EDU-558 Web 2.0 Tools
Audio Tools
Vocaroo
Vocaroo is a free, super easy to use audio recording tool that's great for foreign courses.
aAudacity
Audacity is a free audio editing cool that can be used for collaborative student projects.
aVoiceThread
Voice thread adds audio recordings to images with a commenting feature allowing educators to engage in an asynchronous conversation.
Video Tools
Jumpcut
Screencast-O-Matic
Screencast-O-Matic is a free, easy to use screencasting tool that's great for creating tutorials or other videos that capture both the screen and webcam.
YouTube
YouTube is the world's largest and most popular video sharing service and can be leveraged as a powerful teaching tool.
Image Tools
Canva
Canvas is a fun, easy to use, free image tool that allows users to create new or edit existing images in a variety of sizes.
Lunapic
Lunapic offers much of the functionality of Photoshop for free.
Collaborative Workspaces
Middlespot
This virtual workspace allows teams to all types of content, files, images, videos, and more all from a single webpage.
aWikispaces
Wikispaces is used to create a classroom. It can be used to
aWebconferencing
Mikogo
Mikogo provides free screen sharing and video conferencing.
Zoom
Zoom is possibly the world's easiest to use video conference service. With screenshare, record, and control features, this tool can replace webconferencing and remote helpdesk tools for half the price of either!
Presentation tools
Prezi
Prezi tool creates presentations. It is similar to an interactive white board. It has the feature to let you to import your existing PowerPoint presentations to change to a Prezi presentation.
Animoto
Animoto tool generates videos by selecting a theme, background, music, pictures, and texts. It is an easy tool to use.
Sliderocket
Sliderocket is a web-based application to create presentations by adding text, images, and videos. There is a free version and the upgraded version cost. Great tool to used for group collaboration and presentation.
Glogster
Glogster helps create multimedia interactive posters using audio, videos, images, and text.
Classroom Platforms
Canvas
One of the leading LMS's on the market, the Canvas SAAS is backed by the power of Amazon Web Services so students always have access and IT resources are not diverted to maintenance. Popular with K12 institutions, the easy to use platform is quickly outpacing competitors like Blackboard.
Google Classroom
All the power of Google tools organized to serve you and your students. This simple LMS integrates with other Google services to make distribution of course content easy.
Edmodo
Edmodo is a digital classroom where homework can be assigned, communitcate with parents and students, and much more. It supports Google and Microsoft.
aAssessment/Review Games
Kahoot
Kahoot is used to create interactive quizzes, discussions, and surveys.
Quia
Quia is used to create quizzes, educational games, surveys, and other educational activities.
aPlickers
Teachers create quiz questions and students have a card to turn to correct answer that the teacher scans. Then teacher gets instant feedback.
Science
Get Body Smart
A great tool for anatomy, this tool provides students with interactive text and illustration walking students through various systems of the body.
XVIVO
This tool provides learners with 3D animations, educational videos, medical illustrations, interactives of the microscopic world.
aNOVA Absolute Zero
NOVA provides learners with a close-up look at the latest research in the science of cold through engaging interactives.
NOVA Body & Brain Interactives
NOVA provides learners with an in depth look at the human body through images, text, videos, and interactives accessible online.
Gizmos
Gizmos provide interactive science lesson with virtual labs. There are assessments for the lessons.
Foreign Language
Duolingo
This tool has a selection of foreign language to learn. You can select how much time each day you want to spend learning the language.
Babbel
Babbel has various foreign languages to choose from to learn. Students can work at their own pace. They can choose the beginner or advanced pace.
Literacy Center for World Languages
Students can learn English, Spanish,French, and German. Students can work at their own pace.
Math
Geogebra
This versatile math tools is both a sharing platform for educators and interactive tool for students providing visual illustrations of complex math concepts.
aDesmos
This online graphing calculator generates a graph for any function entered into it's simple interface.
Multidimensional Math
Multimedia Math provides interactive to show the different diminsions.
IXL
IXL provides real world problems and engaging activities in Math. Students master one level before advancing to the next level. IXL can be used for English, Science, and Social Studies.
Interatctive Math
Interactive Mathematics provide information on math concepts and interactive activities to practice those math concepts.
History
Timetoast
This annotated timeline creator is great for getting students excited about history projects. Users add images and text to an interactive timeline they can share with others.
aNOVA Ancient Worlds
NOVA provides learners with an in depth look at history through images, text, videos, and interactives accessible online.
Scribble Maps
Scribble Maps is used to create maps.
On This Day
On This Day provides events, birthday, historical events, and other types of events that happened on a certain date.
Language Arts/English
Writing Prompts
Writing prompts provides differnt prompts for writing that could be used in the classroom.
Read Write Think
Read Write Think provides interactives and videos at different grades levels. There are different language arts skills to choose from.
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