Winning Hearts and Minds-Kevin Honeycutt-Conversational Lubricants
Winning hearts is more important than winning minds in my experience with educators and I use every tool in the web 2.0 toolbox to get there. I want to share some of my favorite “conversational lubricants” and the things I say before and after people see them.
(Please add your own situations and links!)
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CAST UDL Book Builder
CAST Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Book Builder! Use this site to create, read, and share engaging digital books that build reading skills for students. Your universally designed books will engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills.
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joycevalenzaworkshop
Fantastic compilation of resources for web 2.0 and information fluency-blogs, wikis, tutorials, photo tools, evaluating databases, current events rubric and liks to many examples of teacher blogs and wikis.
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GROU.PS :: connects obsessively!
Take The Lead,
Do Something For Your Community!
GROU.PS is a platform for social groups to get together. Use it for any purpose. Choose your template and pick all the modules that you want (wiki, blogs, photos, links etc).
And get your group web site without waiting. No branding, it’s free! Plus it's integrated with 3rd party services such as Flickr and YouTube
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Privnote - send notes that will self-destruct after being read
Interesting online application for sending notes via internet-notes will self-destruct after being read-notifies you when the note has been read
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Today @ PC World Study Finds Firefox Users Safest, IE Users Unsafe
Mozilla Firefox users are the safest Web surfers on the Internet, according to a study by The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Google and IBM's Internet Security Services. According to the study Firefox users were the most likely to use an updated version of their browser.
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Crazy Egg – visualize your visitors
Free and paid versions - application that allows you to track traffic on your wesite to see where people are clicking. Helps you to know what may be working and not working in terms of attracting people to various links on your site.
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SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards - Just the Winners
Useful compilation of web 2.0 sites organized by category with links to the sites (top 3 places and honorable mention)
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Go2Web20.net - The complete Web 2.0 directory
Comprehensive compilation of Web 2.0 sites and resources that are all clickable.
Try clicking on tag for "kids" and see specific online sites tagged appropriate for kids.
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brightkite.com
Track your friends
See where your friends are and what they're up to, in real time.
Meet people around you
Meet real world friends. Reveal your location, befriend, and chat with people around you.
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Presentation Software - SlideRocket Demo
Amazing presentation application that works with Macs, PCs & Linux. Private beta now but can sign up to receive an invitation to try it out. Can import images, video, Google docs and much more with amazing 3D rotation. Very Web 2.0.
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GIMP - Tutorials
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Jumpcut - Be good to your video
free online site for uploading, editing and sharing video and photos. can upload photos, make a movie, remix. requires a lot of bandwidth so wouldn't want all students in computer lab uploading at same time.
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Office Live Workspace Community
New beta site where you can store, access, and share documents online. Similar to Google docs. Free. No software to download, private, can invite people to share docs. 500mb storage limit. Works with Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
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Notation: * = Private bookmark and comment|… = Clipping [?] | … = Public highlight [?]
