Web 2.0 Workshop

Did you miss this informative workshop?

Pia Klaar gave a wonderful presentation today on Web 2.0 tools . She discussed Professional Development Tools, Social Networking Tools, Blogging, Wikis, Podcasting Tools, Collaboration Tools, Online Applications, Photo Tools, Presentation Tools, Video Sharing tools, Utilities, Aggregators/Newsreaders, as well as other items. After the presentation she created a slideshare of the presentation. You can view this at http://www.slideshare.net/pia/web-20-in-the-classroom-529446/.

Below are the links to Web 2.0 websites that she recommends:

1. Professional Development Tools
· Web2Go: http://www.go2web20.net/
· AllMyFavs: http://www.allmyfaves.com/

2. Social Networking Tools
· Ning: http://www.ning.com/
· Classroom 2.0: http://www.classroom20.com/
· Ning in Education: http://education.ning.com/
· Lively (by Google): http://www.lively.com/html/landing.html
· FURL: http://www.furl.net/
· Del.icio.uos: http://del.icio.us/

3. Blogs
· Blog Basics for the Classroom: http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/blog/blogbasics.cfmsfirst.com/content/blog/blogbasics.cfmsfirst.com/content/blog/blogbasics.cfm
· Edublogs: http://edublogs.org//
· Class Blogmeister: http://classblogmeister.com/
· 21Classes: http://www.21classes.com/
· ePals: http://www.epals.com/

4. Wikis
· Wikispaces: http://www.wikispaces.com/ww.wikispaces.com/ and http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers100Kcom/site/for/teachers100K
· Wet Paint: http://www.wetpaint.com/category/Education--Ad-freeetpaint.com/category/Education--Ad-free
· PBWiki: http://pbwiki.com/education.wiki
· WikiSpaces: http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers100K
· Jottit: http://jottit.com/it.com/

5. Podcasting Tools
· Gcast: http://www.gcast.com/
· Odiogo: http://www.odiogo.com/

6. Collaboration Tools
· Google Docs: docs.google.com
· Skrbl: skrbl.com
· Bubble.us: bubbl.us
· Giffy: http://www.gliffy.com/
· Mindomo: http://www.mindomo.com/
· Voo2do: http://www.voo2d.com/
· JotSpot: http://www.jotspot.com/


7. Online Applications
· Zoho Creator: creator.zoho.com http://creator.zoho.com/
· Peepel: http://peepel.com/
· Thinkature: http://www.thinkature.com/

8. Photo Tools
· Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/
· FlauntR: http://www.flauntr.com/
· Aviary: http://a.viary.com/
· PhotoShop Express

9. Presentation/Video Tools
· Animoto: http://animoto.com/
· Animoto Education Program: http://biz.animoto.com/education/overview.html/education/overview.html
· Voicethread: http://voicethread.com/
· Ed.VoiceThread: http://ed.voicethread.com/
· Bubbleshare: http://www.bubbleshare.com/
· ImageLoop: http://www.imageloop.com/en/index.htm
· Slideoo: http://www.slideoo.com/
· One True Media: http://www.onetruemedia.com/
· Jaycut: http://jaycut.com/

10. Video Sharing Tools
· Blip.tv: http://wwww.blip.tv.com/tv.com/
· Jumpcut: http://www.jumpcut.com/
· Teacher Tube
· YouTube

11. Utilities
· CTC Audio Mixer: http://audiomixer-d.oddcast.com/php/ctc
· Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
· Vixy.net: http://vixy.net/
· Web Resizer
· Skype
· Media Converter

12. Aggregators/Newsreaders
· Bloglines: bloglines.com
· Yourminis: http://www.yourminis.com/main
· Pageflakes: http://www.pageflakes.com/

13. Others
· Calcoolate: http://www.calcoolate.com/index.html
· Create a Graph: http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/
· Stained Glass collage: http://www.stainedglasscollage.com/
· Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling: http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/
· ArtRage: http://www.artrage.com/artrage.html
· Common Craft: http://www.commoncraft.com/
· Captioner –Flickr Toys: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/captioner.php

Other sites that were recommended by our participants are:
http://www.schooltube.com/
http://www.mogulus.com/
http://www.zamzar.com/
http://www.kerpoof.com/
http://www.cameroid.com/
http://www.techsmith.com/
http://www.shambles.net/web2
http://www.thinkfinity.net/
http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp
http://www.classtools.net/

Resources:
· Brown, John Seely. (JSB) in Educause Magazine, "Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0". : http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0811.pdf

· Freedman, Terry. Coming of Age: an introduction to the new world wide web.: http://comingofage.ning.com/

· Hargadon, Steve . Web 2.0 is the Future of Education: http://www.stevehargadon.com/2008/03/web-20-is-future-of-education.html

· Judy’s Web 2.0 Notes: http://judyoconnell.wordpress.com/

· Kyrnin, Jennifer. What is Web 2.0: Going Beyond the Hype of Web 2.0: http://webdesign.about.com/od/web20/a/aa021306.htm

· Richardson, Will. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Tools for Classrooms. Corwin Press: California.2006


Other upcoming events*:

Wednesday, July 30 2 – 3 pm SLT: Sloodle 101. This will be an introduction to Sloodle tools http://slurl.com/secondlife/virtuALBA/197/165/30

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 5 – 6 pm SLT: Streaming with SMARTboards: Do you currently have a SMARTboard in your classroom or district? Did you know that Discovery Streaming can be seamlessly integrated with your SMARTboard? During this workshop you will learn about ways to integrate Discovery Streaming, various funding strategies, be provided with resources for implementation, and information on programs that SMART Technologies provides SMART educators. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland%20II/57/80/22

Thursday, July 31, 6 – 7 pm: ISTE educators social. http://www.slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/90/80/30

Thursday, July 31 Shamblesguru Voom told us that one of the Lively guys will be giving a talk at a “Train for Success” session. If anyone knows more about this please let us know!

Saturday, August 2, 10 – 11 SLT: TNC Educational Tour. We will begin at the TNC on Eduisland 5 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland%205/142/27/43

Saturday, August 9, 10-11 SLT: Making a Webquest for your students. TNC Eduisland 5
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland%205/142/27/43

Wednesday, August 20, Save this date for the DEN’s anniversary celebration

Sunday, August 31, 6:00 AM SLT: David Warlick is being interviewed at International Schools Island as a pre-session to a Shanghai Conference. I will have a link for this location as we get closer to the event.

* If you want your event posted on the TNC blog IM Tek Zeno in SL with the date and time of the event.