Why not send those end of the year and summer party invitations in style. We are all familiar with Evite, but below are a few other options guaranteed to make your party planning go smoothly. http://www.doodle.com/main.html Doodle is a great online date decider. It eliminates all of those back and forth emails when you are [...]
It’s been awhile but it’s time to bring back Web 2.0 Wednesdays. Most of you are in the middle of SOL testing so I wanted to provide a resource that can be of use after testing is done. Bookemon is a place where you can design and create books for free. Books can be shared [...]
Boolify was created because parents, librarians and teachers felt that it was too difficult for children to understand web searching. Boolify makes it easier for students to understand their web search by illustrating the logic of their search, and by showing them how each change to their search instantly changes their results. It’s simple, [...]
I found Font Capture through Kathy Shrock’s Site of the Day email. The site looked interesting so I thought I would give it a try. All I can say is “Way Cool!” Font Caputre’s description is: At fontcapture.com you can create a font from your very own handwriting. There’s no software to download and [...]
One of the things I love about Web 2.0 tools is how creative the names can be. I often wonder about all of the extremely creative folks behind the scenes who think up these fun names. Timetoast is another great tool with a fun name. I found Timetoast in my Web 2.0 Diigo group. Timetoast [...]
I learned about this handy tool from a fellow STAR DEN member Fred Delventhal aka Riptide Furse. iSpeech allows you to “read with your ears”. iSpeech will convert text to speech with a click of a mouse for free and it doesn’t use one of those bad computer voices. There’s no software to download [...]
This application sums up what I love about Web 2.0, simple, useful and oh so cute. How can you not want to use an application called Shrink O’Matic. This program has solved a major dilemma for me. If you’re like me you probably have uploaded lots of avatar pictures. It seems that every site wants [...]
Find More Web 2.0 Resources? I thought for this week’s posting I would provide you with several places where you can find some great Web 2.0 resources. They change every day and it’s always helpful to have sites to refer to. If you find a particular tool helpful, would like to share a success [...]
I was browsing resources that I found on TeachersFirst and came across this cool bookmaking tool. Tikatok “is where kids transform their imaginations into stories – and publish those stories into books.” Kid’s can write a story, illustrate it and order actually hard copies of the book. There’s no cost to join the site and [...]
Have you ever wanted a giant poster of a great photo? If you answered yes to this question, then you are probably familiar with how expensive it is. For example at Snapfish a 16×20 poster will cost you $14.99, that’s a lot of money. As an educator I am always looking for ways to find [...]
I am posting early because I will be out of town tomorrow. I am very excited about this week’s Web 2.0 tool. Posterous‘s tag line is: The place to post everything. Just email it. So what is Posterous? Posterous lets you post things online fast using email. You email us at post@posterous.com and we reply [...]
Welcome to the first Web 2.0 Wednesday post. If you have any web 2.0 tools that you would like me to highlight just leave a comment. Since the DEN is about sharing resources, If you’ve used the featured tool, please leave a comment on how you used it. We have just launched Edmodo and invite [...]
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