Web+2.0+Tools+for+the+Classroom

Web 2.0 Tools for the Classroom

Wikis PBwiki hosts more classroom wikis than anyone else in the world, and lets you create a simple, secure wiki in about 60 seconds. Wikis drive engagement and collaboration. A wiki is a live, evolving document – but gives you user tracking and access controls to monitor your wiki at all times. Wikis are great tools for engaging children in learning, involving parents in their child's education, and sharing resources with other teachers and schools.
 * [|Wikis in Plain English (external link to TeacherTube)]
 * [|PB Wiki]
 * ==PBwiki for Classrooms==
 * [|wikispaces]
 * ===**A Collaborative and Safe Learning Environment**===
 * [|Wetpaint Wikis]
 * A Wetpaint website is built on the power of collaborative thinking. Here, you can create websites that mix all the best features of wikis, blogs, forums and social networks into a rich, user-generated community based around the whatever-it-is that rocks your socks. A social website that’s so easy to use, anyone can participate.The Wetpaint name comes from our natural sense of curiosity. The urge to touch something when we see a “Wet paint” sign. The urge to leave our mark. This curiosity and the surprising results that occur from collaboration are all part of Wetpaint.
 * [|Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia>]
 * a free, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning 'fast') and encyclopedia.
 * [|The State of Wikis in Education - An Interview]

Blogs
 * RSS Feeds
 * Blogspot and others
 * [|David Warlick 2 cents worth]
 * Firefox
 * LiveBookmarks

Nings
 * **Ning** is an online platform for people to create their own social networks, launched in October 2005.
 * Ning competes with large [|social sites] like [|MySpace] and [|Facebook] by appealing to people who want to create their own social networks around specific interests with their own visual design, choice of features and member data. The unique feature of Ning is that anyone can create their own [|social network] for a particular topic or need, catering to specific membership bases.

Twitter
 * Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: **What are you doing?**

Flickr
 * **Flickr** is an [|image] and [|video hosting] [|website], [|web services] suite, and [|online community] platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by [|bloggers] as a photo repository.

TeacherTube SchoolTube
 * This is basically a school friendly version of YouTube. There is no limit on video length.
 * Another school friendly alternative. This one includes some sort of vetting process. Someone (or multiple individuals) serves as an Administrator for the school and will have to approve all video uploads from your school. Videos must be shorter than 10 min.

Podcasting
 * Audio
 * Video

Collaborative Documents
 * Google Docs
 * [|del.icio.us]
 * Moodle
 * [|Adobe ConnectNow]
 * [|Twiddla]
 * Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever. No plug-ins, downloads, or firewall voodoo - it's all here, ready to go when you are. Browser-agnostic, user-friendly.
 * [|Mindmeister]
 * MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global brainstorming sessions. Users can create, manage and share mind maps online and access them anytime, from anywhere. In brainstorming mode, fellow MindMeisters from around the world (or just in different rooms) can simultaneously work on the same mind map and see each other's changes as they happen.
 * [|bubbl]
 * Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.

Why use bubbl.us?
>>>> And it's FREE!
 * Create colorful mind maps online
 * Share and work with friends
 * Embed your mind map in your blog or website
 * Email and print your mind map
 * Save your mind map as an image