Placefy is a fun and challenging geography game that uses pictures as questions.
Produced by MTV, the goal of the site is to educate teenagers and young adults about the possible repercussions of their digital activities.
Note: This is a collection of Web 2.0 tools and resources that are time savers, will help keep you organized, can help you collaborate with others, or are just down right fun and amazing! The list will be maintained and kept current with the latest, greatest, and best. If you find one not on the list, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Pebble Creek Labs envisions schools as fluid, powerful learning centers, staffed by scholar-practitioners in command of the conceptual tools and methods of inquiry necessary to both enhance and transform teaching and learning.
In January 2009, Tolisano embarked on an ambitious project called “Around the World With 80 Schools” through which she sought to connect her students with schools around the globe. “It started off as a way of showing kids that there is a world out there,” says Tolisano. “There is a wow factor when you actually see someone from another country.”
A screencast demonstrating how to use Skype in the classroom
Legal issues and some great links regarding the use of Skype in schools
Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text
Great search engine for kids to help them refine their searches.
What else can Tinychat do?
Quick and easy video conferencing.
+ Make video chatrooms instantly
+ Host small or large groups effortlessly
+ Control your room and moderate
+ Save and customize your room
+ Embed on your own web site
MyBytes is a tool for creating and remixing music and for learning about creative right.
From their site: "MyBytes is all about creative ideas: expressing them, showing them to the world, and protecting them. When you create something, you have the right to receive credit for your idea, and have a say in how others use it.
To help you see how this works for musicians, filmmakers, video game programmers and other creative people, we've built the MyBytes Music Mixer and Showcase. Plus, you'll find interviews with creative professionals and students, stories of how creative rights affect you, and more.
You'll start to understand the value of protecting creative rights, and what it means to be a good digital citizen. But enough talk, let's rock!"
Storybirds are short, visual stories that you make with
family and friends to share and (soon) print.
A HootCourse is an online classroom. And then some. Instead of cumbersome forums or complicated lesson-plan formats, HootCourse uses a combination of the most popular social networks and blogging platforms to provide a new type of online classroom.