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The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You | Edudemic

If you’re not an avid follower of #edchat on Twitter, you may be missing out on a great opportunity to learn about some new Web 2.0 tools that are currently being used in classrooms around the world. That’s because @chickensaltash posed a simple question to the PLN and there has been a huge swell of support as hundreds of people have jumped in to answer the question about which 5 Web 2.0 tools teachers are using in classrooms.

The Best of the Best

You can view the live stream of #edchat here and see what people are saying at the hashtag #chickenweb2tools here.

We scoured hundreds of responses and have come up with the following list. The following tools have not been verified and are simply based on the number of times each was mentioned on Twitter during this hashtag discussion.

Made at Tagxedo - it's in this list!

The List

  • Glogster
    Great way to share posters and images you’ve made with friends

  • Edmodo
    Social learning environment and one of the best ways to teach with tech

  • Bubbl.us
    Free application to brainstorm online

  • Twitter
    The micro blogging service that many love or hate.

  • WordPress
    Content publishing system. It’s gone way beyond just blogging.

  • Prezi
    Innovative way to share presentations without PowerPoint

  • Wallwisher
    An online notice board maker (or bulletin board if you choose)

  • Animoto
    Make beautiful videos from images in a snap

  • Blabberize
    Make your images talk…that’s right.

  • Weebly
    Create your own website or blog, very easy to use

  • Flickr
    Popular photo-sharing site now lets you print

  • Slideshare
    Don’t waste your presentation after it’s over, share it with millions!

  • Audioboo
    Easily record and share audio

  • VoiceThread

  • GoogleDocs
    The top real-time document creating and editing cloud-based system

  • GoogleSites
    Make your own website while knowing nothing about websites!

  • Diigo
    Popular social bookmarking site

  • GoogleEarth
    View anywhere in the world anytime

  • Wordle
    Create a beautiful aggregation of any amount of text

  • Wikis
    Crowdsourcing at its finest. Like Wikipedia, Wikispaces is very helpful

  • Wix
    Easily make your own flash-based website

  • Ning
    Despite a new cost-based membership program, Ning allows you to have your own social network

  • Primarypad
    Web-based word processor

  • Spicy Nodes
    Innovative way to organize your web visits

  • Delicious
    One of the top social bookmarking sites on the web

  • Myebook
    Virtually publish your book and sell it

  • Voki
    Get your own avatar and even have it talk with your voice

  • DoInk
    Create animations using this simple website

  • Warning Sign Generator
    Make your own caution and warning signs in a flash!

  • Scratch
    Create and share stories, games, art, etc.

  • Kerpoof
    Cool way to make a movie, card, picture, and share it all

  • Tagxedo
    Like Wordle but a step farther as text can be used to build bigger images

  • SmartKiddies
    Creative math and other educational problems to help everyone learn

  • Bitstrips
    Make and share your own comic strips with thousands of others

Added in the comments and via Twitter:

  • Popplet
    An easy way to share visual ideas

  • Storyjumper
    Easy way to create your own stories for kids and bring them to life

  • Aviary Myna
    Make your own music or remix just about anything else

  • TimeToast
    Fantastic timeline visualization tool to understand history

  • GoAnimate for schools
    State of the art animation tools for schools

  • PBWorks
    Thousands of educational wikis and workspaces (build your own!)

  • Schoology
    Learning management, online education tools, and much more

  • Google Timeline
    A unique way to view the news

  • Online-Convert
    Convert anything to anything (audio, video, text, etc.)

  • ReadWriteThink
    Tons of classroom resources and PD goodies

  • Storybird
    Build your own stories (with images) and share them with others

  • Word Magnets
    Phonics reinforcement and sentence building exercise

  • Museum Box
    Innovative way to understand history

  • Atmosphir
    A build-your-own video game

  • Empressr
    Rich media presentation tool

  • Zoho
    A great alternative to Google Apps

  • EasyBib
    The free automatic bibliography and citation maker

  • ToonDooSpaces
    Easily publish custom comic strips

  • Crocodoc
    Annotate and edit PDFs

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Have another recommendation? It’s never too late to get the word out. Just mention #edchat in your tweet or leave a reply on this page. Why not do both?

Early Transmedia in Brilliant Real Espionage Story - Operation Mincemeat: How a dead tramp fooled Hitler

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"During World War II, the Nazis fell for an audacious British plot to pass off a dead tramp as an officer carrying secret documents. How - and are such tactics still in use today?

Rat poison does not furnish the desperate with an easy death. But this was how Glyndwr Michael, jobless and homeless in the winter of 1943, ended his life.

Found in an abandoned warehouse in King's Cross, London, one cold January night, his death certificate noted the cause of death as "phosphorus poisoning. Took rat poison - bid [to] kill himself while of unsound mind".

He was not buried in the capital, nor his hometown in south Wales. Instead, the coroner said he was to be "removed out of England" for burial...

...Fittingly for a deception dreamed up by a novelist, the true story of the fictional officer was turned into a Hollywood film, The Man Who Never Was, in the 1950s, after Montagu wrote a book about the plot...."

Read the full article on the BBC

Very Interesting Breakdown: Qantas A380 incident: a lesson in social media and web PR

Today’s emergency landing of a Qantas Airbus A380 at Changi Airport in Singapore was another example of how travel companies need to establish a solid social and web PR strategy.

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Firstly, let’s get what actually happened out of the way, by way of official confirmation from Qantas after the event.

Flight QF32 from Singapore to Sydney, Australia, left Changi Airport at 10am (Singapore time).

The aircraft experienced a problem with one of its engines shortly after take-off and returned immediately to Singapore, to be met on the runway by fire crews following reports of smoke coming from the engine.

Footage from the BBC (above) illustrates the damage to the affected engine. Qantas has grounded its fleet of six A380s ahead of a full investigation.

But the modern demands of the 24-7 news cycle and the more recent addition of social media meant that the picture in the immediate aftermath was confusing to say the least, and terrifying for friends and relatives of passengers at worst.

See this short article on Reuters:

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At the same time as these clearly inaccurate reports were emerging, passengers were tweeting pictures from the aircraft of the damage.

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The situation was so chaotic in the initial hours after the incident that Qantas officials were supposedly telling Australia media that no wreckage was found on the small Indonesian island of Batam as a dramatic and pretty incriminating photo was spreading around the web.

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Eventually the airline and officials on the ground got their ducks in a row and released a statement on the airline’s website.

But in a world often led by news reports emanating or spreading through social media, perhaps Qantas did not react as quickly as it could.

To its credit, Qantas placed a message on the airline’s Facebook page and has responded a number of times to some of the comments left on the post.

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But the rather unwieldy and viral world of Twitter is more immediate (some might call it live) and is where crisis, or incident, management needs to take place.

Qantas has two Twitter accounts: one for its US division and another known as Qantas Travel Insider, offering tips for travellers.

The former has not updated its account with any information about the incident, meaning one of the most recent messages sits rather awkwardly under the current circumstances.

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The latter gave an update of sorts when asked about the incident, but was arguably not particularly helpful either.

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Thankfully the entire incident ended safely, which is clearly the most important thing.

But how it was dealt with in the immediate aftermath – when social media has a tendency to spiral out of control, unless a coordinated approach is carried out – will be an abject lesson from which other airlines and travel companies can easily learn.

UPDATE: Another Qantas aircraft, a Boeing 747-400, was forced to return to Singapore’s Changi Airport on Friday 5 November after problems with one of its engines.

NB: Hat-tip @travelfish for picture sourcing.

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