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The 2.0 Tools List
Glogster
Great way to share posters and images you’ve made with friends
Edmodo
Social learning environment and one of the best ways to teach with tech
Bubbl.us
Free application to brainstorm online
Twitter
The micro blogging service that many love or hate.
WordPress
Content publishing system. It’s gone way beyond just blogging.
Prezi
Innovative way to share presentations without PowerPoint
Padlet
An online notice board maker (or bulletin board if you choose)
Animoto
Make beautiful videos from images in a snap
Blabberize
Make your images talk…that’s right.
Weebly
Create your own website or blog, very easy to use
Flickr
Popular photo-sharing site now lets you print
Slideshare
Don’t waste your presentation after it’s over, share it with millions!
Audioboo
Easily record and share audio
VoiceThread
GoogleDocs
The top real-time document creating and editing cloud-based system
GoogleSites
Make your own website while knowing nothing about websites!
Diigo
Popular social bookmarking site
GoogleEarth
View anywhere in the world anytime
Wordle
Create a beautiful aggregation of any amount of text
Wikis
Crowdsourcing at its finest. Like Wikipedia, Wikispaces is very helpful
Wix
Easily make your own flash-based website
Ning
Despite a new cost-based membership program, Ning allows you to have your own social network
Primarypad
Web-based word processor
Spicy Nodes
Innovative way to organize your web visits
Delicious
One of the top social bookmarking sites on the web
Myebook
Virtually publish your book and sell it
Voki
Get your own avatar and even have it talk with your voice
DoInk
Create animations using this simple website
Warning Sign Generator
Make your own caution and warning signs in a flash!
Scratch
Create and share stories, games, art, etc.
Kerpoof
Cool way to make a movie, card, picture, and share it all
Tagxedo
Like Wordle but a step farther as text can be used to build bigger images
SmartKiddies
Creative math and other educational problems to help everyone learn
Bitstrips
Make and share your own comic strips with thousands of others
Popplet
An easy way to share visual ideas
Storyjumper
Easy way to create your own stories for kids and bring them to life
Aviary Myna
Make your own music or remix just about anything else
TimeToast
Fantastic timeline visualization tool to understand history
GoAnimate for schools
State of the art animation tools for schools
PBWorks
Thousands of educational wikis and workspaces (build your own!)
Schoology
Learning management, online education tools, and much more
Google Timeline
A unique way to view the news
Online-Convert
Convert anything to anything (audio, video, text, etc.)
ReadWriteThink
Tons of classroom resources and PD goodies
Storybird
Build your own stories (with images) and share them with others
Word Magnets
Phonics reinforcement and sentence building exercise
Museum Box
Innovative way to understand history
Atmosphir
A build-your-own video game
Empressr
Rich media presentation tool
Zoho
A great alternative to Google Apps
EasyBib
The free automatic bibliography and citation maker
ToonDooSpaces
Easily publish custom comic strips
Crocodoc
Annotate and edit PDFs
My Aim:
Digital Literacy Pre-Test
1st Assignment (10 pts.)
Please create a gmail account (even if you already have one. This is
JUST
for school and so that you can submit assignments via Google Docs.
G-MAIL ACCOUNT
USERNAME= LAST TWO DIGITS OF GRAD YEAR+first initial+last
[email protected]
NO SPACES
E-Mail Me
Right click on button above and select "Copy Email Address".
Open your Gmail and click on "Compose" in the upper left.
Right click and Paste my address into the "To" line.
Type "Hi. This is (your name)."
Send to receive first 10 points for Tech.
What's your rep?
Extension Activity
Monitor your online image
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