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= Web 2.0 Tools = Kristi Patton & Creedence Spreder New for 2010 VB LMS Conference Salem HIgh School August 2010

Tools, Tips and Sample Projects
Titanpad [|www.titanpad.com] Web-based wordprocessor that allows real time collaboration. No registration necessary, however student access is blocked.

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Google Docs [] Students must register with a verified email account.
 * Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text (or create documents from scratch).
 * Use our simple WYSIWYG editor to format your documents, spell-check them, etc.
 * Invite others (by e-mail address) to edit or view your documents and spreadsheets.
 * Edit documents online with whomever you choose.
 * View your documents' and spreadsheets' revision history and roll back to any version.
 * Publish documents online to the world, as Web pages or post documents to your blog.
 * Download documents to your desktop as Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF, HTML or zip.
 * Email your documents out as attachments.

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Scrapblog [|www.scrapblog.com] Scrapblog is an online scrapbooking tool. Students must have an account to save or publish any work. The email does hot have to verified and pages can be exported as jpeg files.

Mixbook [|www.mixbook.com] Mixbook is an online photobook site that can be worked on collaboratively. Finished books can be shared or printed for a cost. Users must have an unverified email address.

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 Toondoo [] "ToonDoo is a cool, comic-creating tool that allows you to create your own cool comic strips with just a few drag ‘n drops ‘n mouse clicks!" Must sign-in with UNverified email address. Can be embedded, emailed or printed. I used snag it to post on PPT for EBB of National Library week project. Also, tools to allow image manipulation (Imaginatr) and create your own toon (Traitr). media type="custom" key="3985847" Go Animate [|www.goanimate.com] "GoAnimate.com is an entertainment website that enables the simple creation of unique computer animated stories, satires and sentiments that can be shared with the entire online community. The site offers simple to more advanced innovative features that provide users with a multitude of possibilities for customizing their animations." Must sign-in with verified email address, although the first time you will be able to create without verification. Animation can be embedded, bookmarked or emailed. media type="custom" key="3989879"

Vokis

[|www.voki.com] "Voki is a free service that allows you to [|create] personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages." Students do not need a log in or email if posted vokis on a wiki.

Rising 9th graders created vokis to ask questions during their school visit.

Rising Freshmen

AP Geography students pretended to be tour guides to various countries and created vokis to promote their country.

Student Example AP Geography

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