PUBLIC MARKS with tags pd & district

Free and accessible typing tutor software. Teachers can confugure settings for each student.

It's a tool ... The dotReader is the "Swiss Army Knife" of e-book readers, a multi-function tool that is highly innovative and highly interactive. It's a community, a social networking tool... You are never alone when you use the dotReader. Be instantly connected and engaged to readers who share your interests. It's a library ... Content you download into the dotReader can be organized any way you wish - similar to the way you might organize and bookmark your favorite websites in your browser. However, not only can you search YOUR library, you can also search OTHER remote libraries from within the dotReader. Examples might include public libraries, publisher websites, eBook distributors, organizational documents, and others. Entire businesses can be built around this feature alone.

An interesting article by David Warlick on the potential of Web 2.0 tools in schools.

What's Vaestro? Vaestro is audio forum software that you can use on your website for free. Talk to your friends, host interactive podcasts, or use it like an audio blog. With Vaestro, everyone has a chance to speak and be heard. Direct Link: http://www.vaestro.com/viewthread-199-271-365

Good list of Web 2.0 apps and sites. Check out the entry for Web 2.0 as well.

A blog devoted to any tools or websites for use in the classroom. Very new butshows a few interesting tools like Fleck.

Lots of web 2.0 applications to explore. Has most but not all!

Great collection of web 2.0 tools by an elementary school librarian.

Web collaboration, concept mapping, brainstorming tool that is very easy to use!

Enter any url (Your blog?) and annote it. Fleck allows you to add a small note to any page on the web. Then you can send this annotated page to your friends or use it in your blog. Use it for researching the web?? Works best with Firefox

Our aim is to give users the power of create, share, aggregate, and publish personalised content through a disruptive bottom-up approach to web media publishing. Webjam takes advantage of available applications and standard content formats to offer a set of intuitive site creation tools to our users and clients. Beta version

Participatory media is changing the way we communicate, engage with media and each other and even our approaches to teaching and learning. The generation of digital natives - those that have grown up immersed in digital media - take all of this for granted. There is nothing strange, new or even transformative about the interactive, participative landscape of blogging, social networking and Web 2.0 Read/Write media for them. This is the very starting point, the background canvas on which they live their lives.

Widgetbox is an online directory of web widgets for blogs and other web pages. Our widgets work with TypePad, WordPress, Blogger, MySpace as well as most other blogs, sidebars or websites. No plug-ins are needed, and they're free! This is an easy way for teachers to get media onto static webpages.

Places to store video for videocasting. Important for schools to look at since audio and video take a lot of disk space. iTunes and Internet Archive are other potential storage sites.

A terrific resource of ideas and instructions on educational uses of RSS. Check out the rest of the wiki while you are here. Good info on photo sharing

A solid list of available wiki platforms and useful tools for maintaining a wiki. OMITS wikispaces which is a education wiki platform with very easy editing tools.

Simple list of ideas to help you get started

The class wiki managed by Vicki Davis from Cool Cat Teacher Blog, K12 Wiki, and K12 Online Conference.

Screencasts of all kinds of Web 2.0 applications

Edtechtalk is a webcasting network of educators dedicated to helping those involved in educational technology explore, discusss, and collaborate in its use. Edtechtalk is part of EducationBridges, which is a division of Worldbridges.

As students and teachers take to the Read-Write web, we need to begin by framing the approach in a new way to contextualize writing better, and, more importantly, to make classroom blogging (and even more broadly writing in digital spaces) more productive for the students and professors. In particular, I want to show how the technology of RSS is crucial both from a theoretical and a practical standpoint to any digital writing, but especially to any blogging classroom.

eHub is a constantly updated resource of web applications, services or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing

Another list of sites to know about

A collaborative wiki created by Vicki Davis for the K12 Online Conference. Check the sidebar for the Introduction under the Prerequisites heading. Look at some of the questions the participants tackled: tagging for teachers, videos for math, data storage for students are just a few worth looking at.

A sample Suprglu page from a primary school teacher in Australia