www.prezi.com and www.preezo.com presentation tools
www.quizlet.com & www.studystack.com create online flash cards, online vocab learning games
www.shelfari.com virtual bookshelf with discussion board
www.diigo.com social bookmarking; save online sites; organize pages when researching
www.letterpop.com online word processor and publication tool
www.plotblot.com allows users to collaborate on screenplays
www.toondoo.com & www.goanimate.com create comic strips
www.nowpublic.com write and upload news stories
www.penzu.com online private journaling site
www.storyofmylife.com family history tracking and cataloging
www.sketchcast.com record virtual sketch of math problems
www.free-website-polls.com create surveys and paste onto a website
www.acme.com/planimeter use to calculate areas of a Google map using different measures
www.instacalc.com online calculator sharing
www.voicethread.com share stories, slides online; audio and video can be used; comments
www.screencast.com share movies
www.timeglider.com create timelines
www.many-eyes.com create visualization of data that students can enter
www.earth.google.com geography tool
www.footnote.com post comments on primary source documents
www.gliffy.com diagramming tool that allows multiple users to collaborate on a diagram
www.mindmeister.com & www.mindomo.com mind mapping tools
www.mywebspiration.com/ free beta version of online collaborative webbing tool
www.editgrid.com & www.docs.google.com spreadsheet, document, and presentation tools that allow online collaboration
http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0 Web 2.0 award winners for 2008 http://classroomnext.blogspot.com/2009/05/web-20-awards-by-cnet.html Web 2.0 awards by CNET for 2009
http://www.bookshare.org/ Free subscription to digital books, periodicals, textbooks for students with qualifying disabilities and public schools
http://openlibrary.org/ Great public library that includes ebooks
www.naturalreaders.com Free and for pay e-text readers
http://cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm Free text to speech program http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Awesome_Talking_Library.html Free web page reader software
www.gmap-pedometer.com calculate calories it takes to walk distances on a Google map
www.peclogit.org/logit.asp track walking distances using a pedometer
www.peertrainer.com & www.mypyramidtracker.gov track diet and exercise
www.walkscore.com determine how walkable a location is
www.myteamcaptain.com & www.teamsnap.com manage sports rosters
www.schooltube.com post student videos
www.jaycut.com edit videos
www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast; www.pandora.com & www.last.fm create virtual radio stations
www.playlist.com & www.grooveshark.com create and compare playlists
www.flickr.com share images such as in art class and comment on them
http://scratch.mit.edu create stories and animations
www.fuzzmail.org records keystrokes so typing errors can be analyzed
www.eslvideo.com allows embedding You Tube type videos into a lesson
www.mystickies.com add virtual sticky notes to web pages and notes are kept on user’s account
www.voxswap.com social networking site that supports communicating in different languages
www.livemocha.com language learning site with some free lessons
http://www.techsmith.com/jing/ lets you take a picture of your computer screen or make a video of it and share it
www.delicious.com Social bookmarking site
www.vizu.com Create polls
www.storylineonline.net Screen Actors Guild sponsors actors reading stories
www.clickspeak.clcworld.net/downloads.html free download for a web page reader in Firefox
www.convertfiles.com tool that converts files to other formats (e.g., jpeg to a Word document)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ free ebooks
http://librivox.org/ free ebooks read by volunteer readers
http://www.ipl.org/ Internet Public Library joins forces with Librarian’s Internet Index
http://ash23things.blogspot.com/2009/06/23-things.html Series of 23 Web 2.0 links/activities
http://voki.com Create your own avatars with voices.
http://dipity.com Create free timelines and access those made by others |
