What is your favorite web 2.0 tool?

[Sandy Hirtz]

As we begin the New Year, take a moment to reflect on the web 2.0 tools you used in 2011. Which has been the most useful?

[Trevor Schofield]

Moodle-slide show module,quiz activity

Hot Potatoes

Content generator

[Connie Gross]

Although I have several tools I love, my absolute favourites - and ones I have had the most interest shown by students - include:

1. Google documents

2. Dropbox

3. Bubbl.Us

4. Delicious Bookmarking

[Carlos Raul Lopez Reatiga]

Hi,

This is a very difficult question since there are too many tools you can use. I would say that these are my favorite Web 2.0 Tools:

• Calameo
• Voicethread
• Goanimate
• Xtranormal
• Youtube
• Educaplay
• Blogspot
• Moodle

And a lot more.

Warm regards!

[Sandy Hirtz]

How do you use Calameo, Educaplay and GoAnimate. I am not familiar with them?

[Carlos Raul Lopez Reatiga]

Hi,

This is the way I use Calameo:

• I design a reading passage with text and images in Powerpoint (preferably horizontally, to resemble a book).
• I save the presentation as images because most of the times Calameo doesn't have all the fonts you use in your slides.
• Then I do a new presentation, this time I insert the images in their respective slides.
• Finally, I upload the presentation with images in every slide and Calameo transforms that presentation into a motivating flipping book.

Educaplay helps you design eleven different kinds of interactive exercises with images, text, and sound.

GoAnimate helps you design animated presentations with images, sound (from the site as well as uploaded files), and movement.

The three of them (Calameo, Educaplay, and GoAnimate) provide you with an embedding code so you can have them wherever lets you use HTML language.

I hope this can help you and everyone reading it.

Warm regards!

[Fenella Olynick]

Hi Carlos,

Thanks for your post. I agree, GoAnimate is a great tool to use and a lot of fun - very quick and easy (I like to think of it as an extremely simplified version of Moviestorm). I'll have to check out Educaplay. 

Thanks,

Fenella

[Nancy Rupert]

In my grade 4/5 classroom, I've found the use of Google Docs and other Google tools really useful.  I've also enjoyed using Kidblog.  For communicating home, I like Blogspot.

[Jacob Givand]

Google Apps, especially Documents, Forms and Spreadsheets have been incredibly useful to me this year.

[Sangeeta Gulati]

My favorites are:

LiveBinders

Pearltrees

Google Docs

Dropbox

[Janet Kaszonyi]

There are so many web 2.0 tools that it is hard to choose especially if you just haven't had time to try out the new ones.  My list is as follows:

• Voicethread - tremendous tool for presentations or embedding into Moodle for teaching.
• Twitter - Learned so much from a PLN
• Wordle - used it to flush out main ideas in writing
• Jing - For video
• Prezi - powerpoint on steroids
• Google Docs - for doc storage access anywhere or collaborative writing with students

To name a few.

[Susan Roseman]

twitter

kwout

tappedin.org

anything google

delicious 

diigo

[judith Behrens]

This is a great list! :) If any of you are interested in taking a simple survey on "What is in Your Blended Learning Toolbox, email me and I will send you a link. This is part of an active research learning activity that I am doing for my class at http://www.integrating-technology.org/.

Judi