All slides and handout material is on my blog at: www.tinyurl.com/bsdblog

Today’s plan I choose You choose +

Free Web 2.0 Tools www.tinyurl.com/bsdblog Films Animoto (www.animoto.com) Xtranormal (www.xtranormal.com) Photopeach ( www.photopeach.com) Home Movies (Window Movie Maker) Word Magic! Wordle (www.wordle.net) How to save (http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/bsdbsd/2010/02/11/how-to-save-a-wordle/) Wordle of day (http://guessthewordle.pbworks.com/ Image Chef (www.imagechef.com) WordItOut (www.worditout.com ) Use your voice (most of the time) Voicethread (www.voicethread.com) Gizmoz (www.gizmoz.com) Voki (www.voki.com) Comics and Photos Embellishments! Comic Creator (see Thinkfinity) MakeBeliefsComixs (http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/) Big Huge Labs (www.bighugelabs.com) Spell with Flickr (http://metaatem.net/words/) Glogster (www.edu.glogster.com) Making books Storybird (www.storybird.com) Getting Organized www.tinyurl.com http://fur.ly/ http://weblist.me/ Google Tools Wonderwheel Google Squared Google Maps Google Earth (www.earth.google.com ) Thinkfinity (www.thinkfinity.org) DE/CWD-G Web 2.0 Tutorial (http://cdwg.discoveryeducation.com/web2.0 Creating “Student” Accounts http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/bsdbsd/2009/07/30/animoto-and-student-accounts/ my blog http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/668 Jenuinetech (www.jenuinetech.com )

Google Tools Wonderwheel Squared

Google Wonder Wheel

Search tool Explore topic Narrow search See search terms change Wonder wheel

Google Squared

www.google.com/squared Create table of results Add columns See related resources Google Squared

Getting organized www.tinyurl.com www.fur.ly

www.tinyurl.com Paste a LONG url and select your own shorter version You need to remember your shortcuts. Only good for one site at a time.

Fur.ly Copy and paste a series of urls then get a shorcut for the list. Must remember the shortcut

What you get

View all- open in new window

Comic Creator (from Thinkfinity) Can print- Cannot save

www.makebeliefscomix.com

MakeBeliefsComix Easy comic strips No registration required Email or print results (no save option)

Wordle Quick and easy graphic organizer No registration required Print/copy results (Beware of the Public Gallery)

Guess the Wordle http://guessthewordle.pbworks.com Monday-Friday Hints for each day Google form to submit your answer Outside the box!

Spell with Flickr (http://metaatem.net/words/)

Create and add wordle for topics

Spell with Flickr Easy Titles No registration required Print/copy results (no save options)

www.gizmoz.com

Gizmoz Speech or text Registration required 13 years old Accepts “student” email accounts

www.voicethread.com 4th (Lab Report) * 5th (Ellis Island) *

Voicethread Images/videos with voice Registration required(multiple ids) 3 for free (small fee for teacher’s account)

www.voki.com

Voki Avatar (record or text) Brief messages Registration required 13 years old Needs real email accounts

www.xtranormal.com 8th grade science sample *

Xtranormal Text to movie Registration required 13 years old Needs real email accounts

www.bighugelabs.com

Insert sample of bighugelabs

BigHugeLabs Images/photos Registration required Accepts “student” email accounts

www.photopeach.com

www.animoto.com *

Photopeach Music videos/quizzes Registration required 13 years old Accepts “student” email accounts

glogster www.animoto.com *

www.animoto.com/education

animoto Music videos Registration required Go to education site Accepts “student” email accounts

edu.glogster.com

glogster Online multimedia poster edu site Teacher can create 100 student accounts Social Networking aspect

www.storybird.com

Online books Illustrations Collaborative Read online Storybird

Online lesson plans, activities One stop shopping National contributors Thinkfinity

1.My blog 2. DE/CDW-G tutorials

Want to be on the list? Name and address on file card.

CD (http://cdwg.discoveryeducation.com/web2.0)

Creating Student Accounts Real email address “Dummy Account” Example: tech@gmail.com Receives unique email Example: tech+one@gmail.com No email receipt- all mail sent to this address defaults to mail (tech@gmail.com)

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