The ASB Online Acedemy is offering two professional learning courses in October. One of the courses is on learning with web 2.0 tools. Please share with your network and colleagues.
"OKmindmap is a cloud-based mindmap by a talented group of researchers at Kongu National University and JinoTech, South Korea. This service is touted by its developers as the world's first pure Scalar Vector Graphics (SVG) based web mindmap technology. It is Freemind compatible, Web 2.0 feature-rich, and it has a Moodle plugin!
Here's a Youtube video of the Mindmap in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwmYe2xVweE"
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).
Wikis are the most popular Web 2.0 tool being used in science and math classrooms. Based on a survey of readers - 43 percent use them to support their teaching and student learning.
A Wiki is appealing, encourages participation, supports collaboration, and promotes interaction by students who love to use technology.
By the way - this includes most students today!
Our user-friendly site navigation allows users to browse various Web 2.0 technologies or complete a direct search to easily locate exactly what you need in your digital classroom. Simple how-to videos and slidesharing screencasts for integrating Web 2.0 applications like Delicious, Twitter, Ning, Kidblog, TeacherTube, VoiceThread, Skype, Google Docs, Blogger and many more make creating an amazing digital learning environment as easy as click and view.
Lots of advice and examples of using Web 2.0 tools in the classroom: wikis, blogs, Twitter, Google Earth, Voicethread, Wordle, Moodle, Google Docs, RSS feeds, Second Life, Scratch, Podcasts, and more.