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= Web 2.0 Tools that work within the CCS Network. =

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Darren Furno Technology Teacher Lehman Middle School
 * This wiki contains Web 2.O Applications and Internet Resources that I have collected over the years. It is my hope that this wiki well become a repository for teachers to share resources that help enhance instruction and increase teacher productivity. With that in mind **: Please add your favorites. =====

= Here is my Top Ten List is no particular order. = [] Edmodo provides classrooms a safe and easy way to connect and collaborate, offering a real-time platform to exchange ideas, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices.

__ [] __ Create astonishing presentations live and on the web

[] Turn your photos and video clips into stunning videos. Fast, free, and shockingly easy. Note: Works in some CCS buildings, but not all.

[] A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways.

Head Magnet Create smart online flash cards that //predict when you'll forget.//

[|http://www.polleverywhere.com] Audiene Response and Polling systems that uses cell phones.

Readability Readability is a web & mobile app that zaps online clutter and saves web articles in a comfortable reading view.

Soople All the Advanced Google Search options in one easy to use place.

[|Wonderopolis] Learning is happening everywhere, all the time! We have bottled a little bit of that learning in each Wonder of the Day. Experience a daily dose of time with your child to make the most of each and every moment together — learn something new, try out an idea, create a masterpiece, imagine possibilities. It’s easy. It’s fun. But the learning is big!

[|www.wordle.net] Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text

= Blogs and Wikis = http://www.wikispaces.com/

[] PBworks hosts over 300,000 educational workspaces, and has helped transform teaching and learning for millions of students, parents and teachers.

[] MediaWiki is a free software open source wiki package.

[] The World's most popular education blogging service...

[] Create Multi-User Blogs

[] Bloglines is the fastest way to find and track your favorite websites and blogs in real-time.

[] Bloglines is the fastest way to find and track your favorite websites and blogs in real-time

= Cellphone Tools =

[] ChaCha is like having a smart friend you can call or text for answers on your cell phone anytime for free!

[|http://www.yodio.com] Your voice is unique and personal…just like your stories. Use Yodio to add your stories to your photos or presentations, and share these narrated photos with your friends and colleagues using a cell phone or computer.

[] An online To-Do-List that uses your cell phone.

[|http://www.wiffiti.com] Wiffiti publishes real time messages to screens in thousands of locations from jumbotrons to jukeboxes, bars to bowling alleys and cafes to colleges. You can interact with Wiffiti from your mobile phone or the web.

= Clipart Art and Images = [] This mini site will help support class and homework activities with downloads of DK's famous photographs that can be included in your school projects. They can also be used just for fun!

= Concept Mapping =

[] Collaborative Mind Mapping.

[] Online concept mapping.

[] Online Flow charting, Floor Plan and Venn Diagram Software.

= Flash Cards = [|http://www.educationalpress.org] Create free educational worksheets such as flashcards, game boards, and quizzes to print directly from your browser.

[] The world's largest flashcard library.

[|http://www.studystack.com] Study flashcards anytime and anywhere by printing your flashcards or by using them with applications on your cell phone, PDA, or iPod.

[|http://quizlet.com] The best way to study languages, vocabulary, or almost anything.

= Media and Current Events targeted to Teens and Preteens = The Learning Network The Learning Network provides teaching and learning materials and ideas based on New York Times content.

Youngzine A web site for children where they can learn about current events around the world without the bias, sensationalism and often inappropriate content in mainstream media.

Teen Tribune/ Tween Tribune Web site with age-appropriate news stories that will interest tweens and teens and invite them to comment. All comments are moderated by their teachers before they are published.

[|http://www.newsvine.com] Newsvine is an instant reflection of what the world is talking about at any given moment.

[|http://www.timeforkids.com] TIME For Kids is a weekly classroom news magazine that motivates kids to read! Issues cover a wide range of real-world topics kids love to learn about - and it's the best nonfiction text you'll find! A powerful teaching tool, TIME For Kids builds reading and writing skills and is easily integrated across your curriculum, including social studies, science and math.

[] CNN.com is among the world's leaders in online news and information delivery.

[|1&CurrPage=scholasticNews.jsp&TopicValue=Scholastic%20News] Scholastic news Online, America's Leading News Source for Kids

[|http://4kids.org] 4Kids.org is a team of educators, writers, technology specialists and students that produces weekly articles and links demonstrating how online learning can be a safe, fun and adventurous activity.

= Misc. Tools = [] Ta-da List is the web's easiest to-do list tool. Make lists for yourself or share them with others. It couldn't be simpler.

[] Readability is a web & mobile app that zaps online clutter and saves web articles in a comfortable reading view.

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[] Your own personal journal and online diary.

[] Smart widget pages allow you take information on the go!

[|http://www.voki.com] Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.

= Onlne Bookmarking and URL shorteners = [] Online Social Bookmarking Tool

[|http://sitemark.com] With Sitemark you can save, organize, share and discover your favorite websites.

[] Collect and organize anything. Bookmarks, highlights, notes, screenshots, picturess, docs, audio files...

[] Share your links as tabs.

[|Fur.ly] Now with **Fur.ly**, you can shorten not just one, but numerous web addresses, to a single one, using one of the easiest methods ever.

[] Makes long URLs short.

[] Make long URLs tiny.

= Online Polls, Surveys, Quizzes = Testmoz Create automatically graded online tests for free!

[] Web-based survey solutions.

[] Web-based survey solutions.

[] Put an online contact form on your web site in about 8 minutes. No Program required.

[|http://mystudiyo.com] Make a quiz. Embed a great looking quiz widget in any website or blog without programming.

[] FormSite.com has helped people build professional online html forms and web surveys.

= On This Day = [] On This Day: A list of events in History, Music, Sports and More

[] Today in Sporting History: Over 30,000 Events, Birthdays and Deaths in sport for this day in history from a wide variety of sports.

= Painting and Image Editiors = [] Sumo Paint is a full featured photo editing / painting application, which works right in your favorite web browser!

[|http://www.pixlr.com] Online Photo Editior.

//[|http://flockdraw.com]// Flockdraw is a free to use web based painting/drawing tool. It makes it easy to draw with multiple people for fun or business.

= Photos and Presentations =

[] Upload and share your PowerPoint presentations and documents.

[|http://fotoflexer.com] An Advanced online Photo Editior.

[] Screencast-O-Matic is the original online screen recorder for one-click recording from your browser.

[] Create Photobooks, Cards and Calendars.

[] Wallwisher is an online notice board creator. It’s a really fast and easy way to create engaging activities to use with students.

[] Use LetterPop to create eye-popping newsletters, actionable presentations, irresistible invitations, beautiful product features, sizzling event summaries, informative club updates, lovely picture collages, and //a whole lot more//.

= Podcasting =

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 * Learning in Hand** is an educator's resources for mobile learning. It was started in 2002 as part of Tony Vincent's classroom website.

[] Free Podcasting from National Geographic.

[] This website allows you to create QR codes.

= Smartboard = A great collection of Smart Notebook Lesson K-12 @http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/longsmart3.html

= Social Networking = Education 2.0 social network for your class.

= Stopwatches and Timers = [] Online Timers.

= Timeliners = [] This generator can be used to make time lines of up to 9 events of your choice.

[] Timeline Creator.

= Teacher Tools = [|http://classtools.net] Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds!

[] Expand your curriculum with our timesaving educational resources that use technology to improve instruction across all content areas and grade levels.

[|http://assignaday.4teachers.org] Assign-A-Day is a free tool designed to enhance teacher and student communication through an online teacher-managed calendar.

[] Create Rubrics for your Project-Based Learning Activities.

= Virtual Whiteboards = [] Virtual Whiteboard is a web-based collaborative system that provides a realtime canvas for thinking, designing, and working with your colleagues, clients, friends or family.

[] Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever.

[] A collection of interactive whiteboard games for educators.

= Web 2.0 Information and Resources =

[] Browse Web 2.0 Applications by Keyword

= Website Creation and Hosting = [] Cool Text is a FREE graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work.

[|http://www.weebly.com] Create a free website.

[] Create a homepage personalized with your interests.

= Web Searching =

[] Search Tools for Students

[] In January 2010, the website "ipl2: information you can trust" was launched, merging the collections of resources from the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII) websites.

[|http://www.answers.com] Go ahead and ask a question about anything! Answers.com marries the best of community-driven questions and answers with hundreds of respected and trusted editorial reference books.

[] Librarians, teachers and parents have told us how hard it is for students to understand web searching. Boolify makes it easier for students to understand their web search by illustrating the logic of their search, and by showing them how each change to their search instantly changes their results.

Sweet Search A daily curated assortment of the best content on the Web for history, language arts, science, news, culture and other topics.

[|http://42explore.com] Thematic Pathfinders for All Ages.

[] Search the Web for Sounds.

= Word Clouds = ABCya! Word Clouds that can be saved.

[|www.wordle.net] Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

[] Word Clouds with shapes. Really Cool! Note: At present not available in CCS. Have requested it be allowed, but listed it anyway because it is just so cool. Thus try it at home.

=Writing Tools= [|http://notestar.4teachers.org] NoteStar is an Internet utility to assist in the preparation of research papers. Teachers and students can set up research projects with topics and sub-topics. Students may then take advantage of NoteStar's many features to collect and organize their notes and prepare their bibliography page.

[|http://persuadestar.4teachers.org] This free online application is designed to help students in grades 5-12 write an online persuasive essay.