Web+2.0+for+Educators

= What is Web 2.0? =

[|Basics for Beginners - from the Cool Cat Teacher's Blog - Vicki Davis] [|What Does the Network Mean to You? - A VoiceThread Project] = = = = = Some Essential Tools =

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RSS Feed
Commonly known as Really Simple Syndication but also called Rich Site Summary. RSS is a format for Aggregating web content that is updated frequently into one place. Rather than visiting 20 or 30 sites or wading through spam in your e-mail, information comes to you in one place. You can read subscribe and get information from News sites and blogs. Whenever information is updated at the web site, the aggregator is updated.

Explanation from Andy Carvin at [|Learning Now] Will Richardson's [|RSS Guide]


 * [|Google Reader]
 * [|iGoogle]
 * [|Pageflakes]
 * [|NetVibes] (example: [|David Truss: BLC08])
 * [|Bloglines]
 * [|Safari RSS]
 * [|Google News]
 * [|Technorati]

**Social Bookmarking** Social Bookmarking in Plain English media type="youtube" key="HeBmvDpVbWc?fs=1" height="385" width="480" align="center"

[|Delicious]
 * [|Something more from Andy Carvin about Delicious and tagging]

[|Diigo]

**Photo Sharing** **and editing**

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 * [|Picnik]
 * [|Slide]slideshows, slide shows, photo sharing, image hosting, widgets, MySpace codes, web publishing, music
 * **[|Animoto]** Animoto is a web application that automatically generates videos using patent-pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology and high-end motion design. Animoto videos have the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer.
 * [|One True Media] - add video or photos to your blog
 * [|Flickr]
 * [|SmileBox]
 * [|Phixr]
 * [|Picasa]
 * [|Scrapblog]
 * [|BigHugeLabs] - Flickr applications
 * [|RockYou]

=Wikis=

A wiki (IPA: [ˈwɪ.kiː]  or [ˈwiː.kiː] [1]) is a type of Web site that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change some available content, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring. The term wiki also can refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a Web site, or to certain specific wiki sites, including the computer science site (an original wiki), WikiWikiWeb, and on-line encyclopedias such as Wikipedia. "Wiki." Wikipedia. WikiMedia Foundation. 24 Nov 2006 <[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki>].

Wikis in Plain English media type="youtube" key="-dnL00TdmLY&hl=en" height="355" width="425" = **Blogs** =

Blogs in Plain English
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 * [|My Del.icio.us Blog Links]

=VoiceThread=

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If you haven't tried this one, it's awesome. can be used for digital storytelling. You can either upload photos into VoiceThread, or you can pull them in across the web from Flickr. It creates a slideshow. But then, you can record audio for each picture telling a story. Then you share your finished project. BUT IT GETS BETTER! You can view and listen to someone's VoiceThread. If you have a story of your own to share or simply want to comment on an image, you click a button and you're on your way. Think of it as an audio/visual blog post. Yes, the comments can be moderated. A valuable resource wiki from Alice Barr.=====

=[|Audacity] - Free Audio Recorder and Sound Editor Audacity help from Alice Barr=

= Video Sharing =
 * [|Teacher Tube]
 * [|SchoolTube]
 * [|Zamzar]
 * Vimeo

= **[|Google products]** = = [|Skype] =
 * [|Google for Educators]

= Even More... = [|Wordle] [|Glogster for Education] [|Voki] [|Xtranormal] [|Kerpoof] [|StoryBird] [|PrimaryPad] WallWisher