Web+2.0+Tools



= WEB 2.0 - COLLABORATIVE TOOLS =

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=== Click here for a complete directory of Web 2.o tools for teachers. ===

**Collaborative Web 2.0 tools to use with your students**

 * [[image:http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR0fkNnIw0NnVRCQKBijFyZdQNhgmH6eJcjQszAeQuZfRrMkRpN5A width="84" height="49" link="@http://animoto.com/"]]Animoto is a web application that produces great-looking video pieces from photos, video clips and music. Users can narrate their pictures with text to tell a story. Take a look at these Animoto demos or enter our Leaders demo wiki for a short Leaders presentation demo.
 * [[image:http://cdn.alt1040.com/files/2010/08/Slide_logo.png width="52" height="84" link="@http://www.slide.com/"]]Slide is another web application that allows users to upload photos and other digital content to create slide shows.


 * [[image:http://www.fotobabble.com/images/global/fotobabel-logo-no-tagline.jpg height="44" link="@http://www.fotobabble.com/"]] Fotobabble A tool that allows you to create talking photos by adding voice to them.


 * [[image:Babblerize_logo1.jpg height="44" link="@http://blabberize.com"]] Blabblerize Create talking photos using people or animals and make them move their mouths.


 * [[image:http://naturalmommie.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/mixbook_logo.jpg width="187" height="15" link="@http://www.mixbook.com"]]Mixbook is a site that allows users to invite friends to build books together and share them on their blogs and websites. Look at Leaders photo book.


 * With Gizmoz you can quickly and easily create original videos using fun and simple templates. With the Studio, users can mash up live action video, 3D sets and our realistic animated 3D characters together with any videos, photos, voice, text and more.


 * [[image:http://www.dvolver.com/live/assets/logo_dvolver.png height="26" link="@http://www.dvolver.com/live/home.html"]] In Dvolver, you can create your own film with cartoon characters. There are no sound applications in this website, but you type in the words you want the cartoon characters to say. Have fun with this demo movie!


 * [[image:http://lightspeed.goanimate.com/static/177/go/img/header/logo_ga.gif height="31" link="@http://goanimate.com/"]] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #ff7200; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-style: normal; padding-right: 10px;">GoAnimate Make your own cartoons and add them your voice. You can also type in the words you want your characters to say.


 * [[image:Storyjumper_logo.jpg height="37" link="@http://%20http//www.storyjumper.com/"]] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #e01f1f; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|Storyjumper] <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: Georgia,serif;">This is a useful site for kids to create a story and also practise reading.
 * [[image:http://www.tikatok.com/images/logo.png height="50" link="@http://www.tikatok.com/"]] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #e01f1f; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: normal; padding-right: 10px;">Tikatok <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Teachers and young students can write a story book and add personal images. Check out a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #e01f1f; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: normal; padding-right: 10px;">sample book


 * [[image:Storybird_logo.jpg height="39" link="@http://storybird.com/"]] //<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #e01f1f; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; line-height: 15px; padding-right: 10px;">Storybird // <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #ff7200; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small; line-height: 15px;">Free online tool that helps you make short, art-inspired, stories that you can share, read, and print.


 * [[image:http://photopeach.com/public/img/page/top_logo.png link="@http://%20http//photopeach.com/"]] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #e01f1f; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: normal; padding-right: 10px;">PhotoPeach <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: Georgia,serif;">A nice online tool to create simple slideshows from photos and music. Comments can be added.


 * [[image:MakeBeliefsComix_logo.jpg height="45" link="@http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/"]] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #e01f1f; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: normal; padding-right: 10px;">MakeBeliefsComix.com <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: Georgia,serif;">A web site that lets you write and illustrate your own comic strips online and e-mail them to your family and friends. It's available in seven languages. See an example below.


 * [[image:http://www.fodey.com/static/images/logo3.png height="37" link="@http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp"]] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #e01f1f; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: normal; padding-right: 10px;">Fodey <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Create your own newspaper article. You only write the article content as well as the headline, date and newspaper name, and you get a downloadable image that you can paste into your website. See an example below.


 * <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[[image:http://moodlerific.org/images/voki-logo.png width="66" height="57" link="@http://Voki"]] Voki enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. You can customize your Voki to look like you or take on the identity of lots of other types of characters… animals, monsters, anime etc. Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone.

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 * [[image:Wallwisher_logo.jpg height="38" link="@http://www.wallwisher.com/%20"]] //<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #e01f1f; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-style: normal; padding-right: 10px;">Wallwisher // <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: Georgia,serif;">An online notice board where people can post messages.
 * <span style="border-collapse: collapse; cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">[[image:Glogster_logo.jpg height="29" link="@http://www.glogster.com/"]] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #e01f1f; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; padding-right: 10px;">Glogster <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: Georgia,serif;">A terrific web-based application which allows users to create <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: normal;">**glogs** (multimedia posters made from images, text, music and video).
 * <span style="border-collapse: collapse; cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">[[image:https://penzu.com/images/logo.png height="59" link="@http://penzu.com/"]] //<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #e01f1f; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-style: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|Penzu] // <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: Georgia,serif;">A personal journal and online diary.


 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #e01f1f; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; line-height: 15px; padding-right: 10px;"> [[image:http://www.fotobabble.com/images/global/fotobabel-logo-no-tagline.jpg height="44" link="@http://www.fotobabble.com/"]] <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Fotobabble A tool that allows you to create talking photos by adding voice to them.


 * <span style="color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[[image:Babblerize_logo1.jpg height="62" link="@http://blabberize.com/"]] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: separate; color: #e01f1f; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia,serif; padding-right: 10px;">Blabberize <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Create talking photos using people or animals and make them move their mouths.


 * [[image:Voicethread_logo.jpg height="27" link="@http://%20http//voicethread.com/%20"]] <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: Georgia,serif;">An online collaborative multimedia slideshow that holds images, documents and video and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).


 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[[image:http://www.voxopop.com/resources/images/voxologo.gif height="31" link="@http://www.voxopop.com/"]] <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #00ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Voxopop <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #ff7200; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia,serif; padding-right: 10px;">Another great tool to help students develop their oral skills. Create a talkgroup (an online message board) for your students to leave their opinions and comments through voice messages. <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Enter this link to see a discussion on Voxopop: Which tools do you use with your students?

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=<span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Other image and video sharing tools =


 * <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.flickr.com]
 * <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|http://picasa.google.com]
 * <span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.youtube.com]

**<span style="color: #ff7200; font-family: Georgia,serif;">SAMPLE ACTIVITIES **
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 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #ff7200; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia,serif; padding-right: 10px;">MakeBeliefsComix **




 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #ff7200; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia,serif; padding-right: 10px;">Fodey **



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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Penzu is a web-based application with multiple uses:


 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You can create your own online materials using texts with images, and embed them in your class wiki.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You can use it to set written homework task for students. Then you can store them as create a writing portfolio that can be shared with classmates, parents and other teachers.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You can also list the activities done in each lesson and send them to absent students.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You can get your students to use Penzu to write down what they learned from each lesson.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You could use it as feedback by asking students to reflect on aspects of your teaching; they send you the response using the anonymous message feature.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You can give students a group of images to upload to the margin of the text (in any order they choose) and then have them create a story based around these images.

**Have a look at a** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">sample ** made on Penzu. **

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