Favorite Web 2.0 Sites for Education

A trail of 24 pages, marked with comments, by kmoliver
About this trail:
A list of Web 2.0 sites with potential application to K-12 content areas.
24 marks in this trail
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Geni is a family tree tool that allows users to define and organize individuals, marriages, and children in a visual display.
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Google Docs and Spreadsheets enables teachers and students to import or create new word processing and spreadsheet documents on the Web.
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LetterPop is a media-rich word processor that allows students to create colorful publications customized with their own text and imported images.
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JotSpot is a tool recently acquired by Google that allows users to create and collaborate on wikis that include more media elements than a traditional text-only wiki (e.g., spreadsheets, newsletters).
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Zlio is a tool that allows users to create their own personal Web shop and make choices to sell existing products from vendors in specified categories (e.g., sporting goods, magazines, books, music).
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ScrapBlog enables students to create media-rich scrapbooks for the Web that they can share with others and receive comments/feedback on their work.
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Teachers might employ Shelfari to get students and book clubs excited about building personal reading lists.
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Students tasked with writing can use tools such as Gliffy to create story maps and other flowcharts associated with pre-writing organization.
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Bubbl.us is a diagramming tool that enables students to brainstorm or build flowcharts.
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Mo.neytrack.inallows users to create and track budgets associated with accounts or projects.
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Writeboard is a simple online word processor that allows students to collaborate on documents.
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MyStickies is a tool that allows users to mark-up any Web page with a virtual sticky note.
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PeerTrainer is a tool that allows users to track their food intake, exercise, and daily reflections.
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Vizu allows students to create free polls with each poll generating a unique URL.
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Lulu is a publishing service that allows users to upload documents, photos, and other media, to produce their own paperback and hardcover books, photobooks, ebooks, CDs, and DVDs.
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Math teachers can use the Instacalc tool to create shared online calculators.
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 Furl is a popular tool that allows users to save an online copy of any Web page visited, create categories and tags to organize the bookmarked page, and write comments about the page.
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English and foreign language instructors can use Quizlet to create vocabulary word sets.
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BubbleShare supports the creation and sharing of online slideshows and photo albums that can be enriched with both text and audio captions
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JumpCut, recently acquired by Yahoo, supports video editing and sharing within Web browsers.
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MuveeMix supports video editing and sharing within Web browsers.
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EveryTrailallows users to upload track and waypoint data saved to a GPS receiver along with personal notes and photos taken at different locations during the trip.
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TrailFire is a Web annotation tool that allows trail blazers to string together a collection of existing Web resources and mark-up/annotate the pages for trail users that follow their path.

1. nice group of web 2.0 resources...
Posted at 22:10 on 2007-05-21 by bbovard

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