Web+2.0


 * Web 2.0 **

Web 2.0 is a name for a number of different web application features that facilitate information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 sites allow users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. Examples of Web 2.0 include web applications, video sharing sites, social networking sites, blogs, wikis, and folksonomies.
 * What is Web 2.0? **

A web application is an application that is accessed over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. The following are a list of some web applications that might be helpful in your classroom. Most of them have on-line tutorials.
 * Web Applications **

[|www.instagrok.com] Instagrok is an interactive web search engine for learners. Look up a topic and instantly you will have an expanding graphic organizer, key facts, websites, videos, images, quizzes, and concepts. Keep a journal of the material you have selected as well as a history of researched material. Save material and embed into SMARTboard too! Google Docs Create and share documents on the web and access them from any computer or smart phone. The familiar desktop feel makes collaborative editing easy.

[|www.xtranormal.com] Xtranormal's mission is to bring movie-making to the people. Create text-to-speech based computer animated videoclips, featuring ng animated three-dimensional characters speaking in monotone computer voices. Your movies can be short or long, online or on-screen, private or public. //from// www.xtranormal.com/about/

[|www.docsteach.org] A website of the National Archives that allows users to search over 3000 historical documents and includes online activities.

[|www.scribblar.com] Online interactive white Board. You can have your students add to the board at home, from the library or from the computer lab until the moderator locks it. Set up rooms to allow students to collaborate. [|www.prezi.com] Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them. The result: visually captivating presentations that lead your audience down a path of discovery. //from// http://prezi.com/about/