Web+2.0+Tools

=Websites You MUST See!= toc

View the [|Web 2.0 slideshow] and demo one after another. Here are some of my favorites. Someday, I will organize them a little better.

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**Animation**
[|Voki]- create your own animation character and add it to your website- Or have your students use it for one of their biographies..how cool? Check out a few Voki Samples

**Online Collaborating**
[|Zoho.com] - Free word processing tools online...no more MS Office! [|Google Docs] - Similar to Zoho, collaborate with others using their word processor/spreadsheet tools. Here's a [|3 minute explanation] of Google Docs! Wikispaces.com- A wiki is a web-based collaborative working environment which allows a user to post text, photos, or video onto a webpage instantaneously. What's great about wikis is that anyone can edit or make changes to the wiki at any time. You are on wikispaces right now. All you need is an email address, a username, and a password to create a wikispace.

**Online Calendars**
[|Google Calendar-] Awesome! Embed the code to display a calendar right on your website! [|Calendar Hub-] Share, collaborate and even import from Outlook or iCal [|Kiko]- Share, collaborate and even import from Outlook or iCal

Online Slide Presentations
[| Slideshare.net] upload a slide presentation and embed the code into a site/blog/wiki- awesome! [|Zoho.com]- Create a slide presentation, collaborate with others, embed the code onto your blog/wiki/website!

**Interactive Whiteboard**
[|Thinkature] - A FREE online whiteboard.

Photo Storage & Sharing

 * [|Photocastr-] Search Flickr using keywords to find photos. Pull them right into iphoto!
 * [|Adrive]- store up to 50 Gigs FREE!
 * [|Bubbleshare-] create a slide show of your photos and put the code onto your site/blog!
 * [|Flickr.com]- Flickr is an online "blog" of photos. Flickr is the best way to store, sort, search and share your photos online.
 * [|Picnik.com] - A free online photo editor
 * [|Stainedglasscollage.com] -Bring in your photos to create a stained glass collage!
 * [|23]- Organize and share your photos- you get 300 uploads a month
 * [|Gimp]- Similar to photoshop, but free! You'll need to download and install.
 * [|Snipshot]- Crop a picture. Very Simple!
 * [|Dumpr.net]- Get creative with your photos
 * [|SlideRoll]- Pull your photos right from flickr and create a professional looking slide show

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 * [|Picnik.com] - A free online photo editor
 * [|Stainedglasscollage.com] -Bring in your photos to create a stained glass collage!
 * [|Gimp]- Similar to photoshop, but free! **install required**
 * [|Snipshot]- Crop a picture. Very Simple!
 * [|Dumpr.net]- Get creative with your photos
 * [|SlideRoll]- Pull your photos right from flickr and create a professional looking slide show
 * [|FotoFlexer]
 * [|SplashUp]mini-mini version of photoshop- online free!
 * Jigzone - Upload a photo and create a jigsaw puzzle1
 * SumoPaint-

**Blogging**
[|Blogger.com] BLOG- A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos (or memoirs) to the world. Your blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules. In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what's new. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you. Or not. There are many free blog sites on the Internet. Blogger is a free web tool by Google. You can have your very first blog up in a matter of seconds! [|Bloglines.com] Bloglines is a web-based aggregator for browsing weblogs and other news feeds. Copy and paste the RSS feed into your Bloglines aggregator and receive instant updates on all of your favorite blogs! [|Technorati] - This is NOT a blog, but a search engine to find blogs and RSS. Very powerful tool!

**Video**
[|Viddler.com] - This is my FAVORITE! Upload high quality video, share with friends! It has pop up commenting right on the player! Embed the code onto your blog or website! [|Cuts.com] - a free online video editor. Bring in a video from the web, and turn it into a new video! [|TeacherTube] - It's Youtube for teachers! copy and paste the embedded code into your blog/site. [|jumpcut.com] -Jumpcut is a place to make movies and interact with people. It's imovie on the web! Create an account in seconds and start editing your video right on the internet. "Clips" on jumpcut are raw video files that you upload from your computer. You can combine clips with photos and music in our editor to make jumpcut "movies".

**Online Storage and Transfer Files**
[|Box.net]- Box.net currently provides secure online file storage and sharing functionality to over 500,000 registered users, serving files to millions of people around the world. Box.net's unique platform allows personal and commercial content to be accessible, sharable, and storable in any format from anywhere. Get 1Gig of storage FREE! [|xDrive]- How about 5gigs? Free! [|yousendit.com/]This is a tool to transfer large files (such as quicktimes) up to 2 GIG's. Free and easy to join. We'll use this for the project sharing! [|zamzar.com] - Use this FREE resource to upload video files (less than 100MB) and convert to all kinds of formats. It will then give you a link so that you can download the converted copy.

Comic Tools

 * [|Go Animate!]
 * [|PikiStrips]
 * [|Make Beliefs Comix]
 * [|Toonlet]
 * [|ToonDoo]
 * [|Kerpoof]
 * [|Comiqs]
 * [|Blabberize]
 * [|Pikikids]

Mixer Tools

 * [|Voicethread]
 * [|MixerCast]
 * [|BubblePLY]
 * [|Moonk]
 * [|SplashCast]

Timeline

 * [|Our Story]- Create a time line of events with photos and video. Has embedable code for your wiki or blog
 * [|XTimeline]
 * [|Dandelife]

**Conferencing**
[|Skype.com] Got Skype? Skype is a free web based tool which allows users to make phone calls right from their computer! And it's free! Make an audio phone call to another person's computer, or if both computers have a video camera attached, a video conference is in order! You can also make Skype calls to landlines and cell phones, but there is a small annual fee to do so. [|Yackpack.com]Yackpack is a free online "audio conference". It's like a video conference only, you don't see video, just a photo of the person talking. You can have multiple persons in a conference call having a LIVE conversation. So cool! [|Evoca.com]- Create audio recordings - works with Skype [|Tangler-] Create online discussion groups/forum with realtime chatting. Embed video (youtube) and multimedia! Very Cool!

**Social Bookmarking**

 * [|del.icio.us]** -del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website -- the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders. You can also use del.icio.us to see the interesting links that your friends and other people bookmark, and share links with them in return. You can even browse and search del.icio.us to discover the cool and useful bookmarks that everyone else has saved -- which is made easy with tags.

File Conversion

 * (These will work with video, audio, pdf's, jpg's, and most files)**
 * [|Zamzar]- Upload a video, and send it to anyone through email in any file format! Awesome!
 * [|VideoDownloader]- Use this tool to grab a video from a website and download it onto your computer
 * [|Vixy]- This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube's videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online.
 * [|KeepVid]- download steaming video to your computer

Others Worth Mentioning**
[|301url]- Turn your looooooong URL into a short one [|43things.com]- site sharing of ideas or life dreams. Find those who have done what you would like to do!