Web 2.0 tools for schools

whatis: using the "WebCT-Vista class shell"
citeseer


Huge list of online resources for K 12 teaching
http://www.techlearning.com/

Multimedia blogging tool
http://www.stickam.com/
Features: Free live video chatting


community-driven, way to find the current hottest topics and articles in the Life Sciences
http://www.postgenomic.com/

ESL Blog
http://eslblogs.org/

Yacapaca assessment (test making) tool from the Chalkface Project.
Chalkface
http://www.chalkface.com/pages/Yacapaca%20Authoring

Designing Learning Spaces
http://cgi.stanford.edu/%7Eclass-educ303x-1066/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.HomePage

Yackpack - Online Voice messaging
http://www.yackpack.com/

Research tools

Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/

Windows Live Academic
http://academic.live.com/
Features: right side windw that provides full reference material for each item that is found in a search.


Online databases;
Myowndb
http://www.myowndb.com/info/presentation/home

Lazybase
http://lazybase.com/
features: mapping, star rankings, and charts

Scanr.com -
http://www.scanr.com/
info: With this free service, students can take a digital photograph (min. 1.3 megapixels) of a document and email it to Scanr.com. Scanr.com will then process the image to enhance its sharpness and contrast, and email it back to the sender as a .PDF format file that looks a lot like a good quality black and white fax. The student can then forward the email to the instructor.



School Administrator:
http://www.schooltool.org/
info: SchoolTool is a project to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source license.


Teachers:

Schoopy:
http://www.schoopy.com/
info: Classroom Organizer, School Homepages, Useful Resources & Fun Games

Students:
Note taking
MyNoteIt
http://www.mynoteit.com/

Project Collaboration tool

Zoho Virtual Office
http://zoho.com/

installable version

Basecamp

activeCollab
http://www.teamworklive.com/TeamWork.htm


map with a short url.
http://useamap.com/

quickmaps - maps for the masses
http://quikmaps.com/

Easybib - Automatic Bibliography Composer
http://www.easybib.com/


http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/creating-graphs
http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/websitetipscom-redesigned
http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/icons-round-up-free-mini-pixel-icons
http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/javascript-libraries-roundup
http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/25-best-license-free-pixelfonts
http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts
http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-rules-of-smart-and-successful-web-development-and-web-design



Vitaly's "List of nifty tools for drawing diagrams, charts and flow charts.
http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/nifty-tools-and-tutorials-for-creating-diagrams-charts-and-chart-flows

Learning activities for educational social software
http://www.writely.com/View.aspx?docid=ag9j97p7pg73_ahh5gqp63qx4


Educase Connect - Social networking for higher education.
http://connect.educause.edu/


Classroom tools: (software + hardware)

Meedu.org
http://beta.blogger.com/Meedu.org

Box Populi is basically a computer running software that is designed to automate the podcast creation and posting process.
http://boxpopu.li/
info: The Box Populi software (which is open source) can also be configured to run on other computers.



http://mediasite.com/
http://www.tegrity.com/

Ideawhip - Social community for entrepreneurs
http://ideawhip.com/


Zpeech - Similar tool to annotate webpages
http://www.zpeech.com/

Fleck - Annotate webpages and share the custom url
http://fleck.com/welcome.phps
http://extension.fleck.com/?sh=d3c89dd34e009b33243730e7269bf0aac5210d88



Wikimatrix-wiki comparison site
http://www.wikimatrix.org/


Web 2.0 Travel Tools
htto://Web20Travel.com/