PSU Web 2.0

This site enables you to create a speaking avatar. It can be used to teach characterization or for presenting information in which students need to use oral language. The avatar can speak from recording your voice over a phone or typing in text.

A great way to give a daily message to the students. Can have the students record lunch menu for the class to hear each morning.

Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages. I personally have two of them on my teacher website. Sometimes you have to spell phonetically in order to get the Avatar to pronounce things correctly, but other than that, it is a blast creating them.

This site shares innovative ways on how to teach creative writing and gives examples for each style.

This site allows users to create stories using pictures. You can collaborate with another person, or work on your own. I think this would be a great tool for those students who need help/ideas to get them started with their writing. It's also nice because they can see their story come to life like a real book.

With Yacapaca, teachers can create quizzes, surveys, tests, etc.; discover, modify and share assessments; mark automatically, analyze with tools that improve your teaching, and more. Students use Yacapaca to learn faster and have fun while learning. They can even set up their own, completely personalized e-portfolios. This would be a great classroom resource for teachers as well as students. The e-portfolio options would be a great way for students to showcase and reflect on their best work.

When you register on this free site, you get access to already created assignments/tests and you have the ability to create your own. You can then check the results and have immediate data.

I just stumbled upon this site, and it's awesome!!! It's almost like you can have your own online course on this site. The teacher can create assignments, tests, and even blogs.

This site is a great communication tool for teachers and their students. I think it could also just be used by teacher to collaborate and communicate.

This site provides a directory of Web 2.0 tools. It claims to be the "Complete Web 2.0 Directory." This can be used as a directory to explore all the Web 2.0 tools that are available.

This is a great directory, but there are so many that it is hard to get through them even if you break them down into more specific tags.

This is a great site to access a multitude of Web 2.0 Resources. It even gives a short description of the link when you put your mouse over it.

How to use me gusta.

Reflexive verbs in Spanish

Review all the different types of present tense verbs.

Great video for AR verbs.

How much more have students learned?

Great for students to see how much they've learned.

This could be a great way for students to share pictures or tell a story.

Collaborate with other Spanish teachers who are integrating technology .

Find links to web 2.0 applications that might be useful in the classroom.

Bubbl.us is a brainstorming tool online. You can use it to create colorful mind maps online, share and work with friends, embed your mind map in your blog or website , email and print your mind map, and save your mind map as an image. It is free. It would be a good tool for students to use.And it's FREE!

Bubbl.us is a simple, free web application used to create concept maps. The website can be shared in blogs and websites.

Create mindmaps together as a class, or independently. Great for people like me who hate to draw a mindmap because it always turns out lopsided, or you don't make the boxes big enough!

Students of all levels would be able to navigate this tool. This could easily be used as whole group or individual instruction!

Create flow-charts, diagrams, even floor plans! This tool makes it very easy to create great looking diagrams. In the classroom the students could design K-W-L charts and all types of graphic organizers. This could be added to a blog and look really professional. This tool could be used in a whole group or individual manner! Only negative is you can only have a free 30 day trial and then you have to pay a fee!

Create flowcharts, diagrams, or even floor plans! This could be great for creating graphic organizers or for my students to create and label floor plans when we discuss home vocabulary.

HotChalk is a curriculum, planning, assessment, and professional development site for teachers, students, and parents. This site offers videos and other content information. It also allows teachers to put assignments online. The site claims to reduce plan time because of the wonderful resources for lesson planning it offers but I think I would spend some up front time getting everything figured out. The professional development resources are also very helpful. Users can save information in their desk, library, and class. Initial registration was free.

This site has free lesson plans, a learning management system, and lots of other great tools.

Connect with teachers and students from around the world.