Section+002+Web2.0

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Your name (last name, first name) - list in alphabetical order Web 2.0 Tool (tool name and URL link to tool) Link to example of how it is being used in classroom (if applicable) Note: first come, first serve on tools. If someone else has listed the tool (in your class section) - select a different tool.

__ Armstrong, Sheri [|Edublogs] Edublogs allows teachers to create, manage and moderate student's blogs. The program is ready for video, podcasting, photos, and various other features. The video tutorials make it user friendly and provide step by step support. Other features include customisable themes, import or export of other blogs, support and community, and WordPress technology. Teachers can benefit from using Edublogs by having students participate in eportfolios, collaborative classwork, online journaling, and discussion or problem based learning. Edublogs is completely free, without any advertisements.

Carroll, Kristina [|TeacherTube] This tool is a great way for teachers to get their videos and information on the internet where students can go and learn in a more fun and entertaining way. We, as teachers, can use this to get our kids enthusiastic about learning. A teacher can even make a group for a particular class that all of the students can join and watch videos about the class. Teachers will be able to post lectures, labs, or activities that the students may need to watch again after the class if they were still confused and needed addition help.

Fromme, Ian [|ustream] This tool is similar to youtube and yet unique in of itself. Video can be posted and viewed. Videos can also be broadcasted live. During these live videos there is a chatroom in which viewers and comment in real time. This could be used to get immediate student feedback from your class as well as serve as a forum for student interaction.

Gill, Jennifer [|Bubbl.us] This is a tool which alows students to brainstorm and use mind maps. Students are able to brainstorm and organize ideas in a format which alows them to share with other students and the teacher. Mind maps can also be imported into their blog or personal website.

Gerken, Mallory [|Diigo] Diigo is an online program that allows you to virtually highlight text from the internet, add sticky notes and comments to the text. It can be used in the classroom as a research tool. The students can look up information relevant to their topic online, and instead of printing off the information they can highlight and comment on the information right online. It also allows you to set up groups, and you can see what material your group memebers are reading and what they find interesting, or relevant to the project. Here is a [|screencast] that a teacher made about his use of Diigo in the classroom. This is a link to a [|discussion] about the use of Diigo in the classroom.

Green, Carrie [|Pandora Radio] Pandora is an internet radio program that categorizes music by genre. It is being used in classrooms for music appreciation, as a tool in special education classrooms, and musicology. In a music classroom, it could be used to help expose students to new music or songs similar to the ones that are being worked on or studied in class.

Harr, Jason [|Yacapaca] Yacapaca is a place where teachers can create quizzes,assignments, surveys, tests, eportfolios and more. It is interactive site which allows students to be engaged in their work. Also, teachers can communicate to eachother on what ideas they believe work the best and can give help to new or struggling teachers.

Huss, Kurtis [|MindBites] MindBites is the place on the web to learn directly from other real people and share what you know with the world. A self-publishing platform and social marketplace for instructional content, MindBites enables people to share their unique knowledge, skills and passions through audio and video lessons, earning money for themselves or for charity.

Johnson, Trevor [|Unigo] Unigo is great web 2.0 tool for students of all ages because it helps to create communities in college. Unigo is most popular for students looking to attend some type of secondary school because it provides detailed previews of colleges across the nation and tries give an idea of what life is like at that particular campus. After being enrolled in the school of their choosing, students can continue to use Unigo in a variety of ways. Unigo's members can chat with fellow students at their campus, share photos and documents, and post their own reviews of their college. This site is being used in a lot of senior seminar classes all over the U.S. in order to prepare high school students for college. I would've loved to have known about this tool when I was looking at colleges to attend after high school or even in the earlier years of my college career.

LaBelle, Laura [|GoodReads] GoodReads is a program that allows users to input all their books. This tool also allows users to create groups (like book clubs) and share recommendations with their friends. The books are scored using a five star system and each user can comment on other users' recommendations. This tool is currently used by authors, and you can invite the author of a book to join your book club to discuss their book! This tool is used by educators to create online book clubs within the classroom. It could also be used to teach students how to critically analyze, rate and organize their reading preferences in order to find further reading suited to their personal taste, so they actually enjoy reading. Teachers could monitor the use of this tool easily and it would be a fun way for kids to get involved in an online community.

Page, JC [|mynoteIT] MynoteIT is a program that allows the sharing of document files, scanned notes, images, and audio notes. It is a program that allows the free sharing of notes between students and the teacher. It also allows you to create and join groups that have similar interests, keep an assignment schedule, a bookmark lists for favorite notes, a friends list, grade tracking, contact information and allows one to go through revision with your friends using something called the note tree. This is a social note taking tool that I found in part to google search and classroom 2.0.

Prow, Jessica [|Second Life] This is a virtual world that can be used for many different things within a classroom. I know it seems odd for teachers to create an avatar for themselves to enrich students learning but it is actually a fun tool. Many teachers use it for classroom discussions and forums, so that their students can feel safe in an anonymous environment. Also it can be used to re-create or re-enact certain historical events, an application that has a special interest to me as a social studies educator.

Rotola, John [|Doc Cop] Doc Cop is a plagiarism detection tool that displays the correlation between documents on the web. This would be extremely useful in the classroom due to the amount of plagiarism that occurs in schools today. By uploading any suspicious reports, you can quickly ensure that the student did not copy the information from an online source.

Schnickel, Luke Thomas [|Google Docs and Spreads] Google Documents and Spreadsheets allows basic document and spreadsheet creation. There is the ability to make bulleted lists, sorting, tables, images, formulas, comments, and so on. Even existing files can be uploaded.

Silvestre, Jeanne Marri [|Moodle] Moodle is a course management tool that allows teachers to manage their everyday schedule, grades, assignments. It allows students to submit their assignments online or view their grades online for assignments not done through the computer. It also has a diverse user community with half a million registered users.

Spalding, Michael [|Blogger] Blogger provides a variety of functions for students and teachers, allowing them to create a blogiing site that is easy to view and to access. It can be used as a online classroom or as a online journal.

Stevens, Bryan [|Issuu] Described as a “living library”, Issuu is a place on the web where anyone can upload documents to showcase user-created magazines, comics and other publications online. Students can use the site to generate ideas for their own publications, and post their work to receive comments and constructive criticism from fellow writers and designers.

Stevens, Katie [|Go Flick Yourself] (Flickr) Flickr is a web tool where users can set up a profile and upload their photos onto their Flickr page. Flickr is widely used by professional photographers, beginers, and for family and friends to share photos. An extensive search bar lets you see photos from all over the world and from users in almost every country. Flickr is a great way to get photos in your classroom for a variety of topics you could cover.

White, Adam [|Drop.io] Drop.io is a simple, private file sharing site. It essentially can act as a free, internet based flash drive. The coolest part about this site is that you don't have to register. You just come up with a name for your "drop", and then upload the files. You can choose to password protect your files or not, and allow people that know the password to view, edit, or add files. This is very useful in education as you could open up a "drop" that a whole class knows the password to, and assignments could be left, or even submitted there. Things like peer-review papers would be doable, even from home.