Web+2.0+Sites

Web 2.0 Sites

[|Answer Garden] The answer garden is kind of like a community 'Wordle'. You post a question and the students answer with a word or phrase. As the submit their answers, the responces pop up like a wordle. Great for quick questions to get a quick sample of student understanding, blogging, or polling! Simple Diagrams This tool resembles a chalkboard; it enables you to create visuals for classes in an easy manner with both typed font and "pencil" type writing.

[|Thinkfinity] Thousands of free lesson plans and educational resources.

[|SpanishPod] Award winning site that is a convenient and easy way to learn Spanish. It combines audio lesson podcasts with web and mobile study tools. There is a charge but there is a free trial.

[|Yacapaca] This is the free version of Quia. Teachers can create quizzes, surveys, tests, e-portfolios, and other assessment options. They can easily assign work to students, have it automatically graded, and use devices provided by the site to assess how a teacher can improve his or her instruction.

[|PlanBookEdu] This is an online planbook. Has some great features, but may not have all the tools you need.

This is a digital timeline. It is free. You can upgrade for a price. Not very easy to use, it will take time
Tikatok This site allows students to write, revise, edit and publish their own books. There are a variety of products available for purchase for a range of prices.

[|Free Screen Cast] This site allows you to create your own screen cast for free! You can capture a step by step on screen process and save it or embed it on a website. Also has pre-made screen casts on a variety of topics!

Tagxedo
==== It's a site that turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. ====

Notely Notely.net is a one stop student planning and organization tool. This site allows students the oppurtunity to set up calendars and daily schedules to keep track of classes and assignments. A word processor based page allows students to keep online notes which can be supplmented with pictures, videos, and links from the internet, which can be accessed wherever the internet is availabe. The site also includes a grade tracker application and other useful organizational tools and aides.

SweetSearch SweetSearch is a search engine designed for student use. It is a database composed of over 35,000 expert-reviewed websites that helps students locate valuable, reliable information much faster than if they were using Google.

[|Glogster] poster yourself; online interactive posters

[|Rubistar] online rubric maker

[|Teach-nology] numerous resources for teachers; lesson plans, worksheets, etc.