Web 2.0 tools for teachers

Google 的特殊功能 查找 Flash 文件 查找Flash文件，只需搜索“关键词 filetype:swf”。 Google已经可以支持13种非HTML文件的搜索。除了PDF文档，Google现在还可以搜索Microsoft Office (doc, ppt, xls, rtf） 、Shockwave Flash (swf)、PostScript (ps)和其它类型文档。新的文档类型只要与用户的搜索相关，就会自动显示在搜索结果中。 例如，如果您只想查找 PDF或Flash 文件，而不要一般网页，只需搜索“关键词 filetype:pdf” 或“关键词 filetype:swf”就可以了。 Google同时也提供用户不同类型文件的“HTML版”，方便用户在即使没有安装相应应用程序的情况下阅读各种类型文件的内容。用“HTML版”阅读也能帮助用户防范某些类型的文档中可能带来的病毒。 总的来说，不同类型文件类型的搜索大大拓宽了Google用户能在网上获得的知识内容。Google将不断拓展新的可搜索文件种类。

Welcome to TiddlyWiki, a popular free MicroContent WikiWikiWeb created by JeremyRuston and a busy Community of independent developers. It's written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript to run on any modern browser without needing any ServerSide logic. It allows anyone to create personal SelfContained hypertext documents that can be posted to a WebServer, sent by email or kept on a USB thumb drive to make a WikiOnAStick. Because it doesn't need to be installed and configured it makes a great GuerillaWiki. This is revision 2.4.0 of TiddlyWiki (see recent changes), and is published under an OpenSourceLicense.

CoveritLive's web based software takes your next live blog to a new level. Your commentary publishes in real time like an instant message. Our ‘one-click’ publishing lets you drop polls, videos, pictures, ads and audio clips as soon as they come to mind. Comments and questions from your readers instantly appear but you control what gets published. Try our software for your next live blog. Your readers will love it.

Six weeks ago, ReadWriteWeb published their definitive list of the top Twitter clients. The methodology for that list was watching the Twitter public feed and logging tweet sources. However, how does the list of clients people are using match up the list of the ones people are talking about? Using data from blog search engine Twingly, we decided to see which Twitter clients are getting the most buzz on blogs. The result is a list of the most popular 3rd-party Twitter-apps according to the blogosphere.

What is Brightkite? Location-based social networking Discover who visits your favorite places. Join the community in real time. Track your friends See where your friends are and what they're up to, in real time. Meet people around you Meet real world friends. Reveal your location, befriend, and chat with people around you.

Diigo is a social bookmarking service which we covered briefly while it was in private beta. But the service is out of beta, and has launched a new set of tools that make it easy to mark up web pages, save pages to your account, and search through your bookmarks and those of other users.

NoodleTools provides innovative software that teaches students and supports teachers and librarians throughout the entire research process. Search intelligently Assess the quality of results Record, organize and synthesize information using online notecards Format your bibliography in MLA or APA style

Citation Machine is an interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties. To use Citation Machine, simply... Click the citation format you need and then the type of resource you wish to cite, Complete the Web form that appears with information from your source, and Click Make Citations to generate standard bibliographic and in-text citations. The primary goal of this tool is to make is so easy for high school, college, and university students and other researchers to credit information sources, there is virtually no reason not to -- because SOMEDAY THE INFORMATION THAT SOMEONE WANTS TO USE, WILL BE YOURS.