The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You

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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

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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?

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My students love Quizlet and StudyStack to help them review before quizzes and tests. Jeopardylabs.com is a clean, simple review game tool that allows you to change the number of teams each time you play. And Slideshare.net is great too!

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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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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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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

icharts.net for creating interactive online charts that are very easily shared in presentations or blog and any other social networks

www.join.me helps me show students what exactly it is that I want them to incorporate into their graphic designs. The use of this free service has definitely made sharing information easier.

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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.

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.

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).

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 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.

How about BoardMaker by Mayer-Johnson? It's software, but there is a web site to support, http://boardmakershare.com.

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Add Jog the Web (find the Educ version) and LiveBinders. Both different but great ways to organize online resources.

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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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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!

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!

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Very nice collection! Thankyou.

Interesting, no publisher-provided technologies on this list...

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.

Worth mentioning Alphastudy htttp://www.alphastudy.com giving uses the ability to create online learning and knowledge portals, free account available.

It's an oldie but goodie and not particularly exciting, just practical. My students use EasyBib all the time. It's a bibliography generator.

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