Web+2.0

=INTERNET & WEB 2.0 RESOURCES =

ALA Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/bestlist/bestwebsitestop25.cfm

=Connect & Collaboration =

Google Docs

[|Zoho Notebook]

[|Wikispaces]

[|Wikis in Education]

Wikis in Education - Articles and Resources

[|Wiki Walk Through]

[|Wiki in Plain English]

Wikis in Education (video)

BLOGS

[|Blogger]

[|Edublogs]

Digital Citizenship Links

NYS Ed Tech
===RIT It's worse than we thought ===

ISTE
===CyberSmart: 21st Century Skills for Education ===

===Microsoft ===

CIPA
=Video =

Avidemux
=Elementary =

===[|Netsmartz Kids]- Activities introduce safe cyber behavior ===

===[|PBS Kids] - Kids learn the "rules of the road" of the Web and afterwards get their "Official Web License." Can be used as a computer center activity for 2th-5th grades. ===

===[|Online Safety Resources] - Directory of best cyber safety activity sites ===

===[|Netty's World] - play adventures and stay safe on the net ===

=Lesson Plan Resources=

Growing Up Online
===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Technology Liberation Front ===

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Think Before You Post
=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Managing & Organizing Info =


 * Student Information Spaces**

[|Netvibes]

[|Pageflakes]

[|Protopage]


 * Online Calendar**

[|30Boxes]


 * Graphic Organizers**

[|Bubbl.us]

[|Mindmeister]


 * Surveys and Polls**

Survey Monkey

**Poll Everywhere**

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Mapping the World =

[|Google Maps]

[|Google Earth]

[|Google Earth for Educators]

[|Google Lit Trips]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Media Sharing

[|VoiceThread]

For ways to use voicethreads....[|Ned's Keeper]

ClassroomBookTalk (kids use Voicethread to share what they have read)

[|Flickr]

[|YouTube]

[|Teacher Tube]

[|Animoto]

[|Photoshow]

[|Jing]

[|ToonDoo]

[|Scrapblog]

[|Blabberize]

[|Our Story]

[|Wordle]

[|Ideas for using Wordle]

Animoto video

Podcast Resources:

[|Kid-Cast]

[|Runkle School]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Reading
AASL's Standards for the 21stCentury Learner

Book trailers
Book Trailers - Movies for Literacy

Macmillan Children's Books

Book Trailers- BookLeads


 * Screen Saver Tips**

PPT Screen Saver

Wordle


 * Authors Who Tweet**

Mitale's Fire Escape


 * Focus on Authors**

Kidlink

Authors Now!

TeachingBooks.Net

Interactive Websites
Truck Town

39 Clues

The Looking Glass Wars

Professor Garfield

Nature of Wonder

RIF Reading Planet

Widgets
ICDL or itunes

JackFlap: Children's Book Choice Award

Book Lovers

Screen Saver Tools
PP tools

Blogs
Teach with Picture Books

Mrs. Hill's Book Blog

Publishers or Libraries
KidLink

Harper Teen

Twitter
Authors who Tweet

Digital Stroytelling
International Children's Digital Library (ICDL)

Story Place

Voicethreads

Glogster

Skype

Skype with an Author

Skype in Schools

Book Talks
Book Wink

Booktalks Online

Story Tubes

Resources to Collaborate
Teacher Librarian Ning

Book Leads

AASL Best Websites

Reading 2.0

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Searching the Web =

[|Read Write Web]

[|Alt Search Engine Blog]

[|Choose the Best Search Engine for Your Information Need]


 * ==Search Engine== || ==Added Value to Students== ||
 * Google Advance Search Strategies

[|http://www.google.com] || Advanced search strategies encourages students to think more deeply about the topic ||
 * Ask.com

[|http://www.ask.com] || Great organization of info on results page -- places information in a context ||
 * Clusty

[|http://clusty.com] || Clusters results to narrow down and refine generic search terms – helps students to find related topics ||
 * AfterVote

[|http:/aftervote.com] || Compares Google, Yahoo and MSN; Live search results with rankings ||
 * Exalead

[] || Offers supports through phonetic spelling, truncation, etc. ||
 * Google Coop

[] || Creates a customized search engine for your students ||
 * Mahalo

[|http://www.mahalo.com] || Offers expert help ||
 * Scandoo

[|http://www.scandoo.com] || Provides safe searching for young students ||
 * KoolTorch

[|http://www.kooltorch.com] || Clusters results in a visual results page – “taxonomy display” ||
 * Quintura

[|http://www.quintura.com]

[|http://kids.quintura.com] || Presents results as a dynamic tag cloud – encourages exploration of keywords and results ||
 * Google Scholar

[|http://scholar.google.com] || Offers quality academic results chosen by subject expert ||
 * Internet Public Library

[|http://ipl.org] || Offers evaluated, quality websites ||
 * Answers.com

[|http://www.answers.com] || Provides authoritative information ||
 * Intute

[|http://www.intute.ac.uk] || Provides annotated academic websites- helps students to understand the scope of their topic ||
 * 50Matches

[|http://www.50matches.com] || Draws on the “collective intelligence” of the social group ||

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Social Bookmarking =

Ten Reasons to Use Social Bookmarking in Education
1. Provides a free, efficient, effective, and reliable way to save and organize websites, podcasts, wikis, blogs, articles, images and other media

2. Creates a collaborative environment. The process is so easy, it’s almost transparent: students log on to the social bookmarking site with one click on the browser, form into groups and share their work.

3. Supports a discovery/exploration process. It allows you to view others’ tags and see what websites they are tagging.

4. Allows users to tap the “collective intelligence” of the Web. Allows you to see how many times a website is tagged by other people – the higher the number the more likely the website has value.

5. Provides the opportunity for “sensemaking” through tagging, annotating, critiquing or adding descriptions, highlighting and adding sticky notes.

6. Provides an effective framework to collaboratively evaluate websites. Using the comments, highlighting and sticky notes features students can effectively work independently, and then collaboratively share their findings and ideas and their classmates.

7. Encourages students to analyze the web site content. Using tags, students gain practice assigning words or descriptors to website content.

8. Offers either public access or complete privacy for a class or group of students. Educators can choose what’s best for their situation.

9. Supports anytime/anywhere learning -accessible 24/7 on the Internet. Students can login at a convenient time from any computer with Internet access.

10. Integrates with other newer technologies, such as RSS and blogging. Students can set up an RSS for a specific tag and librarians can add tag clouds to their library home pages.