EDU-558 Web 2.0 Tools

Audio Tools

Audio Tools

Vocaroo

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Vocaroo is a free, super easy to use audio recording tool that's great for foreign courses.

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Audacity

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Audacity is a free audio editing cool that can be used for collaborative student projects.

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VoiceThread

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Voice thread adds audio recordings to images with a commenting feature allowing educators to engage in an asynchronous conversation.

Video Tools

Video Tools

Jumpcut

Screencast-O-Matic

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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

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YouTube is the world's largest and most popular video sharing service and can be leveraged as a powerful teaching tool.

Image Tools

Image Tools

Canva

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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

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Lunapic offers much of the functionality of Photoshop for free.

Collaborative Workspaces

Collaborative Workspaces

Middlespot

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This virtual workspace allows teams to all types of content, files, images, videos, and more all from a single webpage.

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Wikispaces

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Wikispaces is used to create a classroom. It can be used to

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Webconferencing

Webconferencing

Mikogo

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Mikogo provides free screen sharing and video conferencing.

Zoom

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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

Presentation tools

Prezi

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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

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Animoto tool generates videos by selecting a theme, background, music, pictures, and texts. It is an easy tool to use.

Sliderocket

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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

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Glogster helps create multimedia interactive posters using audio, videos, images, and text.

Classroom Platforms

Classroom Platforms

Canvas

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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

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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

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Edmodo is a digital classroom where homework can be assigned, communitcate with parents and students, and much more. It supports Google and Microsoft.

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Assessment/Review Games

Assessment/Review Games

Kahoot

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Kahoot is used to create interactive quizzes, discussions, and surveys.

Quia

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Quia is used to create quizzes, educational games, surveys, and other educational activities.

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Plickers

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Teachers create quiz questions and students have a card to turn to correct answer that the teacher scans. Then teacher gets instant feedback.

Science

Science

Get Body Smart

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A great tool for anatomy, this tool provides students with interactive text and illustration walking students through various systems of the body.

XVIVO

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This tool provides learners with 3D animations, educational videos, medical illustrations, interactives of the microscopic world.

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NOVA Absolute Zero

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NOVA provides learners with a close-up look at the latest research in the science of cold through engaging interactives.

NOVA Body & Brain Interactives

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NOVA provides learners with an in depth look at the human body through images, text, videos, and interactives accessible online.

Gizmos

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Gizmos provide interactive science lesson with virtual labs. There are assessments for the lessons.

Foreign Language

Foreign Language

Duolingo

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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

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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

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Students can learn English, Spanish,French, and German. Students can work at their own pace.

Math

Math

Geogebra

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This versatile math tools is both a sharing platform for educators and interactive tool for students providing visual illustrations of complex math concepts.

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Desmos

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This online graphing calculator generates a graph for any function entered into it's simple interface.

Multidimensional Math

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Multimedia Math provides interactive to show the different diminsions.

IXL

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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

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Interactive Mathematics provide information on math concepts and interactive activities to practice those math concepts.

History

History

Timetoast

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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.

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NOVA Ancient Worlds

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NOVA provides learners with an in depth look at history through images, text, videos, and interactives accessible online.

Scribble Maps

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Scribble Maps is used to create maps.

On This Day

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On This Day provides events, birthday, historical events, and other types of events that happened on a certain date.

Language Arts/English

Language Arts/English

Writing Prompts

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Writing prompts provides differnt prompts for writing that could be used in the classroom.

Read Write Think

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Read Write Think provides interactives and videos at different grades levels. There are different language arts skills to choose from.

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