Monday, February 18, 2008


Web 2.0

VWCC February/March 2008


Video


YouTube

The hands down dominant force on the internet regarding video. “End Users” provide an almost endless array of video content to be digested. Some is junk; some is masterful.


Revver

YouTube with a twist. End Users earn cash based on traffic on their provided videos.


Stumble Video

Randomness comes alive. Similar to Pandora. You choose a topic. It begins parading videos onto your screen. You vote them up or down. It learns what you like.


Bombay TV

Absolute goofiness. You add dialogue to short snippets from very bad India (Bombay) films. The results are sharable and often hilarious.


Joost

From the creators of Skype. Joost is Television on demand on your computer for free. So far only a few major cable networks have signed on (MTV and Comedy Central). In its beta form, you must be invited to participate.


The Machine is Us/ing Us

Women in Art


A Talk with Grandfather


Bears


Misheard Lyrics


Misheard Numa Numa Lyrics


While My Guitar Gently Weeps


Daft Hands


A Fair(y) Use Tale


100Km Ball


Social Networking


Google Docs


RSS


Wiki


Web 2.0



General Knowledge


Web 2.0 for Teaching and Learning

Excellent Overview wiki


Web 2.0 Terminology

A wikispace site that looks at important Web 2.0 ideas.


Learner’s 2.0

Wiki with a lot of Web 2.0 terms and resources


Learning 2.0

More resources and ideas


I Want To

Even more resources


The Read/Write Web
Excellent resource on everything Web 2.0

Backpack Resources


All Things Web 2.0

Resource for mining Web 2.0 sites


Go2Web20

An outstanding collection of resources


FontFeed

A site concerned with fonts, but with a deep well of resources.


Will Richardson’s Weblogged

Will knows and understands Web 2.0 and how it can impact education.


Landmarks For Schools

The main site for David Warlick’s creations. Mining through this site can be very educational.


Discovery School

Kathy Schrock, working with Discovery, thoroughly explores Web 2.0 applications.


Mashable: Social Networking News

This site sponsors the Social Networking Awards. It has an excellent reference list of popular Web 2.0 sites.


Virginia's Community of Learning

Technology resource site for teachers.


Akamai

What does the Internet world look like?


Music


Pandora

The most fascinating radio site on the web. Set up channels based on a music artist. Pandora will find music that matches that style. Then you can either give it a thumbs up or down. Eventually, Pandora learns what music you like.


Seeqpod

My personal favorite radio site. You plug in an artist and seeqpod finds music by that artist on the web. You can piece together playlists much in the same manner as iTunes. The cool thing is that seeqpod finds obscure recordings of your artist as well as popular tracks.


Last.fm

One of the oldest radio sites on the web.



Social Networking


MySpace

What is there to say. On MySpace, you set up a page and personalize it with your content and populate it with your friends.


Facebook

This is the big boy MySpace. You need a school web address to secure an account. It operates much in the same manner as MySpace


Second Life

Some say this site is the future. It’s a virtual world that you can have your avatar join. You can wander around looking for adventure. Some say that education “islands” will radically change the nature of education in the near future.



Photo


Flickr

The photo standard site. Upload, store, and share photos. View photos from other people. Comment on them.


Fotki

Photo site much like Flickr; however, it is heavily tagged.


Webshots

A well-designed photo store and share site. Easy to use and navigate.


PileofPhotos

Sort of exactly as the name implies


Sotherden

Joan likes to take pictures and loves to share them.



Archive.org

You can find about anything you want. It’s all free and copyright-free. Their music selections are awesome. The site is so huge it sometimes bogs down.


Creative Commons

The site where you can apply for a special license for your created works. Their licenses clearly spell out for users how they are allowed to use your stuff.






The GooglePlex


Google

The Beast

Google Earth

All the rage two years ago. Incredible satellite images and melded with detailed maps. The resulting interactive media captures kids’ imaginations. Education Application


Google Maps

Solid application similar to Mapquest.


iGoogle

The new Google world where the end user stores specific content on one home page.

Google News

Instantly scans world and national news and brings you the stories you desire quickly.


Google Documents

An application in the Google suite that allows you to create and share Word and Excel documents and share them with people of your choice. The people you invite can edit and modify the documents allowing you to conference and collaborate.


GMail

Google’s liberating email service. As with many things it’s by invitation only since it’s in double secret beta testing.




Find It and Mark It and Share It


TekMom

A “metacrawler” search site that is child friendly. While this site could be classified as Web 1.0, it is extremely well organized and easy to use.


Portaportal

Another Web 1.0 application, but it offers a way to easily manage and harness the Internet for kids.


Technorati

The world of Tags comes alive. Find almost any kind of media by using a standard search or by utilizing Tags.


Del.icio.us

Portaportal on steroids. Find and share interesting Internet sites. Organize your bookmarks and Tag them.


Furl

Web file cabinet.

Digg

Users submit content and share it with others. Others view it. Digg ranks the views. People talk about the content. Very hip and Web 2.0.



KeyWord Map
Allows the user to expand keywords for more effective searching.



Trackstar
Allows a teacher to develop lesson tracks for interactive teaching.



Communicate and Share


  • Telephone

Skype

Skype people. Skype to Skype is free. Internet telephone. Video and audio conferencing. Chatting.


Yahoo Voice

Use Yahoo Messenger to have voice chats from PC to PC. Calls to real telephones cost $0.01 a minute.



  • Blogs

Blogger

One of the major blog services out there. Easy to use and full of functionality.


SaveCountryside

An example of a community blog


Swimming Upstream

An example of a personal weblog


ARFTCHC

A blog dedicated to an obsessive habit


Edublog

Blogs for educators.


Blogmeister

More Blogs for educators.


Eduspaces

Even more blogs for educators.


StatCounter

Free application that allows a blogger to keep track of traffic.


Frappr

Mash up site that combines maps with people. Mark yourself and send a message to the world of that map.


Tumblr

Like a scrapbook version of a blog. Simple and easy to use.


Twitter

Ever want to know what someone else is doing right now? A baby blog




  • WikiWorlds

Wikipedia

Learn about just about anything. Develop content. Share content. Beware of content.


WikiHow

The world’s greatest “How To” manual. Loads of fun. Hours of laughs. Incredible tips.


Wikispaces

A place for individuals or groups to share and develop information.

Jotspot

Wiki site recently acquired by Google. New registrations are closed, but the service allows for a greater content flexibility.


VoiceThread

Easily take photographs and narrate them or comment on them. Search for other’s photo stories.

Center for Digital Storytelling

Want to know what it’s all about? This site explains digital storytelling in great detail.


Digital Storytelling Links

Everything You’ve ever wanted to know about digital storytelling in one handy portal.


Hitchhikr

David Warlick has developed a site that provides interactive links to technology conferences.





  • Podcast


Audacity

As a child of the 70’s, I have always been in to recording stuff. Audacity makes recording and editing extremely easy. Plus it’s free!


Podcast Tutorial


Podcast Tutorial 2



Slapcast

Clever, simple, easy podcast creation host. Free or fee. You can even create a podcast using your telephone.


Podomatic

The industry leader (but limited) podcast site. Create. Find. Share.


Gcast

Creates and hosts podcasts for free.


Podsafe Audio

Free music for your podcasts. Works are under creative commons license.


Talkr

Automatically have your blog content turned into an automated podcast


Odeo

Podcast repository. Find and Play.


Jamendo

Music that if free to use under Creative Commons license.



  • RSS


Google Reader

You tell the reader what content sites in which you are interested. When any of your sites publishes new content, the reader captures a link to it and stores it on one place one Google place on your screen. Of course the Googleplex makes cash by selling targeted ads on your view space.


Newsgator

It allows you to subscribe to blogs, podcasts, etc and then allows you to view all new content in one location.


Bloglines

It allows you to subscribe to blogs, podcasts, etc and then allows you to view all new content in one location.


Cool and Fun



Copyright Site

Well-developed site that helps educate users on morality issues


Copyright Kids

Brings the whole copyright issue to a child’s level of understanding.


World RPS

Just a little hilarity.


BBC

A fine example of today’s interactive Web 2.0 webpage.


Spaced Penguin

More hilarity with a purpose.


Son of Citation Machine

Indispensable for academics writing papers. From David Warlick


Visuwords

Excellent online graphical dictionary


Visual Thesaurus

A great tool for children to allow them to see related words. Such visualization fosters more powerful written constructions.


iFlows

My personal favorite weather site that no one knows about. This real-time site collects rainfall data from all over the region and displays it.

AndreaMosaic

Photo mosaic comes alive. You’ll need to download the free program.


Find It Virginia

Amazing free resource available to anyone in the area with a public library card.


Internet Public Library

Excellent resource. Collects many research tools in one place.


Library Thing

A grand Web book discussion. Share your favorites. Learn about more books than you ever dreamed.


Shelfari

Another grand book discussion


Book Mooch

Swap your used books. Talk about books.


IMDB

The most incredible movie database in the world. Becoming more interactive all the time.


PDF Online

Not really Web 2.0, but useful nonetheless.


Great Turtle Race

Site geared to kids that marries real-time data with high interest graphics.


Flightaware

Try not to go insane as you play real time flight controller for real flights. Track them all.


Aniboom

A unique animation creation site. Play and create.


NY Times On This Day

Very interesting way to look at history. Thorough, sleek presentation.


Interactive Weather Map

The Weather Channel brings us this new generation weather map. Interactive.


Landsat

NASA supports this very educational and interactive website.


Ann Smith’s Robots

Simple Machines gone wild.


Woot

A most unusual consumer experience. Buy and talk.


Doodle

Create 3-D Doodles. Why? Why not?


Waymarking

Find and mark interesting places on the planet.


Bubbl.us

Brainstorming application. Easy to use.







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