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This session is being led by Kevin Clark from the Berrien County ISD.

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What's Web 2.0?

There are tons of Web 2.0 applications out there! In this session we'll explore some of them and how they can be used in teaching and learning. Web 2.0 applications are often characterized by the sharing of information or collaborating on projects because they are web-based.

 

Welcome! What's Web 2.0? Wikis Online Productivity Google Gets Its Own Section Concept Mapping/Drawing Image Editing Web Conferencing Presentation Whiteboards Content Creation Collaboration Social Bookmarking Lists Dashboards Fun Stuff to Keep an Eye On Where do you find all this stuff?

 

These strike my fancy.

 

Wikis

• Pbwiki...they're providing give-aways for this conference and recently removed all ads from educational wikis!
• Wetpaint
• Wikispaces

 

Online Productivity

• Freebase (database)
• Peepel
• Xcellery (spreadsheet)...real time editing
• Zoho Office Suite

 

Google Gets Its Own Section

• Google Docs & Spreadsheets...real time editing, presentations are coming
• Notebook
• Page Creator
• Personalized Homepage

Concept Mapping/Drawing

• Bubbl.us
• Cumulate Draw
• Gliffy
• Mindmeister
• Mindomo
• Thinkature

 

Image Editing

• Phixr
• Picnik
• picture dots
• Scrapblog
• Wiredness

 

Web Conferencing

• Vyew
• Yugma...must download and install a small application

 

Presentation

• ajaxPresents
• Empressr
• SlideAware...download a PowerPoint Add-In
• Spresent
• Thumbstacks

 

 

Whiteboards

• Imagination Cubed...from GE of all places
• Skrbl...no vowels please
• Writeboard

 

Content Creation

• Weebly...create web pages, here's one I did for a test.
• 21 Classes...new educational blogging tool

 

Collaboration

• gabbly...chat about any web page
• stikkit...add sticky notes to any web page

 

Social Bookmarking

• Jots
• De.lirio.us
• Mag.nolia
• Blink 
• Furl 

Lists

• Remember the Milk
• Ta-da
• Vitalist

 

Dashboards

• Netvibes
• Pageflakes
• Sparc

Fun Stuff to Keep an Eye On

• Mypunchbowl...party panning
• Joost...watch TV
• Trillian...chat with everybody
• Meebo...more chatting
• Wufoo...form builder
• stikkit..."little yellow notes that think"
• G.ho.st Virtual Computer
• Commeko...create a comic book

 

Where do you find all this stuff?

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