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50 web 2.0 tools for digital storytelling - AWESOME resouces!

Awesome list of web 2.0 tools!

Tech tools for digital story-telling. 50+ web tools you can use to create your own web-based story.

It's certainly a challenge to engage today's students. Learning theory shows that one of the keys to successful learning is engagement. Using Philip Schlechty's "Qualities the Affect Engagement" as a framework, Tony Vincent outlines 21 technology tools, strategies, and tips educators can use to increase authentic engagement. Learn ways to motivate learners using online tools that are freely available. Examples include polling students, illustrating concepts with crazy cartoons, creating jazzy slide shows, and touring some of the newest coolest sites the web has to offer.

Just adding some tags. Thanks, Cheryl - I like the reminder about Schlechty's Working On The Work and tech integration links to it!

Using Philip Schlechty's "Qualities the Affect Engagement" as a framework, Tony Vincent outlines 21 technology tools, strategies, and tips educators can use to increase authentic engagement. Learn ways to motivate learners using online tools that are freely available.

As Twitter surges toward an estimated 12 million registered users by year's end (though some new stats may disagree), some of us are starting to deal with what we recently dubbed "followholism." You've followed so many people, it's hard to keep up, and it's probably time to do a little housekeeping. But where do you begin? Twitter's own tools for managing followers are subpar. It's nearly impossible to figure out who among your followers are following you back, and the interface for paging through followers is clumsy and difficult to use. Fortunately, Twitter's API has given rise to a vast universe of amazing third party apps. So we've assembled a toolkit below of 10 services that can help you take control of Twitter and organize your followers. If you know any other tools that would be helpful for organizing tweeps, add them in the comments.

A nice collection of tools and how they help learners. (Thanks, Julie Lehmer)

Chogger is a free comic strip creation tool offering a good selection of editing tools. Chogger allows you to draw images from scratch or use your existing images. You can even connect your webcam to Chogger to capture pictures for use in your comic strips. Once you've added images to your comic strip, you can add effects such as fading and outlining. Chogger also allows you to customize the look of each frame in your comic strip. Comic strips created in Chogger can have as few as three frames or as many as twelve or more frames.

FindSounds.com is a free site for finding sound effects and musical instrument samples on the Web. It is a Web search engine, like Google and AltaVista, but with a focus on sounds. It provides powerful features, yet is simple and easy to use, and suitable for all ages. Note to parents: audio files containing obscenities are filtered out so this site is safe for children. To learn how to search the Web using FindSounds.com, visit the Help page.

Bitty Browser helps you keep track of your favorite Web stuff by enabling navigable windows directly within your favorite sites - it's like Picture-in-Picture for the Web.

"Which web 2.0 tools are best suited for enabling collaboration in teaching and learning? A trio of ed tech experts offer up their top three choices apiece."

Shared today in the ASCD Smartbrief

share with yearbook advisers or psych teachers

Attempts to quantify the association between words and colors. Users click on the color that matches a word. You can view results for 200+ words. Might make an interesting discussion in psychology class or definitely a good tool for yearbook or web design classes.

Find the right web tool for you by task, cognitive level, learning style, stage of inquiry,

I nearly pooped my pants when I saw this Glogster-created homepage!

Very neatly designed wiki with general info about Web 2.0 tools. Check out the homepage built using an embedded Glogster.com creation!

A wiki for school library media specialists to learn about cool new web tools, see how they can be used in school library media programs, and share ideas & success stories.

social studies teachers should play with this on their iwb

Really cool-looking web 2.0 way of visualizing debate topics. Would work GREAT on an IWB. 1) a wiki debate visualization tool 2) a web-based, creative commons project 3) a global graph of all the debates

REALLY nice collection of Web 2.0 tools & inauguration mashups!!! Send this to your social studies teachers!

from the Innovative Educator blog, a GREAT collection of mashups with Web 2.0 tools and the inauguration.

Hilarious geekiness!

Is it a Web2.0 tool, or a Star Wars character? Take this quiz!

Google Web Search - Classroom Lessons and Resources Web search can be a remarkable research tool for students - and we've heard from educators that they could use some help to teach better search skills in their classroom. The following Search Education lessons were developed by Google Certified Teachers to help you do just that. The lessons are short, modular and not specific to any discipline so you can mix and match to what best fits the needs of your classroom. Additionally, all lessons come with a companion set of slides (and some with additional resources) to help you guide your in-class discussions.

web interface for Twitter (for those behind filters)