Dangerously Cool Web 2.0 Links for Educators
Blogs
Blogs in Plain English - from Common Craft
http://blogger.com - from Google. Automatically sets you up on the Google search engine.
http://classpress.com - not free at $29.95 per year - but you can gain free months by referring.
http://edublogs.org/ - great choice for educators. Educator Sheri Higgs has this to say about it, "The free mode (which we are using) has 20MG storage. Once you become a "supporter" (various levels) you can add and tie in student blogs." Nothing better than a recommendation from a fellow educator.
http://wordpress.com - easy to use and rather sophisticated templates
Collaborative Work Tools
http://google.com/apps - Links to Google Docs, Gmail, Calendar, Google Talks (IM for Google) and Sites (wiki for Google)
Concept mapping software
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page - Free download for nice concept mapping tools. Can be used as framework for students to begin a project
http://mind42.com/ - collaborative online
http://mindmeister.com - free version - but for academic, only costs $15.00 per year. Now that's a sweet deal.
Digital storytelling
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu - One of the best sites for educational use of digital storytelling out there by my mentor in digital storytelling.
Download videos (like YouTube)
http://keepvid.com/ - download streaming videos with a click
http://mediaconverter.org/ - converter
http://vixy.net/ - Online FLV Converter : Download online videos direct to PC / iPod / PSP. It's free!
http://zamzar.com/ - multipurpose tool to convert files and download videos online. No need to download software.
http://download.cnet.com/YouTube-Downloader/3000-2071_4-10647340.html - Top YouTube downloader and links to others. This will download as mov files; converter is below
http://winff.org/html_new/downloads.html
Game Templates for PowerPoint, Excel and more
http://people.uncw.edu/ertzbergerj/msgames.htm - excellent site for many, many, game templates for the everyday classroom teacher
Just Cool Stuff
http://doodlebuzz.com - don't know how to describe it - just go try it
http://www.wordle.net/ - a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide; great for brainstorming and discovering key ideas
Multimedia Web 2.0
http://glogster.com - a multimedia blog that can be imported into PBworks and other wikis. You have got to see this one. Check out the educator site: http://www.glogster.com/edu/
http://voicethread.com - great multimedia tool for collaborating and communicating
Music and Sounds - copyright free (more sources under Podcasting and Audio Editing)
http://ccmixter.org - ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want. Unlike freeplaymusic (which is often used as a source of music for educators), this site offers open source music that can be used in podcasts, on websites, etc.
http://www.freesound.org/ - The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focuses only on sound, not songs.
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/sdml/sdml.asp - Super dooper music looper is great for looping short clips of music.
Online Quiz and Survey Tools
http://google.com/apps - use Google spreadsheet to develop a quiz or survey and view results instantly in Google spreadsheet.
http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/ - nice source for educators and students to build interactivity with statistical analyses included
http://surveymonkey.com - brief quizzes and surveys with statistical analyses included
Podcasting and Audio Editing (more sources under Music and Sound)
http://audacity.sourceforge.net - open source audio editing software; popular, but much more complicated to use than Wavepad (below).
http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/kb/free.html - easier to figure out than Audacity; can buy master's edition, but the free one works well with many features available.
Social Bookmarking Sites
Social Bookmarking in Plain English - from Common Craft
http://diigo.com - also allows you to: annotate pages for group, set up groups to share bookmarks, collaborate on research projects via communication tool.
http://del.icio.us - on of the most popular social bookmarking tools
Social Networking Sites
Social Networking in Plain English - from Common Craft
http://ning.com - seems to be the one used in education
Twitter
Twitter in Plain English - what the heck is twitter and how/why do you tweet?
Twitter Search in Plain English from Common Craft
http://twitter.com - that thing they have been talking about everywhere.
Video, Photo, Multimedia Presentation
http://video.kidzui.com - They say that all the videos have been approved by parents and teachers; may be a solution for "unsafe" videos on other spots.
http://edutube.org/ - educational videos
http://schooltube.com
http://teachertube.com
http://youtube.com
Photo Sharing in Plain English - from Common Craft
http://flickr.com
Some free photos - Some are free and some cost (but are cheap). Photos are high quality and large so do not pixelate on photo stories, etc.
http://sxc.hu - one of my favorite copyright free photo sites; great quality and resolution.
http://slideshare.com - upload your PPTs or download others; some nice slideshows can be found here.
Webconferencing Tools
http://skype.com
Wikis
Wikis in Plain English - Common Craft's easy and understandable video explaining wikis
http://pbworks.com - One of the best free wikis going; allows you to edit html for more precise editing and is ad free for educators
http://wikispaces.com - Another popular wiki for educators
http://wetpaint.com - free, but limited in size. Upgrade is relatively expensive. (Relative to me is more than free.)
Wikis in education
Science of Spectrosopy - wiki with information and examples of wikis
YouTube (or other tubes) Video Downloading
http://keepvid.com/ - download streaming videos with a click
http://mediaconverter.org/ - converter
http://vixy.net/ - Online FLV Converter : Download online videos direct to PC / iPod / PSP. It's free!
http://zamzar.com/ - multipurpose tool to convert files and download videos online. No need to download software.
http://download.cnet.com/YouTube-Downloader/3000-2071_4-10647340.html - Top YouTube downloader and links to others. This will download as mov files; converter is below
http://winff.org/html_new/downloads.html
http://download.cnet.com/YouTube-Downloader/3000-2071_4-10647340.html - Top YouTube downloader and links to others. This will download as mov files; converter is below
http://winff.org/html_new/downloads.html
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