Web 2.0 Technology List
Learning Object Respositories
Wisconsin Online Resources Center (http://www.wisc-onine.com)
Wisc-Online is a digital library of Web-based learning resources called "learning objects." The digital library of objects has been developed primarily by faculty from the Wisconsin Technical College System and produced by multimedia technicians who create the learning objects.
MIT Open Courseware (http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm)
Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds. Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required.
Merlot (http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm)
Putting Educational Innovations into Practice: find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues.
Low Threshold Applications:
- Low cost/free
- Not Intimidating/familiar
- Easy to learn
- Reliable
Hot Potatoes (http://hotpot.uvic.ca)
Six applications to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled sentence, crossword, matching/ordering, gap-fill exercises
Dr. Alisa Cooper's Wiki on Technology in Education from Maricopa Community College in Phoenix, AZ: (http://drcoop.pbworks.com/w/page/18221398/WebTwoPoint0 )
This wiki is a presentation for the Tech Ed Conference in Ontario, CA, March 25-28, 2007
Scoop.it! The Best of Web 2.0, the best resources and tools of the web 2.0 in the classroom
http://www.scoop.it/t/the-best-of-web-2-0
Essential Web 2.0
Tools for Teachers (http://gettingsmart.com/2012/08/50-essential-edtech-tools-by-category/)"There are new web 2.0 tools appearing every day. What is web 2.0? Usually it consists of tools that create user-generated content. Although some of these tools were not originally meant for the classroom, they can be extremely effective learning tools for today's technology geared students and teachers..."
| Google Basics | https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/70897?hl=en |
| Twitter in Plain English | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kELMC_rYQf4 |
| RSS in Plain English: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLMFjhwl7xc |
| Wikis in Plain English: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL9p-_QsXU4 |
And many more...
| Blogging | |
Blogger |
http://www.blogger.com |
FeedBlitz |
http://feedblitz.com/ |
Wordpress |
http://www.wordpress.com |
| Bookmarks (Social) | |
Del.icio.us |
http://w ww.delicious.com |
Diigo |
http://www.diigo.com/ |
| Communications | |
Gmail |
http://www.gmail.com |
Yahoo |
http://www.yahoo.com |
| Cartooning | |
Blabberize |
http://blabberize.com |
Toondoo |
http://www.toondoo.com/ |
| eCommerce | |
eBay |
http://www.ebay.com/ |
Paypal |
https://www.paypal.com/ |
| Education and Knowledge | |
Answers.com |
http://www.answers.com/ |
Wikipedia |
http://www.wikipedia.org/ |
| Games/Virtual Worlds | |
Hot Potatoes (Application to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled sentence, crossword, matching/ordering, gap-fill exercises) |
http://hotpot.uvic.ca |
Second Life (immersive) |
http://secondlife.com/ (requires a software download) |
| Google Apps | |
Mapquest |
http://www.mapquest.com/ |
Bing maps (good aerial photos and birds-eye views) |
http://www.bing.com/maps/ |
Pandora |
http://www.pandora.com/#/ |
iTunes |
http://www.apple.com/itunes/?cid=OAS-US-DOMAINS-itunes.com (requires a software download) |
| Office Suites | |
Open Office: (free clone versions of all Microsoft Office products) |
http://www.openoffice.org |
| Peer to Peer | |
Scribblar (white board and conferencing tool) |
http://scribblar.com/ |
Skype |
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/home (requires a software download) |
| Personal Management | |
Google calendar |
http://www.google.com/calendar/ |
Remember the Milk (online to do list) |
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ |
| Photo and Video | |
Flickr |
http://www.flickr.com/ |
Google video |
http://video.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wv |
Photobucket |
http://photobucket.com/ |
youTube |
http://www.youtube.com/ |
| Podcasts | |
iTunes |
http://www.apple.com/itunes/?cid=OAS-US-DOMAINS-itunes.com (requires a software download) |
Learn Out Loud |
http://www.learnoutloud.com/ |
Podomatic: (Register to start and quickly begin creating a podcast in minutes using this free, simple tool. ) |
http://www.podomatic.com/path/create |
| Portals | |
Protopage |
http://www.protopage.com/ |
| Presentation Programs | |
Prezi |
http://www.prezi.com |
| Search Engines | |
| http://www.google.com/ | |
Mix (a discovery engine that finds the best of the web, recommended just for you; formerly Stumbleupon) |
http://www.mix.com/ |
Technorati |
http://technorati.com (blog search) |
| Social Networks | |
| http://www.facebook.com/ | |
| http://www.linkedin.com/ | |
| http://twitter.com | |
| Survey | |
Survey Gizmo |
http://www.surveygizmo.com/ |
Survey Monkey |
http://www.surveymonkey.com/ |
Socrative |
http://www.surveymonkey.com/ |
| Unique Multimedia | |
Animoto (create your own video from your photos) |
http://www.animoto.com/ |
Audacity |
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ |
Bit.ly (abbreviate a long web address) |
http://bit.ly/ |
Color Scheme Designer (Generate matching color schemes to go with any color of your choice.)< |
http://colorschemedesigner.com/ |
Dafont (Find hundreds of archived unique fonts available to download and add to your course.)< |
http://www.dafont.com/ |
Jing |
http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html |
Wordle.net (word list randomizer) |
http://www.wordle.net/ |
| Web Office Suites | |
Google docs |
http://docs.google.com/ |
Open Office |
https://www.openoffice.org/ |
Zoho |
http://www.zoho.com/ |
Website Creation and Hosting |
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Wix |
http://www.wix.com (free) |
| Wiki and Collaboration | |
Google docs |
http://docs.google.com/ |
PB Wiki |
http://pbwiki.com |
| Other Web 2.0 resource listings: | |
| http://edjudo.com/web-2-0-teaching-tools-links#anchor2 | |
| http://www.Present.me |