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An Instructional Technology Coordinator's Top 10 Free Things on the Web 2.0
The World Wide Web has grown from being a media delivery network that showcased companies and advertisers to a community-driven domain. The new web, named Web 2.0 provides ordinary users the ability to create their own content, those being involved in the content creation process. This is most evident by Wikis, Blogs, Photo Sharing sites and Podcasts. As Educators one of our goals is to incorporate the capabilities of new technologies into our classroom. By doing this we are also providing our students with essential skills that they will need to succeed in the job market. Below are a few Web 2.0 free Internet productivity tools that could be incorporated into your classroom.
1. SketchCast Lesson capture SketchCast is a web-site that allows you to create sketches with recorded voice. After you sign up to the service for free, you can start drawing your sketches and, when done, you can record your own voice to explain what you are doing. When you are finished, you can embed a video player on any web-site to display your sketch. Free to use. http://sketchcast.com/
2. ThinkFree Show Document Production & Storage ThinkFree Show is part of an online Office suite, ThinkFree online, and it allows you to create, edit, and share presentations online without buying any software. After a free registration, you are able to log in and start creating PPT presentations as if you were using Microsoft PowerPoint, and also to export them as PPT, PPS and images. The free version offers 1GB of storage and it is free. http://product.thinkfree.com/desktop/show/
3. SlideShare PowerPoint Sharing SlideShare is a site where you can upload PowerPoint presentations and view those of others. It's a sharing site; it's the YouTube of PowerPoint. One difference is that some presentations are available for download. http://www.slideshare.net/
4. Switchpod.com Podcast/Audio Sharing Switchpod.com is a podcast host that allows podcasters to host their audio and video files. These audio and video files will be added to an rss feed, which people can use to download these files. Users can also download files right off Switchpod. A podcast is a medium that uses an rss feed to broadcast audio and video files that users can listen to. It's similar to a radio show or television show on the internet. http://www.switchpod.com
5. Fotki or Flickr.com Photo Sharing Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world - has two main goals: We want to help people make their photos available to people and provides new ways of organizing photos. http://www.flickr.com. Fotki is mainly a photo-sharing, photo-printing, photo-selling and blogging site just like Flickr, Photobucket, smugbug, snapfish and Webshots. http://www.fotki.com
6. YouTube/Google Video Video Sharing With Google Video, you can upload your movie and have it streamed to anyone. You can restrict content on Google Video by making it unlisted in the search results so that you can only share it with private groups. http://video.google.com/
7. SecondLife Virtual Classrooms Second Life is a 3-D world created by it’s residents. The Second Life Grid provides a unique and flexible platform for educators interested in distance learning, simulation, new media studies, and collaborative learning. http://www.secondlife.com
8. Photoshow Photo Presentation PhotoShow.com is the fastest, easiest way to turn your memories into a PhotoShow online, from any Mac or PC. A PhotoShow is a rich, personal multimedia experience that combines your own images with broadcast-quality credits, captions, transitions, effects, and a great musical soundtrack. http://www.photoshow.com
9 Skype Synchronized Communication Skype is a social networking software for making free calls over the internet to anyone else who has Skype. http://www.skype.com
10. Zoomerang Classroom Survey Tool Zoomerang.com is an online survey tool that allows users to create and send surveys and analyze results on-demand. The free "Zoomerang Basic" version allows the user to create a survey with no more than 30 questions, receive no more than 100 responses, and view the results for 10 days. http://www.zoomerang.com/
