As I have been preparing for an upcoming presentation I have come across a wealth of Web 2.0 sites that I think have great potential in education. Below I have listed a number of the them as well as a couple of wikis that have a collection of web2.0 sites. I would love to see others you have found and love.
Wordle is a site for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes
- Plan club meetings and activities. Share info on a secure company intranet. Collaborate on a team project. Stay connected with family members.
Mixbook is the only site that lets you invite your friends to build books together online that can be shared as widgets on your blog/MySpace/Facebook or ordered as professionally-printed books.
Create and share your own photobook using flickr images
Drop.io is the simplest way to share files online.
Any text can be read to your students. Just simply type, enter a url, upload a document and enter an RSS feed and have any text read to your students. This limits the concerns of the reading level of web pages and can be of assistance to students with disabilities.
This social media site is focused on books. Members can build virtual bookshelves, discover, rate and discuss books, and participate in online groups.
A 3D search features that enhances your search results and provides a visual representation of your results.
Tell your life story or the story of your latest road trip, a day to remember, or a trip around the world. Any time, any picture, any video - mark it here and share it everywhere.
Create a timeline of your class for the year including video, images, text, and links.
Poster your class activities including video, text, and images.
GoAnimate, a platform that allows people to express themselves through animation without having to learn to draw or install any software.
Wiki with great Web 2.0 site
Flickr/familyfountain
Linkedin/Brad Fountain
Twitter/bradfountain
Del.icio.us/brad.fountain
GMail/Your Name
Brad,
I happen to be a big Wordle fan already, and its great to learn about some of the other Web 2.0 tools that may be useful to the education sect.
Great use of Apture here on this post. Do let me know if you have any feedback or questions on using the Apture Media Hub. Excellent job thus far!
Cheers,
Theresa and the Apture Team