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Hello and Welcome to the Web 2 in Education Wiki. This site is designed to provide teachers with a directory of free webtools along with some suggestions as to how they may be used in the classroom. I have searched over 2000 websites and listed over 295 tools, that's almost 300 opportunities for you to use ICT in your classroom and all for free! Where possible I have included a brief review and a screenshot or working example of the tool. If you come across any other tools that are not on my list please let me know. Alternatively, if you use one of these tools in the classroom why not let me know how you got on by becoming a member and joining the discussion forum. In the meantime check out the list of tools on the Site pages to the left or have a look at the Prezi presentation below which showcases a variety of resources created by my students and myself using Free Web 2.0 tools. (May 2009 -If you are a frequent visitor check the What's New page

Google has launched a tool to enable users to understand and manage what people see when they search for you on Google. The tool called "Me on the Web" and is part of the Google Dashboard (users register to access personalised Google apps and tools).

Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss's book Reinventing Project Based Learning is a wealth of information about digital tools, the internet and Web 2.0 and how these tools can be used to meet the essential learning needs of 21st century students.  Here are some ideas taken from Chapter 3 of the book, all of which I've used with primary students and which I have tried to align with the new ICT in the PYP strands.

The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You

10 Tools for Getting the Most from Dropbox

Living as we do in a sea of digital information, we all need to set and manage clever "information traps." The reason is simple: Every day we encounter useful, digital "stuff" we want to save for later and in many cases share with others. In this post, I'll describe how to use Zoo Tool, Posterous, ifttt (if this then that) and email to create an information trap which takes a link and simultaneously:

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Google Docs is such an incredible tool for college students, offering collaboration, portability, ease of use, and widespread acceptance. But there are so many options, both hidden and obvious, that there's a good chance you're not using Google Docs to its fullest capability. We've discovered 52 great tips for getting the most out of Google Docs as a student, with awesome ideas and tricks for collaboration, sharing, and staying productive.

Why teach search? Google understands the importance of finding the right information at the right time. We create tools to let you find the information you need, of the kind you need, when you need it. In most cases, a simple search works really well. But for more specialized questions, a bit of instruction in how to search improves all searcher--from middle school students to trained professionals--and lets you discover and use more, higher quality sources than ever before.

More than 50 Web Widgets for Your Learning Mix

you don't have to follow back those who follow you-is one of Twitter's most important features.

Web 2.0 is about users and content instead of surfing on the Internet. It's more like what can the Internet do for me as a creator, a collaborator, an active participant, rather than a passive viewer of what is out there on the web

In this video, we wanted to try to get into the heads of some of our favorite curators to understand what makes them tick.

ClockLink.com provides the most widely used Web clock in the world with over 30 million views around the world. In addition, clocks can be set to display any time zone in the world online, so they are not only decorative but very practical as well. You can use our world clock to see all timezones of the world, and it's free to use. Use it to show what time it is in your area. There is no charge to use any of the clocks or for the world clock on your website or blog.

Video Tutorials Setting up a Wordpress Blog Writing a Blog Entry Setting up a Twitter Account Joining a Ning Social Network A Brief Tour of Second Life Mining the Blogosphere Mining the Twitterverse Mining Social Bookmarks Setting up an RSS Reader Adding RSS Feeds to your Reader Creating a Word Cloud Using Trend Plotting Visualizations Demonstration of Digg Visualizers

Globally Collaborative Project Ideas Inspired by Learning 2.0 A space inspired by the Learning 2.0 Conference in Shanghai on 14 - 16 September 2007. During the conference Kim Cofino moderated 2 very productive unconference sessions where conference participants developed 20 different ideas for connecting our classrooms. This is a space where we can start to cross-connect and further develop these ideas in a shared space. Please feel free to add, edit, embellish any and all of these ideas! Listed below are the 20 project ideas developed at the conference, each project is linked to another page within the wiki containing more details.

These are links from the unconference session, "Finding and Downloading Educational Podcasts," at the Learning 2.011 Conference in Shanghai, China, on September 10, 2011.

Social Media: ideas from a librarian-in-training a Keynote presentation on SlideShare

Tumblr is a micro-blogging platform that churns out more than 64 million posts daily. There are 57.5 million blogs on Tumblr, which might seem intimidating to anyone not already using it. Tumblr could be useful to you for many reasons, depending on what you're looking to get out of it, for example, inspiration, scrapbooking, communication or a portfolio.