Web 2.0 Tools

Alphabetizer — This app puts any list into alphabetical order. Filters allow the user to ignore case, html, articles, etc.

Annotator — The Annotator can help you look closely at any piece of text created by authors in your classroom or around the world. You can use virtual markers to highlight important passages, questions, thoughts, or other ideas, and add comments that explain what the lines mean to you.

Blog Management — Bloglines makes it simple to browse new articles on each blog you've subscribed to. Your subscription list can be organized into folders.

Collaborative drawing tool — Interactive Illimitably provides a place to create a room with a custom name where you can draw and chat with others. This tool could be used by students to collaborate on the creation of story webs or diagrams used in presentations.

Collaborative Web Page Book Marker and Annotator — Shared Copy is a tool for bookmarking, annotating an sharing web pages. It allows the user to save a page, draw on it and add comments to the web page via text boxes and highlights parts of the page. Shared Copy can be used through social networks. Shared Copy could be used by teachers to provide feedback to students on deign elelments of their digital portfolios. Shared Copy could also be used to highlight text that students are to read prior to discussion.

Color tool — Imgr is a free color tool for designers that allows users to upload an image and grab a number of colors from the image, then offer them to the user in an hexidecimal format or a downloadable swatch

Content Management — Engrade is a suite of tools that acts as a gradebook for courses, as well as a communication vehicle. It seems aimed at the grade school level of courses as it allows parents to participate. Grades and scores can be weighted and listed by letter or number. Administrators can oversee educators' classes. Students: Check grades, atttendance and homework. Teachers: Publish grades, attendance, homework assignments. E-mail weekly progress reports to students.

Convert web page to pdf file — Free online tool to convert web page content to a pdf format.

Create a collaborative visualization — CoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share your ideas as images.

Create collages online — Photovisi is a free and easy to use online photo collage maker. Select one of the many designs, add your photos and then customize by dragging items around. After the collage is finished, it's available for download and print!

Create free award certificates — Click on template and create award certificates for any occasion.

Create free games, quizzes, activities and diagrams. — Creative interactive flash tools and games for education.

Create graphs — This site provides five different graphs and charts.

Create online flowcharts and diagrams — Gliffy.com is a web-based diagram editor. Create and share flowcharts, network diagrams, floor plans, user interface designs and other drawings online.

Create on-line polls — Create free on-line polls with no registration requisite.

Create online tests. — Testmoz is a test generator that sports 4 question types, automatic grading, a really simple interface and detailed reports.

Create stories to share online — Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print.

Create you own motivational poster — Wigflip allows the user to create graphics for websites, make a poster or scredbots.

Creative brainstorming — AnswerGarden is a minimalistic feedback tool. Use it in the classroom as an educational tool or at work as a creative brainstorming tool. Or you can embed it on your website or blog to use it as a poll or guestbook.How does AnswerGarden work? You create an AnswerGarden by entering a topic on the Create New AnswerGarden-page. Then you'll be redirected to your newly created AnswerGarden. Since no-one has posted an answer yet, your AnswerGarden will still be empty. The next step is to share your AnswerGarden. Use it live in the classroom, at a meeting or a conference. Or place (embed) your AnswerGarden on your blog, site or social network page, using the provided embed code. Or post a direct link to your AnswerGarden on fora or email it to friends. As your AnswerGarden draws attention people will start posting their answers to your question, either by entering their own answers or by clicking on and submitting existing answers. These are then represented in your AnswerGarden in the form of a growing word cloud.

Digital Toolbox — This site contains web 2.0 apps including presentation tools, blogs, charts, discussions, comic generators, flashcards, maps, mind mapping, surveys, quizzes, timelines, video editing and content specific digital tools.

Find content to share, use and remix — This site provides a means to search content that people have the right to share, use and build upon. Songs, videos, scientific research and academic work are licensed under common resources and can be accessed free without infringing upon copyright.

Free blogging tools and email — ClassChatter provides a secure online space for teachers and students to blog, share assignments, email and grade.

Free E Books — Love to read? Studying Literature? Want to revisit the classics? Cramming for a test? Read all the novels you want, anywhere, anytime, on any device, for free.

Free E Courses for kids in many subjects — In today’s complex world, children’s futures are determined by their ability to master the basics of reading, science, math and computers. Yet costs, class sizes and other issues often prevent children access to quality online learning that can support and reinforce learning. It is fun and free learning on the Internet for children ages 5 - 12.

Free educational games — Online games for kids in K-5 sorted by grade level. Games incorporate areas such as math and language arts while introducing basic computer skills.

Free forum creation and hosting — This site allows the user to create and host a forum with free image hosting, domain name, customized emails, chat box, gallery, portal, calendar,and 7,000 skins.

Free software for editing your writing — ProWriting Aid provides free software for editing your writing. It provides a set of reports that find overused words and construts, check grammar, spelling, cliches and diction problems. Created by writers for writers.

HTML Tester — Mozilla Thimble App allows the user to write and test HTML and see how your new code will look on the webl, On one side of your screen will be the code and the other side of the screen shows how it wil look on the web. When you have completed your task, click publish and a web address will be created for your page.

Interactive real time presentation — TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime. Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs.

Interactive whiteboard application — An interactive multi-user (shared) whiteboard application Use it for tutoring, collaborative live training, brainstorming, prototyping An online replacement of your paintbrush application

Learn to write code — Code Academy offers lessons in basic HTML and CSS. It starts with the basics of what HTML is, what it does and how to write the basics. There are seven progressively more difficult lessons. Code Academy lessons would allow students to develop their own web pagesand progress to the challenge of building web applications. Code Academy may only be used with Google Chrome, Firefox, Mozilla or the Opera browser. It will not work with Internet Explorer.

MP3 cutter....Make your own ringtones! — MP3 Cut is a simple Web 2.0 utility that enables you to cut out pieces of a MP3 files without having to decode that MP3. The tool cuts the MP3 at the frame level without losing the quality of your MP3.

Newsclip generator — Make your own newspaper and headlines. Great for historical newspaper assignments!

On-line Gradebook and Lesson Planner — LearnBoost is a free on-line lesson plan software that connects planning and instruction to grading and assessment.Create beautiful lesson plans, align to standards, and add rich media. This application includes an online gradebook software with grade book, lesson plan, attendance and calendar tools for teachers.

Online photo editor — Edit Your Pictures for Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook! Edit video and create collages!

Online photo editor and persoanlizer — Do fun stuff with your digital photos. Create and print personalized motivational posters, calendars, movie posters, magazine covers, badges, mosaics and collages.

Online radio — With AUPEO! Personal Radio you can hear your favorite music for free, and easily discover new songs and artists. Use the service directly in your internet browser, as a mobile app on a web-enabled device, or even in the car. Using the Love, Ban, and Skip functions, you can develop your own personalized Internet radio. Get started by selecting one of our recommended stations, an artist station, or any one of 150 radio stations put together by AUPEO!

Online sticky notes — Create online sticky notes to share and collaborate with others in real time.

PDF splitter — Online tool to extract content from a pdf file

Presentation/Slideshow Tool — Empressr is a presentation/slideshow tool that allows the user to incorporate a variety of audiovisual content (video, audio, pictures, Flash, charts, and graphs). Presentations can be shared. Students: Supplement class presentations with visuals. Professors: Create class notes or supplemental presentations and embed them in your course's official Web site.

Research Organizer — Readcube provides a place for students to save and annotate scholarly documents. Students can search Google Scholar andn Pub Med and also import PDFs found elsewhere.

Sports Team Management — TeamCowboy is for students or teachers who manage student sports teams. Track your roster, setup game schedule, game scores, payment for equipment, etc.

Team Collaboration for the Web — Twiddla is a no set-up web based meeting playground. Browse websites in a shared real-time whiteboard while marking them up, sharing files and chatting.

Test the readability of a website — The Readability Test Tool provides a quick and easy way to test the readability of your work. It is the most flexible readability software for assessing readability formulas. You can test all, or part of a web page, or simply type in your text. Link directly from your page - it will compute the results for the referring page.

Text to mindmap converter — Text 2 Mind Map is a web application that converts texts to mind maps.

URL Redirector — Bitly allows the user to save any link as a bitmark — articles, images, videos, or music. It provides instant search and filter features and the ability to organize related bitmarks into bundles. Bitly provides URL redirection with real-time tracking.

Web page creator — Pagefin could be used for students to create and share a web page of their best writing, video productions or favorite images. Pagefin's blank slate allows the user to add an unlimited number of text boxes, images and video elements. Pagefin could be a platform to use students to create online collages of media arranged around a research topic.

With croak.it , you can speak to the whole of the Internet in three simple steps - Push. Speak. Share. — "Imagine a world where you can share your thoughts without boundaries, halfway across the world. Imagine a world where your voice becomes your expression, through this free platform." - Marty the Frog

YouTube editor — TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it.