WebTools+2.0

This page provides Web 2.0 Tools you can use for any class! =**__99 Polls: __ ** = 99 Polls is a free website you can use to create custom surveys and polls for your website, blog, and social network profiles. Polls can allow for instant feedback and are a great way to get others involved in your project! You can use these polls for fun or for assignments. For example, you can post a poll and use your results as data to gain others' opinions, prove/disprove a point, or make a supporting statement. [|99Polls Website] media type="custom" key="3587928"  =Author Connect: = Author Connect is a great tool and effective way for writers to describe and display their work. This site can be used for personal or professional purposes. Author Connect also helps writers to improve and promote their work by connecting them to services, activities, and resources. Site offers information regarding writing prizes and awards, and important author updates. [|AuthorConnect] [|How to Use AuthorConnect]  =Blabberize! = Blabberize is a fun way to work with pictures and audio. This site allows you to add audio to pictures and even make it seem as if the picture is talking. Use of this site is free. Users are also able to share there creations and browse other blabbers. This site is great for an projects! You can use blabber for a presentation and make it seem like a poet is actually reading his work or you can recreate the reading of the //Emancipation Proclimation// by Abraham Lincoln. [|Blabber Website] [|Blabber Tutorial]

media type="custom" key="3587998"  =Comiqs: = Comiqs is a site which allows users to create their own comic strips. This tool can bring literature or historical characters to life in a fun and creative way. Students can create a comic strip about a day in the life of poet Oscar Wilde or make a historical event like the signing of the Declaration of Independence comical. [|Comiqs Website] [|Comiqs Tutorial]  media type="custom" key="3613905"

=Flash Card Exchange: = Flash Card Exchange is a website which can be used by students, teachers, and professionals. Users can browse pre-made flash cards by subject (includes Math, History, Science...) for register for free to create their own flash cards. Users can take study sessions, making cards as correct or incorrect, and review their results for each sessions. The site also provides a study history so users can see how well they have done. Users can also create hints for each virtual card. Once the questions and answers have been typed the user can then print the list (must pay a free to print the actual index cards).

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<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> =<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; color: rgb(61, 121, 245);">Glogster: = <span style="text-align: center; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Glogster is a free tool that can be used to create virtual posters that can be shared online. Your posters can include personal photos, audio, video, and text. For an example of a Glogster visit the Glogster Page on the class Wiki and view a Glogster on the Romantic Period. Notice that you can click on some pictures and texts which are linked to other websites and information. You glogster can be formatted to be posted on any webite. [|Glogster Website] "How To" Glogster [|Romantic Period Glogster from Class Wiki]

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> =<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; color: rgb(190, 19, 190);">Letter Pop: = <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; display: block; text-align: center;">Letterpop is a free online service that helps users create newsletters and publications. This application can be great for any class! Students can act as a famous writer, historical figure, or scientist and create a newsletter as if they were that person. For example, Benjamin Franklin writing about his inventions. Students could also create their own newspapers or magazines, write each article, and combine each to form a full publication. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="text-align: center; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|LetterPop Website] [|Examples] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> =<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Our Story: = <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">OurStory is a free interactive site which can be used to create and share time lines.Users can list specific events under dates which will be displayed on the time line and will be click-able to provide details about the event. You can use this site for personal use, creating a timeline of your life to share with friends and family, or you can use it for any class, creating a time line of a historical event or famous person's life. You can also post the time line to your Myspace or blog. [|OurStory Website] media type="custom" key="3613929" =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(232, 195, 17); text-align: center; display: block;">VozMe: = =<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> = <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">VozMe is a free site that allows users to convert text into mp3 files and is available in several languages. This may come in handy for foreign language students who are having trouble pronouncing words. Also, students could use it to add audio to a presentation or project. This site automatically converts text and can be heard immediately or downloaded and saved. [|VozMe Website] [|Example]

=<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; color: rgb(101, 0, 255);">Widgenie: = Widgenie gives users the ability to record data and convert the data into widget for easy online sharing. Users with plugins can take data directly from the Microsoft spreadsheets, or simply drag and drop information. Widgenie offers a variety of chart and table options and allows for your finished products to be posted to any website for others to view and add to their own page. Users can track their widget usage and create statistics. [|Widgenie Website] [|Widgenie Overview] =<span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 149);">YouTube: = Youtube is a very popular video sharing site which is mostly used for comical videos, but also hosts educational videos or movie/television clips. For example, see the Video Page on the class Wikipage to view two videos posted from YouTube. Both are clips from differnent movie adaptations of William Shakespere's //Romeo and Juliet// and present inportant scenes from the play. You can also find many professional readings of popular poems such as //Ode to a Nightingale// by John Keats. [|YouTube] media type="youtube" key="PKNihcMyiJY" height="344" width="425" = =

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