Web+2.0

toc **Web 2.0**

Educational Origami
This is an extremely comprehensive site - A MUST READ!

Web 2.0 Speed Dating
What is Web 2.0? What are the benefits to educators? This session provides a quick overview of Web 2.0 tools available for educators and suggested uses for incorporating them into the classroom. Come whet your appetite for personal learning and classroom application SURE to engage today's students. [|THIS IS A VERY COMPREHENSIVE SITE!]

Lenva Shearing from Bucklands Beach Intermediate has collated a number of FREE tools for schools to use.  http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

Web 2.0 Tools and Applications
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Web 2.0 Guru
The Best WEB 2.0 Resources for Relevant Educational Technology Integration. http://web20guru.wikispaces.com/

Amazing Web 2.0 [|Project Book (PDF file)]

 * 87 projects, 10 further resources, 52 applications.
 * The benefits of using Web 2.0 applications.
 * The challenges of using Web 2.0 applications.
 * How the folk who ran these projects handled the issues...
 * And what they recommend you do if you run them.
 * What were the learning outcomes?

ePals
[|Welcome to the Internet's largest global community of connected classrooms!] Safely connect, collaborate and learn using our leading protected email and blog solutions for schools and districts

Teaching & Learning in the Digital Age.
[|This Australian site] has an extremely extensive range of resources. Well worth exploring!

A – Z Internet Resources for Education
These are some of the[| best free internet resources] for education.

**Google For Educators**
Web search can be a remarkable research tool for students - and Google have heard from educators that they could use some help to teach better search skills in their classroom. The following [|Search Education lesson]s were developed by Google Certified Teachers to help you do just that. The lessons are short, modular and not specific to any discipline so you can mix and match to what best fits the needs of your classroom. Additionally, all lessons come with a companion set of slides (and some with additional resources) to help you guide your in-class discussions.

Teacher Tools
[|Microsoft Teacher Tools] - Great Resources for Windows Users

Free Resources from Microsoft.
[|New, teaching resources from Microsoft]. Most of them are centered around their products like Photostory, Movie Maker, and Bing, but the Teaching Guides have lots of good ideas and tips that would work for a wide variety of products.

**20 ICT Ideas in 20 Minutes**
[] [|The Fun Place to Learn!] 50 one-stop learning activities from[| Scholastic]
 * Primary Games **
 * Computer Lab Favourites **

New Tools Workshop
This is a very comprehensive wiki of web 2.0 resources.

Vancouver ICT Wiki
A very wide range of useful links and resources - well worth exploring

Technology for Kids
[|Welcome to our Wiki.] You can find great tips for using technology with kids!

Tools for Digital Storytellers
[|Here are some more tools] to create your web based digital stories.

Learning 2.0
[|This is a comprehensive site] that explains about web 2.0, such as RSS feeds, wikis, blogs, Google Docs, tagging, social bookmarking, as well as 17 other things. Well worth investigating!

Edgalaxy
[|This is the interactive Edgalaxy Teaching Ideas Mind Map]. You can zoom and scroll around the map to find exactly what you are after. Remember to click on the the little page icon for a description of the task and the little arrow will take you to the link. There is a wealth of information here.

Tools for the 21st Century Teacher
[|Web based technologies] to get teachers started []

Ideas to Inspire
[|'Ideas to Inspire' is a collection of collaborative presentations], which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities. They are the result of the collaboration of teachers from all around the world.The presentations are grouped into different sections:
 * Providing ideas and resources, linked to specific curriculum areas.
 * Presentations that focus on one particular ICT hardware tool and suggest ways of using that tool in your classroom.
 * Presentations which share classroom uses for a range of software and online tools.
 * Collaborative presentations, covering a range of topics.. Techy Tips, Inspiring Youtube videos, Games to support learning and more...

[|21st century teacher librarian] Links to many useful resources including some high quality professional readings on our wiki... [| Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers] //"This document is intended as simple introduction to some free Web 2.0 type tools that can be used by teachers who are interested in using technology in language teaching. The tools presented here are just the tip of the iceberg and this should not be considered in anyway conclusive or even theʻbest ofʼ Web 2.0 tools. New tools are emerging all the time, many not originally intended for education, but which can be put to good use by students and teachers alike to extent opportunities, enhance learning potential and develop the level of digital literacy that students will need for the 21st century.//" [|Web Games and Resources] A comprehensive catalogue of educational websites and resources.

Google Docs
More and more schools are switching to using Google Docs in all aspects of their operation. Dorothy Burt ran a Google Fest at ULearn. [|Here's her Google Fest site.]