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Welcome to the Top Ten EZ 2 Use Web 2.0 Tools and Sites Session
IL02 Tuesday 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Crystal A Sally Bair Technology Facilitator Northern Lebanon School District sbair@norleb.k12.pa.us http://top10ez2usewebtools.wikispaces.com/ The address for this page is: |http://toptools.wikispaces.com/

1. Skype [] Connect free to other users anywhere on the planet who have accounts to communicate by audio (phone calls) and by video. Both parties must download and install software and create an account

2. Del.icio.us [] Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks.

Diigo [] - bookmarking with "sticky notes"

3. Tiny URL [] TinyURL is a web service that provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs. It turns long URLs into short URLs.

4. Photo Story 3 for Windows [] Must download and install. Will run on XP and Vista although MS is moving to have all features of Photostory in MovieMaker. Using Photostory, you can create slideshows using your digital photos. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures, remove red-eye, add stunning special effects, soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your photo stories. Then, you can personalize them with titles and captions. Upload photos, order the photos, save and go!

Animoto [|http://www.animoto.com] Simple web 2.0 tool for mac or pc users that allows you to create similar "slideshows" using pictures, text, and music. Has educators accounts that are free or can purchase a 1 year subscription for $40.

5. Google Stuff [|http://www.google.com] Google Search, Google Earth, Google Docs, and More Google

6. Wiki [|http://wiki.com] http://www.wikispaces.com [|http://pbwiki.com] A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language

7. Voice Thread [] A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or phone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).

One Minute Voice Thread Tutorial []

8. Twitter [] Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Users must create an account.

9. Wordle [] Wordle is software that is used to create word clouds. The word clouds give more prominence to the words that appear more frequently.

Jing Project [] - can take screen shots, crop your screen shot and then save as jpeg.

Maybe try www.printwhatyoulike.com at [] that might work to capture wordle clouds....

10. Online Drill and Practice Primary - Learn to Read at Starfall [] Free Rice: Vocab with a social purpose! [] K -12 - Spelling City [] Intermediate - High School - Study Stack [] Quizlet - very similar to study stack. create flash cards and play interactive games to review materials [|http://www.quizlet.com] Math Playground [] Social Studies & Science - Sheppardsoftware.com []