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Web 2.0 Ideas
Virtual Field Trips
- Science and Health
Human Digestive System ( a must see!)
Apollo 11-27 (awesome!)
A Walk In the Woods ( several nature virtual field trips)
Argosy - Health Virtual Tours ( excellent medical animated descriptions of various body systems and other health topics)
Africam ( if you don’t look at any others - gotta see this one)
- Geography
Panorama Virtual Tours (maybe science here, too! biomes???)
- All Curriculum Areas
Walter McKenzie’s Innovative Teaching (tons of virtual field trips - who needs air planes??)
Fortune City - (more science, social studies, art, etc. virtual field trips)
Teacher Tap - digital and virtual field trips from Eduscapes
- Create Your Own Virtual Field Trips
TramLine - easy to use, do your own - purchase software
Jog The Web - create your own and see what others have made
Web 2.0 ideas and cool sites
My Awards Maker 100% totally free, print out awards and certificates. Fun graphics, covering all areas such as sports, music, reading, etc.
FreeMind -FREE mapping software written in Java, very appealing and pretty easy to use.
doppelme -use to create a cool avatar of yourself, that looks just like you.
meeting24.tv - a web conference system for up to 24 users for 24/7. Only a meeting host user needs to create a user account. Other members can join the meeting by web browser without registration or login. It’s so easy.
Create-a-graph - free program that allows students to create charts and graphs, includes a brief tutorial to help choose the best one to use.
Voice Thread A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows you to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.
Goggle Lit Trips is basically a tour of resources related to different novels or books using Google Earth. Check it out and consider making a lit trip of your own to submit to this site!Make Beliefs Comix create your own comic strips, by adding your choice of characters, thought and speech bubbles, and text to a variety of basic template layouts. The site offers some story ideas for those who my have trouble starting from scratch. It also has a section of information especially for educators under the tab at the bottom of the screen labeled How to Play With Makebeliefscomics.com. Some of the benefits the site lists for students include practicing language, reading, and creative skills, with an emphasis on the application of these skills for ELLs. The comics can be emailed or printed out once they are completed.Gcast podcasting with Gcast. Gcast records podcasts by phone and hosts your show for free. Call an 800 number and record your podcast as if it were a voicemail. Gcast offers an online mixer where you can add free, podsafe music to your show and when your masterpiece is complete, an embeddable player can go on any web page so that visitors can listen to your podcast without ever leaving the page or wrestling with podcasting software.
Kerpoof has five activities where children of all ages can express themselves to:
- Make a Picture
- Make a Movie
- Make a Drawing
- Make a Card
- Make a Story
All of the activities on Kerpoof are both fun and enriching. When children create things on Kerpoof, they earn virtual “koins” that they can save and use to “buy” characters, objects and effects that they can use in new stories or movies they create.
Blabberize is a Web 2.0 software that allows you to create your own talking picture, basically a moving mouth on a still image. Using Blabberize is simple. Users upload a photo of someone to Blabberize, select a mouth and then record a message. Once done, users can email a link to the Blabberize hosted page or embed the result.
RSS Feeds Best described in this Common Craft video clip.
Kitzu - free downloadable kits that let you create multimedia projects easily. Folders with pictures, graphics, and pdf files with descriptions.
Great video sources from Webtools4u2use.
AFI ScreenNation A learning space from the American Film Institute. View instructional videos, browse short videos from others; students can submit their own for critique by experts.
Animasher Create simple animated films with some very easy to use tools.Animoto Upload photos, select music and Animoto renders a music video for you. Quick and easy. A 30-second video is free; longer is $3. An all-access pass lets you create all the videos you want for a full year. To get an all-access pass and save $5 click here. (Full-disclosure: I’ll save $5 too!) Here’s a short (free) video made with Animoto for School Library Media Week. Also, check out the Animoto Education program and features.
BigThink Thought provoking videos from the worlds of politics, academia, science, and business with the capability of accepting comments
Current TV You make the news
Dabble Search, collect and organize videos
DropShots Photo and video sharing; sharing by invitation only
Edublogs.TV An educational video sharing site
EyeSpot Upload, mix, share, make it mobile; full-featured video editing
FlixWagon Broadcast from your mobile phone or save video for later use; embeddable player. SImilar to Qik.
Hellodeo Record from your webcam and embed or send your video
Hulu TV shows, movies, movie trailers in a great viewer
Jing Lets you capture screen images and/or what you do on your computer as a video (using free downloadable software) and then share online–great for tutorials!
John Locker - Online Learning Network - documentaries and educational videos
JumpCut Upload, edit, share; easy to use editing tools
Justin.TV Create your own channel and broadcast live
Kids’ VId Helps kids learn to use and share video as a tool for project based learning
MediaConvert Free online file conversion…video as well as audio and images, etc.
Mogulus Live broadcasting, see videos on 26 channels at once, create your own channel
MotionBox Share, send to ipods, create a flipbook from your video
MuveeMix Online video editing tools
Omnisio Edit, remix, share and browse videos; add comments (recently acquired by Google)
OneTrueMedia Share, embed, put on DVD, show on Tivo
OurMedia One of the oldest video sharing sites with a focus on learning
SchoolTube Curriculum related videos produced by and for students (samples below):
SchoolsTube (yes, different than SchoolTube) Based in the UK.
Screencast-O-Matic SImple screen capture device that produces screencasts–with or without sound–that can be embedded into your website without downloading software.
SelfCast Broadcast your own live show on your own channel!
Skitch Screen capture tool–capture an image or create a screencast.
Studio4Learning Quality videos for education in categories: math, science, English, Foreign languages, business, arts, test prep. Think you and your students can do better? Upload your own.
StumbleVideo From the StumbleUpon social bookmarking folks.
UStream Broadcast live, archive, share.
Zamzar Download and convert video to a variety of different formats (Also converts other kinds of files to different formats)
Fun Games For Students
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