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Tool that can be used to search blogs for current content

Tool that provides a visual depiction of news stories.

"Video-Sharing Websites: Tools for Developing Pattern Languages in Children" -link to PDF from this page.

This paper, Investigating Analytic Tools for e-Book Design in Early Literacy Learning (available as PDF download) speaks to the importance of good design elements, for e-books to realize their potential to benefit children. Appreciated the list of design principles in Appendix A/considerations for evaluating design elements.

From the menu, if you click on eBooks and select Quality Rating, you can access the Akron Ready Steps e-Book Quality Rating Tool- 2010-2011, with opportunities to rate various items in areas such as Ease of Use, Multimedia, Interaction. Very interesting!

Photos Story 3 is a way to combine photos, voice recordings, music, and writing . Children can bring their favorite stories to life or create their own. By creating photo stories in the class or at home, these stories can be shared to many.

that is a really great idea. That is amazing. Thanks for sharing

I actually downloaded this software recently. It was extremely easy to use and fun to play with. I created a couple of slideshows involving my siblings, and shared with my family via the email and they enjoyed it. I like how easy it is to share and how creative you can get with it. I feel that children could use this with some assistance, but they will be thrilled with the end result. Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

"A Wetpaint website is built on the power of collaborative thinking. Here, you can create websites that mix all the best features of wikis, blogs, forums and social networks into a rich, user-generated community based around the whatever-it-is that rocks your socks. A social website that's so easy to use, anyone can participate."\n About Us. (2009). retrieved February 28, 2009 , from WetPaint Web Site: http://www.wetpaint.com/page/about \n\n Technology has become such a great assessment and device to drive and promote learning in the classroom. I believe that it would behoove teachers to take advantages of these new tools and incorporate them in the classroom. Technology has open so many new ways to allow teachers and students to collaborate while learning, and WetPaint is the way to go. By using WetPaint, Teachers can create blogs for their classrooms; which may include, syllabus, information, assignment, etc. The students of the classroom can join the bog and post new information, ask questions, work on projects, etc. WetPaint can be used in classrooms of different ages. The teacher can disable ads and other information that children may not need to see. Parents can also read the blogs. This allows a chance for parents to know what their children are learning and promote these ideas at home. WetPaint is can become child-directed, if the teacher is will to make it that way. If teachers allow children a chance to learn about and experience this in the classroom, WetPaint can become a very child-directed technology. The possibilities are endless with using WetPaint.

List and examples of many different types of technology that young children could use to create, communicate, and share and organize their learning. All examples have links to the actual tools used to create them.

I have found SonicPics to be a great and easy tool for capturing stories. The app makes it easy to create a podcast which is easy to share. I have also used it as a reflective tool wi my classroom assistants, where we created a podcast of what we saw children in our small groups talking about and observing during an investigation on Australian animals.

Heard that this is a useful tool for collaborative authoring. Look forward to checking it out.

Recently learned about this new web-based tool and have tried out the feature which makes it very easy to send a video message by email. I am also interested to test out the chat feature, which would allow a group of people to hold a videochat (up to 20, according to the website), to see how well this works. If it works well, it could be used in many ways, to support meetings and collaborative work.

Quite a collection of Web 2.0 tools!

search tool for sound clips

Free site that allows for collaborative learning as well as shared resources. I really enjoy the rubrics.

This is a very useful site for those interestign in learning more about using web2.0 tools within the education realm. With this site you are able to connect with others and share experiences and ideas in using web2.0 tools.

a community for educators to share and collaborate lesson plans and resources.