Helpful Web 2.0 Resources (with links)

Helpful Web 2.0 Resources

• Blogger - Create your own blog for your classroom or professional learning community.
• Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies - It contains over 2,500 tools that can be used for creating learning and performance support solutions as well as for managing your own personal learning.
• Classroom 2.0 - the social networking site for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education.
• Creative Commons - Copyright free images, copyright your stuff. Find images donated to the public for your classroom homepage or unit of study.
• Edublog - another blogging tool. Visit my blog created on Edublog.
• Flickr - Copyright free images.
• FreeStar - Free Video Converter (wma to mov)- Quicktime for web hosting.
• Go2Web20.net - the complete Web 2.0 directory. 
• Google Apps - Web applications for communication and collaboration.
• Google Docs - Online presentations for collaboration between students and teachers.
• Google Earth - Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and even explore galaxies in the Sky. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places and share with others.
• Google For Educators - is a landing spot for classroom resources that incorporate Google products like Google Earth, SketchUp, Maps, and Sky. The site offers everything from simple links to the Google products, to classroom activities and instructions for using the products in K-12 grade levels.
• Google Labs - a place where you can experiment and use the latest Google products such as Picasa.
• Google Sites - Create your own webpage, easy, fun!
• Google SketchUp - a free 3D modeling program available through Google. The tool allows students and teachers to explore, explain, and present ideas using 3D models, to create structures to compliment Google Earth tours, and even to submit creations for addition to Google’s collection. The ‘how to’ videos are terrific, getting you off to a quick start in this slick program. Educators can get the “Pro" version free at Google SketchUp.
• Google Toolbar (BETA) - Easy way to search the Net. It includes autofill, search, bookmarks and other easy stuff for productivity while searching the internet.
• ISTE | Web 2.0 Resource Links - Resources for using Web 2.0 Tools in the classroom.
• Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day - a daily item of e-learning interest selected by Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies.
• Jing - Create screen captures (video) tutorials.
• JudyBrown.com - This site evaluates Web 2.0 applications for potential use in education and training. Applications are broken down into the following categories: Academic, Audio, Bookmarks, Calendar, Collaboration, Database, Desktop, Documents, Drawing, Feed Reader, File Manager, Forms, Lists, Miscellaneous, News, Organizer, Photos, Polls, Presentation, Project, Spreadsheet, Video, Weblog, Wiki, and Word Processor.
• MINDOMO - Concept mapping (Example: Software Tools for Design)
• PhotoShop Express - Create your own gallery of images.
• Picnik: free image editing (no downloads, easy, fun)
• SlideShare - is the world's largest community for sharing presentations on the web.
• TED.com | Video channel on TED.com -Watch videos from TEDTalks about the latest technology trends and issues surrounding technology.
• The Broth - created by an Australian web publisher and developer, headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. Our focus is collaborative art and social media applications.
• TokBox - Video chat and video message with friends and family for free.
• Ustream - Broadcast your own show!
• VoiceThread - is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish.
• Welcome to Stephen’s Web - by Stephen Downes, works for the National Research Council, Institute for Information Technology, in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada and he specializes in online learning, content syndication, and new media.
• WikiSpaces - Create student wikis that are password protected.
• WiZiQ - The free online teaching and e-learning platform. Find teachers, network, use the web-based Virtual Classroom for collaboration and conferencing, share documents and take tests.
• Zamzar - a free online file conversion service that lets you convert your document, image, video, and music files into other formats without downloading any software. You simply upload a file to Zamzar, choose a new file format, and then download the converted file. You may also convert videos from TeacherTube and YouTube to other media file formats and save them to your local computer. Simply paste the URL link into the field in Zamzar, then choose the file format such as MOV or AVI and then type your e-mail address into the last field. The process takes a few minutes - Zamzar emails a link to the converted file when it is done.
• Zoho - offers a suite of online web applications geared towards increasing your productivity and offering easy collaboration.