Web 2.0 Tools for 21st Century Skills
COLLABORATION SKILLS
Collaborize Classroom A free, online learning platform for teachers and students to create structured discussions in a private online community. Students can expand on discussions as well as interact with online lesson plans that allow for deeper participation inside and outside the classroom.
Diigo A powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Mixbook 00Creating ebooks supporting communication, collaboration, creativity
PicLits A creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.
Projeqt A a multi-dimensional digital storytelling tool that has lots of exciting potential for the K-12 classroom. Teachers and students can use this site as a web 2.0 teaching and learning tool for creating visually compelling presentations.
SlideShare The best way to share presentations, documents and professional videos and other digital media.
Vialogues A platform for a synychronous discussions centered around videos. While videos can engage students, the addition of meaningful commentaries increases student learning.
Viewbix Website utilizing videos and interactive apps to engage viewers and call for action. As of January 2012 there is no educational platform but this site definitely can be used as a Web 2.0 teaching tool for teachers and their students.
Webdoc This website is like a digital scrapbook or a rich multimedia blog platform that lets you reuse existing content online, as well as upload and throw your own fresh content into the digital mix a digital scrapbook Posts are quick and easy to create and can be embedded into other sites offering your students to demonstrate their understanding of any topic.
CREATIVITY
Animoto Video creation tool that can be used to quickly create a professional looking video presentation. Students can create movies by uploading images, music, and short video clips. The site also has a large collection of royalty-free music available, as well as a library of images and video clips that can be used.
Comic Master Website that allows your students to create their own short graphic novel, this will appeal to students in all grade levels especially reluctant readers.
Glogster Glogster is a poster creation tool that allows you to combine text, pictures, graphics, video, and audio into an interactive poster. A “glog” which is simply an online interactive poster web page.
Smilebox Smilebox is a free software download that lets you upload photographs, music and video clips to create multimedia projects. Design types include scrapbooks, slideshows, Ecards, photo albums, postcards, recipes and invitations. Finished projects can be emailed, sent to a blog, burned to a DVD or printed.
CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
DocsTeach DocsTeach allows you to locate and create interactive learning activities using the primary resources from the National Archives. The website has different activity templates that promote critical thinking skills encouraging students to become "history detectives."
Wordle Wordle creates "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.
MIND MAPPING TOOLS:
CRITICAL THINKING
Boolify Search engine that uses visual Boolean Operators for advanced information searches.
Google Search Stories Google search and story telling.