Dembo's+Top+Ten+Web+2.0

=NECC 2009 Steve Dembo's Top 10 Web 2.0 Sites=

http://prezi.com/117545/ Website of this presentation

Definition: Entirely Web Based Accessible from any operating system and browser Interactive: There is something for you to build, tweak, add to Plays well with others Often allow you to take content from other places and mix it

Bloglines

 * 1) Aggregator Keep track of all your favorite blogs, news, searches and more. Grabs new information from sites that I want to track
 * 2) Can see who else subscribes to the blogs, etc. I subscribe to. Then read what is being posted by the others, like Bernie Dodge. You can see all of the things that he is following. And you can read his blog about what he finds most important.

Delicious
Social Bookmarking Website Can search Delicious and see the sites that have been bookmarked by others that they have found to be valuable enough to bookmark. When you search the box tells you how many other people have bookmarked the same site. That tells something about the value of that site. You also can look under History and see who else bookmarked this site. You can see who adds a lot of tags to their bookmarks and go to their bookmarks. Then you can search their bookmarks by the tags they have added. You can even choose two tags or more and find bookmarks that have all of the tags you specify. You can also subscribe to a person's bookmarks with something like Bloglines.

You do not need an account to access others bookmarks. You can also have a group of people bookmarking into the same account. You can also use this to provide lists of links on your district website.

ShareTabs
Allows you to add a list of links to a window. Then click tabify and it will create a website with a picture of each website and tabs at the top that link to each website. Steve's links for this talk: sharetabs/?discoveryedu4u

drop.io
Phone it, fax it, email it, text it, upload files (text, audio, images, etc.) and share it. Others can access files here. You can do a full podcast for free. Just use your cell phone to call in and read in your podcast. You can upload a video podcast and share it via iTunes too through Rich Media RSS. **If you enable Rich Media RSS the podcasts can be shared via iTunes.** Steve's address: drop.io/teach42/media If others visit this site while you are there it opens a chat window.

JayCut.com
Browser based full featured video editor. This will allow students to finish a video project at home. When you finish the project you can download it as Quicktime, for an iPod or DVD. The size of the video is unlimited. More than one person can log into one account. You can upload media,(video, stills, etc) and several people can use the same bucket of media. They would just save it with different names.

edmodo
Just like Twitter but has been designed for students. It is microblogging. It is behind a password, you can make things private or public. Can establish a class, grade level, group and choose to send information to only those groups. You can schedule assignments or events and place on calendar that is either public or private. You can embed files right into here. You can embed audio files, videos from Youtube, etc. There are tutorial videos for using this site.

Poll Everywhere
A classroom response system that is cell phone based. The responses are recorded via text messaging. There is also a web based means of voting for students without phones. They added Twitter integration so people can respond through Twitter. You can get 30 votes for free on a poll. If you create separate polls for each class you can have 30 votes for each. There is a live chart to see the votes coming in. After you create some polls you can select them and export them as a PowerPoint. Then you can copy and paste them into other PowerPoints and they will still be live. There is educational pricing. There are school versions so teachers can have their own accounts.

xtranormal.com
=Wow!!!!!= This site allows users to create 3D animation. You can enter a script (You can change to different languages!), choose how the characters will look. First type in the script. Then click the camera and drag it to the script items to choose the angle of the shot. You can click the waling man to add motion for the characters. Then click the action tool and it will render the video. Students could reenact a scene from the book. You can embed these videos or post to Youtube where they can easily be downloaded.

livestream
Allows you to broadcast live. It shows what is being collected by the webcam and what is going on on the screen. You can have multiple computers collected or use your cell phone camera. This can be edited.

prezi.com
A webbased tool to create presentations. It is almost like Inspiration and you link the bubbles in an order to present.