Web 2.0 Tools for Classrooms

Web 2.0 tools are online, interactive tools that can be used on any computer.  Generally these are free, although there may be a charge for additional functionality.  A few of the tools listed are not Web 2.0 because they require a download, but they are listed here until we have a more suitable location on our website for them.

Suggested Web 2.0 by Core Content Area

ELAR

  • Cobo Cards - collaborative flashcards
  • Grammar Ninja - game for grammar rules.
  • Meograph - 4D storytelling
  • NoRedInk - online grammar practice.
  • Oh Life - online journal writing.  Sends you an email each day asking what happened in your day.  Your response to the email becomes the journal entry.
  • Share What You're Reading - students write book reviews and can read reviews written by other students.
  • Shel Silverstein Books - YouTube videos of the author's famous books.
  • Slatebox - collaborative mind-mapping
  • Tagxedo - word clouds in different shapes.  You can also upload your own picture to turn into a tagxedo.
  • Thumbscribes Co+Create - collaboratively create stories, poems, etc.. 
  • Tumblecloud - collaborative digital storytelling.
  • Vocabulary.com - create lists of vocabulary words to study, or use already created lists.
  • Wordia - vocabulary games.  Build workbanks.
  • Wordle - word clouds
  • You Are Your Words - upload a picture of yourself and something that you have written and the program creates a picture of you using the two.
  • ZooWhiz - create a virtual classroom with learning games and activities for PK-8.
  • Zopler - collaborative writing.

Mathematics

  • 101 Questions - images and videos for math question creation.
  • 3DTin - create 3-D models.
  • 3DVinci - Geometry lessons using Google Sketchup
  • Brain Nook - virtual world that requires math and English skills to solve real-world problems.
  • Calkoo - variety of calculators for various purposes.
  • Cyberchase - math games for students.  Teacher pages include lesson plans and details of online and offline activities.
  • Decimal Squares - various math games.
  • Floor Planner - 3D floor plans
  • Geogebra - Interactive graphs, spreadsheets and 3-D shapes, similar to Geometer Sketchpad, only free (Not Web 2.0 because it requires a download)
  • Get the Math - Algebra-based mathematics challenges.
  • Hohli - Online chart builder.
  • Home Styler - 3D floor plans
  • How to Smile - searchable mathematics lessons and activities.
  • Infogr.am - create charts, graphs, and infographics.
  • Learn Your Tables - multiplication practice. 
  • Learn with Math Games - math games.
  • LearnZillion - over 300 video lessons and assessments.
  • Math Chimp - videos and games for K-8.
  • Math Live - various math lessons presented by animated characters.
  • Numberphile - YouTube video channel showcasing interesting facts about numbers.
  • Piktochart - display data in fun and exciting ways.
  • Plus Magazine - online mathematics journal for schools.
  • Rhyme 'N Learn Math - math raps.
  • The Eyeballing Game - see how close you can come to actual measurements of geometric shapes by eyeballing them.
  • Tinkercad - imagine and create 3-D objects.
  • XP Math - games for various mathematical strands.
  • ZooWhiz - create a virtual classroom with learning games and activities for PK-8.

Science

  • 3D Toad - allows you to view 3D, 360 degrees 
  • ARKive - video, photos, classroom activities and lesson plans about endangered animals.
  • Circuits - design circuits in your browser.
  • CSI Web Adventures - forensic science activities. From Rice University.
  • Edheads - science related simulations (surgeries, simple machines, build electronics, etc...)
  • Explania Health - animated movies that explain various health issues.
  • How to Smile - searchable science lessons and activities.
  • Rhyme 'N Learn Science - science raps
  • Scale of the Universe 2 - amazing views of the smallest to the largest known parts of our universe.
  • Science Behind the News - explanation of science, technology, and math behind current news stories.
  • Interactive Sites for Education - Science

Social Studies

  • 3D Toad History - 3D historical objects that you can zoom in and out and rotate around.
  • Animated Cotton Gin
  • Dipity - create an interactive, digital timeline.
  • DocsTeach - from the National Archives, this site allows you to create interactive learning activities with primary source documents and photos.
  • GeoTrio - create tours or watch tours of various locations.  Can be used to detail historical events or modern day places of interest.
  • Have Fun With History - videos
  • History Engine - collaborative project that allows students to learn history by doing the work of historians.
  • Humanline - visual images of our civilization history, art, and science.
  • Immigration Stories - interactive timeline
  • Lessons on American  Presidents - handouts, MP3's, and online quizzes
  • Pen Pal Kids Club - connect with K-8 students around the globe.
  • Presidents - handouts, MP3's, and online quizzes
  • Mapping Worlds - maps resize states, the World, or Japan based on various health, educational, and other criteria
  • Meograph - 4D Timeline creator.
  • National Archives Experience - create posters and videos using resources from the National Archives.
  • Old Maps Online - search for historical maps of any area.
  • Place Spotting - online map game.  Try to identify the location of the Google Earth image.
  • Simply Voting - create and manage elections.
  • Snag Learning - documentary films from places like National Geographic and NOVA.
  • Ten by Ten - takes the most current important news stories and presents them in a 10x10 grid of pictures.
  • Terraclues - create online Google Maps scavenger hunts.
  • Time Toast - timeline creator.  Can be embedded into a blog or website.
  • When In Time - timeline creator.

Suggested Web 2.0 by Category

Audio

  • Broadcastr - click on a location on a map and audio record details about that location.
  • SounCli.ps - thousands of free downloadable sound effects.
  • VoiceThread - collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).

Avatars

  • Voki - customizable avatar that can be easily embedded into a website, blog, or wiki.

Backchannels

  • Backchan.nl - allows your audience to post questions and other audience members to vote on the questions they like.
  • ClassTalk - use 160 characters to ask questions.
  • Edmodo - Facebook format that allows the audience to interact with each other and the teacher.
  • Google Moderator - submit questions and audience members can vote on them.  The program then orders questions by number of people who are interested in the answer.
  • Gosoapbox - includes confusion barometer, polls, as well as the ability for participants to ask questions of the instructor.
  • TodaysMeet - easy set-up, print transcripts after the event.
  • Twitter - use hashtags (#) to create a backchannel.
  • Wiffiti - rotates tweets and text messages.  Can be used to showcase what people are saying at an event.

Blogs

  • Blogger - weblog tool from google.
  • G-Snap! - blogging for live events.
  • Kidblog - safe and easy blogs for classrooms.
  • Wordpress - weblog with a lot of the same features as a webpage.

Cartoon Creator

  • Be Funky - change digital photos into digital cartoons.
  • BItstrips - cartoon strip creator. Create your own characters. Example
  • Clay Yourself - create a clay picture of yourself for profile pictures.
  • Draw Island is a tool for creating drawings and simple GIF animations. 
  • Sketch Star from Miniclip is a fun  tool for creating animated comics. 
  • Stop Frame Animator from Culture Street is a tool for creating animated stop motion movies.
  • Toondoo - cartoon strip creator.  You can upload your own pictures and add your own drawings.
  • Wideo is a service that allows anyone to create animated videos and Common Craft-stylevideos online. 
  • Write Comics - simple comic strip creator.

Chat

  • Channel.Me - allows students to surf the same website together from different computers.

Christmas

  • Christmas and Hofmann - upload pictures of yourself, your house, etc...and star in your own personalized movie.
  • Portable North Pole (PNP) - allows you to upload pictures of your child as well as select whether they have been naughty or nice and then gives you a video from Santa.  Example

Classroom Productivity

  • BrainPop - videos for each content area.
  • Bundlenut - bundle groups of web links together in order to share them easier.
  • ClassDojo - real-time classroom behavior management.
  • Cueprompter - make your computer a teleprompter for a speech.
  • Classtools - create games, quizzes, diagrams, or activities.  Can be embedded into a blog or website.
  • Educaplay - create a variety of puzzles
  • My SImple Surface - online white board for creating and organizing ideas.
  • Tildee - create "how-to" directions.  Can upload pictures to show each step.
  • Understoodit - real time feedback from students of whether they understand or are confused.
  • Volunteer Spot - create online sign-up sheets and organize volunteers for your event.
  • Worksheet Works - create specialized worksheets for all content areas.

Classroom Social Networks

  • Collaborize Classroom - platform for discussions, polls, sharing documents.
  • Edmodo - create a safe classroom network (like Facebook) for blogging and sharing files.
  • Posterbee - share files, links, and other resources for collaborative projects.
  • Schoology - Facebook-like set-up to manage lessons, engage students, share content, and connect with other educators.

Clipart

  • IconBug - thousands of free, royalty-free clipart graphics for download.

Collaboration

  • Corkboard Me - collaborative sticky notes.
  • Just Beam it - upload up to 2GB files and share with others via a web address.
  • Linoit - collaborative sticky notes
  • Pinside - share sticky notes, photos, lists, etc.. with others.  Can only share with those whose emails you submit.
  • Popplet - collaborative thinking maps
  • Screenleap - share your entire screen or only part of it with others.
  • ThinkBinder - collaborative study groups.
  • Trello - organize projects by posting who is working on which part and where they are in the process.  Keeps the whole team up-to-date on progress.
  • Wallwisher - collaborative bulletin board.

Converters

Creation

Email

  • Filzmail - create email accounts that expire after 24 hours.  Use for student sign-ups for various Web 2.0 tools.
  • Mailcatch - use any email address name to create a disposable email account.  No sign up required!
  • Spamgourmet - create one account and then your students can create variations of that account in order to be able to use an email to sign up for various Web 2.0 tools.

English Language Learners

  • Adlit - Find reading lists for adolescent readers, video interviews with authors as well as lists of strategies to teach reading and writing.
  • Bubbl.us - mind mapping for storytelling.
  • Language Guide - practice English vocabulary.  Hover cursor over pictures and it will show and say the words.
  • Little Bird Tales - Make audio books by uploading personal artwork, creating art on the computer and then recording yourself reading the story.
  • Piclits - inspired picture writing.
  • SnappyWords - visual dictionary.
  • Spider Scribe - connect notes, files, calendar events, etc... in a free-form mind map.
  • Visual ESL - drag and drop vocabulary games.
  • Voxy - improve your English by reading the news.  Allows learners to click on important words for definitions and then to add the word to a vocabulary list.

Flipped Classroom

  • Teachem - create units around multiple videos.
  • TED-ED - create lessons, called "flips" using any online video.

Fun Stuff to Checkout

  • Bingo - Bingo sheet generator
  • Diffen - compare and contrast any two things.
  • Draw a Stickman - Fun game where the stickman you draw comes to life and takes an adventure.
  • FutureMe - send an email to yourself in the future.  You designate the time you want the email delivered.
  • Gliffy - diagram and flowcharts
  • InFocus - highlight any section of a webpage and receive a unique url address so you can return to it or send it to a friend.
  • ReminderGuru - send reminders to yourself via email, text, or phone call
  • Zoom.it - allows you to zoom in and out on any web content, such as Infographics.

Games

  • Armored Penguin - create various types of puzzles.
  • Cookie - elementary school games for all content areas.
  • Jeopardy Labs - Jeopardy templates (not PowerPoint)
  • Jigzone - jigsaw puzzle maker.  Can upload your own photo or content material.
  • Just Crosswords - build your own crossword puzzle that can be printed or embedded into a website or blog.
  • ProProfs Brain Games - games and puzzles

Images

  • Kozzi - images that are royalty-free.
  • PhotoPin - search engine for free to use photos.

Infographics

  • Easel.ly - create and share visual ideas.
  • Infogr.am - create graphs, charts, and infographics.
  • Piktochart - create easy displays of information.
  • Venngage - create, publish and track results of your infographics.

Music

  • Edie Murphy's Royalty Free Music Room - free use of music as long as you link back to the site.
  • FreePlayMusic - free music to use on websites and in presentations.  Over 7,000 tracks to choose from.
  • Incredibox - fun way to create cool musical compositions.
  • Isle of Tune - Make your own musical masterpiece by building a city where each car, city, tree, and house has a different musical sound.
  • Purple Planet - royalty-free music that can be used in presentation as long as you link back to the site.  
  • SonicSquirrel - Free music that can be downloaded and used in presentations.
  • SoundJay - free sound effects as long as you link back to the site.

News/Current Events

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  • Flocabulary - HipHop songs for content areas and current events.  Does require a subscription after free trial runs out.
  • News 360 - news aggregator that takes stories that match your interest and build a personal newspaper.
  • News Jack - media remixing tool that allows you to take the url of a newspaper or website and alter it.  Put your name in the news!
  • Scoop.It - creates a personalized magazine with news from your interests.

Online Storage

  • Box - online storage and file sharing.
  • CX.com - up to 10GB of free online storage.
  • Dropbox - free download.  Allows you to store files online rather than on your computer.  Can share folders with other users for collaboration (Not Web 2.0 because it requires a download)
  • Googledocs - online storage through Google.  Supports documents, spreadsheets, drawings, presentations, and forms.  Can share folders with other users for collaboration.

Photos

  • Animoto - turn your pictures and video into professional looking slideshows in minutes.
  • Big Huge Labs - 42 utilities that turn your digital photos into something fun.
  • Blabberize - make your photos talk to your own voice, music, or a recording. Example
  • Caption Bubble - add speech bubbles to your photos
  • DropEvent - one place where multiple people can upload pictures pertaining to the same event.
  • DropMocks - drag and drop photos and DropMocks will create an online image gallery for you.
  • Gimp - like Photoshop only free (Not Web 2.0 because it require a download)
  • Imgur - simple image share for online media.
  • Packmule - create collaborative photo albums
  • PhotoCollect - one place where multiple people can upload pictures pertaining to the same event.
  • PhotoPeach - Photo slideshows.  Can embed in a website or blog.
  • Picozu - online image editing.  Edit photos or create images.
  • Pixlr - online photo editor (regular editing or retro vintage effects)

Physical Education

  • Fat World - designed to allow students to about the results of food choices.

Polling

  • EasyPolls - free online polls with no limit on number of responses.
  • Flisti - no registration required to create a poll that can be embedded into a website or blog.
  • KwikSurveys - eleven different question types for your embeddable surveys.
  • Kwiqpoll - simple, quick polling site.  Poll stays active for three or seven days.
  • Mentimeter - polling with no registration required.
  • MicroPoll - create polls to embed into a website.
  • Murvey - free online surveys
  • Obsurvey - create multiple-choice or open-ended surveys.
  • Pinnion - create surveys that can be collected via email, mobile device, blog, or website.
  • Poll Daddy - create surveys, polls, or quizzes.  Data can be collected on your website or send to email.  Easy created reports.
  • Poll Everywhere - Text message polling.
  • Poll Junkie - create polls to embed into a website.  Does not require registration.
  • Pollmo - provide users with a url to your questions.
  • Polls.io - create simple polls and share with others.
  • QuizSnack - embed into websites or blogs.
  • Socrative - Classroom Response System using any device that connects to the internet.
  • Strawpoll.me - Quick and easy single question polling site.  See results in pie chart format.
  • Text the Mob - Text message polling.
  • Urtak - make yes or no poll question, but also allows visitors to your poll to add their own questions.
  • Vorbeo - free polls for your website.
  • Yarp - simple invitations and surveys.
  • Zoomerang - online survey creator

Presentations

  • 9Slides - combine video and PowerPoint into one presentation. 
  • Adam - upload a PDF and insert "hotspots" into it.  Video, text, audio can all be added for effect
  • Ahead - design and publish zooming presentations and websites.
  • Calameo - publish your own magazine and include features like background music and sounds for page turns.
  • Creaza - design and share digital stories or presentations.
  • EduGlogster - Interactive poster.  Embed video, pictures, links, or photos.  Can be shared for collaborative projects.
  • Fakebook - create a fake Facebook page to give report on famous persons or events.
  • Knovio - turn static PowerPoint into a more creative presentation by including various forms of multimedia.
  • Meograph - 4D Storytelling
  • Museum Box - create a museum display to explain your topic.
  • Present.me - record audio and video to accompany your slideshow presentations.
  • Prezi - zoomable presentation software.  Example
  • Projeqt - allows you to tell a story and embed social media, YouTube videos, and other things into the story.   . 
  • Qwiki Creator - combine voice, pictures, video and more into an interactive presentation.  More than just a slideshow, Qwiki allows you to createa "choose your own adventure" type presentation.
  • Slide Boom - share your PowerPoint presentations online.  Embed PowerPoint into websites or blogs.
  • Slide Rocket - Collaborate on a PowerPoint presentation.  Embed it into websites or blogs.
  • Slide Share - share PowerPoint and video online.
  • Vuvox - create a collage of various multimedia (video, photos, music).

Productivity

  • iLovePDF - merge or split pdf documents.
  • Pdf Escape - free online PDF reader, editor, form filler, and form designer.
  • Twdocs - export favorite tweets or searches into multiple document formats (including PDF and HTML)

QR Codes

  • Kaywa QR Code Generator - basic QR code generator.
  • QRHacker - customize your QR codes with colors and even pictures.
  • QRreader - desktop QR code scanner.
  • QR Stuff - Create QR codes with a lot of different material.  Also customize your code with color.
  • QR Voice - generates a QR code that when scanned speaks the message.
  • Qurify - create QR codes that can be downloaded and printed.

Quizzes

  • Exit Ticket - gather real-time data on student understanding.
  • QuizSlides - build quizzes based on your PowerPoint slides.
  • StudyEgg - create quizzes to go along with your favorite educational videos.

Resume

  • Resumeonk - create professional looking resumes quickly.  Can convert to PDF.

Search Tools

  • Oolone - visual search engine.
  • Sweet Search - search engine for students.
  • Twurdy - search engine that returns results and sorts it by reading level.

Video

  • Disapainted - stick figure animation.
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  • Jellycam - stop motion film (turns still images into video
  • JibJab - upload pictures of you and your friends to create a video e-card.  Various themes available, but some for a fee. Example
  • Magisto - instant video editing.
  • Screencast-o-matic - capture what you are doing on your computer in order to make instructional videos. How-to-Video
  • Screenr - easy screencasting.
  • Six3 - send free video messages.
  • Slide.ly - instant video slideshow
  • TEDEd - videos, called "Flips" that can include questions and additional resources on a topic.  Create your own, or explore the multitude of flips already created.
  • Veengle - create and share your own video compilations.
  • Xtranormal - make movies by typing in a script and telling the actors what to do.  Example

Website Creator/Tools

  • Google sites - website creator using Google tools.
  • Internet Buttons - assign websites to each button so students go only to the sites you want them to visit.
  • Page O Rama - quick single-page online publishing.
  • Schoolnotes - basic webpage editor.  All content is on one page.
  • School Rack - includes a blog function with discussion boards and collaborative tools.
  • Youblisher - turns your PDF's into a flippable document that looks like an online magazine.
  • Weebly - easy website creator (this website is done using Weebly)
  • Wix - Flash-based website creator.
  • Zoho Sites - drag-and-drop website creator.

Wiki

  • Wikispaces - wikis are places for collaborative learning to happen (think of Wikipedia where anyone can add information)