Concept Mapping, Charting, & Collaboration tools
Bubble.us: Concept mapping tool, that uses text only. Here's a tutorial that shows this tool, along with several other brainstorming tools available.
Edistorm: Site for collaboration and agregating research or ideas onto virtual post-its. Tutorial explaining how to use.
Chartle: website for creating charts and graphs. Video tutorial
Knovio: free tool to take powerpoints, and turn them into vidoe presentations. You need a webcam and a microphone to make full use of this tool.
Bag the Web: Curation website
Diigo: Information on how to use.
PearlTrees: social bookmarking site, similar to Diigo. Video tutorial.
EditR: free photo editing software. You can turn pictures into pencil sketches. Video tutorial.
Flipsnack: way to create a digital portfolio or flip book (pages flip on screen), publish online, and then share through email. Video tutorial.
Prezi: One of my new favorite tools. It allows you to create presentations like powerpoint, but with more layers and the ability to zoom in and out. Templates
to help you get started.
Mind42.com: Brainstorming tool, with simple tools and icons.
SlideStaxx: a way to put your ideas, pictures, and media into a slideshow. Here's an article explaining how SlideStaxx works. Video Tutorial on how to get started.
Popplet: website that allows you to create photo collages, idea maps, and collaboration. Tutorial Video
Study Ladder: Free site full of resources for Math and Literacy for teachers to use, and students can access.
Typewith.me: collaboration site for creating word type documents. Video Tutorial
Wisemapping.com: Brainstorming/mindmapping.
Sites for Kids and Classes
Civil War Art this site shows collections of art created during the Civil war, but they are organized into a timeline. Very interesting way to view the war. There are also webcasts related to the civil war from the Smithsonian.
Kodu: Free downloadable program for kids to start creating their own video games, easily! Somewhat similar to Scratch Animation, or at least the idea behind it.
Klowdz: Site for drawing, creating, and here's a very helpful tutorial video, I recommend the video before you get started. DON'T use with Internet Explorer
Making Sites accessable to kids: Tools that keep kids from having to type in URLs.
ABCYA: Animation for kids
American Girl: site has games, activities, videos and historical information.
Math Games: Math Strategy games
Draw a Stickman: students follow directions to create story
Boys Life offers a comic creator you can use to encourage reluctant writers.
Kerpoof: kids can create comic page using
hieroglyphic typewriter
TimeToast: Timeline creator
TVO Kids: drawing, viewing art
Wordle: Creates word clouds. Here's a video explaining how to use Wordle to create a word Cloud
YouTube: You Tube has a plethora of videos available on just about any topic, and you can very often find them to help add to a lesson or Flipchart. However, they may not be totally censored, so here is a tutorial on how to "clean them up" before you use them in class.
ABC Mouse: Pre-K to 2nd games
Arcademia: Math games that teachers can track students use of.
DIspostable.com: disposable email addresses-can be used for students, or when you don't want to use your personal/work email-avoiding junk mail
Ransom note generator: site allows you to type in text, and it is created into a ransom note style. Great for creating an interesting poster, to grab attention.
Teacher Resources & Videos
GO2WEB20: a very comprehensive list of web 2.0 tools available, and categorized. If you're looking for a tool to use, you might want to start here.
Prezi, looking at how it can be used to make more engaging presentations.
ActivityTV: Videos and accompanying printables
Instructables: Giant show and Tell, viewers can rate
Animation Ideas: This is HP's teacher site, and the article gives a variety of different Web2.0 tools you can use for animation with your class.
Bit.ly: URL shortener. This site allows you to take long URL addresses, and create a smaller one, that can be easily copied/typed in, and also tracked, so you can see how many times it's being accessed by your link.
EHow: Videos on a variety of topics
Jeopardylabs.com: Create game quizes online, without needing to create in powerpoint. Video Tutorial.
The Encyclopedia of Educational
Technology - tons of information related to integrating Ed Tech into the curriculum. Includes research and ways to answer questions
Collaborative Science Website:
ClassChatter: Blog site for classrooms
21Classes: Classroom and Educational Blog Site
Rorshmap.com: takes google maps and creates kaleidescope effect, great for showing symmetry.
SuTree: How-to Video agregator
Easy Test Maker: create a variety of tests. Free registration.
Scitable: Free online science library, higher level, but might be interesting to teachers/advanced kids.
Tech the Plunge - blog dealing with ed tech and web 2.0
Inside Story Flashcards: Flashcards with great visuals-for your visual learners
Interactive Bloom's Pyramid - offers many different web 2.0 tools to hit varying level of Bloom's taxonomy
Kidblog: Website designed for teachers and students to create blogs. Allows students to blog, post pictures and have discussions, but the teacher maintains control of the site.
Socrative: student response site
Tripline: You can use with social studies/history lessons. Video tutorial
TeacherTube: Just like YouTube, but designed for and used by educators
PhET - interactive science simulations. Pretty straight forward and not a lot of "pizzazz" but definitely gets the point across!
Posterous: How to use for the classroom
Story Jumper: Web 2.0 tool that allows you to create books of your children's writing, or for kids to do it themselves. Be sure to sign up as an educator, and you will be able to have students log on without needing to use a email address. Video tutorial.
Symbaloo - a "create-your-own" homepage that would be great for elementary teachers to point kids in the direction of a site. You can share your "webmix" with others as well.
How Big Really? Takes map of area based on zip code given, and shows how big of an area would have been affected but an event. Ex: Pakistan flooding, or gulf coast oil spill.
Media Converter - need to load those YouTube videos into Promethean ActivInspire? Use this tool to convert the video to the proper format, then download and embed!
Productivewebapps.com : "web apps to help you at work and play." organizes web apps by category.
watchnolearn.org : another site that offers videos to show, but geared towards schools-unlike you-tube