If you’re not an avid follower of #edchat on Twitter, you may be missing out on a great opportunity to learn about some new Web 2.0 tools that are currently being used in classrooms around the world. That’s because @chickensaltash posed a simple question to the PLN and there has been a huge swell of support as hundreds of people have jumped in to answer the question about which 5 Web 2.0 tools teachers are using in classrooms.
The Best of the Best
You can view the live stream of #edchat here and see what people are saying at the hashtag #chickenweb2tools here.
We scoured hundreds of responses and have come up with the following list. The following tools have not been verified and are simply based on the number of times each was mentioned on Twitter during this hashtag discussion.
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The List
- Glogster
Great way to share posters and images you’ve made with friends - Edmodo
Social learning environment and one of the best ways to teach with tech - Bubbl.us
Free application to brainstorm online - Twitter
The micro blogging service that many love or hate. - WordPress
Content publishing system. It’s gone way beyond just blogging. - Prezi
Innovative way to share presentations without PowerPoint - Wallwisher
An online notice board maker (or bulletin board if you choose) - Animoto
Make beautiful videos from images in a snap - Blabberize
Make your images talk…that’s right. - Weebly
Create your own website or blog, very easy to use - Flickr
Popular photo-sharing site now lets you print - Slideshare
Don’t waste your presentation after it’s over, share it with millions! - Audioboo
Easily record and share audio - VoiceThread
- GoogleDocs
The top real-time document creating and editing cloud-based system - GoogleSites
Make your own website while knowing nothing about websites! - Diigo
Popular social bookmarking site - GoogleEarth
View anywhere in the world anytime - Wordle
Create a beautiful aggregation of any amount of text - Wikis
Crowdsourcing at its finest. Like Wikipedia, Wikispaces is very helpful - Wix
Easily make your own flash-based website - Ning
Despite a new cost-based membership program, Ning allows you to have your own social network - Primarypad
Web-based word processor - Spicy Nodes
Innovative way to organize your web visits - Delicious
One of the top social bookmarking sites on the web - Myebook
Virtually publish your book and sell it - Voki
Get your own avatar and even have it talk with your voice - DoInk
Create animations using this simple website - Warning Sign Generator
Make your own caution and warning signs in a flash! - Scratch
Create and share stories, games, art, etc. - Kerpoof
Cool way to make a movie, card, picture, and share it all - Tagxedo
Like Wordle but a step farther as text can be used to build bigger images - SmartKiddies
Creative math and other educational problems to help everyone learn - Bitstrips
Make and share your own comic strips with thousands of others
Added in the comments and via Twitter:
- Popplet
An easy way to share visual ideas - Storyjumper
Easy way to create your own stories for kids and bring them to life - Aviary Myna
Make your own music or remix just about anything else - TimeToast
Fantastic timeline visualization tool to understand history - GoAnimate for schools
State of the art animation tools for schools - PBWorks
Thousands of educational wikis and workspaces (build your own!) - Schoology
Learning management, online education tools, and much more - Google Timeline
A unique way to view the news - Online-Convert
Convert anything to anything (audio, video, text, etc.) - ReadWriteThink
Tons of classroom resources and PD goodies - Storybird
Build your own stories (with images) and share them with others - Word Magnets
Phonics reinforcement and sentence building exercise - Museum Box
Innovative way to understand history - Atmosphir
A build-your-own video game - Empressr
Rich media presentation tool - Zoho
A great alternative to Google Apps - EasyBib
The free automatic bibliography and citation maker - ToonDooSpaces
Easily publish custom comic strips - Crocodoc
Annotate and edit PDFs
Add To This List
Have another recommendation? It’s never too late to get the word out. Just mention #edchat in your tweet or leave a reply on this page. Why not do both?
I would add Popplet, Storyjumper, Aviary Myna, TimeToast, and GoAnimate EDU to this list. Great tools!
Thanks! We've updated the list with your tools. Much appreciated.
I'd recommend Schoology, Google Timeline, Online-ConVert.com, and ReadWriteThink
Pbworks is certainly high on my list.
updated! thanks Carla and Crystal. We're also huge fans of Pbworks and schoology
I think Storybird has great potential. I also love word magnets and museum box.
updated! Thanks Heather.
These are wonderful tools. I'd add Empressr (Slideshows-capability to use images/video/audio), Zoho (Office Suite), EasyBib (Cite all media quickly and easily) & ToonDooSpaces (sharp looking, appropriate, private comics), Crocodoc (annotate websites)
Thanks PJ, updated! We also added in some quick explanations so it's not just a page of links. Easier to use now we hope!
Wonderful tools! I was searching for something similar. BTW, you may like to add squidoo to the list.
What a great page! Thanks so much, I'm always looking for new tools. I can't wait to dive into some of these sites!
hooray!
Great page
There is a searchable database of great web2 apps for teachers here: http://primaryschoolict.com/web2.php
http://www.what2learn.com – thousands of ready made interactive learning games, quickly create your own learning games, teachers can track student progress in the activities, in-built rewards to keep students engaged including a great new Farmville-style element.
Thanks for this valuable list!
I use pbworks (www.pbworks.com) to store and share material.
Marisa (@Mtranslator)
Penzu.com: for online journal writing. Love it!
Wow, lots of things I've never seen before, great list. The first tool I ran across while searching for free teaching and learning platforms was Moodle (http://moodle.org/). They release regular updates and have an active community.
One of my current fcourites is Fotobabble – teachers sign up and use with pupils. Theyupload a photo and add a recording to the picture http://www.fotobabble.com
i would add Kerpoof
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It's an oldie but goodie and not particularly exciting, just practical. My students use EasyBib all the time. It's a bibliography generator.
Worth mentioning Alphastudy htttp://www.alphastudy.com giving uses the ability to create online learning and knowledge portals, free account available.
My students like using http://www.bubbabrain.com
You may want to try Stixy at http://www.stixy.com/ . It's similar to Wallwisher but allows you insert and upload various things. Plus, it doesn't crash as often as Wallwisher.
Interesting, no publisher-provided technologies on this list…
Very nice collection! Thankyou.
#edchat – SlideBoom: the best way to embed PowerPoint in your website in my opinion
WordPress, ANIMOTO,
I am the developer of Class Collaboration, a new web 2.0 application that allows students to take notes together online, in real-time. Although it is only available at Bentley University right now, but take a look and see what you think…
http://classcollaboration.com/
Rely BEST List of web 2.0
http://www.EdTechToolbox.blogspot.com
May be of some use to you as it is a place to share e-learning and Web 2.0 tools for education. Site says computers and laptops in education are important only when used with good pedagogy. Digital content and creation is an important part of the process for educators in the 21st century.
Great list! Missing (1) http://www.wetoku.com which students would love to use to interview each other on topics of classroom discussion or could be used to interview others world wide! Can then be broadcast publicly or embedded in a blog or website. Also love (2) http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/ to record important info pieces that can later be added to a blog, Prezi or PPT. (3) http://www.podomatic.com/ is also awesome tool for podasting. (4) SymbalooEdu.com is amazing and should be tried by all educators to support organization of tons of content for students. Lastly (5) http://www.Vodpod.com which allows you take practically anything you want to capture for later sharing and embedded on blogs or website. Cheers!
ePals global community (great way to find a collaborative partner classroom for global learning and exchange from 200 countries); LearningSpace (most powerful social learning network designed for K12 with groups, web 2.0 tools, TRUSTe certification of data privacy); eFilms from Snagfilms; schooltube.com; teachertube.com. These are all designed for K12 students and use in schools, NOT a mass market web 2.0 tool that we try to make work in the classroom and still have problems. This is really important for elementary schools!
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Add Jog the Web (find the Educ version) and LiveBinders. Both different but great ways to organize online resources.
Yes these both also good web 2.0 website
LiveBinders looks a lot stronger than Jog the Web. I have only used Jog the Web up until learning about this site. http://martinteach.edublogs.org
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How about BoardMaker by Mayer-Johnson? It's software, but there is a web site to support, http://boardmakershare.com.
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I use many of the sites listed in your blog article, such as Soho, Wordle, and GoogleEarth. But I did not notice too many photo and graphic editors on your list. We like FotoFlexer, and SumoPaint, as they are free online editors, but pretty powerful.
Lots of my favourites in that collection. I'd add Evernote – I use it myself all the time – a notebook for each class for example. I used a shared notebook recently to share some resources with students and following that several students created their own Evernote accounts.
I will explore a few of the tools which are new to me. Thanks. As for my favorite it would have to be Moodle. If you have a Moodle set up for your school then you gets several of these tools with one convenient login (we have our Google Apps and our Moodle SSO as well). Also we use Mahara (an open source e-portfolio system).
Great collection!
Another one worthy of contention is Gnowledge (www.gnowledge.com), a free-to-use tests and exercises platform benefiting educators, students and parents. Tests and exercises can be created by anyone and are categorized for easy access.
All tests are auto-corrected and results, scores and answers are saved online. Registered users can create, take, share and assign tests to anyone.
Great list. I would add sqworl http://www.sqworl.com which organizes URLs visually, and Digication, http://www.digication.com, a clean, visually-appealing, easy-to-use e-portfolio web app.
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icharts.net for creating interactive online charts that are very easily shared in presentations or blog and any other social networks
Very nice! I'd add PhotoStory 3 as a software and blogger.com as an online service. If you are looking for a good text2speech service see http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
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Thank you for the list of websites. I knew some of them, but not all of them. Thank you for reference.
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Well, since you *did* say it was never too late…. might I add Vialogues.com to this list of notable tools? Vialogues (rhymes with "dialogues") takes learning by video to a new level. Each comment is time-stamped and clicking on this will take you to that point in the video so you can see the comment in the context it was made. Cool stuff! https://vialogues.com
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