Free web application for brainstorming online - one of a series of free online versions of software previously available only commercially. A very intuitive mind-mapping/graphic organizing tool that can be manipulated by multiple users in a wiki fashion.
A help document by Google that gives some tips on how their application might be useful as a teaching tool.
A wiki that tackles assessment in the design, content, and participation using the wiki itself. The teacher incorporated expectations and the students' work all in one wiki to better help facilitate the project. This wiki uses wikispaces.
This is the presentation for the Beyond Wired workshop by Jodi Rice and Jonathan Tepper. The presentation contains teacher examples of web 2.0 tools plus links and explanations of web 2.0 resources offered by our colleagues.
Short videos that explain "in plain English" and with easy-to-understand animations how various technologies work.
Explains what social bookmarking is -- the tools and how it works; provides ideas to use social bookmarking for the classroom.
Jonathan: A wiki that summarizes wiki and social networking technology. There is also a short list of the different wiki and social networking tools used in the classroom.
Article on using wikis. By Kim-Mail Cutler (August 4, 2006)
Article on a variety of social technologies by Jeffrey Yan (January 29, 2008)
Matthew: We're using it for some our independent reading and more creative writing endeavors (eventually). Of course, we are still early in the process, but it will be interesting to see how the space evolves throughout the course.
Deborah: I keep a website for my AP Lit kids and on that website we link to a pbwiki on allusions.