Web+2.0+Tools

Sharing websites and resources with colleagues on Web 2.0 Tools:

1. Kathy Schrock has been one of me ed heroes for quite a while. She has a page on her site about Web2.0 tools that I think you might find helpful. I remember Kathy being ahead of her time with rubrics that I used many years ago! She certainly keeps up with the times!--Valerie

[|Kathy Schrock's Web 2.0 Tools]

2. I don't remember how I found this Web 2.0 tool. I apologize if someone in this class mentioned it already but I wanted to share it here--Valerie. [|http://www.wallwisher.com/--]

3. This website had a multitude of information-from free videos, free podcasts, to free textbooks. I could spend a lot of time on this website! [|Open Culture] My original website had cool tools [|Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century] (I actually used one tool during back to school night-Polleverywhere.com, which gave me feedback from parents through their cell phones). These are good tools that you can use personally and professionally! - Judy Zangrilli

4.I have been finding a lot of great information via Twitter and RSS feeds, but don't always have time to read and explore the links. [|www.readitlaterlist.]com allows you to add links that you can access later from a computer or smartphone,

5. Be sure to check out [] Clarkson's Museum Box Creator. After registering your school and getting confirmation, you get a free teacher account. Your students can create a "box/cube" to demonstrate knowledge of a particular concept/skill. The cube/box sides can be built with layers of video, text, images, and audio files so they can add to it as the year progresses. As a social studies teacher, it is a wonderful interactive tool for my students to explore/share such concepts as "sectionalism in American history" throughout the school year by adding to it in layers the different events/issues that contributed to America's Civil War. Be sure to check it out....

6. I wish I had a reason to use this every day. Educators can get a free account at []. Easy, quick movie making with lots of "WOW" factor built in.

7. http://chnm.gmu.edu/mcpstah/resources/primary-source-activities/ This website is a part of a grant program between George Mason University and MCPS which I have been a participant. This page has lessons, videos, and podcasts which all incorporate primary sources. -Wendy Bates

8. A very useful tool for making custom rubrics or locating a generric one is Rubistar - []. It uses a drop down menu format, but also allows the teacher/student to type in descriptions. One warning - when making a rubric be sure to save it as you go, because there is a time out feature if you start a rubric and leave it open without working on it.

9.http://www.mathplayground.com/ (Wendy Bates) This is an action packed website with interactive games, logic puzzles, word problems, along with videos. Appropriate for elementary and middle school students.

10. This site is full of tech info. I love the section "Top 10 Articles of the Week". - []

11. [|Blabberize] This is for pure fun with educational potential. I've used this with Kindergarteners and they love the final project. They used pictures from their zoo trip and recorded their voices giving facts they learned about the animal. You upload a photo, define the moving mouth and students record their voice for the photo. I created a school account and when the students create a project we mark them private. There are some public projects that would be inappropriate for students so don't allow students to just randonly search the site for examples.- Joni

12. [] (posted by Sarah Martin) This is a really great tool for students to practice critical thinking skills in a strutured forum that will become second nature. The program is actually called SCAN and teachers can sign up for free for a limited library of "issues" that students break down based on taking on 1 of 4 roles that would be involved in the issue. An example that I did with my students is if Archeaology is the same thing as vandalism/grave robbing. My students loved it! Teachers who purchase a license can write and create their own "issues" that would then be tailored to their content.

13. [] (posted by Sarah Martin) This site posts a new weekly summary of the big news stories every Friday in rap and with a video of clips. It is great to connect students with the news using music they love! This is put together by the people who have created Flocabulary which utilizes rap to have students work with language arts skills, social studies content and math topics! Check out both if you haven't heard of them before.