Emerging+Technologies

​ Explore different Web 2.0 tools and how they are used in general and in education. Examples could include but are not limited to ning, twitter, rss, social bookmarking, epals.

 

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DEFINITION per Wikipedia: "The term "**Web 2.0**" is commonly associated with web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Examples of Web 2.0 include web-based communities, hosted services, web applications, social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups, and folksonomies. A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with other users or to change website content, in contrast to non-interactive websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of information that is provided to them." 

__The possibilities of Web 2.0 are virtually endless. There are so many different tools and applications available, they are too numerous to share on this wiki. Below is a small listing of a few tools and applications available through Web 2.0.__ 

Web 2.0 has changed the way people use the Internet. No longer are web pages just for viewing. Web 2.0 allows users to participate in the sites they are viewing. This opens up the doors of imagination for educators. Here are few ways some of the tools available on Web 2.0 can be used in the classroom. 

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Social Networking. The first social networking sites that became popular were Myspace and Facebook. Now there are more refined sites available for teachers that are safer and more focuses. Groups can be fored on many of these new sites that allow teachers to form a group, invite members, limit the members who join, and monitor conversations on the site. With Web 2.0 designed these types of sites, schools no longer have to be afraid of web predators stalking students because those predators will not be able to join the specialized groups. A few new social networking sites available are:

[|Twalkin]  Social networking site combining Twitter and talkin'.

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<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|SendFlow] <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Social networking site. With SendFlow you can design, build and test interactive text and voice messages then broadcast them over virtually every communications platform in use today from land lines and mobile phones to Internet transports like G-Talk <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Youniverse] <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Social networking site that matches your profile with others based on visual responses to questions. Discover your VisualDNA™. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">[|Ning] "Ning lets you create and join new social networks for your interests and passions." This specialized is great for schools because it has the following policy for moderation and privacy: "<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Choose to make your Ning Network public or private for members only. Moderate members before they join. Moderate photos, videos, groups, chat and events before they're posted. Set up multiple layers of administrators. Ban members from your Ning Network. Enable members to close their profiles to others. " <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> School Specific Web 2.0 Sites. Besides social networking sites, there are many sites located on the Web that cater to schools and educators. These tools help teachers design lesson plans that technology-based.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.go2web20.net/] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; size: 110%;"> - A good site for Web 2.0 Tools and Applications. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">

<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Web 2.0 Cool Tools for Schools <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Resources for many Web 2.0 Applications and Tools. Categories on this useful resource wiki page are as follows (with links): <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Presentation Tools Video Tools Slideshow Tools Widgets Research Tools Collaborative Tools Quiz and Poll Tools Convertering Tools Creativity Tools Image Tools Drawing Tools Audio Tools Mapping Tools Writing Tools Music Tools Organizing Tools Storage Tools Graphing Tools <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> Just a taste from Web 2.0 Cool Tools for Schools - These examples are a sampling of items under the category "**Creativity**." Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> ||
 * ==**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Games: **== || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> ||
 * ==<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">[|Class Tools] == || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash!
 * ==<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">[|MagicPen] == || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">A physics-based drawing game inspired by Crayon Physics. Guide the red ball or square to the flags by drawing shapes and dropping them. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> ||
 * ==<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">[|Atmosphir] == || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Free video game / creation tool for Mac & PC. Design mode lets you create enormous 3D platforming levels filled with fun gameplay elements like power-ups and fireballs, while Play mode lets you explore through the thousands of diverse user-created challenges being uploaded every day. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> ||
 * ==<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">[|Braingle] == || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Brain Teasers, Riddles, Trivia, Brain Exercises, Games, Forums and more... *use for demonstration "Should you be institutionalized?" || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> ||
 * ==<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">[|Iminlikewithyou] == || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">A lot of games including jigsawce, dinglepop, blockers, tracism and a really great one called draw my thing which is like online Pictionary. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> ||
 * ==<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">[|SecretBuilders] == || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Quests, games, activities. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> ||
 * ==<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">[|PlayAuditorium] == || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Maths and problem solving game || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> ||
 * ==<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">[|FantasticContraption] == || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Physics puzzle game || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> ||
 * ==<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">[|PlayCrafter] == || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Create your own games. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> ||
 * ==<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">[|The Lure of the Labyrinth] == || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">A digital game for middle-school pre-algebra students. It includes a wealth of intriguing math-based puzzles wrapped into an exciting narrative game in which students work to find their lost pet - and save the world from monsters. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> ||
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<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Additional Resources. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Other sites that might be helpful when learning new Web 2.0 tools and applications are as follows. Educators....Take note of the article from pbs.org about using Web 2.0 in the classroom.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Listio Web 2.0 Directory] Listio for Web 2.0 is a directory and product review website. We cover web 2.0 applications, services and new media. [|Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teacher] An Internet Hotlist on Web 2.0 [|Virtual Karma] This blog is an alphabetically sorted list of popular Web 2.0 applications. [|www.pbs.org/teachers/librarymedia/aasl/baumbach.pdf] - <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">An article by Donna J. Baumbach about educators and Web 2.0