Web 2.0
VWCC February/March 2008
Video
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.
YouTube with a twist. End Users earn cash based on traffic on their provided videos.
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.
Absolute goofiness. You add dialogue to short snippets from very bad India (Bombay) films. The results are sharable and often hilarious.
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.
General Knowledge
Web 2.0 for Teaching and Learning
Excellent Overview wiki
A wikispace site that looks at important Web 2.0 ideas.
Wiki with a lot of Web 2.0 terms and resources
More resources and ideas
Even more resources
The Read/Write Web
Excellent resource on everything Web 2.0
Resource for mining Web 2.0 sites
An outstanding collection of resources
A site concerned with fonts, but with a deep well of resources.
Will knows and understands Web 2.0 and how it can impact education.
The main site for David Warlick’s creations. Mining through this site can be very educational.
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.
What does the Internet world look like?
Music
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.
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.
One of the oldest radio sites on the web.
Social Networking
What is there to say. On MySpace, you set up a page and personalize it with your content and populate it with your friends.
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
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
The photo standard site. Upload, store, and share photos. View photos from other people. Comment on them.
Photo site much like Flickr; however, it is heavily tagged.
A well-designed photo store and share site. Easy to use and navigate.
Sort of exactly as the name implies
Joan likes to take pictures and loves to share them.
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.
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
The Beast
All the rage two years ago. Incredible satellite images and melded with detailed maps. The resulting interactive media captures kids’ imaginations. Education Application
Solid application similar to Mapquest.
The new Google world where the end user stores specific content on one home page.
Instantly scans world and national news and brings you the stories you desire quickly.
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.
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
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.
Another Web 1.0 application, but it offers a way to easily manage and harness the Internet for kids.
The world of Tags comes alive. Find almost any kind of media by using a standard search or by utilizing Tags.
Portaportal on steroids. Find and share interesting Internet sites. Organize your bookmarks and Tag them.
Web file cabinet.
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 people. Skype to Skype is free. Internet telephone. Video and audio conferencing. Chatting.
Use Yahoo Messenger to have voice chats from PC to PC. Calls to real telephones cost $0.01 a minute.
Blogs
One of the major blog services out there. Easy to use and full of functionality.
An example of a community blog
An example of a personal weblog
A blog dedicated to an obsessive habit
Blogs for educators.
More Blogs for educators.
Even more blogs for educators.
Free application that allows a blogger to keep track of traffic.
Mash up site that combines maps with people. Mark yourself and send a message to the world of that map.
Like a scrapbook version of a blog. Simple and easy to use.
Ever want to know what someone else is doing right now? A baby blog
WikiWorlds
Learn about just about anything. Develop content. Share content. Beware of content.
The world’s greatest “How To” manual. Loads of fun. Hours of laughs. Incredible tips.
A place for individuals or groups to share and develop information.
Wiki site recently acquired by Google. New registrations are closed, but the service allows for a greater content flexibility.
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.
Everything You’ve ever wanted to know about digital storytelling in one handy portal.
David Warlick has developed a site that provides interactive links to technology conferences.
Podcast
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!
Clever, simple, easy podcast creation host. Free or fee. You can even create a podcast using your telephone.
The industry leader (but limited) podcast site. Create. Find. Share.
Creates and hosts podcasts for free.
Free music for your podcasts. Works are under creative commons license.
Automatically have your blog content turned into an automated podcast
Podcast repository. Find and Play.
Music that if free to use under Creative Commons license.
RSS
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.
It allows you to subscribe to blogs, podcasts, etc and then allows you to view all new content in one location.
It allows you to subscribe to blogs, podcasts, etc and then allows you to view all new content in one location.
Cool and Fun
Well-developed site that helps educate users on morality issues
Brings the whole copyright issue to a child’s level of understanding.
Just a little hilarity.
A fine example of today’s interactive Web 2.0 webpage.
More hilarity with a purpose.
Indispensable for academics writing papers. From David Warlick
Excellent online graphical dictionary
A great tool for children to allow them to see related words. Such visualization fosters more powerful written constructions.
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.
Photo mosaic comes alive. You’ll need to download the free program.
Amazing free resource available to anyone in the area with a public library card.
Excellent resource. Collects many research tools in one place.
A grand Web book discussion. Share your favorites. Learn about more books than you ever dreamed.
Another grand book discussion
Swap your used books. Talk about books.
The most incredible movie database in the world. Becoming more interactive all the time.
Not really Web 2.0, but useful nonetheless.
Site geared to kids that marries real-time data with high interest graphics.
Try not to go insane as you play real time flight controller for real flights. Track them all.
A unique animation creation site. Play and create.
Very interesting way to look at history. Thorough, sleek presentation.
The Weather Channel brings us this new generation weather map. Interactive.
NASA supports this very educational and interactive website.
Simple Machines gone wild.
A most unusual consumer experience. Buy and talk.
Create 3-D Doodles. Why? Why not?
Find and mark interesting places on the planet.
Brainstorming application. Easy to use.
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