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=Overview of Web 2.0: Educational Technology Applications in the Classroom=

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Web 2.0
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A Vision of K-12 Students Today from www.teachertube.com media type="custom" key="3001420"

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[|http://www.thinkfinity.org] http://www.kidrex.org - kid friendly search engine from google

Wikispaces
A wiki is simply an editable web page that people can add their own content, materials, and discussions. Free site for teachers to begin their wikispace without advertisements: media type="custom" key="3000958"

http://www.labnol.org/internet/how-to-embed-in-html-webpages/6365 - how to embed anything on your web page

https://gettingtrickywithwikis.wikispaces.com/ - Getting tricky with Wikis... advanced wiki user tips

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Blogs
A blog is comprised of the words 'web' and 'log'. It is an online journal that can contain text, images, links, and most types of media. Blogging allows an individual to express themselves and provide an authentic audience. media type="file" key="42.wmv" width="300" height="300"

[|http://www.epals.com] [|http://edublogs.org] [|http://21classes.com] [|http://classblogmeister.com] [|http://www.blogger.com]

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Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling mixes together pictures, writing, effects, voice, and music to create a personal multimedia project.

[|http://www.animoto.com] - Analyzes your pictures and music to create a video [|http://education.animoto.com] - educator version [|http://photopeach.com] [|http://www.picnik.com] - online photo editing [|http://audacity.sourceforge.net] - free editing and recording audio software

[|http://search.creativecommons.org] [|http://pics4learning.com] - Teachers and students are permitted to use all of the pictures from this site. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page - Over 3 billion pictures anyone can use http://www.adigitaldreamer.com/gallery/index.php [|http://www.morguefile.com] - Can use anything for non-profit purposes [|http://www.photopy.com] - Search engine for free photos http://www.addletters.com/image-list.php - Create signs and images with text [] - Another image search engine for finding images tagged with Creative Commons license [] - From their website: We are a search engine for free photos. These come from many sources and are license-specific. You can view a photo's license by clicking on the license icon, below and left of photos. Membership is free, without advertising, and allows you to rate, tag, collect and comment on photos.
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[|http://freeplaymusic.com] - free use in the classroom, however, the fine print states it can not be published to the public i.e., blog, wiki, web page, youtube, teachertube [|http://freeaudioclips.com] [|http://www.podsafeaudio.com] [|http://search.creativecommons.org] http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/freemedia - Digital creative commons at Penn State http://freemusicarchive.org/ []
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More Web 2.0 Tools
[|http://pollauthority.com] - Free online poll creator and can be embedded in a wiki or blog. http://docs.google.com/ - Students can collaborate on powerpoints and word documents online. You can also create a free survey for your class and embed it. [|http://myt4l.com] - Under the 'tools' section, they have a great rubric generator for web 2.0 projects. [|http://www.visuwords.com] - Online visual/graphical dictionary [|http://www.wordle.net] - Create word clouds. Hint: The more you write the word, the larger the word will appear. http://visualwikipedia.com/en - [|http://readthewords.com] - Site can read word documents, PDFs, and text. You can embed the mp3 into a wiki, website, or blog. Students can upload the voice for a podcast. [|http://readwritethink.org] - Great resource for K-12 Language Arts teachers [|http://readwritethink.org/materials/comic] - Comic strip creator- you can add up to six panels to this site. Not as many resources as toondoo.com but most likely not blocked. [|http://www.toondoo.com] - Comic strip creator... has a large library of images, backgrounds, fonts, and you can upload your own pictures (personal favorite). [|http://www.makebeliefscomix.com] - Comic strip creator [|http://blabberize.com] - Make your pictures talk! [|http://jogtheweb.com] - Lead students on an exploration of the web by 'tracks' or links you create. You can post comments on each track. Jog the web example: http://jogtheweb.com/jog/#/YZzTBkA4rrGH/0 http://www.quotesdaddy.com - Can be used for a writing prompt. Quotes from famous people. http://www.plinky.com - Daily writing prompt. Once you establish an account, you can see how others responded to the prompt. http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/cashcab/game/game.html - online game, cash cab. For those moments when you have some time in the classroom.