Web.2.0+tools

Effective Web 2.0 Tools for the Classroom
[|WiZiQ] - is a place where you can teach and learn using an easy-to-use Virtual Classroom. You are welcome to give private and public live online sessions, teach for free or earn money teaching. As a learner you can attend public sessions on various topics from academics to anything under the sun.
 * **Virtual Conferencing:** ( Free )

[|TimZon] - The private video discussion solution for the enterprise."the perfect collaboration tool enabling virtual teams to communicate effectively through video and across timezones" Timzon is currently in beta and is available for Google apps and Google Gmail users.

[|Dimdim] - lets you deliver synchronised live presentations, whiteboards and web pages while sharing voice and video over the Internet, with no download required.

[|TheFlashMeetingProject] - Allows a dispersed group of people to meet from anywhere in the world with an internet connection.

[|VoiceThread] - is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds [|images, documents, and videos] and allows people to leave [|comments] !!
 * MultiMedia** ( Free )

[|Vocaroo] - The premier voice recording service.

[|Masher] - free, and super-easy to mash a video from photos and video clips.

[|Eyejot] - **Video Mail in a Blink!** It's fun, it's easy and there's nothing to install!

[|PhotoPeach] - Make your own social slideshow in seconds. PhotoPeach helps you share your memories in a lively and vivid way by moving your photos like a video with your choice of background music, captions on each photo, fun effects, and more.

[|Slideroll] - is a photo slideshow maker that you can use to create slide shows with your photos.

[|Powerset] - is a search and discovery experience for Wikipedia, launched in May 2008. Powerset’s technology improves the entire search process. In the search box, you can express yourself in keywords, phrases, or simple questions.
 * Searching Wikipedia:** ( Free )

[|ShiftSpace] - is an open source layer above any website. It seeks to expand the creative possibilities currently provided through the web. ShiftSpace provides tools for artists, designers, architects, activists, developers, students, researchers, and hobbyists to create online contexts built in and on top of websites.
 * Browser Plug-Ins**

[|Capture Fox Movie] - is a Firefox add-on and a handy tool to create tutorials about a software, a web site or anything that can be displayed on your computer. It records your screen frame by frame. You can also record your voice.

[|GoAnimate] - create and share animations in mere minutes.
 * E-Fun**

[|Screedbot] - the animated scrolling typewriter text generator. Write some text and click Create Screed to make your own animated text. After you make your text you can save it to your computer, to Flickr, and put it on your blog.

[|TimeRime] - is an online community that allows people to create, compare and upload information by creating timelines, and to view information uploaded by others. Information can be uploaded by individuals, as well as companies or (public) institutions.

[|Unnecessary Knowledge] - is a simple website that randomly generates unnecessary knowledge each time you reloading the page.

[|Wordle] - is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.

[|Confusing Words] - is a collection of **3210** words that are troublesome to readers and writers.

[|PicLits.com] - is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.

[|Tikatok] - is where kids channel their imagination into stories – and publish those stories into books for you to share and treasure with friends and family.

[|Young Novelist Workbooks] - here you will find NaNoWriMo’s 100% awesome, non-lame Young Novelist Workbooks!

[|SceneCaster] - is a 3D social media application and online community where anyone can visualize their ideas, share them, and make them real.

[|EdTechTalk] - is simply the number one source of up-to-the-minute educational technology information and discussion available anywhere in the world, and it's FREE!
 * E-News**

[|eSchool News] - covers education technology in all its aspects--from legislation and litigation, to case studies, to purchasing practices and new products.

[|LearnTech News] - News about learning technology tools as well as related resources, events, etc. Links go to full postings or direct links.

[|OLDaily] - short for Online Learning Daily - is Stephen Downes contribution to the growing world of email newsletters. You might ask, does the world need another online newsletter, especially in the field of online learning? His answer - obviously - is //yes//. What makes OLDaily different from other email newsletters, then? Three things: content selection, value-add, and website support. Before you subscribe, take a moment to make sure this newsletter is for you.

[|Convos] - is a fast, elegant way to manage groups of people online. Everyone stays connected via group email and everything is accessible from its rich, ad-free online application.
 * Simple Online Groups**

[|LearnHub] - for people who love learning and sharing knowledge with others. It is a set of tools that make learning online fun and engaging, and teaching online easy and effective.
 * Social Learning Networks** **for Teachers**

[|Learning Town] - "A Village for Learning Professionals"

[|Workplace Learning 2.0] - open to anyone interested in discussing the implementation of new, Web 2.0, learning approaches and technologies for the personal or professional development of employees in private, public or voluntary sector organizations.

[|Sclipo] - is a social learning network. Use Sclipo to learn, teach and meet people that share your educational interests: ... learn just about anything such as Technology, Nutrition, Wellness or Business. Note, that Sclipo has one of the world's largest libraries of educational content created by thousands of member Academies

[|Academia.edu] - is a tree of academics around the world. Add yourself to the tree. Keep track of new people and papers in your field. Add research interests and papers to your Academia.edu webpage.
 * Social Utilities**

[|Course Hero] - is an open social learning network for students, educators and self-learners to publish, share and view academic resources online. In support of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, Course Hero provides critical and timely learning assistance through our user-contributed materials and most importantly online study groups comprised of students, educators and self-learners.

[|iLeonardo] - is a Social Utility for connecting to people and their collections of relevant information on the web. People use it to build digital notebooks of anything from the Internet. In return the utility displays similar notebooks that other people have created and made public.

[|Social Mention] - is a social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and microblogging services.

[|Wuala] - is a free social online storage which allows its users to securely store, backup, and access files from anywhere and to share files easily with friends, groups, and the world.

[|SocialToo] - is working to complement your social experience by providing you with all the tools you need to get the most you can from those you follow on the web. We're automating the processes needed to make this experience as easy as possible, and providing you with tools to reach your audience to its fullest potential.

[|Webby Chat] - to chat across your website.

[|YourGlobalGrid.com] - enables users to create their own unique views of information with an emphasis on time and location. Maps can be created using our intuitive web interface or programmatically using customized web crawlers, software API's, or a large number of feed formats including RSS.

[|99Chats] - lets you create a free account and then start your own chat room. You can then add your chat room to your website, blog or social network profile.

[|IngBoo] - is the clutter free, easy-to-use Internet retrieval utility that allows you to track the information that's important to you. This information can include all of your favorite Websites, as well as job and apartment listings, eBay auctions, Craig's List posts, the latest news, weather, traffic, sports scores, RSS feeds, Twitter updates, celebrity gossip, YouTube videos and more. When the information on a particular Website you're tracking changes, IngBoo retrieves those updates, refreshes your page and let you know that your new content has arrived.

[|Shelfari] - is the premier social network for people who love books. Create a virtual shelf to show off your books, see what your friends are reading and discover new books - all for free!
 * Take Note**

[|Moovl] - is an interactive unique online tool which allows children to create images that move according to the dynamics of a simple set of physics rules. Designed for the early primary school years, it is intended as a creative thinking and communication resource with applications for science, literacy and problem-solving. ( Single user is Free )

[|SCRATCH] - is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own 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. ( Free )

[|The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time] - is a partnership between IBM and the Palace Museum in Beijing, China.The principal goal of the project is to provide the means for a worldwide audience to celebrate and explore Chinese culture and history.

[|Dimension M] " Where there's power in numbers " - is an immersive video game world that engages students in the instruction and learning of mathematics. Pre-algebra and algebra objectives are covered through a series of missions that bring math into a world that today's students understand.

[|Brightstorm] - is an online learning network for high school students. Each of the courses covers the core topics commonly taught in college high school subjects (e.g. Geometry, Algebra, Writing, etc) and are designed to support students in classes where they need additional help in order reach their full potential. The courses are therefore intended to complement in-school learning. Each course is broken into 10- to 20- minute video lessons divided by topic. A course also includes interactive quizzes, facts as well as materials like practice problems and study guides to use to gain a deeper understanding of the subject.

[|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. Its workpads allow you to gather together only results that you find relevant to your research.

[|Moneytopia] - Learn more about managing your money while having fun !!

[|Caspian Learning] - is the leader in the use of 3D games and simulations technology for education and training, having developed over 50 ‘Serious Games’ applications in sectors as diverse as motor, finance, pharmaceuticals, defence, education and adult skills.Caspian has researched and built the unique, technology platform - Thinking Worlds™. This delivers highly immersive ‘performance simulations’ within engaging 3D worlds.

[|Composica] - is a social e‑learning authoring system that offers real-time collaboration among team members and provides a WYSIWYG environment to create and deliver interactive e‑learning 2.0 content with embedded social media.

[|OpenGoo] - It is a complete solution for every organization to create, collaborate, share and publish all its internal and external documents. You and your colleagues can create and collaborate on: * Text documents [|Google Docs] - Create and share your work online.
 * Web Office**
 * Spreadsheets (coming soon)
 * Presentations
 * Task Lists
 * E-mails
 * Calendars
 * Web Links
 * Contacts

[|gOffice] - gOffice - provides an online office suite which allows customers to quickly create documents via a web browser.

[|ThinkFree] - is the leader in next-generation office productivity solutions for platform independent, anytime, anywhere-computing.

[|Zoho] - Online Office, Word Processor, Spreadsheet and Presentation.

[|EtherPad] - the perfect way to collaborate on a text document and keep everyone literally on the same page.

[|How to Master Photoshop in one Week] - three part series from Elite by Design in September 2008 will show you how to master Photoshop in one week.
 * OnLine Courses**

[|BBC - Languages - Spanish] - The BBC has produced a fun and interactive course, which is available for free. It draws you into a web of intrigue dealing with real natives and you can't help but learn Spanish! You'll find yourself at the heart of a fast-paced mystery drama, which starts off in Madrid. It is broken down into 22 bite-sized episodes of 10 minutes, and allows beginners to learn Spanish from scratch and more advanced users to refresh their skills, all at their own speed.

[|Academic Earth] - is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world class education. Here you can find thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars.

[|ClassTools.net] - allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!
 * Creative Educational Sites**

[|MyAwardMaker.com] - is a free, quick and easy site to print out certificates for all types of activities: example, sports, school, business. || **All in One Web Start Page** [|Qrowd] - is the next generation start page, where structured data available on the web can be mashed together and displayed in customizable widgets.

[|Edicy] - with it everyone can create a website with ease. There are tens of designs to choose from and a website can be up and running in minutes — for free. The aim is to be the simplest web editor around, focusing on ease of use, great designs and reliability of customer support.

[|Joomla] - is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

[|MyClusta] - collect all your favourite internet sites and display them with cool images on your own personal webpage, known as visual bookmarks.

[|SimplyBox] - Quickly and visually share with your students/colleagues a world of educational content the Web offers - engage them! [|Apture] - provides the first rich communication platform that allows people to intuitively experience the web. With just one line of code, publishers and bloggers can quickly and easily turn flat pages of text into a compelling multimedia experience. Apture gives content creators the power to find and incorporate relevant multimedia items directly into their pages. Readers can then access these items without ever leaving the page, providing them with a deeper and more meaningful web experience.
 * Capture / share web videos, part of pages, pictures, photos - add your thoughts and get theirs!
 * Complements other Digital Learning solutions.
 * Since SimplyBox is web based, you and your students/colleagues can access the information from anywhere and from any computer.

[|Adam] - brings life to your dusty old static documents. You can add videos, HTML, stylized text and more to a static PDF or image file. In less than 20 minutes, you can have a dynamic web page to showcase your products, services and multimedia content.

[|Plinky] - makes it easy for you to create inspired content. Every day we provide a prompt (i.e. a question or challenge) and you answer. We make it simple to add rich media and share your answers on Facebook, Twitter and blogs.

[|Cooliris] - transforms your browser into a lightning fast, cinematic way to discover the Web.

[|bimbl] - is a very simple SEO-FRIENDLY instant blog platform. You create an account in **6.2 seconds** or so and your space is instantly available to start blogging on.
 * Blogging**

[|Bubbl.us] - is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.
 * Brainstorming**

[|Exploratree] - is a free web resource where you can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make your own. You can share them and work on them in groups too.

[|LucidChart] - Here are some of its features: [|Lovely Charts] - is an online diagramming application that allows you to create professional looking diagrams of all kinds, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, organisational charts, wireframes, and many more - for free.
 * Creating crisp, attractive flow charts for the web or print has never been so fast and easy.
 * Everyone works on a document at the same time. Collaborators get your changes immediately when you save.
 * Share your flow charts as a web page, PDF, or image. Publish an always-updated image of your work.
 * Any computer with Internet Explorer 6+, FireFox, Safari, or Chrome works with LucidChart without requiring Flash.

[|Seavus DropMInd] - [|TheBrain.com] - Simply type in your ideas. Drag and drop files and web pages. Any idea can be linked to anything else. Using your digital Brain is like cruising through a Web of your thinking. See new relationships. Discover connections. Go from the big picture of everything to a specific detail in seconds.
 * With Desktop Seavus DropMind™ you can get a complete at-a-glance representation of ideas, concepts or plans in a simple fusion of words and pictures. Stimulate your imagination and the logical way of thinking in creative mind maps.
 * Generate your presentations directly in Web Seavus DropMind™ application. Present your mind map in an original way with only one click. Add value to your work and create quick, creative and stylish presentations.

[|Team Texting] - connects team members and coaches with group text messaging and email, free of charge! [|OpenHuddle] - Each room in OpenHuddle is designed to give you the freedom to interact with as many or as few people as you would like, in whatever way you want! Our Video, Audio, Text Chat and Drawing Board tools are available for you to use in whatever way you see fit. [|CoFFEE] - Plan, moderate and evaluate collaborative activities in a digital classroom using various tools, for brainstorming, mind mapping, voting and more. Open source and free to download. [|MixedInk] - takes a fresh approach to collaborative writing. They say "It's a fun, democratic and elegant way for people to weave their best ideas together. (Plus, it's free!)" It is useful for students, employees, fans, community groups, unions, citizen journalists... pretty much any group with an opinion. [|Soshiku] - is a simple but powerful way for students to keep track of their homework, and to never miss a due date again.
 * Connections**
 * Homework Tracker**

[|Deadline] - is the simplest calendar ever made. You write in plain English, and it will set up a reminder for you. Once your appointments have been entered, you can quickly search through them based on words or dates.

[|JogLab] - create a Jog (a mnemonic device or memorable phrase) to help remember your stuff. Memory experts learn this way; it’s as easy as 1,2,3..

[|Manymoon] - Simplify your worklife. Use Manymoon to: [|Knetwit] - is a new, exciting social networking and knowledge collaboration site that is available to students and teachers at colleges around the world [|SlideRocket] - was founded in 2006 by [|Mitch Grasso] and [|Mike Lingle] with the vision of building a better presentation experience, one that provides for every part of the presentation lifecycle and helps you make great presentations. SlideRocket is committed to providing the best presentation experience to individuals and businesses around the world through innovative and compelling software-as-a-service. [|VCASMO] - is a multimedia presentation solution for personal photo-video slide show, business presentation, training, academic teaching, sales pitching, seminar, conference, press release meeting, live event. [|Prezi] - is a zooming presentation editor which allows you to easily create stunning presentations. With its help you can create dynamic and visually structured zooming maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings. ZuiPrezi has a very intuitive interface and support for online sharing. [|Flowgram] - Create interactive guided presentations by combining web pages, photos, Power Point and more with your voice, notes and highlights. Viewers can control the pages, scroll, click on links, view videos and more. [|Scribus] - is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. [|Swype] - provides a faster and easier way to input text on any screen. With one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen keyboard, the patented technology enables users to input words faster and easier than other data input methods—at over 50 words per minute. The application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more.
 * Manage your private and shared tasks
 * Find out what other people are working on
 * Simple tracking and completion of projects
 * Collaborate with co-workers, customers and partners
 * Turn emails into tasks
 * Attach Google Docs to tasks and projects
 * lets you create an online academic environment where the college community can share notes, ideas, issues, and content from their educational journey.
 * enables the community to share its resources and be more successful in their studying and come together with other students using Study Groups.
 * allows users to profit from their posted content
 * Improving Presentations**
 * Inputting Text**

[|Dropbox] - Store, synch and share your files online.
 * OnLine File Saving**

[|Tiddly Backpack] - Store, reference and organize your notes. It's a portable personal wiki that looks great. No fees, no charges just download and start using straight away. Tiddly Backpack is the usability of a Web2.0 application applied to TiddlyWiki. It's portable. You can carry it about on a USB stick. You can email it, ftp it, it's all in one file. The whole lot, everything.

[|ProProfs QuizSchool] - ( Free ) - Create a quiz for your classroom, company, blog or friends! Perfect for making your own quiz, online tests, training, recruitment, exams, trivia or just plain fun quizzes! **New features include:** [|ScreenToaster] - lets you record your screen in one click and then embed your videos on your blog or web page.
 * OnLine Quiz Creator**
 * Brand new user interface, completely revamped for ease of use.
 * Social sharing through customizable widgets which allow YouTube-style quiz embedding on any blog, e-learning system, and social networks like Facebook.
 * Yahoo Flickr integration for a limitless image library for quizzes.
 * Interesting aggregate analytics & trends reports, with precision down to a stored snapshot of each attempt.
 * Google Maps integration for visualization of where quiz takers are located worldwide.
 * Customization controls for color themes, content & style.
 * Many powerful new features including additional multiple question types, quiz types, authentication controls, grading features, RSS feeds and more
 * ProProfs Quiz School remains free of cost !!
 * Recording**

[|Jing Project] - ( free ) - the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video from your computer to anywhere.

[|Jing Pro] - ( costs $14.95/year ) - is now available in a Pro version for both Mac and PC. Pro features let you: [|Voila] - is an image Capturing and Annotating tool on the Mac platform. It allows you to capture anything or everything on your desktop, and in the way you decide! Shape your imagination by annotating and adding effects to the image. Share your creative output for productivity or for fun.
 * Record full-motion video from your screen
 * Share faster with smaller video files
 * Upload straight to YouTube (or upload manually elsewhere)
 * Strip Jing logos & links from your videos

[|Snapter] - Goodbye, scanner. Hello, digital camera.

[|Evernote] - allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.

[|RefSeek] (rĕf-sēk) - is a web search engine for students and researchers. RefSeek aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.
 * Searching** **the Web**

[|keyboardr] - is a meta-search engine. You get the results from Google, Wikipedia and Youtube altogether on one page.

[|Spific] - search the entire Internet or select a specific topic for a tailored search experience.

[|Yahoo!Glue] - Get images, videos, articles, and more all on one page. Glue topic pages help you get to all the information you want with just one click.

[|Samepoint Social Conversation Search] - is a conversation search engine that lets you see what people are talking about. Discover, learn and share new web sites and ideas. It is presently tracking millions of conversations, taking place in more than tens of thousands blogs and social media sites. User-generated discussions are typically not indexed by major search engines, such as Google, as they do not reside on static pages. SamePoint.com converts these discussions into web pages, or permalinks, and organizes them within a tag cloud.

[|Entireweb] - ( new ) - makes searching easy with a user friendly search engine.

[|Stumpedia] - "Power to the People" - is a social search engine that relies on human participation to index, organize, and review the world wide web.

[|Whizle] - a place for sharing plans and guides, helps you achieve your goals; learn and discover and is ideal for technologists, bloggers, business professionals, students and professors or anyone who wants to discover and share guides and plans.
 * Sharing**

[|Scriblink] - is a free digital whiteboard that users can share online in real-time. Sorta like pen and paper, minus the dead trees, plastic, and the inconvenience of being at the same place at the same time. [|Edusim] - is a free and opensource 3D virtual world for the school or //classroom interactive whiteboard//. Powered by the [|Cobalt project]. [|NASA eClips] - are short relevant educational video segments. These videos inspire and engage students, helping them see real world connections. New video segments are produced weekly exploring current applications of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, topics. [|SchoolWAX TV] - was designed with schools, students, teachers, and parents in mind. You will only find educator approved videos on SchoolWAX TV so everyone can learn in a safe and comfortable environment. [|TED] - stands for **Technology, Entertainment, Design.** It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader. The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). ||
 * WhiteBoard and Add On**
 * Video Resources**