The following Web 2.0 applications were investigated by our class last Thursday. To learn more about these applications, check out my Diigo bookmarks below!
- Shelfari: The greatest for book lovers! You can create a "virtual bookshelf" that includes books you've read, books you're reading, and even books you want to read. You can also send your bookshelf to your blog. I've included mine in this blog!
- Pageflakes: Pageflakes provides a "social personalized homepage". You can create a Pageflake home page for free and include "small, movable versions of all your web favorites that you can arrange as you like. Then you can share your page as a "Pagecast" with as many or as little as you like. The site also has thousands of widgets that you can add.
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- Glogster: One of my new favorites! You can create your own "poster" that includes text, sound, video, images. Easy to use and looks great!
- Hot Potatoes: Freeware! It includes six different applications to create "interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the web.
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- Simplybox: A great web 2.0 tool to visually organize online information.
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- Twitter: "information via Twitter as it happens - from breaking world news to updates from friends."
- EtherPad: A web-based word processor that can be used individually or within a group.
- Mindomo: An online graphic organizer. Also has a downloadable version...
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- Delicious: "A social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source.
- Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds - a class favorite! "Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide". You can create your own wordle or look through the gallery at others art.
- Word It Out: This may become our next class favorite! Similar to Wordle, but has many more customization features available. Users have the ability to embed their Word It Out word cloud in their website or blog
- WikiSpaces: A quick way to start your own educational website for free (with ads). If you are a K-12 educator, you can obtain a wiki without ads for free. Can pay an additional $5.00 per month to remove adds if you are not an educator. You can add widets and media. They have basic theme templates available to set up your wiki - with more options if you pay for the plus or super packages. As with most web servers, you can upload files and images. There is also a discussion page and easy page linking. As the site says, the visual page editor is almost "as easy to use as a word processor."
- Edmoto: "A private social platform for teachers and students to share ideas, files, events and assignments." Has a variety of tools that educators will enjoy, such as polls, calendar feature, assignments and grades, and much more that I can write here. There is also a mobile version for iPhones, iPod Touch, etc.
- VoiceThread: "A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to naviage pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam)." You can then share your VoiceThread with others and they can also record comments. They can be embedded to other websites, too.
- Ning: Another quick application to create a social networking site. Technology in Education at National-Louis University has created a Ning to share information about the program and offer non-graduate credit workshops. Check it out at http://nlutie.ning.com
- Microsoft Learning Content Development System (LCDS)
"Free tool that allows the Microsoft Learning community to create high-quality, interactive, online courses."tags: online learning, freeware, e-learning, multimedia, quizzes, games, assessments, animations, demos
- What Is Web 2.0 - O'Reilly Media: "The concept of "Web 2.0" began with a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive International. Dale Dougherty, web pioneer and O'Reilly VP, noted that far from having "crashed", the web was more important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites popping up with surprising regularity."
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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