In my Tech Edge newsletter this week there was a fancy list of new web 2.0 tools for both teachers and students. Many of these I’d seen or heard of before, but there were a couple newbies thrown in, 🙂 I thought I’d share the list with you, just in case you too needed a fresh toy, er, tool, for Spring. 🙂- 280 Slides – presentation tool similar to PowerPoint; embed video, audio, and images
- Animoto – “the end of slideshows;” create videos from still images
- Aviary – free photo editing tools
- Create A Graph – great for even young students to easily create and change graphs
- Creately – create and collaborate on online diagrams and designs
- Crocodoc – easily share and review documents online, including PDF, Word, and PowerPoint
- Eyeplorer – search and cross reference terms in Wikipedia in order to collate notes
- Gliffy – draw and share diagrams on the web
- GoAnimate – make your own cartoons and animations
- Kerpoof – create pictures, cards, book, and even movies; for elementary students
- Number Gossip – a search engine for everything about numbers
- Penzu – the anti-blog; keep your thoughts private in this online journal
- Phuser – personal message boards and private shared discussion spaces
- Scribble Maps – lets you draw, scribble, and annotate over Google maps
- Springnote – free online notebook based on a wiki
- Stixy – flexible online creation and collaboration
- ToonDoo – online cartoon strip creator
- VideoLobby – create your own professionally-styled live webcast
- Voki – create your own avatar; even record your voice
- Voxopop – audio tool that lets users record their voice for others to listen and respond to
- WallWisher – a virtual bulletin board where users can attach sticky notes and discussion points
- Web-Chops – users can “clip” any part of a web page and rearrange clips onto a custom page that can be shared with other people, eliminating ads or questionable material
- WordSift – text visualization tool
- Writeboard – collaborative writing software
- Xtranormal – text-to-speech avatar movie making
Let me know if you do something fabulous with one of these!
Webbingly,
Amber