Web+2.0+tools

Web 2.0 - Software tools that changed the way we use the web
In its early days we were mainly USERS of the content on the web. We navigated around websites that professionals created for us.

Web 2.0 changed that. Now there are thousands of tools on the web that we can use to create and collaborate. There are some very famous Web 2.0 tools (YouTube, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr etc). There are hundreds of others that can also be used and which can add interactivity and multimedia to your face to face or online teaching,.

Some really good Web 2.0 tools for education


 * = Jing ||= Vimeo ||= Mindmeister ||
 * = Slideshare ||= Voicethreads ||= Voki ||
 * = Blogs ||= Prezi ||= Ning ||

Often these sites have a similar way of getting online.
 * 1) you can join and create an account
 * 2) you often get your initial account for free. You can pay small amounts to get more space and functionality.
 * 3) you can link and share between different tools (e.g. create a link to Twitter fron Vimeo etc)
 * 4) you can embed one tool into another.

For example this tool we are in is a wiki, but I can put in code to this page so that I can display content I created or located in other web 2.0 tools. media type="custom" key="8968930"

And here is a Voicethread about Web 2.0 media type="custom" key="8969010"