Teaching and Learning with Web 2.0

"It's a drill-the-skills sort of site with a twist: students practice math and spelling skills by competing with other players that can be anywhere in the world. So, in essence, you also have the potential for some social studies." (Source: Laura Smith's Blog)

Twitter memes. Global tags for Twitter. Twemes.com follows Twitter.com tweets (messages) that have embedded tags that start with a # character. These are sometimes called hashtags but we like to use the term twemes. Through the use of twemes, we can all view what people are talking about across the whole Twitter universe. In some sense, this can be thought of as an adhoc chatroom. We also pull in recent public photos from Flickr and public bookmarks from Del.icio.us. Twemes.com is particularly useful for keeping up on the real-time activities associated with a live event such as a conference.

Create timelines, share them on the web.

Create Your Own Video Site

Glogster.com/edu has tools, services and security to make Glogster even more useful to classroom teachers.

A good website that provides free photos. The collection contains thousands of images that anyone can use for free in academic or commercial presentations. The image collection can be searched by subject category, image size, color, or rating. Morgue File is more than just a source for free images. It also features a "classroom" where visitors can learn photography techniques and get tips about image editing.

NCTE: guide for 21st Century literacies and

Create your own videos. Enhance anything on YouTube. Remake other blends. Add webcam video. Narrate your own photos. Add music, themes, and much more.

Give your photos a voice.

Twickie is a free service that fetches Twitter replies for you (and gives you an easy way to view AND export them).

Clean, simple and fun way to build a website. Pages, posts, photos, and pods all tied together by skins.

A geography teacher's toolkit on the web