A+to+Z+Web+2.0+Tools+for+Educators

__**1. Get started.....**__ ** * Create a //gmail// account to use for registrations on sites. ** ** * Join //Diigo// to keep track of the great tools you find! **

* Remember to keep track of your passwords for each new account! *

__** 2. A to Z Resource List: ** __
 * 1) [|Answer Garden]
 * 2) [|Bibme]
 * 3) [|Class Tools]
 * 4) [|Donors Choose]
 * 5) [|Dropbox]
 * 6) [|Glogster]
 * 7) [|I Write Like]
 * 8) [|Jeopardy Labs]
 * 9) [|Jing]
 * 10) [|Jog the Web]
 * 11) [|Letter Pop]
 * 12) [|Live Binders]
 * 13) [|Make Beliefs Comix]
 * 14) [|PDF to Word]
 * 15) [|Prezi]
 * 16) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Quiz Scorer ~ <span class="wiki_link_ext" style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">[|Two Teams] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">, [|Four Teams]
 * 17) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">[|Qwiki]
 * 18) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">[|Shape Collage]
 * 19) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">[|Shelfari]
 * 20) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">[|Shmoop]
 * 21) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">[|Triptico]
 * 22) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">[|View Pure]
 * 23) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">[|Voki]
 * 24) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">[|Wordlings]
 * 25) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">[|Zamzar]

** * 77 Web Resources for Teachers **
http://issuu.com/richardbyrne/docs/77thingsforteacherstotrythissummer

** * 35 Web2.0 Tools Selected by Teachers **
//(Compliments of// #chickenweb2tools)

> Great way to share posters and images you’ve made with friends > Social learning environment and one of the best ways to teach with tech > Free application to brainstorm online > The micro blogging service that many love or hate. > Content publishing system. It’s gone way beyond just blogging. > Innovative way to share presentations without PowerPoint > An online notice board maker (or bulletin board if you choose) > Make beautiful videos from images in a snap > Make your images talk…that’s right. > Create your own website or blog, very easy to use > Popular photo-sharing site now lets you print > Don’t waste your presentation after it’s over, share it with millions! > Easily record and share audio > The top real-time document creating and editing cloud-based system > Make your own website while knowing nothing about websites! > Popular social bookmarking site > View anywhere in the world anytime > Create a beautiful aggregation of any amount of text > Crowdsourcing at its finest. Like Wikipedia, Wikispaces is very helpful > Easily make your own flash-based website > Despite a new cost-based membership program, Ning allows you to have your own social network > Web-based word processor > Innovative way to organize your web visits > One of the top social bookmarking sites on the web > Virtually publish your book and sell it > Get your own avatar and even have it talk with your voice > Create animations using this simple website > Make your own caution and warning signs in a flash! > Create and share stories, games, art, etc. > Cool way to make a movie, card, picture, and share it all > Like Wordle but a step farther as text can be used to build bigger images > Creative math and other educational problems to help everyone learn > Make and share your own comic strips with thousands of others > An easy way to share visual ideas > Easy way to create your own stories for kids and bring them to life > Make your own music or remix just about anything else > Fantastic timeline visualization tool to understand history > State of the art animation tools for schools > Thousands of educational wikis and workspaces (build your own!) > Learning management, online education tools, and much more > A unique way to view the news > Convert anything to anything (audio, video, text, etc.) > Tons of classroom resources and PD goodies > Build your own stories (with images) and share them with others > Phonics reinforcement and sentence building exercise > Innovative way to understand history > A build-your-own video game > Rich media presentation tool > A great alternative to Google Apps > The free automatic bibliography and citation maker > Easily publish custom comic strips > Annotate and edit PDFs
 * Glogster
 * Edmodo
 * Bubbl.us
 * Twitter
 * WordPress
 * Prezi
 * Wallwisher
 * Animoto
 * Blabberize
 * Weebly
 * Flickr
 * Slideshare
 * Audioboo
 * VoiceThread
 * [|GoogleDocs]
 * GoogleSites
 * Diigo
 * GoogleEarth
 * Wordle
 * Wikis
 * Wix
 * [|Ning]
 * Primarypad
 * Spicy Nodes
 * Delicious
 * Myebook
 * Voki
 * DoInk
 * Warning Sign Generator
 * Scratch
 * Kerpoof
 * Tagxedo
 * SmartKiddies
 * Bitstrips
 * Honorable Mention ~ Twitter:**
 * Popplet
 * Storyjumper
 * Aviary Myna
 * TimeToast
 * GoAnimate for schools
 * PBWorks
 * Schoology
 * Google Timeline
 * Online-Convert
 * ReadWriteThink
 * Storybird
 * Word Magnets
 * Museum Box
 * Atmosphir
 * Empressr
 * Zoho
 * EasyBib
 * ToonDooSpaces
 * Crocodoc

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** __5. Find out about new tools!__ ** Subscribe to some blogs for teachers. [|Free Technology for Teachers] and [|TeachersFirst] are two of my favorites. I recommend a separate email account rather than school email. You will receive newsletters from each blog regularly.

Feel free to contact me: Kristen Murphy Laurel Elementary School kmurphy@laurel.k12.pa.us

kristenm41@gmail.com