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Top Web 2.0 Tools for Learning

Guest Blogger — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:03:55 +0000

Web 2.0 tools have a lot of importance when we consider collaborative learning methods. Web 2.0 tools are useful for effective learning and finding better results with less effort. Here are the top 10 web 2.0 tools for learning.

Wikis
Through wikis, we are able to learn everything that reached human’s hand. It is a powerful tool to create a useful content to share it with fewer efforts. You can embed any kind of content to wikis and hence the learning becomes easy and special. Take a look at Wikispaces for some great examples.

Blogs
With the large number of blogs around the web, we are able to know everything in this world. Also there is a possibility to meet a large community through blogs if you wish. Edublogs, based on WordPress, is one of the largest networks of educational blogs used by teachers and students. Highly recommended.

Empressr
Empressr is an effective tool that allows you to upload images, videos, music and audio to make a final video. The video can be shared publicly to reach a large amount of audience. Students and teachers can make use of this to make study materials, presentations etc.

Animoto
Animoto is a video presentation maker that allows you to create your own videos with images and caption effects. Students and teachers can experience the free service for creating unlimited videos for class seminars and presentations. Also they offer a paid service.

Kerpoof
As the name seems different, its services are special. Kerpoof is a website which will be useful for businessmen and students to draw graphics, create animations and movies. Kerpoof’s easily manageable tools will help you to draw whatever is in your mind. You may save or convert the output according to your needs.

Voicethread
It is an online tool which is being used by a lot of schools and colleges worldwide. Through Voicethread, you are able to upload your images and videos to add text, audio comments later. It will be a great experience to create study materials yourself through Voicethread.

Glogster EDU
It is another online tool that allows teachers and students to create and use virtual class rooms and tutoring materials such as presentations. Class rooms are called as Glogs. Students will have the ability to express and share their skills, creativity and knowledge through their glogs.

Skype
Skype is a familiar service to all of us. Skype offers free voice and video calling with other skype users around the world. It helps us to conduct virtual class rooms sitting at home! Skype is mostly being used by professionals, students and teachers.

Create-A-Graph
It is a good online tool which allows us to draw graphs such as Bar, Line, Pie, Area and XY graphs. This tool will be useful for students and researchers to summarize their data. Totally millions of graphs are already created by the users in this site till the date.

Voki
Are you having some difficulties to pronounce something? Let the Voki clear your vocal problems. Voki is a text to speech converter which is able to generate the speech of text you entered. You can create your own avatar and add voice to it. Finally you may include it in your website or blog.

Web 2.0 tools are the sophisticated learning tools available today for students and teachers. Most of the web 2.0 tools are available for free of cost and there is no country restriction to use these valuable tools.

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Wiki Walkthrough: Wikis FAQs answered by TeachersFirst (with examples)

Jorge Goncalves — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:49:33 +0000

TeachersFirst Wiki Walkthrough: The path starts with the basic What in the world is a wiki? and continues with Who uses wikis? and What is the difference between a wiki and a blog? For teachers is important to know So how do I use wikis with my class(es)? or What benefits are there from student wiki participation? Some examples can be seen on the wiki walk through some sample wikis. We can even play with some wiki tools on the Which wiki tool will you use? section. A visit to the TeachersFirst wiki is also recommended. Here we can find more ideas on how to use a wiki as a learning tool.

TeachersFirst is offering two free meetings at OK2Ask Guided Wiki Walk, today and July 29 at either 3 pm or 6 pm Eastern time both days (with a little homework in between).

Wiki Walkthrough: Wikis FAQs answered by TeachersFirst (with examples) is a post from Learning Online Info, a blog dedicated to the world of e-learning and new learning technologies.

Wikia Search Alpha Just Launched

Jorge Goncalves — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:27:55 +0000

Wikia Search Alpha Launched. ‘Wikia is working to develop and popularize a freely licensed (open source) search engine.

Wikia’s search engine concept is that of trusted user feedback from a community of users acting together in an open, transparent, public way. Of course, before we start, we have no user feedback data. So the results are pretty bad. But we expect them to improve rapidly in coming weeks, so please bookmark the site and return often.

Right now, the most important thing you can do is help with the “mini articles” that appear at the top of popular search terms.’

Wikia Search Alpha Just Launched is a post from Learning Online Info, a blog dedicated to the world of e-learning and new learning technologies.

Innovate: Collecting, Organizing, and Managing Resources for Teaching Educational Games the Wiki Way

Jorge Goncalves — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:58:35 +0000

Collecting, Organizing, and Managing Resources for Teaching Educational Games the Wiki Way, Shelley Henson Johnson, Brett Shelton, and David Wiley, Innovate, Vol. 4, December 2007/January 2008. Synopsis: Recognizing the pedagogical value of gaming, academics along with game designers and educational content developers have begun producing resources to improve educational game design and make instructional games more accessible to teachers wanting to incorporate them into their classes. However, the rapid growth of such resources has made it difficult for educators and other interested parties to find what they need. As a first step towards addressing this problem, Shelley Henson Johnson, Brett Shelton, and David Wiley discuss the creation and proposed expansion of the Teaching Educational Games Resources wiki. They first created the wiki as part of a session at the Games, Learning and Society 2006 conference. Panelists and participants contributed to the wiki before, during, and after the conference session, creating an online space that incorporates syllabi and readings for educational game design, lists hundreds of online resources, and includes links to conferences and multimedia resources. After outlining the creation of the wiki, the authors suggest that its incorporation into an online self-organizing social system could facilitate its growth and the emergence of an online community of game designers, researchers, and educators interested in educational gaming.

Teaching Educational Games Resources Wiki. Current topics: Readings, Multi-media Materials, Technical Resources, Classroom Help, Additional Teaching Resources, Career Resources and Gaming and Libraries. Very good!

Innovate: Collecting, Organizing, and Managing Resources for Teaching Educational Games the Wiki Way is a post from Learning Online Info, a blog dedicated to the world of e-learning and new learning technologies.

Wikis Everywhere

Jorge Goncalves — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:02:23 +0000

Read/Write Web: The World Of Wikis. ‘A Wiki can be described as a website that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change its content. The invention of the Wiki is credited to a guy called Ward Cunningham, who in 1994 developed a site called WikiWikiWeb. It was/is a place to collect information on people, projects and patterns in software development.’

Howstuffworks: How Wikis Work. ‘Chances are that you have heard of Wikis by now – they seem to be popping up everywhere. For example, the most famous wiki is called Wikipedia, a massive online encyclopedia. Wikipedia has become so large (more than a million articles) that you run across it all the time in Google. It is so popular that it is now one of the Top 100 web sites in the world! Despite their popularity, Wikis seem very strange to many people. Where does all the information come from? Is it reliable? What stops people from vandalizing a wiki until it dies? These questions and many others will be answered as we dive into the world of wikis…’

From WikiWikiWeb site: Choosinga Wiki and Wiki Farms

Wikis Everywhere is a post from Learning Online Info, a blog dedicated to the world of e-learning and new learning technologies.

Wikiversity – The Knowledge is Free

Jorge Goncalves — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:31:26 +0000

Wikiversity. ‘Wikiversity is a community for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. Wikiversity is a multidimensional social organization dedicated to learning, teaching, research and service. Its primary goals are to: a) Create and host free content, multimedia learning materials, resources, and curricula for all age groups in all languages and b) Develop collaborative learning projects and communities around these materials.
Learners and teachers are invited to join the Wikiversity community as editors of this wiki website where everyone can edit the pages. The community portal lists information about many aspects of Wikiversity.’

Wikiversity:Learning projects. ‘A learning project is a collection of pages devoted to the Learning of a specific topic or family of topics. A learning group uses the said pages to collaborate on a learning goal.’

Wikiversity – The Knowledge is Free is a post from Learning Online Info, a blog dedicated to the world of e-learning and new learning technologies.

Curriki – Global Education & Learning Community

Jorge Goncalves — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:19:10 +0000

Curriki – The Global Education & Learning Community. ‘Curriki is a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world.
Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. Our name is a play on the combination of ‘curriculum’ and ‘wiki’ which is the technology we’re using to make education universally accessible.
Curriki is the result of work done for GELC – the Global Education and Learning Community – an online project started by Sun Microsystems to develop works for education in a collaborative effort. The leadership team consists of people with a long-time commitment to exploring the use of technology to improve education.’

Global Education and Learning Community (GELC). ‘Sun Microsystems, building on the effort of many others, launched the Global Education and Learning Community on June 1, 2004, in order to accelerate efforts to provide affordable lifelong learning for all students, no matter where they are.
With the creation of the GELC, Sun Microsystems is calling for Ministries of Education, K-12 and Higher Education institutions, and others responsible for defining national and regional education strategies, to come together as a global education and learning community to promote an open infrastructure based on a common set of open standards.’

Curriki – Global Education & Learning Community is a post from Learning Online Info, a blog dedicated to the world of e-learning and new learning technologies.

StikiPad

Jorge Goncalves — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:12:22 +0000

StikiPad is a hosted wiki solution that gives you an easy way to organize your information and share information with others. StikiPad runs completely in your browser with no downloads and easy administration, letting you take your StikiPad wherever you have access to the Internet.

StikiPad Examples

StikiPad is a post from Learning Online Info, a blog dedicated to the world of e-learning and new learning technologies.

Qualitypedia at The European Foundation for Quality in eLearning (EFQUEL)

Jorge Goncalves — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:43:13 +0000

Qualitypedia. ‘The Qualitypedia is a WIKI project of the European Foundation for Quality in eLearning. It is aiming to provide a user driven collection of discussions and information all around the topic of quality in eLearning. The qualitypedia is open to all topics and invites comments and feedback from all sides. It presents all kinds of information â€“ from unstructured thoughts and debates to archives of virtual discussion threads and articles, green papers and short definitions. Everybody is invited to contribute.’

The European Foundation for Quality in eLearning (EFQUEL) is a European membership organisation. Our mission is to enhance the quality of eLearning in Europe by providing services and support for all stakeholders. EFQUEL is built on principles of dialogue and inclusiveness to promote excellence and innovation to achieve Learning Europe. It is an initiative of the Triangle project funded by the European Commission. The portal provides a unique forum for information, research, networking and debate on innovation and best practice in eLearning quality.

Triangle Project. ‘The European Foundation for Quality in E-learning was initiated by Triangle, which is a European Commission funded project. The main objectives are:

to promote the European diversity of quality approaches and services in the field of learning, education and training,
to connect results and concepts on European e-learning quality developed in three successful projects,
to broaden the discussion and discourse on E-Learning quality and
to provide a sustainable infrastructure as a single entry point for eLearning quality.’

Qualitypedia at The European Foundation for Quality in eLearning (EFQUEL) is a post from Learning Online Info, a blog dedicated to the world of e-learning and new learning technologies.

A Great Tool: OpenCourseWare Finder

Jorge Goncalves — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:01:45 +0000

OpenCourseWare Finder. Find open educational resources by typing in the search box or selecting tags. See also:

OpenContent.Org

Open Content Wiki. A place for collaborating on, scheming about, planning for, and developing open educational resources.

A Great Tool: OpenCourseWare Finder is a post from Learning Online Info, a blog dedicated to the world of e-learning and new learning technologies.