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 * Web 2.0 Reference List **

· List of Web 2.0 sites: @http://www.go2web20.net/ · Free Technology for Teachers: []
 * · Present.ly** gives your employees the ability to instantly communicate their current status, ask and answer questions, share media, and more with the revolutionary communications method pioneered by Twitter. Take a Tour. []

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· ** Ustream.tv ** is a free service for broadcasting live events over the internet. Ustream.tv is LIVE INTERACTIVE VIDEO FOR EVERYONE. Ustream.tv quickly and easily allows anyone with a camera to broadcast to the world. Our users consist of bloggers, podcasters, radio stations, DJ's, citizen journalist, talk show hosts, celebrities, rock bands, entertainers, comedians, churches, political candidates, government officials, conferences, event sponsors, record labels, television networks, colleges, university organizations, fraternities, sororities, charities, community groups, websites, civic groups, priests, monks, bird lovers, ghost hunters, dog watchers, weddings, lifecasters, professionals and amateurs. [|http://www.ustream.tv] Active Worlds: Active Worlds, the web's most powerful Virtual Reality experience, lets you visit and chat in incredible 3D worlds that are built by other users. Think you have what it takes to build your own world or Virtual Reality game? Active Worlds is the place for you, where in minutes you can create fascinating 3D worlds that others can visit and chat in. The Active Worlds Universe is a community of hundreds of thousands of users who chat and build 3D virtual reality environments in millions of square kilometers of virtual territory. Take a quick look at some of our [|satellite maps] and see how our community has grown over the years. Launch [|the free software] and come check us out for yourself. You'll be amazed at how vast our Virtual Worlds universe is [] ======

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· Excellent new search engine Search Cube: [] · [|Backchannelling] ? Two free sites to use for the chat: [] and [] see Kevin Jarrett for info on this way to involve kids during presentations and videos: [] ======

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· **OpenOffice.org 3** is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose. [] ======

· Twitter: microblog for quick communication of short messages to networks of colleagues and/or friends: [|http://twitter.com]
· ** A Teacher’s Guide to Twitter: ** Most people start off in a rocky relationship with Twitter. It doesn’t seem to be as easy or as useful as everyone has said, it takes awhile before you find your niche, and there is an overwhelming amount of information to deal with. But, just hang on – it’ll be worth it!!! This is a guide to help teachers, or anyone for that matter, have a smoother and more enjoyable experience. It is, by no means, the most comprehensive list of tips but hopefully it’ll be helpful. [] · 19 Interesting ways to use Twitter in the Classroom [] · Twiddeo is a powerful but simple service that let's you do one thing very well: Twitter updates with Video. Upload from the web, your cameraphone and record from your webcam. Uploadvideos from mobile phones to a twitter #ashtag or @ccount on a field trip or day out to the museum, etc. [] · Display updates on your web page [] · Twitter poll will collect and graph opinions about an event, class or issue. [] · Digital Pioneer: The Movie: A digital version of a blog post Kathy Schrock created defining those who grew up along side the major technological developments of the last 30 years. [] · Edmodo creating free online tools for the education community. The first one is a communications tool for Schools, Teachers, Students, and parents for use in classroom. [] · YoYoBrian: Create Subjects with flashcards. Enter them as you go...you can create flashcards ranging from simple definitions or images to more elaborate question and answers. Import Your Notes: Type or paste notes into our import tool to create notes directly from your flashcards. Find subjects from your school or major - or use subjects entered by your friends. You can enter friends' emails to invite them to view or help build your flashcards - and you control who can see your subjects. [] · Knowtes is a flashcard-based learning community. By adding a card to your Knowtes memory, it becomes due at optimized intervals. The Knowtes Adaptive Learning Engine then adjusts how frequently you have to study cards in your memory based on how well you do on them. [] · Wisemapping creates charts, and flowcharts. Used here in the proposal. [] · Home Base for getting started in Second Life: [] · Virtual Pioneers ning dedicated to education in Second Life: [] · Here are links to resources that will help you get started in Second Life: http://deninsl-necc2008.wikispaces.com/resources · Global Kids Second Life Curriculum; excellent beginners guide: [] · Torley Lives: Site full of hundreds of tutorials on just about everything you can do in Second Life. Terrific resource for novices and experts alike. [] · uTIPu strives to become the easiest-to-use know-how capturing and idea sharing social network service. The product and service enable people to record their activities on PCs as videos and share them as help tips with one another (hence the name uTIPu, as you-TIP-you). [] · Poll Everywhere gathers live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere. It can help you to raise money by letting people pledge __via text messaging__. [] · FreeScreencast you can make screencasting simple from beginning to end. Record your screen, upload, and share with ease. No special skills required. [] · Gabcast: Record using your phone. Recording audio has never been easier! Simply call us using a touch-tone telephone or a VoIP client. No microphone or audio editing software required. Create podcasts. Post audio to your blogs: with popular blogging software like Blogger, TypePad, WordPress. Create audio greetings. Create audio greetings to welcome users to your website! Or use a greeting as an audio avatar or signature in an email! Host conference calls. [] · VoiceThread: site to share images, documents and videos: [] · Project K-Nect is designed to create a supplemental resource for secondary at-risk students to focus on increasing their math skills through a common and popular technology – mobile smartphones. [] · Tools for the Classroom from Howie DiBlasi: [] · MyStudiyo offers a rich solution for creating online quizzes. Make quizzes in just minutes and embed them in any website. [] · Delicious is social bookmarking: All your bookmarks in one place; Bookmark things for yourself and friends; Check out what other people are bookmarking. [] · Creative Commons Images: Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. [] · Picnik makes photo changing with easy to use editing tools. [] · Cooliris 1.9 Transforms your browser into a lightning fast, cinematic way to discover the Web. [] · Blurb BookSmart free book making software for students to make their own books and for a fee received them bound: [] · Tikatok is a community for children to write illustrate and publish a real book. With Tikatok, becoming a published author is easy. Just write a story, illustrate it and order as many copies as you want. Tikatok features a suite of free teacher tools and has seen over 1000 teachers register to run bookmaking projects in their classrooms. [] · Scraster, professional screen casting: [] · Shutterfly: photo sharing site. [] · Jumpcut: video and photo upload, edit and share site free. [] · Webex: web based online conferencing site (fee): [] · Vyew Instant Workspaces: Free online collaboration and live web conferencing site for real time interaction between people and content. [] · Gcast: free online podcasting creation site. [] · Ustream.tv: Live video broadcasting site through your computer or portable device (iPhone). [] · Quantum Shift TV is a 21st Century storyteller renewing the cultural values of community, care and interconnectedness through the use of leading edge technology and citizen journalism. [] · The Flat Classroom Project: a global hands-on working together project for middle and senior high school students. It was founded by Vicki Davis (Westwood Schools, USA) and Julie Lindsay (Qatar Academy, Qatar) in 2006. The Project uses Web 2.0 tools to make communication and interaction between students and teachers from all participating classrooms easier. The topics studied and discussed are real-world scenarios based on 'The World is Flat' by Thomas Friedman. http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com/ · With YacaPaca users can create quizzes, surveys, tests, and more. Discover modify and share assessments. Set work for the whole class with a few mouse clicks, and analyse with tools that improve your teaching. [] · iGoogle: personalized apps Google website connectd to all Googles other services (Google docs, search engine): [] · Pageflakes: site for a personalized apps website, much like iGoogle. [] · Skype: Free video or voice calls over the internet including conference calls. Excellent for classroom to classroom. [] · Snap a picture of your screen or record video of onscreen action and share instantly over the web, IM, email. [] · Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively. [] · Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience. [] · Visitors to MoshiMonsters can adopt their very own pet Monster, give it a name and design its color scheme. Each Monster has a lively personality that develops the more it is played with. Monster owners can make new friends and connect with existing friends through a wide variety of safe social networking features such as Monster blogs, Newsfeeds, pinboards and buddy lists. [] · Freeplay Music is one the fastest growing "free" broadcast music production library; a comprehensive collection of broadcast production music spanning popular musical genres, available for download either on-line or via the sites “portable hard drive”. [] · Jamendo is a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses. Share your music, download your favorite artists. [] · Keepvid: Download and tag videos & MP3s from multiple sites. Easily converts FLV Files to iPod, AVI, WMV & Burn DVD's. Majority of popular clips, use during prep time, not in class. [|http://keepvid.com]. · Evernote allows you to easily capture information (tasks and to-dos, notes and research, web pages, whiteboards, business cards, scribbles, snapshots, etc.) in any environment using whatever device or platform and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere synchronized across all of your devices: cell phone, handhelds, PDAs, computers and servers. [] · Zoho is a suite of online applications (mail, word processor, spread sheet, wiki, sharing platforms, more) that you sign up for and access from the Zoho website. The applications are free for individuals and some have a subscription fee for organizations. Zoho’s vision is to provide customers (individuals, students, educators, non-profits, small and medium sized businesses) with the most comprehensive set of applications available anywhere (breadth); and for those applications to have enough features (depth) to make the user experience worthwhile. [] · Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. [] · Mind 360: Brain training games aren’t just for seniors anymore. Now you can hang on to your wits by simply playing the leading scientifically based brain training games on the net. And what better way to strengthen your cognitive skills than by having a fundamentally good time as well. Today’s advanced brain training games help improve your memory, increase your ability to stay focused, plus make faster and better decisions. And who doesn’t want that? Of course, these are only some of the immediate benefits behind the Mind360 experience. [] · The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education. [] · BuddySchool, a platform for people who want to study or tutor online. [] · Book a Lesson allows you to enhance your lesson experience by giving instant access to your favorite instructors and their schedules. No waiting for voice-mail, callbacks, dropped cell phone calls and other annoyances of the old ways. Book A Lesson is like having your instructors schedule in your hands at all times. [] · The Language Learning Community: busuu is a free online community for learning languages. You can directly connect with other members of the community in order to practice your language skills with an integrated video chat. Additionally, you have free access to photo based learning material covering more than 100 different topics. [] · MyHappyPlanet is an online community for people who are passionate about learning languages. With MyHappyPlanet, you can practice speaking with a native speaker, learn more about other cultures, and make friends with people anywhere in the world. [] · Where Search Meets Research: middlespot is a patented search interface for teachers, librarians, researchers and anyone who wants to interpret information faster from their search results, collect and annotate relevant results into groups, and share those collections with people relying on their expertise. [] · Children from 5-12 build and improve basic skills with the best quality e-learning courseware. Parents and educators have a pre-screened source of articles, research and related links. [] · Mix, Record and Collaborate Bojam is an online music collaboration service connecting musicians to mix, record, and collaborate to produce original or popular music. Bojam open-sourcing all aspects of the music creation process, including a wiki-style platform for adding song info, lyrics, and instrument tabs. [] · Personalized Learning: Beanbag connects parents and students to tutors without the middleman. It's also a great place to find & share videos, websites and other stuff that helps with school. [] · ELGG: An open source, learning landscape platform. It is all about building up your own personal space, a personal record of all your work and experience, an aggregation of all content important to you - customized the way you want. []

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