March+2008

I went low key. i really enjoyed the wiki site on our class page http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/About+This+Wiki. This wiki was actually created by school library media specialists. The site is great for keeping up with web 2.0 and library 2.0. I liked this link http://top50.wikispaces.com/web2.0 off the wiki to the top 50 things in web 2.0. -Angel

the [|Mind 360] website! It is a site with games designed to help our "mind fitness". The games vary as to difficulty and could be helpful as a fun way to help students with reasoning and evaluative thinking. Anne West

I love to find new recipes I found Receipe Key. You can create your own food profile and store your own reciepes or share. It will tell you the allergy contents or if its good for those Vegans or us Carnivores. Karen Evett

I looked at a site called deliGoo.com It looked really helpful for finding information quickly that has previously been bookmarked. You just type in a search word and deliGoo searches on the sites indicated in your del.icio.us bookmarks. Debbie Henderson
 * [[image:http://www.go2web20.net/data/uploads/logos/kidzui.gif caption="KidZui" link="http://www.kidzui.com/"]]I really like the Kidzui site. It is an internet site that is safe for children ages 3 to 12 years of age. I have a 2 year old and an 11 year old. This website will be very useful for me at home. Shannan Cagle

media type="custom" key="704317"I was looking for a site that would be useful in the library media center. I really like this site because you can create different book lists. You are able to comment on each book that you include and then make available for the students to read or print out. The 4th Grade does a literary genre unit and this would bw a great way of sharing these different types of books. Susan Murphy

I found a site called [|InstaSaver]. You can create an animated screensaver using your own pictures or pictures found on Flickr. The site creates, downloads, and installs the screensaver on your computer. Sarena Hefner**



I found this site and thought it was very fun. You can put people's faces in all different bodies. [|Face in Hole] Patti Chandler :>)

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Leave your favorite new Web 2.0 application link and a brief description here!! Just click Edit this page and start typing. To add a link, highlight the words you want to link, click on the little earth icon with a link and select external link. Paste in the url. That will do it!!======

Here is my super cool [|cartooning] site. I think this will be great for writing and story starters. Carrie O'Bryant

This widget is very helpful if you have an older version of Microsoft Office at home and want to send a Microsoft Office 2007 document to print or revise at home. [|doc.x] Debbie Baluch

Found SYS-CON Media ([|http://web2.sys-con.com/read/167905.htm)] and then searched for Adobe (got this page: [|http://web2.sys-con.com/read/167905.htm).] Good info and lots of information regarding Adobe products & Web 2.0 ***Rachel Vann

I found [|Pixton] to be cute. This would allow kids to make cartoons about books, and book characters. I really like Carrie's site too. Doree Bradbury

Okay, I admit to being a bit of a nerd, but this [|grammar] site intrigued me. I could have used this earlier today. I'm guessing some folks would not be willing to pay, though. Deb Kelly

I found this site for money management. It is [|mint.com]. This site caught my interest in saving for my retirement.Pat Robinson

I found a site called [|Webot] which allows you to access your media files (photos and music) from any computer anytime, anywhere. You download Webot to all of your computers with music and photos, tell Webot which folders you will want to access, and then log in and access from any of the computers. It's great if you create files at home to use at school or vice versa. Maureen Miller

I'm a bit of a junkie when it comes to this stuff, so I'm going to add more than one link! Sorry if I stole anyone's app! I'm just a bit of an overachiever!!! :) [|Twitter] is how I communicate with my husband while I'm at school. He actually will wash dishes if I ask him! [|Supercook] is the best recipe website EVER. I'm not exaggerating. [|Moo] is how my husband makes the coolest business cards. And...What's your [|fortune] today? //Gretchen Krisher//

I found a great site for sharing videos with your friends and family. [|trackingshot]**. **I also explored** [|**babelgum**] **which is a free on demand Internet TV network. Maria Tucker**

I too found more than one site. I was introduced to some of these at the NECC conference. I still have others that I will post later if others would like. [|Letter Pop] is a great site for creating beautiful newsletters or publications. [|ScrapBlog] is a great site for creating portfolio or scrap book pages. Other uses could include timelines, ebooks, lab reports, etc. [|Block Posters] allows you to take any image and convert it to poster size. You can put on a CD and take to an office supply store and print out in better quality. [|Sound snap] is a great resource for sound effects, but beware this should only be for teacher use. [|Book Builder] is a site that you or students can create ebooks. GOOGLE DOCS is a place to do collarborative projects and presentations you just need a google or gaggle account. Vanessa Green

I have look at many sites, I finally found one that I felt like I could use with my 4th graders: [|scrapblog]. Someone beat my to adding it but after all my searching I couldn't pass it up. Laurie Music

[|Spanish Pod] is coolness if you want to start/catch up/or continue on with your Spanish speaking career.I [|Bubble Snaps] is too cute if you want to add funky/funny bubbles to your pictures. [|SkreemR] is what I use to find songs that I use in class. Tamara Linares [|Joost] is an online television service where you can get television shows when you want. Unfortunately, it is a little old school (they do have all the old Star Trek episodes) for now...but I the whole thought process of having on demand TV from the web is pretty awesome! And you can hook it up your computer to a LCD or Plasma TV and there you go! Tim Davis

I found a site called [|ChitChat blog] that helps educators successfully integrate technology into the classroom by allowing teachers a way to collect. tract, assess, record, and give feedback. Teachers are able to create better content with less effort as well being able to share and find content within the network. Ken Johnson

Blast. IE froze up on me. [|Hulu]--another TV site w/streaming episodes of old and new shows. New shows available in HD, with fewer commercials, and with the ability to email segments, clips really, of shows to other people. [|Mind42] is like Mindmeister but much less German--which is a good thing most times. Online collaborative mind map, word web authoring tool that fosters collaboration and facilitates adding digital content. All things [|iGoogle]. Maps, Reader, Bookmarks, Notebook, Sync, Apps, Docs and Spreadsheets, Picasa2, Talk, iGoogle. [|One Million Monkeys Typing]. Collaborative story-telling / create your own adventure site. Nice monkey motif.

I found [|MagMyPic] which lets you insert your own pictures into magazine covers, both real and imagined! It is fast and easy to upload the pictures, which embed just as simply into your blog. You just don’t **//know //** how many times students come into the media center with files they have created at home which they are trying to access via email, but either: a) the email is blocked, or b) even when we allow them to access the files via email, a glitch occurs. No matter how many times we say, “Buy a $10 flash drive at Bear Necessities!” no one listens (shocking!), or they spend the $10 on something more exciting than flash drives (shockinger!). Well, here is a fast, easy, FREE Web 2.0 solution to all your problems. OK, not **//all //**your problems, just all your file transfer problems. Just surf on over to [|Drop.io]! //Drop.io // enables you to create exchange points for uploading your data and then accessing them later. You can even allow others to access your data and, if you choose, alter it. You don’t even have to create an account or remember a user name and password as with most Web 2.0 sites. You //do // have to remember the location (URL) which you assign to your “drop” as the exchange points are called. The drops are private, and you determine how accessible you want them to be to others, such as students allowing access to their teachers. All you do is name your drop; upload your file; decide whether or not to password protect the file; choose a date when you want the file to be deleted (tell your students, for example, to select a couple of weeks after their papers are due–don’t make it too early in case you give them an extension or they have to do a rewrite, or in case they get a reprieve from the governor!); then select an option of whether others can view, view and add, or view, add and delete. Now just hit the big red “Drop it!” button and your file is saved in lovely cyberspace. All you do is go back to your previously-named address (what–you didn’t forget that URL already, did you?) and open that file. What could be easier? Absolutely nothing! Ruth Fleet

Check out fd's Flickr Toys from Big Huge Labs at http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/! Here you can create mosaic posters, badges, albums, jigsaw puzzles, and so many other cool and creative multimedia creations! Here is a sample of what I made:

Buffy Hamilton, Media Specialist Creekview High School

//I found a site called PollDaddy at [|http://www.polldaddy.com/.] This is a great place to set up surveys or polls for your class. You can embed these in your website or blog. I created one for the class to see it in action... [|http://www.polldaddy.com/s/DEDBD86BB5D11154/.] Freda Williams//