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A fantastic site for teachers and educators. There are several tools that are listed by category including presentation tools, mobile tools, video tools, community tools, and related tools.

The site is fantastic. So many good tools to use, all in one place. This is worth checking out. While I am not a teacher, I think the way its organized and the tools it offers can be used in our field of ISD. Thanks once again for digging up some good stuff. :)

Merlot material re: Web 2.0 Tools for Educators...Covers tools we have discussed in EME6414; interactive Powerpoint presentation

Another website that lists Web 2.0 tools.

Alyn, I also have a written list on several scratch pieces of paper that are in various places around my computers. Now, everything that I need to know about web 2.0 tools and links are in one place. I am overwhelmed with the amount of resources that were listed. I have only heard of about 1/2 of what is posted on this site.

I'm with both of you. I started a list on my computer. As I discover a site from the class, or someone's blog, I would add it. This list is great, but I'm planning on still organzing the list I've come up with. That is if I ever get around to it. I'm hoping that will be a quicker reference, but we'll see if I ever get to it :)

Not Web 2.0, but a cool tool to have when you want to design presentations. I have used this numerous times when I want to match a color on a website (e.g. FSU) and put the same color in my presentation. When you get the RGB or hex value, you just go to Custom color and input data, and bingo!! Download Color Detector - Point mouse cursor anywhere on the screen, to obtain RGB, & hex code of pixel

No, its just a handy tool that I think would help all of us designers. For years I used to struggle trying to guess what color comes closet to FSU's Garnet and Gold. Then all of a sudden, one day earlier this year, I googled "how to detect a color" and bingo, this came up. Been using it ever since. Glad you like it.

Hi Alyn, I frequently have to develop artwork, etc and match colors. It is a challenge to get the right colors from Microsoft program colors to match Adobe program color pallets without wasting a lot of time. The results when printing can be drastically different. So this tool looked very appealing to me and I attempted to download. However, my McAfee automatically removed the download with a message that it contained a Trojan virus. Have you had any problems?

This blog post introduces tools for social media analytics (particularly Twitter). Some of them may support cross platform analysis (not just Twitter). Have you played with any of them before? I've explored TAGS and Socioviz just a little bit.

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Gliffy looks awesome! Wish I had known about it in the beginning of the summer. I would have used in it my trends and issues class. There's still a couple more weeks of class, so I may get my chance. If not, I'm sure it will come in handy for a future class.

This is really cool. I stumbled on Webspriation PRO and used that for this weeks assignment which is similar to this. Does this have collaboration tools and chatting like Webs. Pro?

This is a nice alternative to WebEx. It gives you a virtual classroom to work in where you can store documents of most types, present them in class, do all the things Web Ex does like web conferencing, whiteboard, etc. I am posting this in their virtual classroom where you can access the web collectively. I found this to explore Web 2.0 tools used for learning.

Alyn, Thank you for sharing all this valuable information. I'm taking notes. In my "free" time, I'm going to be figuring how to implement all these new technologies into my classroom. I'm feeling submerged by technology at this point, but like it!!!

Lots of tools we've already discussed, plus some others (not all Web 2.0).

I found this great site with a "curation" of Web 2.0 Tools for Teaching. I thought it might useful in addition to the tools we're using in the class.

Couldn't reply to Vanessa's Post, created new one....It makes sense that researchers are taking steps to understand the role of the educator when considering Web 2.0 tools. I don't think this is a simple task for an educator to incorporate these tools into their cirriculum. In addition, I think great thought is needed to make sure that the tools are not just being used for the sake of using them but that they add/enhance learning. While the article suggests that the burden has fallen on the teacher to make use of this, I think it would be wise for institutions to develop a support system that works with the educators. After all, the institution provides them with a chalk board, a classroom, an overhead projector, etc. Why not provide them with proper training and course design suggestions using Web 2.0 technology?

Tess (2013) provides a great review of the literature on the role of social media in the higher education context. Tess (2013) suggests that as instructors look for ways to incorporate technology to mediate and enhance their instructions as well as promote active learning among students, they increasingly turn to different social media tools. The author argues that the current literature on the integration of social media in higher education are limited to self-reported data and content analyses. Therefore, he provides a summary of literature on the role of social media in the higher education classroom as well as discusses their limitations. Various studies (cited below) explored the role of social media and SNSs in different contexts of education -teaching learning process. These studies have demonstrated interesting and useful results. Tess (2013), in addition to keyword-specific searches, used a "snowball" method for finding the articles from the relevant articles cited in the literature reviewed. To narrow the range of the review, he chooses articles on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, blog and LinkedIn. Tess (2013) provides a brief definition of each of these five SNSs. He also looks at the social impact of these popular SNS tools. The author looks at the factors motivating the educators to use social media in higher education classrooms, such as: the changing nature of the student, the changing knowledge consumption relationship, and the de-emphasis of institutionally provided learning and emergence of "user-driven" education (Selwyn, 2010). The author provides platform-specific affordances and drawbacks in terms of their application in the higher education space. Tess (2013) argues that although the infrastructure to support social media's presence exists in most universities today, instructors have been slow in adopting the tool as an educational one. Those who are adopting are still likely in the experimental stage. He admits that his literature rev

This article is long however it gives some great information about using YouTube in the classroom. It is divided up into a few chapters so not all of it needs to be consumed. In short it is a research study about how educators use the web2.0 tool YouTube. It talks about how we can integrate it in the class, features of the site, and how to use the site. It also highlights some of the problems that came up with usage during the study.

Awesome! I love YouTube and I definitely utilize this tool A LOT in my high school English classroom. I enjoy how youtube also has the ability to focus on strictly educational materials. Visuals are so important for students to create concrete connections. Great artice!

YouTube is my favorite video-based network. Videos are intrinsically motivating and engaging. I agree with the point in the article that the videos that are informative, humorous, current, interesting and engaging are most preferred by students, but instructors choose a video based on its instructional value, not simply due to its humorous content. The article entirely and detailly introduces the tool. Additionally, the following article is also a great material to learn YouTube. Duffy, P. (2007). Engaging the YouTube Google‐Eyed Generation: Strategies for Using Web 2.0 in Teaching and Learning. In European Conference on eLearning, ECEL.

In this article, researchers created a MOOC focused on assisting professors understand and apply the Carpe Deim design method to designing their own courses. In addition to using the LMS Blackboard as the vehicle for MOOC publishing, facilitators were interested in studying the effects social media had on MOOC participants. MOOC facilitators used Facebook and Twitter as the two main social media platforms. Facebook was used to ask questions, seek help and discuss issues. Twitter was used to share information and resources and participants were encouraged to share their thoughts and experiences using #CDMOOC. Upon completion of the MOOC, Facebook was the most used site compared to Twitter. Out of 1000 MOOC participants who were surveyed at completion, 29 agreed to be further interviewed about their social media engagement; half used at least one of the social media platform revealing "the most used form of social media was Facebook (used by 31%), a small minority (3%) used Twitter only, while 14% of interviewees utilized both Facebook and Twitter". Three themes that emerged from the study related to MOOC and social engagement revealed three themes. One, social media did enhance online collaborative learning for participants. Two, the ability to engage with diverse knowledgeable professionals was enjoyed by many participants. Three, main objections why participants did not engage with social media include a belief it may be a waste of time, unfamiliarity with platforms and identity concerns.

Were you able to share your annotations because it was a web version of the article rather than the .PDF? I tried to do that with mine but couldn't get it to work.

I have not looked at this list in awhile and I imagine some items listed are out of date, but we may be able to scrape some other Web 2.0 tools from this list. This is a crowdsourced list from different cohorts of the Master Technology Teacher (MTT) certificate I did in TX.

This is a great tool to enhance interaction in the online classroom. It allows the creation of avatars with the addition of voice so you can interact with your students in ways that capture attention, motivate interaction and helps explain concepts to key audiences from varying perspectives.

Wow, I really like this tool, seems like Voki could improve all kinds of classes, especially foreign language or reading classes for students that may get nervous speaking aloud. Is there a tool on the teacher's side though that prints out a report of the scores on the oral tests that the students spoke of? Just curious....thanks. (O:

Purdue has developed and deployed a large suite of digital technologies designed to improve student success. They developed this tool - Mixable, that enables informaiton to be delivered though a mobile device, Facebook application, or web browser. All these technologies are designed to connect the classroom with the class using the connections and devices common to students such as dropbox, video/image sharing tool, etc.

The World Bank announces new Open Access Policy and Open Knowledge Repository The World Bank has announced a new Open Access Policy! Effective July 1, 2012, the Open Access Policy requires that all research outputs and knowledge products published by the Bank be licensed Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) as a default.

I am not sure if its Web 2.0 either, although I suspect not, but its awesome. Indespensible. Thanks for sharing.

This is a repeat! Sorry! Vanessa posted this earlier in the course.

A Web 2.0 tool for your PPT. Check it out and let me know what you think. Another tool in a sea of many, or useful?

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Hi Alyn! You must have been in Dr. Dennen's Web 2.0 class! Great to see you. I know ths is a slow response, but our organization has looked at Articulate. I have no experience with it, but it sounds like an awesome course developer tool... I hope you are doing great!

Hi Alyn, Articulate is a fantastic product. I have used Articulate Studio for several years now and find the interface easy, the output quality very good, and the on demand learning features such as tutorials and group blogs exceptional. The product is also very affordable. You don't need to know flash or html to be able to use Articulate. It works as an add-in to PowerPoint, but you can also encode video, create interactive learning components and develop quizzes within the software. In addition to being able to develop content, you can publish it to an LMS or Articulate has their own e-learning hosting service for those who don't need to full scope of an LMS. Articulate Storyline is a new product that has tempted me. It works outside the PowerPoint environment and allows the creation of standalone online instructional content with many different types of interactive objects. Storyline takes the Studio I have been using up a notch. While I have no experience with Storyline, I would recommend you at least try the free trial they offer. Based on my previous experience with Articulate Studio, I think you will be very pleased with the product.

Many recent studies show the effectiveness of Web 2.0 technologies on collaborative writing for L2(ESL/EFL) students. Web 2.0 tools such as Wiki, Facebook, and Forum have been adopted in an L2 class to enhance students' motivation and achievement. Peer review and collaborative writing are drawing more attention and support from L2 instructors because of the collaborative potential of the latest CMC tools such as Wikis. With this latest technology, students can work more easily and simultaneously in groups of three or more than with previous technology. Check this article for the recent studies about using technologies in ESL/EFL writing classes for peer feedback projects.