Assignment 4

Task:
Search and discover Web 2.0 tools that are available today. Using our class wiki, add at least 5 resources to our list.
For each resource:

1. Identify the tool and link to the tool’s website.
2. List the category or purpose it best fits.
3. List the subject area it could best be applied to.
4. Identify the pros and cons of using this tool.
5. Record your name as the reviewer of the tool.

Resources:
You can simply search for these tools by using the keywords “Web 2.0”, “Web 2.0 in education”, and “Web 2.0 tools”. In addition, here are a few places to get you started:

1. http://splinternet.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/my-list-of-free-web-2-0-tools/
2. http://edudemic.com/2010/07/the-35-best-web-2-0-classroom-toolschosen-by-you/
3. http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/ict/web2edu/
4. http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

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Tools	Essential Learning Function	Grade/Level Appropriate	Pro	Con	Evaluator
1. Wordpress	Ubiquity, Collaboration, Reflection	Grade 3-12	Accessible, Free,	Quirky to use	Edward Foote
2.Flickr	Making Things Visible and Discussable	Grade 7-12	Free, User Friendly	Photos Only	Tina Herman
3. Penzu	Expressing Ourselves, Sharing Ideas	Grade 3-12	Accessible, Free	Journal is private; must be made accessible teacher	Alissa Graham
Web2.0 tools and education Photo-Bucket	Making things visible Collaborative, sharing, for diversified learners, community oriented	6-12	Accessible, Free, User Friendly	Guidance suggested for 6-8 graders.	Rosalind Bain
QRnote	Making Thiings Visible and Discussable	Grade 6-12	Accessible	Need additional technology	Thomas Brummert
YOuTube	Making things visible and discussable Educational collaboration	1-12	Accessible	Need adult guidance and parental consent grades 1-6	Rosalind Bain
Future Message	Project Management	Grade 6-12	Accessible, free email, text, or Tweet	Typed or text messages only	Thomas Brummert
Eyeplorer	Making Things Visible and Research	Grade 6-12	Free, Accessible, Organized	Definitions are from wikipedia	Alissa Graham
Voxopop	Collaboration- Teaching and Learning with Others	Grade 9-12	Free, Accessible	Needs a Microphone	Alissa Graham
Wordle	Expressing Ourselves, Sharing Ideas, Organizing	Grade 7-12	Free, Accessible	Takes some getting used to	Alissa Graham
SlideShare	Project Management, Collaboration, Making Things Visible and Discussable	Grade 9-12	Share presentations, documents, and professional videos	Need additional Technology	Thomas Brummert
Trunk.ly	Project Management, Making Things Visible and Discussable	Grade 6-12	Free and easy way to save and track your links online	All your links are on one web site	Thomas Brummert
Yammer	Project Management, Making Things Visible and Discussable	Grade 9-12	private and secure corporate enterprise social network.	Designed for companies and corporations	Thomas Brummert
Prezi	Organization, Making Things Visible	Grade 7-12	Free, Helps organize thoughts, Accessible	Takes some getting used to	Alissa Graham
Wicked	Ubiquity,Expressing ourselves,building community,sharing ideas	Grade 6-12	Free,Fun,game based learning	Strictly math based,kind of dark	Stacy Padgham
Sync	Collaboration,Project Management	Grade 6-12	Real time interface,information can be shared easily or secured	Could be overwhelming,not compatible with all programs	Stacy Padgham
Simple Diagrams	Making things visible,Collaboration	Grade 3-12	Fun visual way to express ideas,Free	Some versions have a cost	Stacy Padgham
Snappy Words	Research,Ubiquity,Making things visible	Grade 2-12	Highly Accessible,Free	Princeton based dictionary only	Stacy Padgham
Braingle	Ubiquity,Expressing ourselves	Grade 2-12	Fun,Great way to engage students in in-depth thinking,Free	Not sure how accurate information is on site(it is open to public for people to post on)	Stacy Padgham
Ning	Social Networking	Grade 7-12	Trial Membership, Highly user integrated	Paid membership after 30 days	Tina Herman
Geogebra	Math Concept Tool	Grade 3-12	Dynamic Display of Math Concepts	Only For Math Concepts	Tina Herman
Evernote	Post It Type Remember Tool	Grade 3-12	Collaborative Tool, Highly Accessible through Multi Media	Mostly designed for Teachers and Businesses	Tina Herman
Dropbox	File Sharing Between Devices and Computers	Grade 3-12	Highly Accessible Shares Photos, and Files	Only 2 GB of free storage	Tina Herman
FluencyProf	Designed to promote students fluency in Spanish	Grade 7-12	Accessible, Free, Social network,User Friendly	Some features require membership	Rodger Wilson
Edudemic	Collaboration, social networking tool that connect education to technology	Grade 3-12	Free, Accessible to other web 2.0 media	Not much information for foreign lanuage teachers	Rodger Wilson
Show/World	Interactive world map that changes the relative size of countries based on different statistics	Grade 3-12	Free, extremely easy to use, no registration required	Some information may not be up to date such as the US literacy rate.	Annalisa Underwood
MixedInk	Collaberative writing forum	Grades 9-12	allows multiple users to edit at the same time, doesn't delete your work if someone else is in the program	in the free version you can't preregister users or password protect it	Annalisa Underwood
Twiducate	Private Social Networking	Grades 3-12	Free, private only students and teacher can view	can be slow since the website is growing so quickly	Annalisa Underwood
Carrotsticks	Multiplayer online Math Games	Grades 1-5	compete with other students globally in social way. Free from 7-3 unlimited classroom use.	The free at home version only includes addition	Annalisa Underwood
Gameclassroom	educational games, interactive homework help, printable worksheets	Grades K-6	games created to match standards, language arts and math, free	Doesn't include Science or Social Studies	Annalisa Underwood
Yacapaca!	Use already created quizzes, tests, surveys or create your own	Grades K-12	Free, allows teachers to grade & view student statistics, provides a feedback forum	Timed testing, cheating can be an issue, time consuming	Gary Borrelli
NeoK12	Online educational videos with games & puzzles	Grades K-12	Free, videos screened by K-12 teachers, covers most subjects	Lots to choose from	Gary Borrelli
Cramberry	Online flashcard study system	Grades K-12	Free, tracks learning progress, builds study schedules, thousands of pre-made cards	Very specific pre-made card lists that may not be relevant to you	Gary Borrelli
Arcademic	Educational video games	Grades K-6	Free, games are research-based and standards-aligned	Limited subjects to choose from	Gary Borrelli
Knowitall	Network of educational sites	Grades K-12	Videos, simulations, image collections, virtual field trips, games, and interactive learning experiences	Can be overwhelming	Gary Borrelli
Classroom 2.0	A community-supported network	Grades 3-12	Has a supportive team that helps the novice who is interested in Web 2.0 and Social Media in education.	Membership has to be approved before using	Rodger Wilson
VoiceThread	Voicethread is a great collaborative tool	Grades 7-12	Students can communicate with others students around the world. No software to install.	Navigating is awkward it takes a little practice to learn	Rodger Wilson
Bablingua	Online educational tool for Spanish students	Grades 7-12	Free audios, videos, games, ebooks	Some of the information is only is Spanish	Rodger Wilson
Gloster	Ubiquity: Fun online educational tool to express creative innovation and ideas	Grades 3-12	Online blogging, posted chats, media exchange and ideas.	Instructor or parent guidance for grades 3-8	Rosalind Bain
Edmodo	Ubiquity and collaboration. Building community. Online network and educational tool for students and educators	Grades 2-12	Instructor and student centered teachers and students can join.Great way to information share.	May need teacher overview before student involvement	Rosalind Bain
Animoto	Expressing ourselves, sharing ideas building community. Online tool to create videos and slideshows	Grades 3-12	Shares photos and video images	Teacher and parental guidance for grades 3-8	Rosalind Bain
Pics 4 Learning	Provides a variety of photos for any use	Grades 3-12	Incredible pictures on many topics	May be time consuming	ChristinaRauber
Dogo	Latest news focusing on students	Grades 3-12	Can search by category/subject	Too much information? May be confusing for kids to search independently.	ChristinaRauber
Info Please	Atlas, encyclopedia, dictionary, spelling helper	Grades 7-12	Offers a wide range of educational help tools	Developed for older students only	Christina Rauber
Study jams	Information on school subject material	Grades 5-8	Terrific animated/real videos and slides	Limited to math and science	ChristinaRauber
Questionaut	Interactive educational videos and quizzes	Grades 3-5	Math, science, english learning focused on elementary students	Limited material	ChristinaRauber
JustPaste.It	Note sharing service	Grades 5-12	Very simple to use (copy & paste), students can share notes and also acquire word processing skills	Some usage of HTML coding, students may need some guidance	Andrea Lowery
MyStudiyo	Interactive quiz content for your website or blog quickly and easily; add your own content to the provided quiz templates and create a customized quiz for your students	Grades 3-12	Very easy to use, no coding or design work is necessary	Might have to pay for some of the quiz templates	Andrea Lowery
PageFlip-Flap	Transform your doc, pdf, word, movie in an interactive flip book; upload your document to Page Flip-Flap and they will convert it into a document that you can display with page-turning effects!	Grades 3-8	Free and fairly easy to use, can highlight students writings throughout the year	Some of the website is in a different language, need to make sure it is translated	Andrea Lowery
Smories	Creative stories written by kids and read by kids	Grades 1-6	Extremely beneficial for children beginning to read and write as well as improve their reading/writing skills	Do not know the overall content of the stories, teachers would have to preview before the students were to read the stories	Andrea Lowery
ClassTools	Turn any prose into a virtual book!	Grades 3-12	Simple to use, allows for better analyze of longer pieces of prose as an entire class	The website is a little confusing and usage of this site might be time consuming	Andrea Lowery
Paper.li	expressing ourselves, sharing ideas, building community	Grades 5-12	A simple way to create a newspaper or article online. Can also be used to automatically update from twitter, facebook, RSS feeds, etc...	It does not personalize, as far as I can tell, but gathering information from multiple sources	Matthew Hussey
Creately	Making things visible, planning and organization, sharing ideas, building	Grades 7-12	A useful tool for quickly creating flow charts, diagrams, mindmaps, and more	There is a free demo mode, but it does cost after that	Matthew Hussey
PollCode	Community, Reflection, Making things visible and discussable	Grades 5-12	A useful tool for quickly creating a poll to place either on a website, in a blog, or classroom presentation	One vote per IP address, so students each have to be sitting at a different computer to have every vote count	Matthew Hussey
StoryBird	Expressing ourselves, collaboration, building community, deep learning	Grades K-12	A tool for creating reading and creating picture books stories online, allows for collaboration as well	relatively limited in graphics and format	Matthew Hussey
Knotebook	Deep learning, sharing ideas, making things visible and discussable	Grades K-12	A simple way to story notes online, so students can return at any point in time to review or find another way to learn the same topic	Currently not very many people using knotebook, so content is limited	Matthew Hussey
Qwiki	Research, sharing idea	Grades K-12	Website has a brief overview of millions of topics which are read outloud. Gives a good overview and links to other related topics	Overview is quite brief, computer voice is annoying. maybe only slightly better than wikipedia.com	Matthew Hussey
Citeulike	Research, sharing idea, community, deep learning, visible and discussable	Grades 9-12	Website offers a way for a teacher to gather and group scholarly articles for the students to read and use in classroom discussions or in research papers.	You choose the articles you want on there so the students selection can be limited depending on assignment.	Michele Meyer
freevlog	sharing idea, visible and discussable	grades 1-12	can be used as a good icbreaker at the beginning of the year and to display verbal projects	each child would need to be able to be in a quite, excluded area to make their video; they would need a computer at home with a webcam	Michele Meyer
30 boxes	Making things visible	Grades k-12 special education	This can be a great use to autistic children. Since they are their best when they are on a routine, the teacher and parents can help them type out their daily schedule so the teacher, parents, and student know where they should be at all times	The child/teacher/parents would need to know how to run the sight in order to assist the child with the schedule and typing	Michele Meyer
lib.rario	Sharing ideas, making things visible and discussable	Grades 3-12	Children love to share and talk about the books they are reading-they are able to do this with their classmates in the touch of a button	Students have to manually go and see the others collections.	Michele Meyer
Toluna	Sharing ideas, making things visible and discussable	Grades 6-12	Teachers can create polls on debatable topics in order to open class discussion on different topics	Students have to answer the questions in order to participate. There is no way to graph the response to see how the class answered the questions	Michele Meyer
Tweepi	Making things visible and discuss-able expressing ourselves, sharing ideas, building community	Grades 6-12	Manage Twitter account delete followers	Cost associated with program	Steve Metzger
Screenr	Collaboration - Teaching and learning with others	Grades 6-12	Web based screen recorder, free, no download required	Recording limited to 5 minutes, no editing allowed once recorded	Steve Metzger
Box	Making things visible and discuss-able expressing ourselves, sharing ideas, building community, Collaboration - Teaching and learning with others	Grades 6-12	Share files as a link, Access, share, and collaborate on files anywhere from mobile apps	Not to be used as an online backup solution	Steve Metzger
Groupspaces	Project management, Making things visible and discuss-able	Grades 6-12	Manage a group online, can be connected with facebook	Uploading can be confusing	Steve Metzger
Google Calendar	Project management, Making things visible and discuss-able	Grades 6-12	Select of deselect calendars as needed, variety of display settings, professional appearance	Add new/update interface is slow	Steve Metzger
YTSocial	A way for all students to be linked in to youtube and watching the same videos at the same times	Grades 3-12	Free, Students can comment interactively on video	Accessing youtube can lead to non-educational videos, Not self contained	Jeff Rose
Pixlr	Online Photo Editor, Online Creation tool- Drawing and Painting	Grades 7-12	Free, Better than most applications on your computer- ie: Microsoft Paint, Adobe products are very expensive and this is a reasonable alternative	Not quite Adobe Illustrator, Complicated art software	Jeff Rose
ToonDoo	Create cartoon characters, strips, books. Embed into any webpage.	Grades 5-12	Free, Simple way to be creative and create a political cartoon or just something fun.	Limited by the graphics available, Limited in design functions	Jeff Rose
Songza	Create music playlists, explore different genres, find pretty much any artist.	Grades 5-12	Free, Students can create playlists for their peers, Music teachers can show different styles of music.	Unedited music, Individual Songs are hard to find and play.	Jeff Rose
Facebook	Interactive site including chat, posting, blogging, grouping, and more	Grades-7-12	Free, Students can interact with classmates in a variety of ways	Very public if not managed, Not self contained, hard to separate the public and private information	Jeff Rose
Kobobooks	Read a variety of books whenever students would like to	Grades 4-12	Free, students can read books on their laptop or cell phone	books downloaded on eReaders are not free	Keasha Bruce
Splash Up	Online photo editing tool and photo manager	Grades 7-12	Free, students can edit self portraits, paintings or drawings, and share them with others in the class to get opinions and feedback	complicated, directions are not clear	Keasha Bruce
PeKay's Little Author	Writing Tool	Grades Pre-K-3	Students can use a very simple operation on the screen, tell your story through PeKay the piglet and friends. Print it out and have a one of a kind original picture storybook.	usage only for ipad	Keasha Bruce
Wallwisher	Online Bulletin Board	Grades 6-12	Allows students to post questions to their teacher, share notes with each other. The teacher can post homework assignments.	It is limited and not interactive	Keasha Bruce
Time Toast	Timeline (Past, Present and	Grades 6-12	Free, interactive timeline creator	Does not support B.C. era dates	Keasha Bruce
Zoho show	Access, share, edit, import presentation anywhere anytime	Grades 6-12	Free, students can share presentation anywhere anytime.	Anyone can edit your work	Melinda Smith
Preezo	Presentations access from any computer re-use images or content callaborate on a central web doc.	Grades 6-12	Free, students can work toegther on a web doc.	images, ideas can be overused	Melinda Smith
Slideboom	Share powerpoints online, play as movie or audio and I link	Grades 6-12	Free, movie interaction with students, different learning ideas	Students rely on movies and images instead of reading.	Melinda Smith
Jitterbug	Discover great independent music for your students.	Grades K-6	Free, styles of music encourages creativity	non-educational music	Melinda Smith
Diffen	Compare and contrast and find the difference between any two things.	Grades K-6	Free, compares two objects great for learning	Images can be non-educational	Melinda Smith
Bitstrips	Expressing Ourselves, sharing ideas, building community	Grades K-12	Free Services, Applicable to any content area for any grade level	Limited backgrounds and tools for strip construction holds back some of creative aspect	Matt Hilsdorf
Mind42	Collaboration	Grades 3-12	Wonderful organizer for unit concepts	Non educational topics cannot be filtered from being added	Matt Hilsdorf
Apture	Deep Learning	Grades K-12	Powerful Launching point for student research, quick in depth access based off of key terms and phrases	security flaws can easily lead to unintentional altering of the content	Matt Hilsdorf
FunnelBrain	Project Management	Grades K-12	Wide range of application for content review	Not all features are Free	Matt Hilsdorf
Hot Potato	Reflection and Iteration	Grades K-12	Multiple ways to produce Assessments	Does require certain Java applications to work	Matt Hilsdorf
Wiki Spaces	Collaboration, Literacy	Grades 3-12	Free Easy to use and edit group woks and able to secure	Can be open to public privacy	S.O'Donnell
Audiochannel-Evoca	Auditory Processing and able to pause repeat and play again	Grades K-12	Can be played on iPod or MP3 player or computer easy to make and use	Issues with getting it onto students devices	S. O'Donnell
Diigo	Collabortiation Visual Structured thinking	Grades 5-12	Neat easy to use, iPad App, can share	Can be overwhelming to students that are using for the first time	S. O'Donnell
Quizinator	Assessment	Grades 3-12	Free, Access Online fromanywhere assessment	Time involved and younger kids computer time and learning	S. O'Donnell
iSpeech	Listening tool	Grades K-12	Mobile, Text to speech, speech solutions	Tme and computer knowledge	S.O'Donnell
popplet	brainstorming tool	3/4-12	can be shared via facebook/twitter directly, can be embedded, very basic instructions, can be customized, can be used for several situations	must create an account, cannot be shared like google docs, buttons don't have a hovering tab	Kristin Manwaring
OffiSync	document collaboration	9-12	allows students to work together on documents, has a chat window involved, runs in the background	must be downloaded, requires a google account also	Kristin Manwaring
Monkeyon	task reminder, task delegation	6-12	students can organize project tasks and a group leader can send out reminders, teacher can send out long term project reminders, assignment reminders/updates	all email based, no way to certify task is completed... just reminder	Kristin Manwaring
Change Detection	acts as an RSS feed for a website with no RSS feed.	8-12	enables a student/teacher to keep up with a site that is of interest even if it doesn't have its own RSS	only an email reminder, cannot use it on a blog page	Kristin Manwaring
cloudsafe	personal web-wide file storage	3-12	offers a place for students to save files/documents, accessible from any computer, has a share option fro a third party	not a file sharing, unlimited usage requires a fee,	Kristin Manwaring
springnote	Expressing, Collaboration, Project Management	4-12	accessible anywhere, easy to share ideas and work on projects	extra features on notebook may be distracting to students	Lauren Davis
Yodio	Expressing Ourselves	6-12	personalized voice input to images making slide show more exciting	complicated	Lauren Davis
Tagul	Making things visible	4-12	custom features, interactive, can use text or url link to make tag	20 clouds per user allowed	Lauren Davis
What2Learn	Ubiquity	6-12	thousands of educational games, available to students outside classroom, teachers can monitor	teachers remarks could discourage students	Lauren Davis
Createagraph	Making things visible	6-12	graphs help express info visually, tool is easy to use	cannot embed, can only print out	Lauren Davis

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