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However, once you've chosen a particular class of Web 2.0 technology (i.e. content creation tools, communication tools, social networking tools...) making a selection from among several seemingly similar Web 2.0 tools in that class can often be challenging and time-consuming. That's why a checklist is useful. It will save you time by helping you eliminate poor

Nice tool to find web 2.0 tools

A Web Applications index with annotations. Provides links to a wide variety of Web 2.0 tools.

Lots of ideas, thanks

A check list and some good tips for designing a web page.  

The site offers step-by step video courses and training exercises on different technology skills that will help you build a web site, start a blog, and more.  I would use this for the 605 and 610 course.  

This is a great website. Web 2.0 tools divided into oral, listening, writing, vocab, language specific, IPad Apps, Android Apps, 21. C teaching and learning and more. What is great about this source that everything is neatly organized. Information includes cost of the tool, target audience, usefulness and ease of use rating.

I checked out the author's blog and found lots of interesting topics for discussion. Thanks Sabine!

Sabine, this is a great tool. I checked the apps for practicing listening skills and found a very interesting idea.I shared with my colleagues of Italian language.

Web 2.0, social media, and participative technlolgies in the classroom 

An online Web 2.0 tool for creating and sharing student and teacher created books. Great for the world languages classroom.

Ursula - I had Storybird as one of the choices my students could use for creating a children's story. They loved it.

extensive list of resources for web 2.0 tools available for teachers to use in the classroom

This is an awesome resource that puts many of the technology pieces we are learning about in these courses all in one place. There are some other pieces that I have heard about and completely forgotten. These can be used in the classroom to aide tecahers and incorporate new technology in the lessons.

ThingLink is a web tool that allows groups to comment on with text, audio, video, and to share and/or embed them. This resource has multiple applications in the FL classroom, including visual literacy, information literacy, enhancing communication and collaborative skills. One example activity: upload a map and have students describe various locations on map orally, in video, or text, and then have them comment on/expand upon each others' posts.

A plethora of training videos on all sorts of web-based technology

Good article about some great tools

Excellent source of a myriad of 2.0 language teaching sites

One-stop place to go for all sorts of Web 2.0 tools. 

some professional development guides for a few web 2.0 tools such as animoto, prezi, voki, blogs, etc

Absolutely awesome! I have to steal this resourece also to share with my class. Thanks a bunch.

This LiveBinder is dedicated to helping teachers find the right web tool for the task at hand. This LiveBinder by Tim Wilhemus has resources for items like video editing, audio editing, URL management, file management, online publishing, digital storytelling, curation tools, social networking, media sharing, drawing tools, blogging, iApps, time management, etc

This Wiki is rich in resources for language educators related to technology integration. It is maintained by the South Australian government.