Web 2.0 tools for teachers

After having been taken over by google, Etherpad Chris Pirillo and Jake Warner have now "frozen the Etherpad code in time" and released it as Type With Me.

WYSIWYG ebook editore

Exploratree is a free graphic organizer creation tool. Exloratree users can use pre-made graphic organizer templates which Exploratree refers to as "thinking guides" or create their own templates. The Exploratree thinking guides can be used online or downloaded and printed for offline use.

Now you can send your tweets directly into Evernote. Why is this cool? Because Twitter is chock-full of great stuff. Your ideas, thoughts, and experiences mixed together with all of the content from the people you follow: journalism, storytelling, commentary, activism, even comedy -to quote Rob Corddry, "It's the perfect joke-writing medium. If you need more than 140 characters then it's not worth it."

file sharing

"How Do We Form Communities (and why does it matter in English class)?"

Demo elearning du CEGOS

Great example of stop motion animation. Watch through to the credits at the end to see how it was done. Quite brilliant!

Twitlonger is an easy way to post long messages to Twitter without the need to write a blog post. Write what you need here and we post the link to Twitter for you.

SafeShare.TV is a tool that has two primary functions. The first is to enable you to share YouTube videos using a direct URL that frames the video without the advertising and other distracting features that might cause students to wander off into less suitable materials. The second and perhaps even more useful function of SafeShare.TV is that it enable you to crop the video clip so that only a particular part is shown. This is particularly useful when you want to build activities or tasks around clips that focus students on particular linguistic features.

GREAT simple machines game from Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Kids would really love playing this.

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Really interesting example!

six quick sheets for Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. These resources outline the different taxonomic levels and provide the digital taxonomy verbs with some possibilities for classroom use.

"Watch YouTube videos with friends in real-time!"