Web 2.

0 Applications
Web 2.0 applications are an intrinsic addition to a classroom because of the way they invite information sharing and collaboration. Students become creators of content in a virtual learning community. Web 2.0 gives students an audience and a community to learn with. The web 2.0 experience is often ongoing, and the learning continues as dialogue unfolds. As educators it is our responsibility to learn the latest in Web 2.0 applications; to integrate them into our lessons and to teach our students how to engage in their use. Examine the following Web 2.0 applications. Choose two applications and learn how to use them. Be prepared to demonstrate them in class and explain their educational application to your classroom.

Wordle - www.wordle.net Wordle is a toy 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. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Many Eyes www.958.ibm.com/ Create visualizations. Finding the right way view your data is as much an art as a science. The visualizations provided on Many Eyes range from the ordinary to the experimental.

Blabberize www.blabberize.com Create an animated talking animal, person or anything you can imagine. Voki www.voki.com Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages. Motivate students to participate; improve comprehension; use it as a language tool.

Weblist Weblist lets web. Create a them into one

(http://weblist.me ) you pull together and organize content on the list of urls centered on a theme and combine easy to navigate url weblist. The list can be 1

saved as a bookmark or a homepage. Weblist is particularly useful for the primary elementary classroom because of its visual aspect. Each website is saved as a snapshot of that website with the website name and a description below. The visual organization is perfect for younger students who may not be able to navigate links designated by text alone.

Kerpoof (http://kerpoof.com ) Kerpoof is a necessity in any elementary classroom. This free online creativity center lets students create their own pictures, drawings, storybooks, movies, and practice spelling. The Kerpoof studio provides students with scenes, characters, and props. Students can use these tools to create pictures, stories, or movies that they can write and direct. These can be saved directly to the Kerpoof website or downloaded as a jpeg file to student computers.

Skype an Author Network (http://skypeanauthor.wetpaint.com ) The Skype an Author Network provides k-12 teachers and librarians with a way to connect authors, books, and young readers through virtual visits. Classes can video chat with authors while they are reading books written by the author. There are two types of visits. The first is free and is a 10-15 minute author session. The second option is an in-depth visit.

Zimmer Twins (http://zimmertwins.com ) Edgar and Eva Zimmer are 12 year old twins who appear normal but have developed psychic powers. Strange things began to happen when the twins adopted a black cat named 13. On the Zimmer Twins website, students can create their own cartoon movie endings to a story starter, or create their own animated movie from scratch starring the Edgar, Eva, and 13. Students can create and edit movies solo or Collab-o-write and work together on creating a collaborative movie. Neo K12 (http://neok12.com ) Neo K12 is a comprehensive collection of educational videos, lessons, and games for students in grades k-12. Neo K12 believes that, kids learn best by seeing the real world. They have created this site with that belief in mind. Wiglington & Wenks Virtual World (http://www.wiglingtonandwenks.com) In this virtual world, students are dropped into the middle of a story where they become world travelers to places around the real-world, meeting historical characters, playing brain games, building culture-inspired houses, exploring secret locations, and solving ancient mysteries. There are 100 educational real world and imaginary places for students to visit from the past, present, and the future.

Secret Builders (http://secretbuilders.com/teachers.html) Secret builders is a virtual world for kids (age 8-12) that introduces them to fictional characters from history and literature. Secret builder has historical characters for students to interact with including Jane Austen, Bach, Alexander Bell, Emily Bronte, Confucius, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Hafez, Magellan, Omar Khyam, Mozart, Isaac Newton, Rumi, and Lao Tzu just to name a few.

Storybird (http://storybird.com ) Story bird is a fun collaborative storytelling website. Storybird makes it easy to create and tell stories digitally. Students and teachers can create stories together by combining imaginative artwork and text. The final product can be printed, watched on screen, played with like a toy, or share in an online library with the world. Storybird promotes imagination, literacy, and self-confidence.

The National Archives Experience: Digital Vaults (http://www.digitalvaults.org/#/create/) The National Archives has put together an amazing site where students can create digital content with primary resources. Students can search photographs, documents, and other records and collect them. Students can use collected items to create their own digital poster or to make a movie.

Weebly (http://education.weebly.com ) Weebly is a place for you and your students to create free websites and blogs.

Sumo Paint (http://www.sumopaint.com/app/ ) is an amazing web-based tool (and downloadable program as well). Think PhotoShop but free and web based. This is one of the best photo creation/manipulation tools available today.

Creative Commons Search (http://search.creativecommons.org/ )is a site that allows students to look for creative commons branded material which they can use in classroom projects. Students can search though Google Images, Flikr photos, music, and even TV clips that are free for use anywhere in your classroom or on the web. In addition to offering students (and their teachers) tons of multimedia assets to incorporate in their school work, this site helps to teach about how to give proper accreditation, and what a a copyright or creative common license is all about and why it exists.

Voice Thread (http://voicethread.com) is a site that transforms media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting. This is a nice and easy way to create multimedia work spaces for teachers and students to share. Students can start by adding pictures, videos, sounds, or documents, and then adding voice annotations. Wikispaces (http://www.wikispaces.com/content/for/teachers) Building pages on a wiki is a great way for students to record and share knowledge about topics they've researched. Teachers and students can also use wikis to create digital portfolios. Students can create and edit their own pages to show-off the work they're most proud of. Glogster (http://edu.glogster.com) Glogster EDU is a collaborative online learning platform for teachers and students to express their creativity, knowledge, ideas and skills in the classroom. Slideshare (http://slideshare.net) Slideshare offers users the ability to upload and share publicly or privately Power Point presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF portfolios

Go!Animate (http://goanimate4schools.com) Go!Animate is a state of the art animation tool that is a perfect complement to teaching and getting students to put learning into practice.

Diigo (http://www.diigo.com) Diigo is a social bookmarking website which allows users to bookmark and collect web pages. It also allows users to highlight any part of a web page and attach sticky notes to it.

Delicious (http://delicious.com) Delicious is a social bookmarking site in which you can keep, share and discover the best of the Web.

Blogger (http://www.blogger.com) Blogger is a free blog spot just for you! It allows private or multi-user blogs and is now powered by Google.

Prezi (http://prezi.com) Prezi is a cloud based presentation software as an alternative to Power Point. It opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides as a platform for bridging linear and non-linear information.

Google Earth (http://earth.google.com) Google Earth lets us fly anywhere on earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean.

Ipadio (http://www.ipadio.com) Ipadio is a application that uses a phone call and streams it live on the web. It is ideal for classroom podcasts.

Flickr (http://www.flickr.com) Flickr is the best online photo management and sharing application. It has a section for creative commons photos that can be used in teacher created material. Timetoast (http://www.timetoast.com) Timetoast is a free application that creates timelines that can be added to a blog or website.

Edmodo www.edmodo.com Edmodo provides teachers and students a secure place to connect and collaborate, share content and educational applications, and access homework, grades, class discussions and notifications. Our goal is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize the classroom for each and every learner.

Livebinders www.livebinders.com Create an online three-ring binder to collect and organize resources for the classroom.

Evernote www.evernote.com Remember everything. Capture anything, access everywhere, find things fast. A great organizational site.

Quadblogging www.quadblogging.net A site that lets you blog with a class in a different part of the country or world. QuadBlogging is a leg up to an audience for your class/school blog. Over the last 12 months 100,000 pupils have been involved in QuadBlogging from 3000 classes in 40 countries. A Blog needs an audience to keep it alive for your learners. Too often blogs wither away leaving the learners frustrated and bored. Quadblogging gives your blog a truly authentic and global audience that will visit your blog, leave comments and return on a cycle.

Vocaroo http://vocaroo.com The premier voice recording service. have kids record a book review; it creates a url, can turn it into a QR code and put it into a book.

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Schooltube www.schooltube.com an unblocked version of videos appropriate for school. The best videos from schools everywhere. Safe, secure, and free! Upload your videos, share your lesson plans and projects, find