TOP 50 Web 2.0 Tools to Tupport Teaching & Learning for 2010
The Obvious Ones
1. Youtube
2. Wikipedia
3. Facebook
4. Twitter
5. Skype
6. Ning, Social Network for Creating Social Networks
7. Digg, Most popular social news site, Submit your stories to Digg's massive, tech-savvy community. Vote on the
stories of others and hope to make it to Digg's much-coveted front page.
8. Rollyo, Tell Rollyo which sites you'd like to draw searches from for a particular topic in order to get search results
that you can really trust, Personalized Search Engine
9. Flickr
10. Google Docs
MUST KNOWS
11. Del.icio.us, Not just bookmarking, SOCIAL bookmarking, Save your favorite web content to your del.icio.us account.
View others' favorite things and add people to your network in order to keep track of the cool things they've found
online.
12. Polleverywhere, is that a Classroom response system in your pocket?
13. Google Wave, replacement for email
14. LiveJournal/WordPress /Kidblog.org, Safe blogging for both you and your students
15. StumbleUpon, for finding & sharing great websites
16. Technorati, Real time Search Engine for Blogs
17. Voicethread, Multimedia Interactive collaborative Slideshows
18. Zoho, Includes Writer, Spreadsheet, Show, Wiki, Virtual Office, Project management, planner and chat feature. A
complete office experience in one
19. Crossloop/Yuuguu, Desktop Sharing
20. Slideshare.net, Slide Sharing
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21. Mediaconverter.org
22. Flixter, Movie reviews with Social Networking
23. Viddler, Create Video for your Blog or Website
24. TVGorge/Hulu, to watch streaming TV Shows
25. Xanga, Social Networking with Blogging
26. Pandora, music recommendation and Internet radio servicHowStuffWorks.com
27. CanYouRunit? Analyses a PC's software and hardware to determine if it can run a product
28. Jing, capture anything on your screen & share it instantly
29. Edmodo, just like Twitter, if Twitter had been designed by an EDUCATOR I
30. 1padio, the drop-dead easiest way to do mobile podcasting
31. Last.fm, Social Music Site
32. Spotify Peer-to-peer music streaming service that allows registered users play and listen to almost any tracks or
albums, with little or no noticeable buffering delay.
33. TheawesomeHighlighter, Highlight text on web pages
34. Glogster.com/edu, Multimedia Posters & much much more....
35. Wallwisher.com , the perfect place to throw ideas up against a wall, literally !
36. Wordle.net, toy for generating "word clouds" from text
37. Prezi.com , It's all about looking at presentations from entirely new angle
38. Posterous, dead simple way to posy everything, just email
39. Jott, your personal assistant
40. Wufoo, Create forms for every survey you'd care to perform
41. Comiqs, Easily create comic strips out of your own images
42. Yelp, Yelp is the fun and easy way to find, review and talk about what's great -and not so great- in your area.
43. Googlelocal, Find the location of virtually anything. Get directions, phone numbers, reviews and more with maps
and aerial views of the world.
44. Picnik, An online photo editor with tons of cool features
45. Grandcentral.com, Teach your phone new tricks, Voicemail like email, call routing, transcription, all free
46. Drop.io, Free file-sharing and collaboration in real-time.
47. Wua.la, not just some online storage solution, it's much more than that!
48. Gabcast.com , easy-to-use podcast creation and hosting site; even use your cellphone to record the podcast
49. Masher.com , free, and super-easy to mash a video from photos and video clips.
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50. Ingboo.com , Internet retrieval utility allowing you to track Websites, job and apartment listings, eBay
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