Collaborative Reflections on the 24th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, August 5-8 2008 by Kathi, Maureen and Marissa; WCET 2008 additions
This is like a portal or personalized web entry, like igoogle. Also has some social networking built in
Free tool created by the people who create Camtasia. Very easy to use
Formerly Breeze, this allows you to synchronize notes and audio to PPT presentations. You do need a Breeze server to stream content
Far more robust than Jing, this tool is like Captivate and can create screen capture with synchronized audio.
Part of the Camtasia suite, this product is great for capturing screen shots for presentations, content, blogs etc.
Online mapping or brainstorming ideas. These collaborative tools are available for free use. Can be used by colleagues, students, classes or individuals
Used to create this collaborative collection of conference information
Warning, this tool does not autosave work. It also does not show when 2 people are collaborating simultaneous. Work CAN be lost!!
This concept mapping tool is great for on the fly tool work as no account is necessary. To copy, freeze the map, arrange it aesthetically and then download the graphic.
Free tools that include a Quiz Video, Quiz Image, Glossary Builder, Concept tutor plus, Audio Annotator, and Case Scenario Builder. These tools are easy to use. You can see examples at their website and download the tool for use.
Create fun cartoons with your own content. Easy to create and place into a course or webpage
Upload voice, images even video easily and quickly
Find, share and improve upon lesson plans and other course content
The National Repository of Online Courses for higher education, high school and advanced placement coursework
Share online content, flashcards, bookmarks, tutorials and videos with other educators
Excellent way to share good presentations and to find PPT presentations with and without audio
Her talk involved making courses more interactive and interesting for students using Web 2.0 tools. She has more materials available at: http://www.csusm.edu/khayden
Interesting talk about how the 2.0 tools really are about individualism and customization even though we are linking to others, we are creating very presonal spaces
Lively presentation on today's workforce and the differences between groups.
Fast and easy foto editing. Great for people who don't have the time or resources for photoshop or fireworks and for on-the-fly foto editing
Extremely easy foto editing. Requires no login registration for use.
Not technically a graphic editor, this website will allow you to create an avitar for yourself to be used on facebook, or on other social networking places where you might not want to leave a photo image.
You can upload any text to tagcrowd and it will create a "cloud" representation of the information. For example, upload your resume and see the tags that come from your document. Interesting graphical representation of you
Best known for social bookmarking, this tool can also be used to create a cloud tag image of a person through his/her searches
Beautiful word clouds or tag clouds
Create a flow chart online, free! Disadvantage- no private charts permitted
create great crossword puzzles on the fly; PC download only
You can create an online poll which can be added to blogs or websites. Zoho is a lot like google- it has its own writer and presentation tool. Lots there to explore
You can use twitter for a quick poll or answer to a question - just ask people to put in a unique tag, then use search.twitter.com to compile the answers to your question.
Creating online voice conversations.
Make your own music stations, rate the songs played to determine whether they'll return; put in composers or artists or songs
Appears to be a great way for a class to share annotations about websites
Great tool to replace bookmarks or favorites. Can travel anywhere and have your bookmarks, can share with others, can search for good sites by tags. Excellent tool
Like Delicious, but you can annotate a website (and it saves your annotations) and you can post directly to blogs. Easier if you are really doing research
Allows you to upload large files and to specifiy how many days the recipient has to download. This is free.
Allows you to upload large files and share with others for free. You specify how long you want the file to be available to the recipient. Also synchronizings with your computer so you can backup files on your computer.
Utterli
Yammer
Zillions of Web 2.0 tools, examples, and annotations, link to site Excellent collection and maintained. Good sort feature so you can find what you need quickly.
Top links bookmarked in delicious
Tips and articles and other cool ideas and things
There are many resources for teachers and college faculty like this-- search and you'll find plenty of others.
Great compilation of tools for classroom use
Find, share and improve upon lesson plans and other course content
The National Repository of Online Courses for higher education, high school and advanced placement coursework
Share online content, flashcards, bookmarks, tutorials and videos with other educators
Excellent way to share good presentations and to find PPT presentations with and without audio
Creative commons side of Flickr
Example Anatomy and Physiology, but many book manufacturers now have online interactive activities.
Fantastic repository of online activities that can be used in classes
MIT shares lectures, notes and other course materials for free with the public
Free courseware open for an entire course
Yale opens up content and audio lectures online
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