Web 2.0 and Cloud computing resources for education
This list was compiled by Brian McLane. It contains some software which requires installation, but for the most part, it provides links to online software applications, most of which are free. It is possible that some links are broken and/or the Website no longer exists.
Purple - recommended by TechMan
Purple - recommended by TechMan
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1. What is Web 2.0? Web 2.0 Tools and Their Educational Applications - Presentation Transcript (slideshow with outline) Video from ZDNet: What is Web 2.0? http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html Classroom 2.0 The social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and Social Media in education. Download the textbook Web 2.0 Projects. 2. Web 2.0 Tools - General Lists Discovery Education Web 2.0 This is a must-see Web site!!!! NY Times Tech Tips For Teachers: Free, Easy and Useful Creation Tools Education in the Cloud with Web 2.0 Tools 100 ways to enhance collaboration Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Free Technology for Teachers - Richard Byrne More Web 2.0 Tools Even More Web 2.0 Tools Go2Web20.net 3. Audio, Digital Music & Podcasting Audio Editing Music
FlashKit SoundFX This site has tons of ads, and you have to scroll to the bottom of their site to get to the sound files, but once you get there, there are plenty of sound effects for you and your students to use in their Presentations. FreeSound FreeSound is one of the better sites out there for you to find the right sound effects for your presentation or movie. You do have to be registered to download the sound, but there are plenty of Public Domain licences available on this site. Podcasting
4. Blogging How to Start a Blog Step by Step (Updated 2017) How to Start a Blog from FirstSiteGuide.com Blogger.com KidBlog.org recommended EduBlogs.org StartABlog123.com - A guide to building a personal or professional blog. Glogging (graphical blogging) Glogster Brian McLane's Glog 5. Forms, Surveys, and Quizzes SurveyGizmo (free and paid) Survey Monkey (free and paid versions) Free Online Surveys (free and paid versions) Flipquiz EASILY create and share an online Jeopardy-style game. Very cool! Quizlet digital flashcards 8 sites for creating video quizzes EDpuzzle Make any video into a lesson TED Ed - build a lesson around a video ClassTools Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge! Google Forms (requires Google account; can be found in Google Drive) JotForm (free and paid) Response-O-Matice - you get 1 form for free 6. Google Products RECOMMENDED Google.com Gmail
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Blogger Reader Maps/Google Earth Forms 7. Graphic Organizers & Charts LucidCharts Request a free EDU account Draw.io Syncs with Google Drive PiktoChart - Make Infographics!! Syncs with Google Drive; free EDU version Exploratree - Free library of thinking guides Text 2 Mindmap Lovely Charts Gliffy With Gliffy online diagram software, you can easily create professional-quality flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings, and more. Wordle www. http://www.wordle.com This site allows you to create your own website, animations, Word puzzles, and Word Art. The following article from Tech & Learning gives a number of examples of you to use Wordle well in the classroom. http://www.techlearning.com/blogs/20322 - 5 Reasons to Use Wordle in the Classroom http://www.slideshare.net/digitalmaverick/how-to-use-wordle-presentation How to Use Wordle http://www.slideshare.net/JenniferW/wordle-ideas Wordle Ideas 8. Image Editors, Graphic Design& Desktop Publishing LucidPress RECOMMENDED Page layout and design for both print and digital...built for collaboration, too! Canva RECOMMENDED Many templates which are easily editable! Great design tool for non-designers. Fatpaint (Fatpaint is a free, all-in-one cloud-based graphic design application and image editor, with tools and resources so anyone can create pages, images and illustrations, and have it printed on custom products through Zazzle.com! FotoFlexer Cool & Easy Tool! Pixlr Photoshopesque application Clipping Magic- Easily remove a background! BeFunky - Free and no registration! Pho.to Fun & Easy! Photoshop Express (jpeg files only) ImageBot by Flaming Text (a great little program!) 9. Free Images Unsplash - FREE TO USE in any way; unfortunately no search tool...must browse...school appropriate???? pics4learning Top 10 Sites for Images and Clip Art by David Kapuler Permanent link However, keep in mind that most of the sites listed below do not have built-in filters for images. These image search engines should be used either by educators (adults assisting students) or go in hand in hand with a school district filtering solution and Acceptable Use Policy.
10. Image Mark-up (NEW - APR 2014) Scribble Maps - Our basic service is completely free and allows you to create custom maps, widgets, and images. Share your custom maps with friends or publish them to your website/blog. Quick Markup - upload an image from your computer and annotate it with shapes, text, lines, and even mind-mapping tools! 11. Fun Stuff for Projects RECOMMENDED! Newspaper Clipping Generator - You add the newspaper name, title, and story; you get a newspaper clipping image of it! Great for projects: historical event, articles from the future, write about a famous person, literature characters, etc. Motivator - create motivational posters Magazine Cover Movie Poster See more at Big Huge Labs Create Avatars Create Cartoons |
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1. Office Software Google Drive (formerly Google Docs - requires Google account) office.live.com Microsoft is now offering its new Office Web Apps. These are online versions of its popular programs, like Word and Excel. The programs have limited features, but will still work for most people. Open Office ZOHO 2. Online Classroom Software Edmodo A safe alternative to Facebook just for education! Educreations CourseCracker CourseCracker.com is a FREE onlineClassroom and Group learning tool designed for academic networking,discussion and media sharing. Canvas Hootcourse Create an online class using Facebook and Twitter together. CourseSites Google Apps for Education StudyWiser EasyCampus Vyew Example: http://vyew.com/005695/Untitled VyewBook Vyew makes it easy and affordable to start collaborating online. With Vyew you can give a presentation to a hundred people online or post a document you've been working on for review by your colleagues at their convenience. Vyew is extremely flexible allowing you to bring online collaboration and conferencing into your workflow on your terms. NiceNet Internet Classroom Assistant 3. Online Whiteboards RealtimeBoard - syncs with Google Drive; boards can be saved and re-used. eduWeaver White Board - good, but can only save as image Scriblink - requires Java Scribblar $$$ 4. PDF Creation and Document Mark-up SubText - turn any book or document into a digital classroom! PDF Mergy - combine many PDFs into one! Free! PDFamigo - Web-based free PDF form creation PDF escape - free, online PDF reader, editor, form filler, & form designer. pdfcrowd Turn a Web page into a PDF using PDFCrowd. It will capture the page exactly as it appears. Just enter the Web page link into the blank. Then click Convert to PDF. The site instantly creates a downloadable PDF. Creating a basic PDF doesn't require an account. You can create a free account, however, to get more options. That includes modifying page size, what is captured and adding security. PDF to Word - convert PDFs to editable Word documents Crocodoc Review a Word document, fill out a PDF form, mark up an image,and more... All with Crocodoc, all online, all for free. 5. Presentation & Interactive Lessons Software Try Prezi- the zooming, panning, and rotating presentation application! Prezi U - Learn how to use Prezi! Blendspace (formerly EdCanvas) SlideDog PhotoPeach for EDU $$$ Empressr - The rich media presentation tool. EDpuzzle Make any video into a lesson TED Ed - build a lesson around a video Jux - Simply the best showcase for your content SlideShare http://www.slideshare.net/ Upload and share your PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios on SlideShare. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to make a webinar. ClassTools Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge! Haiku Deck, a completely new kind of presentation software. We make telling your story simple, beautiful, and fun. Haiku Deck - Free Photos for All! Presentation Tube Narrate PowerPoints and upload to YouTube - FREE 280 Slides - Don't have Power Point or Keynote? You can create stunning presentations from scratch (and for free) with 280 Slides. There's no software to download—and when you're done you can share it any way you like. Very user-friendly!! Animoto for Education Animoto provides an array of tools for creating videos in your classroom. Browse some of the features of our Plus account below then check out individual case studies to see how others are already using us. 6. Screencasting & Screen Capture Snaggy Capture and annotate a screen image FREE What is a screencast? Here is an example. Sketch It! - (download) Draw directly on your computer screen. Screencasting software: ScreenCastify - A Screencasting Option That Works on Chromebooks (java not required) - Still needs some work...keep watching this one if you have a Chromebook! Screencast-O-Matic is free and easy. Good quality for training, presentation capture. Requires Java Screen Flow (MAC) - Simply the best, most robust application for creating screencasts at an affordable price. Jing - One of the more popular free applications for recording screencasts (This is a download/install; unpaid version saves as a swf file). Screenr - Excellent free site for recording screens with an iMovie type interface. ScreenCastle - Record a screen and share or embed with others. Sequence - Very affordable Mac application for creating screencasts with the ability to draw or comment. Screenium - A nice Mac application at a nice price. Screen Flick - A Mac application with many export features. Screencast.com 7. Social Bookmarking, Notes, and Research I recommend all of these! Trading Card Creator - This is cool! The Trading Card tool gives students an alternative way to demonstrate their literacy, knowledge, and skill when writing about popular culture texts or real world examples. This interactive allows students to create their own trading card about a real or fictional person, place, object, event, or abstract concept. Other student interactives from READ WRITE THINK. Digg Delicious Evernote Evernote for Education Quicklyst - take better notes Stixy - your online bulletin board; just stick content on it 8. Video 8 sites for creating video quizzes Recommended YouTube Time Machine - great for history classes or to help students understand a different era. It's fun! Create Animated Videos Wideo PowToon Download YouTube Videos: Keepvid iDesktop.tv Creating & Editing, Sharing, etc. EDpuzzle Make any video into a lesson TED Ed - build a lesson around a video WeVideo - bringing the world’s stories to life in video. SchoolTube TeacherTube YouTube You can create your own channel for your class. iDesktop.tv Download YouTube videos SynchTube Synchtube allows you to create rooms to watch synchronzied YouTube videos with up to 25 people. This means everyone in the room is viewing the same video at the exact same time! Vimeo This video-hosting site has a clean interface, includes HD video uploads, and videos can be kept private. Animoto for Education Animoto provides an array of tools for creating slide show videos in your classroom. Very cool and easy! AnMisH - create, send, and share animations. EasyPrompter - free online teleprompter Free Video Converters - convert from one video format to another Movavi AVS Video Editor (very good - one of the best, but it is download and install. I'm not so sure they still have a free version, however.) ZamZar (also converts documents, audio, images, and e-book formats) Online-Convert Convert media files online from one format into another. Free, fast and online; no software installation needed. SoThink (free, but requires download & installation) More Free Video Converters (all require downloads) SWF/FLV Converters (Bing search results) 9. Website Creation How to Make a Website - an excellent guide to various ways to get your business ( or school/classroom) online! Weebly Good FREE EDU version Wix Create a free Flash Web site. Drag and drop; no programming. Glogster - digital posters A mashup of blogging, social networking, and publishing. Google Sites Yola Google Sites Help Blog 10. Wikis Wiki.com YouTube: Wikis in Plain English Wikibooks A collection of open-content textbooks to which anyone can contribute or edit. Users can also create their own books. Wiki Spaces for Educators PBWorks Bring your classroom into the 21st century by encouraging critical thinking and real world communication. Wiki: Wetpaint ...another popular wiki-creation site Wiki: Writeboard ...a place to create shareable, Web-based text documents Educational Wiki's Examples of how teachers are using wiki's in their classrooms. Wikis in Education More examples of how to integrate wikis 11. Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities Speech to Text Talk Typer Google Chrome Extension: Speech Recognizer Text to Speech iSpeech: free program allows unlimited 1 minute recordings; natural-sounding voices; has other great paid packages and features. OdioGo near human quality voices 19 Free Websites That Convert Text to Speech Natural Readers (download) ReadtheWords www.readthewords.com This site features text to speech with a variety of voices. This site allows a teacher to download papers and exams into Read the Words. This site can also read many documents such as websites, publisher, and word. Students can use this website to have any text read to them and it is very easy to learn to use. The website does an excellent job of describing the function of the tutorial as well as audible pronunciation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BezIRHR2PwM How to Use ReadtheWords YouTube video 12. Free Online File Converters Online-Convert Convert media files online from one format into another. Free, fast and online; no software installation needed. ZamZar Zamzar is dedicated to helping you transform your songs, videos, images and documents into different formats. |