Free Web 2.0 tools to use in the classroom

1. Life’s a Beach Teaching made easy With FREE Web 2.0 Tools Dolores Bluntschly – 2nd Grade Teacher Crestview Elementary School bluntschly.dolores@crestviewschools.net Twitter - @miss2bl crestviewschools.net

2. Motivate students to write by having their characters come to life. Students can animate photos or pictures to make them appear as if they are talking. Great tool for digital storytelling, building students’ language skills, communication skills and self confidence.

4. Leave virtual “post-it” notes for others to see

5. Create folders for individual students or subjects

7. Create and share work online Upload files from Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint to work on anywhere Create forms/quizzes/tests that students or parents can complete online and have all of your data in one place.

8. Trying to explain to students what to do when you save a document and they are staring at you like you are speaking another language… Jing allows you to take pictures of what you are doing on your computer to add to a document that you can then give to your students (or sub). Still not convinced… Then use Jing to add voice to your pictures and no document is needed. No papers to lose (Go Green!) and students can listen to it over and over and over again.

9. They say a picture is worth a 1000 words, then why are all those pictures still on my SD card in my digital camera. Here you can upload photos and create a slide show with music and or text. Students can upload pictures or photos to create a digital story to share with the world!

11. Make those dull, drab photos come to life with online photo editing. Add stickers, boarders and graphics to your pictures Create a collage and share photos with friends and family.

13. Organize photos into folders

14. Share photos

15. Create slide shows

16. Private and password protectedCreate a share site to share photos with family and friends

17. Forgot to tell the class something, tweet it! Let parents know what’s going on in your classroom at any time Student sick at home… Keep them up to date with Twitter Students are at home working on homework and have a question… Don’t give up! Tweet it!

18. Take your images, documents and videos and create an interactive slide show Students, parents and teachers can comment in five different ways: voice(mic or phone), text, audio and/or video file

19. Text comes to life with beautiful word clouds. The more you use a word, the larger the word becomes in the cloud. Copy and paste text, such as famous speeches. Students can easily see which words are important. Copy and paste student’s writing so that they can see their word choice.