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INTRODUCTION TO WEB 2.0 TOOLS AND APPROACHES TO LEARNING

Videos - 21st Century Technology

The Question of Change

Shift Happens

A Vision of Students Today

A Vision of K-12 Students Today

WE Think

The Rise of the Amateur Professional (how do we organize without organizations?)

(a new model of creativity and a crash of paradigms)

(turning users into consumers and designers)

Predicting the Next 5,000 Days of the World

Pay Attention

3 Steps for 21st Century Learning

21st Century Pedagogy

The Trouble with Twitter

PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking (video explanation)

del.icio.us

iGoogle Home Page

iGoogle is a start page tool where you can aggregate all the Google resources you use on your online desktop, eg gMail, Google Calendar.

"My iGoogle page is the one I return to minute by minute throughout the day. It has links to my calendar, my most used bookmarks, weather and news and a Twitter app. It really does function like a virtual desk, and is available wherever I am working." Helen Whitehead

Soovle - combined search tool

File, Phone, Conference Call, etc. Drop

I use this a lot to save files or notes in "the cloud" so they will be available to me anywhere. Be careful! There is no way to recover a lost username or password so choose your drop name and password carefully. (It will also allow you to receive a fax or phone message!)

This is the big one! I'm listing it here, under Personal Productivity, because of the way it can be used as your primary launching pad for all of what you do. It is a specialized web page that you can personalize and make changes to almost instantly. Be sure to sign up as an educator because PBWiki is very friendly to teachers and will give you special features. Watch the video below and then jump in. You can create as many free PBWikis as you wish so be sure to create one to just play around with---you can't hurt anything so pretend you're a four-year-old and have at it.

Wikis in Plain English (video explanation)

CoolIris

Ya gotta see to believe! Go to the homepage above and click the download button to download and install the plugin automatically. It allows you to "cruise" down a wall of photos or videos to quickly find the one you want.

PHOTO SOURCES AND IMAGE EDITING

Free source for photos. Register and be sure to choose "Advanced Search," and select "Restricted OK" to "no."

TeacherTap

Links to many photo sources especially for teachers

WPClipart

WPClipart is a collection of high-quality public domain images specifically tailored for use in word processors and optimized for printing on home/small office inkjet printers. There are thousands of color graphic clips as well as illustrations, photographs and black and white line art. Nearly all are in lossless, PNG format. As of Saturday, 12/06/2008 there are 23,872 images.

Flickr (Classroom Applications) (more)

Flickr is a huge, diverse bunch of people masquerading as a photo-sharing website. Find out how to get the most out of it!

Picsviewer

Picsviewr is a FREE online service that allows you to view your photos in a cool and fast interface. It provides numerous templates to showcase your photos.