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sowebedu is the short form of "Social Web in Education" and refers to the usage of Social Software and Web2.0 for teaching and learning. This wiki is created for the Share.TEC pilot Social Software and Web2.0 in Teacher Education and Teacher Training. It provides a platform for a community of practice for exploring and analysing the usage of Social Software and Web2.0 tools and services under real educational conditions

The fastest way to create stylish real-time polls using mobile devices. Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print - anywhere, and show results in graphs via PPT or web.

Web 2.0 tools to increase productivity: Target audience: educators, students, nonprofits, social benefit organizations, NGOs.

Lowering the barriers of entry to web programming. Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months to develop can be produced in a matter of days.

Online style guide to designing a website. It is a fabulous resource for anyone interested in developing web pages.

Tableau Public lets you publish data visualizations to the web that are useful and beautiful. These visualizations answer questions and tell stories. You can publish one in minutes.

Open Source eLearning and eWorking platform allowing teachers to build effective online courses and to manage learning and collaborative activities on the web.

Simple to use and free, Google Chart Tools enable adding live charts to any web page. * A rich gallery of visualizations provided as: -Image charts - using a simple URL request to a Google chart server -Interactive charts - using a Google developed JavaScript library * Can read live data from a variety of data sources

Knovio™ is a free tool for turning PowerPoint slides into rich video presentations right from your web browser. No fancy hardware or video software needed - just a webcam and microphone. Give it a try and you'll be amazed how easy it is

Quality Matters created a set of forty specific elements, distributed across eight broad standards, by which to evaluate the design of online and hybrid courses. The web-based, fully interactive rubric is complete with annotations that explain the application of the standards and relationship between them.

The Pencil Project is a free open tool that builds on the Firefox web browser. Amazingly, it turns it into a fully-featured GUI prototyping tool. It goes beyond website prototypes and lets you build all kinds of UI mockups. It includes common widgets for Windows and other OSs. It can produce pretty slick mockups and you can't beat the price. 

Here is an article that will help those who struggle with instructional planning

Here is a site for any health and PE teachers. Lots of good activities and lessons here.

Resources for those educators wishing to learn more about blogging Rubrics

CMS used by Nortwestern University is Blackboard with collaboration services powered by Google Apps for Education. This web page contains information of : Archiving Tools: Archive a Course Exempt a Course from Archive Restore an Archived Course View and Modify Course Status