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This resource aims to help those making decisions about their use of freely available 'Web 2.0' interactive and collaborate e-learning tools. Each product, site or service described in these pages can be searched or browsed by a specific Activity or the usability/accessibility checks that it passed. The applications have short descriptions and comments regarding their ease of use and functionality. If you are involved in teaching and learning and are wanting to make more use of Web 2.0 services in your e-learning activities, or if you are interested in how Web 2.0 can supplement your existing methods, this section may be useful to you.

Many members of JISC Emerge community are active in exploiting the potential of various Web 2.0 technologies and approaches. But what if the Web 2.0 sceptics are right? What if Web 2.0 services aren't sustainable? What if the social aspect of social networking tools are too intrusive? How should we go about developing a sustainable approach to use of Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 Tools for Researchers http://t.co/w1O7dAxM by @tbirdcymru (via @SlideShare) #yam <--useful for FASS grad workshop

How teachers are working around overprotective content filters to use Web 2.0 tools in the classroom.

Great post on why organisation websites are useless and what web2 tools could replace them.

A Practical Guide to Implementing Web 2.0 (aka Social Networking Tools) in Your Organization

integrated content environment - Tool bar for word and open office that supports direct publishing to web and print - supports templates

integrated content environment - Tool bar for word and open office that supports direct publishing to web and print - supports templates - can be used in conjunction with DSpace for example.

Comprehensive list of web-based presentation tools with the first five being Googledocs, Slideshare, Voicethread, Animoto, Glogster 

Professors, particularly those in the senior ranks, might have a reputation for being leery of social media. But they are no Luddites when it comes to Web 2.0 tools such as Facebook and YouTube, according to a new survey scheduled to be released today.

Professors, particularly those in the senior ranks, might have a reputation for being leery of social media. But they are no Luddites when it comes to Web 2.0 tools such as Facebook and YouTube, according to a new survey scheduled to be released today.

"Introduction to Web Accessibility is an online course that introduces tools and techniques for web developers to easily ensure that websites are more accessible to users who are blind or have low vision"

" In this article we provide a compact summary of two courses with innovative curricula integrating (1) Web 2.0 as the course subject, and (2) Web 2.0 as tools to support teaching/learning. We particularly focus on pedagogical approaches, applied methodologies and evaluation outcomes, indicating achieved impacts and possible ways to transform practice in higher education"

"Digital technologies can be used as tools that facilitate the research process, the organization, collection and distribution of information, communication and collaboration among others. TechLunch wants to provide insight into these purposes by presenting use case scenarios specific to the needs of students, teachers and researchers." Includes a set of recordings and resources on various tools e.g. Zotero, Cmap, Opinion Polling, etc.

Handy list of synchronous tools.

A long list of online tools conveniently grouped into like sections e.g. Mindmapping, or E-Safety

Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data sets, including cleaning up inconsistencies, transforming them from one format into another, and extending them with new data from external web services or other databases. Version 2.0 introduces a new extensions architecture, a reconciliation framework for linking records to other databases (like Freebase), and a ton of new transformation commands and expressions.

New tool for presentations

The purpose of this website is to provide a place for K-12 school library media specialists to learn a little more about web tools that can be used to improve and enhance school library media programs and services, to see examples of how they can be used,

Resources from RSC Wales on web conferencing. Includes list of tools they investigated.