Web 2.0 tools for teachers

This is way cool! Map of the world is made up of 1001 web2.0 logos that are all live links.

Find images for comps, inspiration or research.

great way to find cc photos on Flickr

Flickr currently hosts more than 75 million images that are licensed under a Creative Commons license. Depending on the license, you may use the images on your webpage, or make changes to it. There are many things to check. With ImageCodr.org, there is no need to do all this manually, you simply enter in the URL of the picture page (as seen in your browser) you are interested in and ImageCodr.org will generate the ready to use HTML code. It will also display a brief and easy license summary, so you don't get in legal trouble because you missed something.

Now there's a techie way for students to create and share virtual posters, and they're called glogs. Glogster is a free website where teachers and students can create glogs and it doesn't require any paper, markers, or glue. Glogs and can be shared with the world because they are published online. Unlike physical posters glogs can include audio and video. Glogs can be easily edited and changed at anytime.

Do your students have the critical thinking skills to understand ads, what they're saying, and what they want kids to do? To help you equip your students with these valuable skills, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency, has launched a campaign to teach kids about advertising. The Admongo campaign will help kids learn to ask three key "critical thinking" questions when they encounter advertising: Who is responsible for the ad? What is the ad actually saying? What does the ad want me to do?

Kate Ray video of interviews with big names, such as Tim Berners-Lee, Clay Shirky, David Weinberger

This site says it has the ability to chop segments out of YouTube videos that can be embedded or linked to directly. Didn't work for me on several videos I tried unless I started at the beginning of the clip but its worth revisiting.

If you sometimes feel the YouTube interface too busy and risky for your classroom, this application will be of interest to you. This little button in the toolbar helps. It will hide all the related videos and extraneous stuff. Perfect for the little kids.

List of 30 photo editing tools, some free,some paid. Extensive!

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Security and privacy will always be a concern, thanks to FERPA. Google Sites is a great application for creating an online portfolio for a number of reasons, one of which is its great privacy controls. Google makes it easy to make your site private, to share it with select individuals, or to make it entirely public and open to the world. Changing the sharing settings is a click away. If you're submitting resumes, include a link and a note explaining how the hiring committee can access your portfolio. In an interview, you can come prepared to share it. If you want to keep your portfolio private, the viewer will need to request access from you. Alternatively, you can make it public for the period after sending your resume and waiting for interviews.

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Here are my picks for The Best Ways To Find Other Classes For Joint Online Projects

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Energy Kids is a website produced by the US Energy Information Administration for the purpose of educating students about energy and its many forms. Energy Kids provides a wealth of easily accessible information about energy which students can use to play games, solve riddles, and take quizzes about energy. Some of the games students will find include Energy Sudoku, crossword puzzles, and riddles. Energy Kids also provides students of all ages with ideas and outlines for science fair projects around the energy theme. The science fair projects are available as free PDF downloads.