Education 2.0
81Web 2.0 Teaching Tools
This is a list of websites and tools that I have reviewed at my Web 2.0 Teaching Tools blog. Things are a bit disorganized on that site, so this list complements it well. These websites are either completely free or have a free version that can be used with small groups of students. -- Alan
VIRTUAL OFFICES - online editing and sharing of text files, spreadsheets, chats and emails, calendars, etc.
- 37Signals.com's Basecamp - http://37signals.com/
- activeCollab - http://www.teamworklive.com/TeamWork.htm
- ProjectSpaces - http://www.forumone.com/section/services/projectspaces/
- TeamworkLive - http://www.teamworklive.com/TeamWork.htm
- Zoho Vitural Office - http://zoho.com/
- SPresent - online flash presentations - http://www.spresent.com/v2/
WORD PROCESSING / TEXT / WIKIS
- Jotspot - http://www.jot.com/
- Schtuff - http://www.schtuff.com/
- Web Collaborator - http://webcollaborator.com/
- Writeboard - http://writeboard.com/
- Writely - http://writely.com
- Designing Learning Spaces - Example of a Class using an Open Wiki
SPREADSHEETS only
- EditGrid - http://www.editgrid.com/home
- iRows - http://irows.com
- Tracker (Jotspot) - http://tracker.jot.com/
- wikiCalc - http://www.softwaregarden.com/wkcalpha/
DATABASES only - those I don't think any of the Virtual Office have this feature
- Lazybase - http://lazybase.com/
- My Own DB - http://www.myowndb.com/
MAPPING
- Map Hacks.net - http://www.gisuser.com/maphacks/ - for GIS users
- Quickmaps - http://quikmaps.com/
PICTURE TOOLS
- Flickr Magazine Cover tool - http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/magazine.php
- Other Great Flickr-based tools
- Scanr - http://www.scanr.com/ - scan and send from a photo phone
- Stickam - http://www.stickam.com/ - upload photos, videos & audio to post on blog pages
BLOGS
- Learning Blogs - http://learnerblogs.org/ - for K-12 students
- Uni Blogs - http://uniblogs.org/ - for University students
- Edu Blogs - http://edublogs.org/ - for Education professionals (teachers, etc.)
- ESL Blogs - http://eslblogs.org/ - for ESL & EFL educators
VOICE / AUDIO / PODCASTING
- Yack Pack - http://www.yackpack.com/
- Utterli - http://www.utterli.com
- Posterous - http://posterous.com/
ONLINE MEETINGS
- Vyew - http://vyew.com/
ACADEMIC SEARCH
- Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com/
- Post Genomic - http://www.postgenomic.com/
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT - classroom tools that span the needs of Students, Parents, Teachers and School Administrators
- My Note It - http://www.mynoteit.com/
- Schoopy - http://www.schoopy.com/
- School Tool - http://www.schooltool.org/
- Engrade - http://www.engrade.com/ - online grading tool
- Moodle* - http://moodle.org - open source course management system (CMS)
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Thanks. This interesting (http://www.spresent.com/v2/). I will add it to the list, and will mention it on my blog (http://Web20Teach.com). -- Cheers, Alan
Here is another one, http://www.welang.com, teachers can design language course use a wiki system.
Very interesting concept - It could be cool to get students to use web2.0 mind mapping for project planning http://www.mindnode.com/
Great write-up. Another awesome tool to add: PicLens by Cooliris (http://www.cooliris.com) for viewing photos and videos in a web 2.0 3D wall. Students can research images on Google Images and much more. My kids love it!
For those interested in Test Prep you may consider http://prephub.com
The site is a community based around user contributed test prep questions. Hope you find it useful.
Try http://www.tutorvista.com they provide online tutoring in all subject. They have their own whiteboard and VOIP system. They have best math tutor http://www.tutorvista.com/content/mathcontent.php and they dont charge much. I even end up getting a free tutoring session :-)
It is the great collection of web 2.0 education. I 1st time knew about education 2.0 however, I was familier with web 2.0.
Check out Prime Language Services: http://www.PrimeLanguageServices.com They provide online tutoring in Russian Language via Virtual Classroom: VOIP, whiteboard, etc.
Check out the new social network site for Higher Education:
It has higher education related news, events, colleges, graduate schools, scholarships, courses, blogs, wiki, forums, etc...
Check out Tutrme - http://tutrme.com
Find a tutor, for anything, anywhere!
Tutrme.com is a free global tutor database helping connect local tutors with students. The graphical map-based directory interface ensures that students never have to hunt through loads of useless information in their search for a local, qualified tutor. http://tutrme.com












Sasha says:
2 years ago
Here is another tool you may consider: www.spresent.com
And here is a great example:Education 2.0 - Students Create Content.More: http://www.spresent.com/blog/