Web 2.0 and Bloom's Taxonomy

Brainstorming

• Embeds - introduce concepts of Prezi, Voki, Google Doc, Google Wave, YouTube
• Bling - Glogster , Cool Text, Voki, OneTrueMedia, Animoto, Imagechef, Wordle
• Creately 

Video

• Jing
• Camtasia
• Video Hosting: Youtube / Teacher Tube / Vimeo
• Live Streaming: ustream, justin TV, yahoo.live
• Voice Thread  
• Animoto
• Picasa: In addition to organizing the photos online, you can download the software to create mosaics, and edit video in movie maker and store them online for public viewing.
• Stupeflix Another video creator service. (Here is an example of one created with this tool.)
• Camstudio - free, open-source screen capture, audio, video software (PC)
• Screencast-o-matic - free screen casting resource 
• Google Search Stories - Search becomes a YouTube Movie 
• BeFunky 
• OneTrueMedia 

Great Classroom Buys:

• Flip camera - $125, pricelessly easy and FUN!
• Kodak Zi6  ~ $159,  pocket video and still camera, USB
• RCA EZ205 Small Wonder Digital Camcorder with 2 Hour Recording and 1GB Included Memory $77 from Amazon
• Bluemic Snowball microphone - USB consumer-grade mic - unidirectional, omnidirectional, $100, great for recording all students in classroom - readers' theatre, etc.
• Cyber Acoustics ACM-1 microphone - cheap and easy to use, inexpensive enough to buy a class or computer lab set.  Can find online for around $2 each on sale.
• Zoom H2 Microphone and recorder 

Audio

• Audacity
• Skype
• Read the Words
• Pod-o-matic
• Podcasting
• Voicethread 
• WordQ

Pictures

• Photo hosting: Flickr,
• Slide
• Bubbleshare
• Photostory
• Dookyweb Avatars 
• ImageChef 
• Motivational Poster Creator 
• ASCII Poster Creator - Convert a photo into a poster made up of letters and numbers.
• Wordle Word Clouds
• Comic Creator 

Polling / Surveys / Quizzes

• Zoho polls
• Polldaddy
• Mystudiyo
• Quizlet
• Google Docs/Forms
• Survey Monkey - free for 10 questions, $20 a month for full use.

Google

• Gadgets: Directions, World time and date, Virtual Aquariums, etc..
• Google Calendar
• Google maps
• iGoogle Home Page - great for aggregating PLN resources for professional development

Chat

• Gabbly (Beware of the ads)
• Meebo
• Chatango
• Meu Mural (Customize colors, choose which fields display, make your mural private, manage their messages, block users. With its mural of scraps you can add a means of communication for users of your site.
• DimDim (Collaborate via whiteboard, chat, talk, webcam video and audio. Web-based, free for 20 participants)

Et cetera

• XTimline
• Shelfari
• Twitter   - learn more at Twitter4teachers.pbworks.com
• voki - Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.
• bubbl.us - bubbl.us is free, brainstorming web application. You can create, share, and export your collaborative mind maps to use in other applications.
• Histats - Statistics of online users in real time.
• Webnote - Webnote is a tool for taking notes on your computer. It allows you to quickly write something down during a meeting, class, or any other time that you have a web browser available. Can be used as a mural of asynchronous messages.
• Tiny URL - URL Shortener - reduce long web addresses to 24 characters! Can also create a custom URL with words that describe the site.  Add a Tiny URL button to internet browser toolbar for fast access. 
• Xtranormal video
• Butns - Create your own special buttons 
• Redkid Graphics - Create your own special, customized objects 
• Wordle - Create a tag cloud 
• Tagxedo - Word clouds with styles 
• Worditout - Create a tag cloud 
• Dipity 
• Glogster  
• Postcard Creator

Primary Reading Sites 

• Starfall
• BBC Letters and Words

Favourite Books, Authors and Characters 

• Arthur @PBS Kids
• Junie B. Jones
• Dave Pilkey (Captain Underpants)
• Goosebumps
• Stephenie Meyers (Twilight (YA)

Online Primary Library Links  

• Beantime Stories
• Fairy e-Tales
• LookyBook

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