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Babbel is the new way to learn a foreign language. The comprehensive learning system combines effective education methods with state-of-the-art technology. Interactive online courses will improve your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation skills in no time. You'll make fast progress and have fun doing it.

Great info about how technology has changed Bloom's Taxonomy

Great info about how technology has changed Bloom's Taxonomy

Here's a compilation of 10 most popular tools among teachers.

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Are you searching for a way to share documents, presentations, slideshows, or a series of photos or images with your students? Then Voice Thread is the free Web 2.0 tool for you and your students (teachers can register for a free education account).

What is a WebQuest? What are the benefits of WebQuests? How did WebQuests start, and how have they developed since they became popular? What are the essential parts of a WebQuest? What kinds of topics lend themselves to WebQuests? What do I need to create a WebQuest? What are some critical perspectives? How can I use WebQuests in conjunction with other educational techniques?

The top five search tools for finding Flickr images are designed to help teachers and students locate just the right image for use in any subject area and project. Without these tools finding the right image on this image hosting site is often an impossible, or at least a tedious, task. The value of this site is its ability to provide digital pictures which are often impossible for a teacher to obtain any other way. Like everything else on the internet, trying to find something is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. This where the top five search tools become valuable resources for teachers and students trying to find images comes into play. These search engines are specifically designed to search the more than three billion pictures on the Flickr hosting site.

The value of Twitter for helping you and your colleagues stay informed of the latest trends, ideas, resources, and Web 2.0 integration tools has increased tremendously in the past year. A Web 2.0 tool is available for exploiting the every growing information on Twitter to remove barriers and allow you to collaborate with other science and math teachers. This new online tool is paper.li - a source of daily Twitter newsletters in education.

Knowitall.org is ETV's educational Web portal, a collection of fun, interactive websites for K-12 students, teachers and parents

Examples of Web 2.0 tools being used in classrooms

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Like everything dealing with education technology in the classroom there are always tricks and tips to ensure success - this includes Podcasting!