Web+2.0+Tools

Here are a few Web 2.0 Tools that I use on the blog. I have tried to include a few ideas about how to use them in the classroom.

=[|1. Blogger]= Free site for blogging. Easy to set up and has lots of ways to customize.

**ALERT: Remove the navigation bar at the top. The "Next Blog" may not be an appropriate one.**

Select "Off" and then "Save"

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 * Free site for blogging, although there are advertisements. For a yearly fee, the ads are removed. This WordPress site has a lot of support features, and I will probably move over to this site once my Blogger account is full.

=[| 3. VoiceThread]= Free site for creating multimedia projects. Images are combined with voices. Recordings can be made in the classroom or added from a home computer. media type="custom" key="4873623" width="20" height="20"

[|What is Summer?]
 * Here is another VoiceThread. This one is a poetry project about summer.
 * Here is another VoiceThread. This is a great science project about [|ocelots] from an excellent educational blogger, [|Mr. Salsich].

=4. YouTube and Vimeo=

These are free video sites to upload and share movies. There is a 10 minute length limit on YouTube. I like to customize a video before I embed it so it does not show related videos that I cannot control. Look for the customize pull-down menu on the YouTube site and **do not** select the "Show related videos" box.

Here is a link to an embedded YouTube video on the classroom blog. I used both YouTube and Vimeo. The video was too large to upload to Blogger, and that is why I used YouTube. I originally uploaded it only to Vimeo, but later learned that Vimeo is blocked by my district.
 * [|Mrs. Yollis' Class Visits Asia!]

[|TubeChop] Allows for taking segments of YouTube videos.

=[|5. Big Blue Labs]= This movie poster was created on Big Blue Labs. It was used as an invitation for parents to the showing of our [|Polygon Movie].

=[|6. Photo Peach]= media type="custom" key="4871773"
 * A free site to upload pictures and create a musical slide show quickly.

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Students wrote the captions for the photos following a field trip. Photo Peach is a great tool to incorporate images and text.
=[|7. Skype]=

A free software application that allows users to make video voice calls over the Internet.

 * [|Here is a blog post] that followed a Skype connection. My California class got a video tour of a rain forest project from a class in Connecticut.

Great Lists of Web 2.0 Tools

 * [|go2web2.0]
 * [|Digital Gadgets] by Kathy Schrock
 * [|Web 2.0 Literacy Tools] by [|Naomi Harm]
 * [|2.0 Resources] by [|The Teacher Chronicles]
 * [|All My Faves] by