PSU Web 2.0

aMap is short for 'argument map'. The idea's very simple - to get more people arguing by mapping out complex debates in a simple visual format. At its heart, aMap is about helping people get to grips with complex (or otherwise) issues and get people thinking. aMaps come in two different formats: Printed pocket-sized aMaps, which you can buy on the eMaps website Interactive personalised aMaps, which you can make on the eMaps website The underlying structuring of aMaps is based around "informal logic" - this is the logic people use to argue in everyday life. Informal logic has a four-tiered structure: - Your position (I think . . .) - what you think over all - Propositions (Because . . .) - reasons that support your position - Arguments (As . . .) - supporting arguments that back up each of your propositions - Evidence (Supported by . . .) - supporting evidence to back up your arguments Although aMaps can be used just for fun, to help students improve and/or develop their reasoning and critical thinking in their essay writing and verbal communication.

Plotbot is a web-based collaborative screenwriting application where you can write a screenplay with as many or as few people as you like. Adopting the wiki approach to screenwriting, each element is editable by any member of a project. You can also comment on, delete or restore any element. Good to use in a safe, closed classroom environment.

Glogster lets you create a glog or an "interactive poster," that is, in effect, a personal Web page complete with embedded media links, sound, and video capabilities. Students can work with Glogster individually or as a group to create presentations, share information, and interact with their peers. Glogster now provides master-accounts for teachers integrating all student accounts. This is a very cool classroom tool.

Glogster is a site that allows you to mix movies, pictures, graphics and words to create a collage for others to view. This site is also perfect for your WIKIs. This link takes you to the educator's version of glogster. This site has educator's master virtual classrooms for using all the tools offered on this website.

Wiggio is a completely free, online toolkit that makes it easy to work in groups. With Wiggio you can: keep shared calendar (with text message reminders), poll group in real-time, send mass text messages, store files in one common folder,setup group conference call, and many others. When you need to work in groups at school, Wiggio helps you organize groups like: academic project groups, clubs, organizations, committees, and more.

Wiggio is a great website that offers many tools to promote collaboration amongst small groups. Wiggio can be used to set up a group chatroom, store files and documents and send messages. It also features a calendar tool to keep track of meetings and/or deadlines and allows group members to create a poll or survey. This site would be an asset to any group project!

Teachade is a social networking site for teachers to access helpful teacher Internet sites, educational resources, and websites for classroom teachers. There is a way to join the site so that it becomes a social networking site. There is also a workspace for you to add information that you want to keep track of, Blogs, and a way to make a group. It only has 35 members so if you like smaller more imitate sites then this is one for you.

Great site for creating an easy and impressive website. I made one for my classroom. Could easily be utilized by students.

Thanks for sharing, Kim--I've been wanting to know what sites people have been using to create websites!

This site takes uploaded digital pictures and places them into a video set to music of your choosing. This is a fabulous tool to use in the classroom for various presentations. Everything from book reports to science presentations to classroom exhibitions can be shared using this site. The sky truly is the limit.

This site allows teachers, students, or others to create presentations that can include multiple websites, photos, ect. The Flowgram also allows you to narrate throught your project to assist students or give them more information. This would be a great tool for assisting students in research project or a great tool for students to use when giving a presentation.

CalendarHub is an interactive calendar that you can make private or public. You can make a personal calendar or one for a group. You can set up reminders, deadlines, games, exams or other pertinent material. You can set up reminders via telephone or email. It also has a drag and drop interface.

This site allows you to create a presentation that goes beyond what Power Point can do.

This site allows you to generate and create your tests to use in the classroom. Many options are available including multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer, and true and false. Say goodbye to formatting and check it out!

This site allows you to create an online wiki for free. Although it does cost to upgrade, it is a popular and easy-to-use site. This site would be a great tool to use for classroom collaboration.

Wikispaces is a wiki hosting service. They allow educators to create an ad-free at no cost. We use wikispaces in the classroom to collaborate on group projects and share the projects we have created in the classroom.

Letterpop is a site that allows you to create attractive newsletters using various templates and personal pictures. The free plan allows the user to create 10 published newsletters a year.

Great for introducing students to social networking in a safe environment.

Create Your Own Social Network for Anything\n\nThis site allows you to create a social network for any topic. It is very simple. \nStep1 Name Your Social Network. Here you identify what your group is about.\nStep 2 Pick a web address for you group. \nStep 3 Sign up for a Ning account\nStep 4 Agree to their Terms of Service\n\nThis would be a great site for having an online book club or library blog for students. You can post videos, photos and pages. Students could have a poetry page or short story page where they are writing for a real audience.\n\nThere is already a TeacherLibrarianNing for teachers and librarians to post events, photos, and a forum for discussion. This would be great to network with other librarians and see what is going on in our profession.\nhttp://teacherlibrarian.ning.com/\n

ReadWriteThink is a collection of lesson plans and interactive student tools that support K-12 literacy learning. These resources are a fantastic opportunity for students to use technology as a tool to learn. These are great activities for students to use as Reading Responses. If you have one or two computers in your classroom, use one of the activities as a Center and rotate students. If you have access to a mobile lab or computer lab, each student can spend more time with the activities.

Allows you to create your own digital class library. You put in the title of the book and it will find a picture of the cover and information about the book. Then you can have students use this to browse books in your classroom library.

This would be a great tool for use in the classroom. Students can use it to write essays/papers individually or in collaboration with a group. Each member of the group is able to review and edit what has been done. Every edit is saved as a new version so any version can be rolled back. Changes can be compared within two versions. Students can get to Writeboards from any computer with an Internet connection so they can work on their projects at anytime.

I love this website. It is an easy to share, web-based text document. It allows writing, editing, comparing, and collaboration. You can invite an individual or group to work on a project. It's another great way to get students to work together--even when they are not together.

Freecycle is an online community to help reduce waste. Members can post items they'd like to get rid of and others who contact them can come and get those items for free. You can search your local city or state to find items you're looking for and all you have to do (after discussing it online with the owner) is pick it up. This helps reduce waste and relieves owners from having to dispose of items on their own. Students can use this site when studying about the environment and recycling issues. They can also contribute a donation or participate by offering their own items to recycle to another member.

Blogging for teachers and students made easy. Edublogs allows you to easily create and manage student blogs. It includes several useful features and customizable themes, plus, it is ready made for podcasting, videos, photos and more. Edublogs also gives great tips on how to use blogs to revolutionize the way you teach and how your students learn.

Edublogs is an easy to use blogging program created specifically for teachers and students. You can manage your students involvement and participation at any time. I have created an eudcation blog, but in a math classroom, it doesn't get used very often. I do know teachers who use a blog consistently.

Links to lots of different sources on the web. I looked specifically at the Spanish sites and found quizzes, rubrics, and lots of resources.