Web+2.0+Tools

Blogger ~ Free blog publishing tool from Google  Edmodo ~ Free, private microblogging (like Twitter) for education  Edublogs ~ Blogging service designed for teachers and students  Twitter ~ Micro blogging
 * **Blogging and Microblogging **

Comiqs ~ Create & share your comic-style stories  Pixton for Schools ~ A private, virtual classroom where students create, share, and remix comics; a school-safe division of Pixton Comic Strip.  Protagonize ~ An online community creating collaborative, interactive fiction.  ToonDoo ~ Cartoon strip creator
 * Comic/Graphic Novel/Fiction Creation **

Elluminate ~ Online application allowing a group of people to communicate in real time through an Internet connected computer  VoiceThread ~ Group conversations around images,, and videos
 * Communication Tools **

Bubbl.us ~ Free web application that lets you brainstorm online.  CMap Tools ~ Concept maps <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Exploratree ~ Access a library of ready-made interactive concept maps [|Gliffy] Draw, share and edit flow charts, diagrams, technical drawings. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> MindMeister ~ Online, collaborative brainstorming and mindmaps. [|Mindomo] Another collaborative online mindmapping tool. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Skrbl ~ Online, multi-user whiteboard. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Text 2 Mind Map ~ Web application that creates a mind map out of a list of words [|Wisdomaps] "A wisdomap has three ares: a mind map, articles and resources. Combining these areas creates a powerful format to organize information in an uncluttered way." Up to 3 maps free <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> WiseMapping ~ Mindmaps, concept maps.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Concept Maps--Mindmapping--Brainstorming **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google Docs and Spreadsheets ~ Create basic documents and spreadsheets from scratch. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Youblisher Turn documents into flippable pdfs and share with others <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Zoho Notebook ~ An online office productivity suite
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Document Creation and Storage **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **ESL/Foreign Language** 22 Frames Provides a central location for locating captioned videos for learning English. Bombay TV Create subtitles for Indian films. ESL Video Create online multiple choice exercises with videos from Youtube. LearnEnglishFeelGood Watch video clips from movies and TV shows and answer comprehension questions. English Central Hear an excerpt of a video with subtitles and record yourself repeating the same text. Evaluates pronunciation. Tokbox Create and send video messages. Lingt Allows students to practice listening comprehension and pronunciation by recording their own voices. Fotobabble <span class="wiki_link_ext">Create a talking photo. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Storybird Build your own stories with images and share them with others. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bookr Create image books with text captions. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Listen & Write Listen to various texts and do dictations. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yappr A large collection of transcribed video clips. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wordia ~ Bring word definitions to life through video. Smart.fm Provides a flashcard-like service for learning languages. Hear the flashcards read to you, read the flashcards, and play games based upon the flashcards you're studying. Vocabulix Provides numerous free tools for learning English. Forvo An audio wiki for word pronunciations. Hosts hundreds of recordings of word pronunciations by native speakers. Learning Chocolate Offers six learning activities in dozens of word categories. CAPL Provides images that demonstrate the true meaning and intention of the words in a language. Verbs Online Provides foreign language students with a good selection of activities for practicing verb conjugations. WordSteps A resource for learning vocabulary. Users can create their own dictionaries. ESL Basics Provides short video vocabulary lessons for beginning and advanced ESL students. Make Beliefs A comic strip creation tool that provides students with a variety of templates, characters, and prompts for building their own comic strips. Social Network for Learning Languages - Practice speaking a language with people from around the world. Vocab Head - Learn vocabulary words with video clips.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Graphic Organizers** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Creately ~ Create unlimited public graphic organizers. Thinkature ~ Flow charts. ClassTools ~ Colorful diagrams and graphic organizers

[|Create a Graph] Generate 5 different kinds of graphs from your own data [|ChartTool] Design and share your own graphs online and for free. [|DYI Chart] Offers variety of professionally designed chart templates. [|Google Chart Tools] [|Holhi] Line graphs, pie graphs, scatter plots, Venn diagrams, and more.
 * Graphing**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Homepages/Desktops** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> iGoogle ~ Personalized homepage from the Google suite <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Pageflakes ~ Personalized homepage

[|GeoCommons] Make and share interactive maps. Create interactive maps from thousands of publicly sourced datasets. [|Google Earth] Shows 3D overviews of major cities, mountains, and other terrain, as well as driving directions and maps. Also includes Sky. (requires software download) [|Google Maps] Generate maps and directions Mapfaire - Create a themed map where you can identify and mark various locations [|MapWing]<span class="wiki_link_ext"> Makes it easy to build, share, and explore virtual tours. [|Tripline] Lets you combine maps with photos, audio, stories, links and text. Map your imaginary trip around the world...or your real one. [|ZeeMaps] "Create. Customize. Publish."
 * Mapping**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Diigo ~ Web highlighter, sticky notes, social bookmarking annotation <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evernote Allows you to take a photo with your phone, type in text, clip information from the Internet, use on your desktop, or use on your phone. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">MyStickies ~ Allows you to place little yellow squares of digital paper anywhere and everywhere you feel like in the whole wide web. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Notecentric ~ Web based note taking. Notecentric keeps your notes organized and readily available online. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Notely ~ A collection of online tools designed for ; a, calendar, note-taking, homework planner and more. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Soshiku ~ Manages your high school or college assignments. [|WebNotes] Highlight text and attach notes to web pages, create notes in folders, and even share your notes with others with this app. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Zotero ~ Personal research assistant
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Note-Taking/Highlighting/ Research Tools **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **Photo Sharing and Storage** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Flickr ~ Photo sharing <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Flickr Commons ~ Hidden treasures of the world's public photography archives <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Picasa ~ Software download from Google that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Picsearch ~ A unique image search engine || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Surveys/Polls ** [|SurveyMonkey] Select from over a dozen <span class="wiki_link_ext">types of questions (multiple choice, rating scales, drop-down menus, and more..). [|Easy-Poll] Free surveys and polls for your webpage, wiki, or blog. No ads. <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|PollDaddy] Free flash poll widget for blogs and websites <span class="wiki_link_ext">Poll Everywhere Instant audience feedback <span class="wiki_link_ext">Wufoo Online form builder

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Presentations and Slideshows ** [|Glogster] Create an interactive online poster with links, photos, text, stickers, sound, music, animation and more <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> PreZentit ~ Create, share and show presentations online. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Prezi ~ Visualizing, storytelling, and presentation without the slides. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Slide ~ Create & share your own slideshows with music, your own photos, and more. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Slideshare ~ Easy way to share slideshows and find slideshows. [|SlideRocket]~ <span class="wiki_link_ext">(Free for individual users) [|SlideStory] ~ Allows you to create a slideshow from your own images and narrate them in your own voice and then embed it in your own webpage, link to it, or email it. [|VoiceThread] ~ An online media album that can hold essentially any type of media.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Quiz Generators** [|Quia] ~ (fee-based membership) Templates for creating 16 types of interactive online activities, including flash cards, word search, battleship, challenge board, and cloze exercises. ProProfs ~ Six question formats. Embed audio or video too. Track results. [|QuizStar] This quiz creator allows you to design multimedia quizzes in different formats including multiple choice, true/false, and short answer and in different languages. Quizinator ~ A free service designed to make the process of creating quizzes, exams, and other printable activities a more efficient process for teachers. [|SuperTeacherTools] Create flash games/quizzes that can also be downloaded and played off-line.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Jing ~ Screencasting--record video and stills of onscreen action <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Kwout ~ Quote a part of a web page as an image <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Screencast-O-Matic ~ A tool for creating screencasts <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ScreenJelly ~ Quickly create a screencast video <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> ScreenToaster ~ A tool for creating screencasts <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> SimplyBox ~ A service to capture, organize, and share anything you find on the web <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Skitch ~ Take snapshots of the web, edit, and share (Mac only for now)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Screencasting and Capturing Tools **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Viewzi ~ A visualization web search engine
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Search Engines **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **Social Bookmarking** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> BlogMarks ~ Save your web bookmarks, organize, and share <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Delicious ~ One of the largest social bookmarking sites. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Diigo ~ Web highlighter, sticky notes, social bookmarking and annotation

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Edmodo - Facebook for education.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Social Networking **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Animoto ~ Turns pictures, video clips, and text into professionally produced videos. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Storybird Build your own stories with images and share them with others. [|VoiceThread] An online media album that can hold essentially any type of media. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bookr Create image books with text captions. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mixbook Digital storytelling with pictures. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Book Builder ~ Create, share, publish, and read digital books ClassTools ~ Create books with turning pages See also **Presentations & Slideshows**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Storytelling/ebooks **

<span class="wiki_link_ext">[|All of Me] Mutlimedia timeline generator. " //Automatically// create a personal timeline of your life from any digital assets you have, such as pictures, videos, blogs, documents, or any internet page." [|Capzles] An interactive multimedia timeline builder: videos, mp3s, blogs, photos; then share and see what others have created. [|Free Timeline] Generate a timeline and embed it in report or webpage Google Timeline A unique way to view the news. [|Make Your Own TImeline] SImple timeline generator for elementary students [|OurStory] Save images, stories, videos in a collaborative timeline and then share online. [|Preceden] Easy to use timeline generator with layers available. [|Simile] Powerful timeline generator Timetoast Timeline visualization tool to understand history. Timeglider Web-based timeline software for creating and sharing history
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Timeline s**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Animoto ~ Turns pictures, video clips, and text into professionally produced videos. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Creaza Online video editing tool (good for flip camera). Jaycut Another free online video editor <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> PodcastPeople ~ A web-based service for to create, distribute, and control video and audio shows over the Internet.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Video Editing **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">PBwiki ~ Collaborative learning for the classroom; wikis. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Wikispaces ~ Collaborative learning for the classroom; wikis.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wikis **

Author Stream Converts your PowerPoint slide shows to flash media files [|Box.net] - Free online file storage and sharing bit.ly - Shorten long URLs Carbonmade ~ Create online portfolios. Crocdocs Annotate and edit pdfs Debateagraph ~ Free, online visual debate mapping tool and repository of debate maps Dropbox - Drop files in an online folder and access them from any computer Fotobabble <span class="wiki_link_ext">Create a talking photo <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google Lit Trips ~ Using Google Earth to discover where in the world novels and nonfiction stories are set <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> GoogleSky ~ Different ways to explore the universe. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Gyminee ~ Web-based, personal health and fitness tracking application <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">JoinMe ~ Free screen sharing tool <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Livebinders ~ Share a set of links, create a webquest, or an Internet scavenger hunt <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Plan2Spend ~ Budget manager <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> podOmatic ~ Create, find, and share podcasts <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Read the Words ~ Text-to-voice reading technology <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Remember the Milk ~ Online to-do list and task management <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rubrics - Rubrics creator <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Scrapblog ~ Online scrapbooks <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Sharetabs ~ Share a list of links as tabs <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus ~ An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tagxedo Create word clouds from the text you provide. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Traineo ~ Web-based, personal health and fitness tracking and support application Trick.ly A url shortener that can be password protected <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Tumblr ~ //S//hare text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">TypeWithMe ~ Real-time collaborative authoring tool <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Video Ant View and annotate videos. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> VisibleBody ~ Complete, fully interactive, 3D human anatomy model <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wallwisher ~ An online bulletin board. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WebSlides ~ Turning bookmarks and feeds into interactive slideshows. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Wordle ~ A tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Zamzar - Free file conversion tool.
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 * The ultimate list of web 2.0 tools **