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"Save Money. Save the Environment. Tired of printing web pages only to find your printout is full of ads, empty space and other junk you don't want? PrintWhatYouLike is a free online editor that lets you format any web page for printing in seconds!"

I use a firefox addon called Aardvark and can vouch for the advantage of being able to trim your webpages on the fly, especially when removing advertising and other junk before preparing a page for students, keeping it child friendly.

"PrintWhatYouLike lets you print the good parts of any web page while skipping ads and other junk."

web2.0 and ideas of how you can use them in the classroom

Citrify is a web-based photo editor. There's no bulky software to install or update. It's always available whenever you need it. There are no complicated layers or albums. Simply open your photo, touch-up and apply effects with a few clicks, and save. Citrify is a fresh little web app that can make your photos look better. We have easy to use one-click tools for removing pimples, reducing wrinkles, or applying funky effects.

The simple meeting tool that works in a web browser and creates instant web replays!

A post from Mashable. People want the hands-down, easiest way to embed practically things onto their blog or website. nThere are many7 tools to help you do that. "The nature of the web is such that sharing and republishing content is common - and often even encouraged. The problem is, we increasingly store bits of our data on various services scattered across the web. Aggregating that content into one centralized personal hub can be time consuming - requiring user to manually copy text and links or upload files and photos - or fiddling with RSS feeds trying to make content automagically appear"

Awesome Highlighter lets you highlight text on web pages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page.

Pretty good list with more added in comments. Always finding a new tool. See other Edudemic blog articles too.

@chickensaltash posed a simple question to the PLN and there has been a huge swell of support as hundreds of people have jumped in to answer the question about which 5 Web 2.0 tools teachers are using in classrooms.

n case you missed the #edmodochat last night, I wanted to let the Edmodo community know that I am offering FREE PD for "21st Century Learning Skills with Web 2.0 Tools and Edmodo". This is an entirely self-paced course that highlights learning pedagogy and tools to help you teach these skills in your classroom.

n case you missed the #edmodochat last night, I wanted to let the Edmodo community know that I am offering FREE PD for "21st Century Learning Skills with Web 2.0 Tools and Edmodo". This is an entirely self-paced course that highlights learning pedagogy and tools to help you teach these skills in your classroom.

"As a learning strategy, inquiry-based learning is all about learners constructing their own understanding and knowledge through asking questions. Inquiry-based learning is essentially student-centered. It starts with posing questions and directly involves students in challenging hands-on activities that drive students to ask more questions and explore different learning paths. This post has assembled a collection of some useful web tools and apps that support the ethos of inquiry-based learning.  Using these tools will enable students to engage in a wide range of learning tasks that are all driven by a sense of inquiry and questioning."

A simple chart featuring the characteristics of education in the different web stages 

The mentality spurring the Discourse team is the desire to "raise the standard of discussion on the web through better forum software." Core to their actions is the belief that forums are an integral aspect of proper web communities, yet most forum designs are stuck in the 1990s. With Discourse, they want to make forum hosting easy, flexible, and appealing to the 21st Century.

"Anyone who says you can't get real work done on a Web browser-or in a browser-based operating system, for that matter-hasn't seen some of the latest Chrome apps. Rising above glorified bookmarks, the cream of Google's Chrome Web Store can stand toe-to-toe with desktop software. More are offering offline functionality, too. Coming soon: 'packaged apps' that look and act more like traditional software."

"Some believe the internet is losing its direction as an enabler for a more connected society and falling into the hands of corporations. Isaac Wilder, founder of the Free Network Foundation, is fighting back because he believes companies like Facebook and Twitter are now corporations and far from the original ideology of an open web. "A lot of people put a lot of faith in those platforms and don't realize that the medium is the message," he said. This is how he and his supporters plan to take back the web for the people..."

"A search to recover the very first web page has unearthed a relic from 1991. The page turned up after Cern launched a public appeal for files, hardware and software from the web's earliest days. The original page is missing because the web's creators did not preserve the early work they did on what has become a historic document."

ownCloud gives you universal access to your files through a web interface or WebDAV. It also provides a platform to easily view & sync your contacts, calendars and bookmarks across all your devices and enables basic editing right on the web. Installation has minimal server requirements, doesn't need special permissions and is quick. ownCloud is extendable via a simple but powerful API for applications and plugins.

The X-Ray Goggles make it easy to see and mess around with the building blocks that make up the web. Activate the Goggles to inspect the code behind any web page, from the New York Times to your own blog. Then remix elements with a single click, swapping in your own text, images and more.  Recommended by Doug Belshaw

"The Mozilla Learning team is working on defining a set of core web literacies and developing learning pathways for people to develop and hone these skills. Our goals are to develop and empower more webmakers by providing them with the opportunity to learn making by making. This work is leveraging all of the great momentum, tools and content built through Hackasaurus.

"A web application framework for R Turn your analyses into interactive web applications No HTML, CSS, or JavaScript knowledge required"

Free 3D design web app. Tinkercad is the easiest way to do and learn 3D design on the web. Join the buzzing community and discover 3D printing