Web+2.0+ed+resources

=Web 2.0 ed resources= These are resources that have been analyzed and critqued in our course. Please list the site name, url, and an annotation to its purpose and usefulness as an educational tool.

Diigo: http://www.diigo.com/ This is a social annotation and bookmarking site. Coined "del.icio.us with brains" by one user, Diigo allows you to highlight and make sticky notes when bookmarking a website. These highlights and sticky notes are then searchable as well as the tags, title and other identifiers for the saved site.
 * Learning and Research**

1. ScanR: https://www.scanr.com/. This site allows you to email digital pictures of notes, cards and whiteboards. The email sent then gets converted into a document (a PDF) which can be saved, shared and used for digital notes. 2. Qipit: https://www.qipit.com/pub/main. Create an account, upload the shots, and a crystal-clear PDF is created. Better quality than ScanR, but, you must make the account. For more info and a sample go to Online Scanners
 * Online Scanners**


 * Online Collaborative Whiteboards**
 * skrbl**: http://www.skrbl.com/ They seem to offer three types of functionality:
 * __A skrbl "pad" webpage:__ An account is needed to create a pad, but the pad can be shared and used by anyone. You can also make these private. Pads are stored for future reference. Please write something so I can test it out: http://www.skrbl.com/51636704
 * __An embedded skrbl "graffiti" board:__ Instead of a pad having its own web page and URL (like above), it is embedded into your webpage/wiki/blog/etc. I have embedded one into a page on this wiki. Account users can keep track of and maintain multiple graffiti boards. Again, please try it out: Graffiti Board
 * __A skrbl "widget":__ This button, which can be put in any webpage, will open up a skrbl pad in a new brower winder or tab with a unique URL. Share the URL with friends and collaborate. No account is needed to put the button in your page, or to click the button to make the skrbl pad. You cannot save the pads you create with this button. Each time you click the button, you'll get a blank pad with a different URL. Please click the button to try!


 * Web2.0 Graphic Organizers**
 * **Mindmeister** – Has an online screencast tutorial with title page commentary that might be offensive to some, but information is helpful. Each map allows user to create visual subtopics on a main idea, sibling connections that collapse. Maps can be shared with others either in real time or by email, added to a webpage, printed and exported to documents. When collaborating in real time, it is also possible to enter a skype ID for voice conferencing. Free account lasts only 1 month. Fee is $4.00/mo after that time. Sign up for free for 1 month at: http://www.mindmeister.com/
 * **Thinkature –** This tool works much like Mindmeister, but is more intuitive. It appears that once a user signs up for an account, there are **no fees**. With this tool there is no opportunity for creating collapsible sibling ideas; but this could be done with size and color coding. Maps can be shared with invited users in real time, and there is a chat option. Sign up here: http://thinkature.com/register/
 * **Gliffy –** Slower to load, but it has more features, including options for floorplans, user interface development, lots of shapes to use, exporting to jpeg, blog and email export, unlimited image uploads, setting page properties in pixels, image search on Yahoo, network mapping, etc. Sign up for 5 free maps at: http://www.gliffy.com/ Cost: 1 year subscription $30/$2.50 per month.

Online Office Applications
Zoho is free (and having already spent the money on the MS software) I will certainly recommend this to my economically disadvantaged students who if they even have access to the Internet at home can't get the MS Office. Also Zoho has more than these two apps. They have spreadsheets, online meetings, wikis...
 * Zoho Office Suite** - http://www.zoho.com/
 * Zoho Writer, the word processor, is acceptable for school use. I was able to import other MS Word documents, and you can export your work in various formats (.doc, .rtf, .html, etc) as well. It has many of the same features Word does - fonts, indents, adding pictures, hyperlinks, etc. You can also share your work with others which would be helpful for group projects. The others can give you feedback and only the people you want to share it with will have access.
 * Zoho Show is the presentation application. Even though I had made multiple slides when I went to see the Slide Show it would only show the first slide. When I clicked on the arrow to advance it showed only one slide. That was because you had to save it every time you made a change in order to view the entire show. There was no animation or fill effects and the templates offered were few and plain. Much of the creativity of Power Point was missing. I couldn't even upload pictures from my camera without manipulating them because it can only upload a picture of 600KB.
 * Google Docs**, [|http://docs.google.com] is a document producing website,like word. Some big differences are : It is free,can be used interactively for group writing ,editing, researchassignments,can be used at school and home and is fairly intuitive, if you know how to use word.I like the multi-color highlighting tool for plays,notetaking,vocabulary etc.