www.glogster.com is a great site to check out. You can create your own web pages with text, video and sound and can share your sites or keep them private. You can also very easily embed them into a wiki page to make a fabulous home page.
Have you tried one of the social bookmarking tools such as delicious ? Save your favourite sites but also access sites saved by others with similar interests - true collaboration.
http://www.ozprojects.edu.au/ Online projects with activities for students from Lower Primary to Upper Secondary.
Access over 4,000 websites and 2.5 million pages about Australia's culture and recreation. http://culture.gov.au/
Edna - Broad based educational network covering all sectors from kindergarten through primary and secondary school plus technical and higher education. really worth subscribing to feeds and joining groups. http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go scratch - a free online animation tool http://scratch.mit.edu/ Web 2.0 tools http://www.go2web20.net/ http://goanimate.com/ online animation tool http://simplespark.com/ http://www.classroom20.com/ is a ning for teachers interesting in learning more and using Web 2.0 applications in the classroom. Anyone can join, it's all free and it places you in touch with like minded teachers all over the world Video Clips & Tutorials http://www.teachertube.com/index.php Many educational videos on YouTube can be viewed on TeacherTube without the filtering issues. http://www.commoncraft.com/ a series of short explanatory videos by Lee and Sachi LeFever http://www.ted.com/index.php/ TED ideas worth spreading Graphic Organisers/Mindmap Tools Examples of Desktop Apps – although they are free, these need to be downloaded and installed on computers CMAP Tools http://cmap.ihmc.us/ FreeMind http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page These web-based tools only need an internet connection. You need to choose which is easiest for you. http://bubbl.us http://www.mindmeister.com http://mind42.com/ www.mindomo.com http://www.exploratree.org.uk/ Uses interactive Thinking Guides which support the thinking or working through of an issue, topic or question and help to shape, define and focus an idea and also support the planning required to investigate it further. Exploratree guides can be used as a basis for whole class discussion, or emailed to individuals or groups to complete. They can also be used as a presentation tool to share your findings and thinking with others. As well as providing a set of ready to use thinking guides, which are completely customisable and shareable, Exploratree also enables teachers and students to create their own simply and easily.
Questioning
From Trivial Pursuit to Essential Questions and Standards-Based Learning by Jamie McKenzie http://fno.org/feb01/pl.html (Check Strategy 2)
CamStudio is a free bit of software that lets you record and narrate things you do on your computer... so you or kids can demonstrate how to do something on the computer and post it as a video file. http://camstudio.org/
Geocaching is a great sport using a GPS. Register and find hidden treasure. www.geocaching.com
To create a free educational wiki with no advertising, go to http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers
How can I create and use a wiki?
Wiki Powerpoint PresentationHow to create accounts for your students
A Sample Wiki Warranty
Some wikis
http://wedderburnp12.wikispaces.com/http://beinggreen.pbwiki.com/
http://codeblue.wikispaces.com/
www.glogster.com is a great site to check out. You can create your own web pages with text, video and sound and can share your sites or keep them private. You can also very easily embed them into a wiki page to make a fabulous home page.
As an example, check out the following wiki created by a year 8 student. http://jesseportfolio.wikispaces.com/
www.wix.com is also an online web creation site.All you need do is register. As an example check out the home page on http://leadingonline.wikispaces.com/
Here is a link to ALL the web2.0 tools!!! http://www.go2web20.net/ Have fun!!!!
A collaborative alternative to PowerPoint?
Check out voicethread. It is really interesting. Below is a link to a grade 3 project.http://ed.voicethread.com/#u110482.b160037.i855878
How do you save your favourites?
Have you tried one of the social bookmarking tools such as delicious ? Save your favourite sites but also access sites saved by others with similar interests - true collaboration.Some BloggingSites
http://globalteacher.org.au/http://mrsmcsclass.blogspot.com/
http://murch.globalteacher.org.au/
http://win0003.globalstudent.org.au/
http://betch.edublogs.org/2008/09/29/getting-kids-to-blog/
Podcasting sites
http://www.ischool.net.au/ Ringwood North PShttp://www.adrianbruce.com/acekids/
http://www.ozprojects.edu.au/ Online projects with activities for students from Lower Primary to Upper Secondary.
Access over 4,000 websites and 2.5 million pages about Australia's culture and recreation.
http://culture.gov.au/
Edna - Broad based educational network covering all sectors from kindergarten through primary and secondary school plus technical and higher education. really worth subscribing to feeds and joining groups.
http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go
scratch - a free online animation tool
http://scratch.mit.edu/
Web 2.0 tools
http://www.go2web20.net/
http://goanimate.com/ online animation tool
http://simplespark.com/
http://www.classroom20.com/ is a ning for teachers interesting in learning more and using Web 2.0 applications in the classroom. Anyone can join, it's all free and it places you in touch with like minded teachers all over the world
Video Clips & Tutorials
http://www.teachertube.com/index.php Many educational videos on YouTube can be viewed on TeacherTube without the filtering issues.
http://www.commoncraft.com/ a series of short explanatory videos by Lee and Sachi LeFever
http://www.ted.com/index.php/ TED ideas worth spreading
Graphic Organisers/Mindmap Tools
Examples of Desktop Apps – although they are free, these need to be downloaded and installed on computers
CMAP Tools
http://cmap.ihmc.us/
FreeMind
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
These web-based tools only need an internet connection. You need to choose which is easiest for you.
http://bubbl.us
http://www.mindmeister.com
http://mind42.com/
www.mindomo.com
http://www.exploratree.org.uk/
Uses interactive Thinking Guides which support the thinking or working through of an issue, topic or question and help to shape, define and focus an idea and also support the planning required to investigate it further. Exploratree guides can be used as a basis for whole class discussion, or emailed to individuals or groups to complete. They can also be used as a presentation tool to share your findings and thinking with others. As well as providing a set of ready to use thinking guides, which are completely customisable and shareable, Exploratree also enables teachers and students to create their own simply and easily.
Questioning
From Trivial Pursuit to Essential Questions and Standards-Based Learning by Jamie McKenziehttp://fno.org/feb01/pl.html (Check Strategy 2)
Harmony Hollow free tools for teachers to download - Cool timer & The Hat
http://www.harmonyhollow.net/download.shtml
Hyperwords lets you do a variety of things with a selected word in a webpage. For Firefox Browsers only!
http://www.hyperwords.net/CamStudio is a free bit of software that lets you record and narrate things you do on your computer... so you or kids can demonstrate how to do something on the computer and post it as a video file.
http://camstudio.org/
Geocaching is a great sport using a GPS. Register and find hidden treasure.
www.geocaching.com
Vast Park - tools that let you create your own online virtual environment. This is a showcase video...
http://www.vastpark.com/index.php/vastpark_showcase/showcase_movies/vastpark_virtual_worlds_08
Create an avatar and record your own voice. www.voki.com
A wiki using vokis http://anzaconnection.wikispaces.com/Introductions