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20 Apr 09

Learning Tools Directory : Over 2,800 tools listed

Directory of freeware/open source digital tools:
- for creating, delivering and managing learning and performance support solutions.
- for personal learning and productivity, for sharing resources, as well as group collaboration.

c4lpt.co.uk/Directory - Preview

web2.0 tools

24 Mar 09

5 Easy Ways to Dip Your Toes in the Web 2.0 Water | The Moss-Free Stone

A few easy ways to get you feet wet in the Web 2.0 world.

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web2.0 5Easyways

  • Take a peek at the comments at the bottom of this page. - dan-robinson on 2009-03-24

The Hero Factory

Create site for generating story ideas, characters in particular. Using visuals helps to generate detail in students writing.

www.cpbintegrated.com/theherofactory - Preview

superhero web2.0

ClassTools.net: Create interactive flash tools / games for education

Online interactive, customizable work sheets, templates, games. Able to embed to a blog, web page, download to your local machine. You can make your own diagrams and then share the url with you students

How to use this tool to enable and empower learners ?
Check out the templates and see if there is one that suits your students needs. Create the template. Or demonstrate to students how to select the template and save. Then have them complete their own template, save and then send the URL to you. Use a shared document to contain the instructions and links. Actually have students paste the links in the document so that you can access them directly

Tips & Tricks
Allow pops from this site. Click on the pop up bar and select allow.
Printing, can from a web page. Not great quality but okay. Alternative take a screen clip and save as a picture file. Another option is to print as a PDF, then save that document or print it. To control the print output.
Use widget icon to save the actually URL to return to it later.
It appears that you could have multiple simultaneous authors?
How to save it? Seems to save itself.
Contains google ads.

classtools.net - Preview

flash web2.0 classtools

Flowgram

Need to create a quick presentation for your students? Sure would help if I could add narration. Hmm google presentations doesn't quite let me. Enter flowgram, combines photos, presentations, webpages with your voice.
Pretty easy to use. Try it play around with it and explore the possiblities

www.flowgram.com - Preview

presentation web2.0 flowgram

Kid-Cast.COM - Podcasts for kids and by kids

Want to create a quick easy podcast, or have your kids podcast their writing, reflections, thoughts and ideas? This is a user friendly podcasting tool primarily for students.
Create your user id, then work through the three authentication steps and you are firing.

www.kid-cast.com - Preview

podcasting podcasts kid-cast.com web2.0

lingro: The coolest dictionary known to hombre!

Okay so this not a true Web 2.0 tool buuuut, how often do your students struggle to comprehend a website that is beyond their reading level?
Enter Lingro. Input the URL, then each word becomes clickable with a pop out definition.

lingro.com - Preview

dictionary vocabulary web2.0

VoiceThread - Group conversations around images, documents, and videos

Sign in and register, then upgrade to an educators account.
Use it to create stories, poems, share and collect ideas. develop conversations around the world, invite parents to comment on presentations, develop language proficiency.
Tip, record narrations using audacity and then upload. This saves time and causes less disruptions.

voicethread.com - Preview

web2.0 voicethread

TimeSpace: World - washingtonpost.com

Interactive presentation of current world events generated by the Washington Post.
Use it as part of your classes current events program.
Tip - ensure that the web address ends timespace/world to see world wide events.

specials.washingtonpost.com/...world - Preview

web2.0 timespace world WashingtonPost

Techy Tips for not so techy teachers - Google Docs

Techy tips for the not so techy teacher. great list of practical ways to use and infuse.

docs.google.com/Present - Preview

web2.0 Ideas teacher

CogDogRoo » StoryTools

Collection of fifty plus tools that you can use to create a web-based story.

cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools - Preview

web2.0 CogDogRoo

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Web_2.0_Map.svg

Visual presentation of Web 2.0 terms.

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web2.0 wordle

  • Wordle type example - enter text into www.wordle.net to generate a word cloud. Increase size of key words by increasing the frequency of a word. - dan-robinson on 2009-03-24
  • Click on the words to read the definition. Someone please tell me how to create something like this with my students. - dan-robinson on 2009-03-24
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