for students to create literary images. Madlits is good for teaching younger children grammar skills.
Set up Dummy email accounts for Web 2.0 applications	Organization Text2Mind Map Convert your text or list of keywords to a mind map instantly Visuwords Look up words in the Visuwords online graphical dictionary and thesaurus to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts