Teachers who want to put web 2.0 technologies to work for them can find many different free options online. There are tools for creating online classrooms, social networks, student podcasts, web-based flashcards, elearning modules, and much more. Here are 10 free web 2.0 tools for teachers to try in the classroom this year.

Great resource for lessons and classroom activities for Social StudiesClasses.This one site is connected to many other history themed educational sites. While planning my first lesson ever, this site was my go to. It helped with activity ideas, lecture, and powerpoints. Although I may have not used everything it gave me great ideas to build on.

Dr. Z reflects upon technology, education, Web 2.0 and how these all work together to provide opportunities for students in today's classrooms.

This is a wonderful resource for the classroom and student projects. It helps to organize main ideas or organize ideas into one place.

The National Security Archive is a great resource for the classroom. This has documents from the CIA which were originally classified and have now been released. It would be great to use for a lesson that you want the students to explore moer into a topic or a big event such as the Watergate scandal. I also think it would be great to use on some topics to show what the government was thinking at the time. This way students can understand that what may be seen now as a bad choice may have been the best choice at the time.