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Web 2.0 Tools for Educators

Social media provides a variety of tools, commonly referred to as Web 2.0, that educators can use to engage students and enhance essential skills (communication, collaboration, creativity, media literacy, technological proficiency, global awareness. Other tools can be leveraged to become more efficient and effective at what we do in education.

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Create a 3-D mini cartoon show. Select a puppet, create the story, and record a show that is ready to share.

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Mugeda is a cloud based HTML5 animation platform, where you can create, share, and publish organic HTML5 animation contents, all in your browser, without any download or installation.

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Brandt Schneider looks cool. cant quite figure it out at first blush. used to flash.

Create a FREE class website.

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Manage, find and share lesson plans, and connect with other teachers.

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A playground and presentation tool for creative minds.

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Free service for managing and discovering scholarly references

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Edshelf is a directory of digital tools for educators.

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Discovery Education Web for 2012 tools

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Isabelle Intelegia Thanks Eric. It's a great source of info!

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UW Bothell Education Program Thank you for such an amazing collection or resources!

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paolaiasci Very interesting!

Simple Diagrams is a free download desktop application useful to create diagrams and flowcharts. This easy-to-use tool turns ideas and concepts into a visual explanation.

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Create animated slide shows from uploaded pictures or those on Facebook. Use this free online image suite to store and organize photos. Edit photos using a variety of effects.

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Tag Galaxy: Amazing way to find a collection of Flickr images to illustrate or reinforce concepts. This site provides an unusual search tool that makes the online combing process a visual experience. This search tool pulls tags from photographs on Flickr, while taking you on a spinning journey through outer space.

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Give photos new life with sound, voice, video, social, and other fun links.

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Helps students find outstanding information, faster. It enables them to determine the most relevant results from a list of credible resources, and makes it much easier for them to find primary sources.

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TRECMPR Inventor search did not result much in the Biorgaphy search, but did find the Inventor Hall of Fame in the Sweet Search 4 me tab

Animaps: Create and view beautifully informative animated maps, for free!

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Zamzar: Free online file conversion (can be used for YouTube videos)

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Wordia is a free games-based learning platform - built on the foundations of a dictionary - that blends word-based learning games with interactive video vocabulary. Wordia encourages students to learn through play - building subject ‘Word Banks’ as they compete with classmates and other schools in a fun, competition-led, learning environment.

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Create a free, online flip book from PDF documents. Create a Flip book when you want to embed a book, magazine, catalog, newspaper, portfolio, or other kind of document into a website, wiki, or blog and have viewers flip through the pages interactively.

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Free images for your inspiration, reference and use in the classroom.

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Bloom's Taxonomy of Apps: Find apps to support all levels of thinking (image credit: elemtechideas.wik...)

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Appitic: A collection of 1300+ apps for education

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Mindmeister: online mind mapping tool.

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Mim Bizic Looks like a great tool!

MentorMob: Create educational playlists

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Allows you to easily chop a specific section from any YouTube video to view and share.

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Download and save YouTube videos to your computer quick and easy. All you need is the video link.

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Moodle - For building your classroom LMS (learning management system)

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Livebinders: Organize resources in an online binder.

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Create animated videos.

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A suite of powerful online creation tools which allow you to create, edit and manipulate images all for free.

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Android 4 Schools: Apps and devices for educators.

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Jing captures anything on you see on your computer screen, as an image or short video, and lets you share it instantly. Great for recording lessons.

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Scribd: document sharing and sel-publishing platform.

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Find, create, promote, distribute, and listen to video/audio podcasts. You can even record right to the web.

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Create stunning surveys, polls, and quizzes in minutes.

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IconFX: Create your own icons (once downloaded, you can run the program 15 times for free).

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Google for Educators

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Brainstorm online and easily create colorful mindmaps to print or share with others. Almost no learning curve

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Free math software for teaching and learning.

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Wikis are websites where users can add, modify, or delete its content using a web browser. Wikispaces is one of the most popular platforms for educators.

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The Triptico resource application currently contains 23 different interactive resources - all of which are easy to edit, adapt, save and share

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Wordle: Create and share beautiful word clouds.

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Create, collaborate, and share documents in various forms (word processor, presentation, spreadsheet, pdf). Create forms to collect data.

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My Big Campus extends the classroom to a safe, engaging online environment.

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Use hangouts for FREE group video chat.

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Bring in other educators, students, and guest speakers via free video chat.

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Diigo is one of the 2 best social bookmarking sites. Access/save your links from anywhere, highlight, and annotate.

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Delicious is one of the two best social bookmarking sites. Save and access your links from anywhere! Here are my favorite educational links.

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Create your own comic strips.

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Create social stories using educational content.

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Easily publish gorgeous magazines.

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Share ideas visually.

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