The free online tools of Web 2.0 capture the imagination and free the everyday user to leave behind his role as “passive consumer” and engage with media as an author and producer. What would you like to do?
…organize and share bookmarks?
del.icio.us | BlinkList | Digg | Twine | Diigo | eSnips
Evernote | StumbleUpon | Squidoo
…chat with someone on a different network?
MeeBo
…take notes ON the web?
iLighter | Wizlite
…collaborate on/share notes?
MyNoteIt | Notely | NoteMesh | NoteCentric | QipIt
…take a small “clipping” from a web page?
Web Chops | Clipmarks
…create office documents WITHOUT Microsoft Office?
Google Docs | Zoho
…create an online database?
DabbleDB
…have text read aloud?
Expressivo
…sketch your brainstorm/mindmap?
Bubbl.us | Mindomo | Free Mind
…collaboratively brainstorm?
Mind42 | MindMeister
…develop a flowchart?
Gliffy | Diagrammr
…draw collaboratively on a whiteboard?
Thinkature | Scribblar
…share photos and artwork?
Flickr | Picasa (Google) | Shutterfly | deviantART
…edit images?
WetPaint | SumoPaint | Aviary | BeBo
…create online slideshows?
Empressr
…publish your Powerpoints to the Web?
authorSTREAM | ThinkFree
…create vector-based drawings?
Project Draw
…create a comic strip?
Pixton Interactive Web Comics | Comic Creator
…share video?
YouTube | TeacherTube
…capture your screen (in motion)?
Screencast-O-Matic
…edit video?
Jaycut | OneTrueMedia | MotionBox | Photobucket
…create an animation?
Xtranormal | Digital Films | Dvolver Movie Maker
…mix audio files?
JamGlue | Looplabs | Audacity (download)
…create visual graphics?
Many Eyes | Wordle | Wordshift | WordMosaic | WordItOut | Tagul |
…create multimedia stories?
Capzles | VoiceThread | Animoto
…create a podcast?
Podomatic | ProfCast (download)
…create a wiki?
Wikispaces | PBWiki
…create a blog?
EduBlogs |
…manage and create RSS feeds?
…track family geneaology?
…start a debate?
Classroom 2.0 | Diigo | Evernote | Facebook | LinkedIn | NameCk | NewsVine | Ning | Scribd | Skitch | SlashDot | Slideroll | StumbleUpon | Technorati | Xing |e.ggtimer |
LibraryRemix is maintaining an index of applications, online resources and services atDabbleDB at http://libraryremix.dabbledb.com.
Tool Tweets:
- Imagination Cubed from GE http://www.imaginationcubed.com/ supports collaborative drawing and playback!
- English Central http://www.englishcentral.com keeps getting better for ELL.
- Tool to create a printable summary of a video. http://vidinotes.com/
- Create and share a photobook using flickr … visit http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/
- Create comic strips using flickr … go to http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/
- Use http://sketchcast.com/ to create and share your thoughts! Draw, record, voiceover…and post to your blog!
- 50 Web 2.0 Tools Your Students Wish You Would Use – created by 8th graders http://bit.ly/bkjq3g
- Document collaboration tool - http://typewith.me/ No registration needed!
- 100 Great Google Docs Tips for Students & Educators | AccreditedOnlineColleges.org http://ow.ly/1pp2n
- http://www.mybrochuremaker.com/ lets you create brochures online and quickly print them out
- iLearn report http://bit.ly/cT8dZ8 focuses on ed apps…but there are too few aimed specifically at secondary learners.
- Up your audacity editing skills…check out these tips. http://bit.ly/9DcRen