Best Web 2 Technologies

The links below are very useful technologies. A short description follows each link:

Bookr - an easy to use application to make slideshows with captions on the Web. Must use Flikr.

CircaVie - an online application for creating timelines and incorporating images.

Clear - along with Smile, are utilities from MSU that allow teachers and students to easily create clozes, drag-and-drop exercises, and sequencing activities - while using audio and video!

Community Walk - a tool to put sites on a map with descriptions and images. Students can use this application to describe field trips, report on historical events, and do other maping applications.

DaftDoggy - an application that allows users to create website tours — a series of websites where users also leave their own descriptive text or instructions on each page.  It can be used to create Internet scavenger hunts.   Visitors can also leave comments.

ESL Video - an easy-to-use tool that allows users to take pretty much any video off the net and create a quiz for it. It's designed for ESL students, but can be used by and for mainstream students.

Fleck - a utility that lets users take any webpage and create virtual post-it notes to "paste" on them - many uses, including a way for students to demonstrate their use of reading strategies.

Footnote -  an application that allows students to access thousands of primary source documents and photos, and easily create online history reports.  Their urls can then be posted, and students can also leave comments on their peers’ reports.

One True Media - a very easy way to create slideshows on the Web, and add text, music and images.

Show Beyond - an application that allows audio narration of slideshows, but doesn’t allow audio comments like VoiceThread.  Users can also add music and text. Good in Districts that block streaming media (like VoiceThread).

Smile - (see Clear above)

Tumblr - a great place for students to easily post a whole lot of their work.  Students can have individual or group “Tumblrs.”   A student can also share their password with a small number of students who can leave comments.

Voice Thread - an application that allows users to upload pictures and create an audio narrative to go along with them (audio comments can be left by visitors.)  VoiceThread also provides a great deal to teachers by allowing them to get their premium services for free. They’ve also incorporated the feature of allowing users to include images off the web just by inserting the url.