20 WEB 2.0 tools and resources I use in my classes.

1. “Wow we are lucky to
“Teach Meet be part of it!”
Sydney West”
WEB 2.0 Tools
By Nikki Beaton

2. Popplet is a platform for your
ideas! It can be used to
outline, create mind
maps, take notes, and
collaborate with others!!
www.popplet.com

3. Educators can apply for a free Animoto
Plus account for use in the classroom.
It’s powerful features can be used to
create stunning presentations
incorporating, images, text, video clips
and music.
www.animoto.com

4. “Create interactive presentations -
insert images, videos, YouTubes, PDFs
or other media. Visualize your ideas.
Pan Left, Move Right, Zoom-in on a
detail, or Zoom-out to show the big
picture.”
www.prezi.com

5. “Information delivered
visually – a tool where
information can be heard and
seen.”
www.qwiki.com

6. “Is an online web sticky note
service that can be used to post
memos, to-do lists, ideas, and
photos anywhere on an online
web canvas.”
www.linoit.co
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7. “Fun and easy for you to collaborate
online! Create
tasks, files, photos, notes, and
bookmarks on your
Stixyboards, organized in whatever way
you like.”
www.stixy.com

8. “An online tool that provides students
with ready-made interactive ‘thinking
guides’ to support their own enquiry
and research. These thinking guides
help students to work through an
issue, topic or question and prompt .”
www.exploratree.co
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9. “A free tool for turning
PowerPoint slides into rich
video presentations right from
your web browser.”
www.knovio.com

10. “ A tool that creates word clouds from
text and develops students’ creativity
and critical thinking – important 21st
century learning skills.”
www.wordle.net

11. “If you can type, you can make
movies... ... Enhance your lessons with
a movie; have students create their
own, suits a variety of learning styles!”
www.xtranormal.com

12. “A free service that allows educators to
create personalized speaking avatars
and use them in the classroom to
motivate, excite and teach students.
!”
www.voki.com

13. “Poster yourself - Make your
interactive poster easily and
share it with friends. Mix
Images, Text, Music and Video.
It is fantastic!
www.edu.glogster.co
m

14. “LiveBinders is your 3-ring binder for
the Web. Collect your resources;
Organize them neatly and easily. It is
the knowledge sharing place
www.livebinders.co
m

15. “A social learning network for
teachers, students, and
parents. We help teachers
make their classroom a
community.”
www.edmodo.com

16. “Is a simple online start page
that lets you easily organize
and access favourite sites and
web services on one page.”
www.symbaloo.com

17. “A tool that lets you keep at hand
the web pages you like, discover
some new ones in your areas of
interest and share them easily with
your friends!”
www.pearltrees.c
om

18. “An online curation tool that
allows you to ‘scoop’ topics
you would like to learn more
about!”
www.scoopit.com

19. “An online social networking and
microblogging service that enables
its users to send and read text-
based posts of up to 140
characters, informally known as
tweets.”
www.twitter.com

20. “Is the complete reference and
resource for educational
technology web tools.”
www.edutecher.ne
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