A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.
Create your own ad-free wiki in 30 seconds..for free
Increase student engagement using a safe online wiki.
Stop waiting for IT to make an easy-to-update web space!
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Not sure what a wiki is? Check out Wiki’s in Plain English:
Check out my SwallowUnion wiki. It is an 'in-process' wiki that will be used for a professional development class I am developing for a class on how to create a wiki.
del.icio.us is a free collection of favorite links - yours and everyone else's. You can use del.icio.us to:
Keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, reviews, recipes, and more, and access them from any computer on the web.
Share favorites with friends, family, coworkers, and the del.icio.us community.
Discover new things. Everything on del.icio.us is someone's favorite -- they've already done the work of finding it. So del.icio.us is full of bookmarks about technology, entertainment, useful information, and more. Explore and enjoy
Not sure what social bookmarking is? Check out Social Bookmarking in Plain English:
All of these sites are also saved or easy access using delicious! I defined them all with the tag of web2.0. Check out how you can share your delicious bookmarks like I am:
Make calls from your computer — free to other people on Skype and cheap to landlines and cell phones around the world. If you have a video camera attached to your computer you can see the person you are calling...just like the Jetsons!
Yugma enables any group to spontaneously collaborate on projects in real-time. Collaborate anytime with offsite team members, give virtual presentations, host webinars, streamline workflow, provide remote tech support, and much more.
MPEG Streamclip is a free powerful video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies. I have used it to convert movies made from my camera into the appropriate format for imovie.
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates via SMS, instant messaging, email, to the Twitter website, or any one of the multitude of Twitter applications now available
Most amazing discovery! You can turn your computer into a whiteboard for under $100 with a Wii remote, bluetooth technology and a homemade Infared pen!
Digg is a website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories, in a social and democratic spirit. Voting stories up and down is the site's cornerstone function, respectively called digging and burying. Many stories get submitted every day, but only the most digged ones appear on the front page.
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.
Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.
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