Education 2.0
78Web 2.0 Teaching Tools
This is a list of websites and tools that I have reviewed at my Web 2.0 Teaching Tools blog. Things are a bit disorganized on that site, so this list complements it well. These websites are either completely free or have a free version that can be used with small groups of students. -- Alan
VIRTUAL OFFICES - online editing and sharing of text files, spreadsheets, chats and emails, calendars, etc.
- 37Signals.com's Basecamp - http://37signals.com/
- activeCollab - http://www.teamworklive.com/TeamWork.htm
- TeamworkLive - http://www.teamworklive.com/TeamWork.htm
- Zoho Vitural Office - http://zoho.com/
- SPresent - online flash presentations - http://www.spresent.com/v2/
WORD PROCESSING / TEXT / WIKIS
- Jotspot - http://www.jot.com/
- Schtuff - http://www.schtuff.com/
- Web Collaborator - http://webcollaborator.com/
- Writeboard - http://writeboard.com/
- Writely - http://writely.com
- Designing Learning Spaces - Example of a Class using an Open Wiki
SPREADSHEETS only
- EditGrid - http://www.editgrid.com/home
- iRows - http://irows.com
- Tracker (Jotspot) - http://tracker.jot.com/
- wikiCalc - http://www.softwaregarden.com/wkcalpha/
DATABASES only - those I don't think any of the Virtual Office have this feature
- My Own DB - http://www.myowndb.com/
MAPPING
- Map Hacks.net - http://www.gisuser.com/maphacks/ - for GIS users
- Quickmaps - http://quikmaps.com/
PICTURE TOOLS
- Flickr Magazine Cover tool - http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/magazine.php
- Other Great Flickr-based tools
- Scanr - http://www.scanr.com/ - scan and send from a photo phone
- Stickam - http://www.stickam.com/ - upload photos, videos & audio to post on blog pages
BLOGS
- Learning Blogs - http://learnerblogs.org/ - for K-12 students
- Uni Blogs - http://uniblogs.org/ - for University students
- Edu Blogs - http://edublogs.org/ - for Education professionals (teachers, etc.)
- ESL Blogs - http://eslblogs.org/ - for ESL & EFL educators
VOICE / AUDIO / PODCASTING
- Yack Pack - http://www.yackpack.com/
- Utterli - http://www.utterli.com
- Posterous - http://posterous.com/
ONLINE MEETINGS
- Vyew - http://vyew.com/
ACADEMIC SEARCH
- Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com/
- Post Genomic - http://www.postgenomic.com/
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT - classroom tools that span the needs of Students, Parents, Teachers and School Administrators
- My Note It - http://www.mynoteit.com/
- Schoopy - http://www.schoopy.com/
- School Tool - http://www.schooltool.org/
- Engrade - http://www.engrade.com/ - online grading tool
- Moodle* - http://moodle.org - open source course management system (CMS)
Thanks. This interesting (http://www.spresent.com/v2/). I will add it to the list, and will mention it on my blog (http://Web20Teach.com). -- Cheers, Alan
Here is another one, http://www.welang.com, teachers can design language course use a wiki system.
Very interesting concept - It could be cool to get students to use web2.0 mind mapping for project planning http://www.mindnode.com/
Great write-up. Another awesome tool to add: PicLens by Cooliris (http://www.cooliris.com) for viewing photos and videos in a web 2.0 3D wall. Students can research images on Google Images and much more. My kids love it!
For those interested in Test Prep you may consider http://prephub.com
The site is a community based around user contributed test prep questions. Hope you find it useful.
Try http://www.tutorvista.com they provide online tutoring in all subject. They have their own whiteboard and VOIP system. They have best math tutor http://www.tutorvista.com/content/mathcontent.php and they dont charge much. I even end up getting a free tutoring session :-)
It is the great collection of web 2.0 education. I 1st time knew about education 2.0 however, I was familier with web 2.0.
Check out Prime Language Services: http://www.PrimeLanguageServices.com They provide online tutoring in Russian Language via Virtual Classroom: VOIP, whiteboard, etc.
Check out the new social network site for Higher Education:
It has higher education related news, events, colleges, graduate schools, scholarships, courses, blogs, wiki, forums, etc...
Check out Tutrme - http://tutrme.com
Find a tutor, for anything, anywhere!
Tutrme.com is a free global tutor database helping connect local tutors with students. The graphical map-based directory interface ensures that students never have to hunt through loads of useless information in their search for a local, qualified tutor. http://tutrme.com
Thanks for links!
Thanks for sharing! There's nothing like "free" even if you're considering the paid version of something, it's always good to try out a few of the free versions to make sure that's actually what you need before shelling out money for something that doesn't work as well as you thought.
Great hub!
An interesting list. I would recommend a couple of other web 2.0 education websites:
- Beanbag Learning, a place where independent tutors can list their services and share learning resources http://beanbaglearning.com/
- TutorHub, an independent tutor Q&A collaboration website http://tutorhub.org
Sasha 5 years ago
Here is another tool you may consider: www.spresent.com
And here is a great example:Education 2.0 - Students Create Content.More: http://www.spresent.com/blog/