PSU Web 2.0

This site allows you to create an online wiki for free. Although it does cost to upgrade, it is a popular and easy-to-use site. This site would be a great tool to use for classroom collaboration.

Wikispaces is a wiki hosting service. They allow educators to create an ad-free at no cost. We use wikispaces in the classroom to collaborate on group projects and share the projects we have created in the classroom.

YouTube is a video hosting service. In the classroom we use YouTube to share the videos we have created with parents and a world wide audience.

Great blog hosting website. We use blogger for our class blog.

This is a podbean podcast hosting website. Our class has created a series of podcasts about the ancient civilizations we study in social studies.

Tikatok is where kids channel their imagination into stories - and publish those stories into books for you to share and treasure with friends and family. Tikatok also has a separate education site. Storytelling comes alive here!

First, Tikatok has developed the StorySparks system, a database of hundreds of interactive story prompts that help a child get started in the writing process and get help when they need it. StorySparks help activate a child's natural motivation. Kids pick the topic, choose character names and genders, and always have the ability to modify or ignore any part of the prompt.

Second, Tikatok connects kids to a community of passionate storytellers like themselves, but in a safe and parent-moderated environment. Here they can share their books with other kids, collaborate with their friends, get writing advice, and communicate their love of reading and writing in book clubs. Tikatok makes digital storytelling the social activity that kids are familiar with from the playground.

Finally, Tikatok can turn a child's stories into real printed books. The physical books, just like the ones on the shelves at the bookstore, reinforce the child's perception that their contributions are valued by their parents and peers. They help create a sense of pride, and of confidence in one's writing abilities, and drive the child to continue writing and creating.

The passion for reading and writing that children develop on Tikatok will serve them well as they face more and more advanced educational challenges at school.

Tikatok is a great site that allows the user to create and publish hardback or paperback books. The site is free and the printed books cost about $20.00. This site encourages students to use their creativity to write a story, draw illustrations and more!

Lookybook is a wonderful website that allows the user to read through a variety of picture books. After reading a book, the site also offers the opportunity to purchase the book through several different companies. The user can also create a "bookshelf" of favorite books to share with other users. This site could be used to do an author or illustrator study and is very helpful when deciding to read or purchase a book.

If you like to travel this site be the right one for you. It gives user created reviews of various hotels. You can search for a city and availability dates and then see the reviews for the hotels that fit the search criteria. Not educational, but a neat site to look at if you are planning a trip.

This site shows how to make/do many different things. Shows step by steps instructions for a wide variety of projects with pictures to help you along the way. May not be used in schools, but with a little imagination who knows.

This site allows the viewer to see panoramic shots of cities around the world. 360 Cities could be used in the classroom to immerse the learner in a real world exploration of the city or region being studied. A great way to expand the learner's horizon!

Soshiku is a free online service that helps keep track of school assignments and due dates. This site is geared more towards high school and higher education students, but could also be used by teachers to keep track of meetings, tests and due dates.

Kid friendly on line tool for creating graphs of all kinds. It includes a tutorial, tools, graphing, and various ways to understand graphing in a kid friendly format

This site allows you to easily create Bar, Line, Area, Pie, and XY graphs. When completed the graphs can then either be printed or saved. This site would work much better than excel for many simple student graphs, because of the complexities that excel sometimes leads to.

This site allows the user to create online surveys free of charge. Similar to survey monkey, but does not limit the number or questions being asked or the limit the number of responses. This could be used in schools for faculty or student surveys or even in the classroom for students to get data for a statistics project.

Wiggio is a completely free, online toolkit that makes it easy to work in groups. With Wiggio you can: keep shared calendar (with text message reminders), poll group in real-time, send mass text messages, store files in one common folder,setup group conference call, and many others. When you need to work in groups at school, Wiggio helps you organize groups like: academic project groups, clubs, organizations, committees, and more.

Wiggio is a great website that offers many tools to promote collaboration amongst small groups. Wiggio can be used to set up a group chatroom, store files and documents and send messages. It also features a calendar tool to keep track of meetings and/or deadlines and allows group members to create a poll or survey. This site would be an asset to any group project!

As more and more students are required to use the web for homework and projects this website becomes more and more useful. It allows the user to design a logo that they could put on their web page or even add to the top a paper or presentation. Free to design a logo and download in a zip file to allow for their own personal use.

This site allows you to create floor plans for an entire house or just one room. This could be used for interior design classes, drafting/construction classes, or even in a math class when dealing with building and furnishing a home.

This site allows the user to enter a vocabulary list and create flashcards, take tests and much more over the words. User can share the words with others via the internet. Retesting is possible. This would be great for students to use to help study vocabulary and learn new words.

This site offers many set of "flashcards" and allows you to create you own. It then creates games for you to play to learn your vocabulary.

This site allows you to create a presentation that goes beyond what Power Point can do.

MLA Citation Maker - easy on-line tool that leads students step by step in how to cite resources. This is a handy tool that helps students remember how to do citations accurately.