Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Web 2.0 sites

Mindmeister is a mapping website is a concept mapping website that you can make a concept map with by creating the bubbles. You can actually make a powerpoint that will zoom in to where you can talk about the individual bubbles. SpiderScribe.net is another concept mapping website that is a little more advance. You can pinpoint location and event times in it so people can see exactly whats going on. More for an older audience. It is good for the teacher but maybe not as benefical for student, they might not understand. Bubbl.us is a concept mapping website, it is alot like inspiration where you can make the concept map however you would like. You can import pictues and text, it is also very simple. linoit.com is a free organizational tool that teachers could use for their classroom. It is a website where you can post notes and word documents, basically like a cute calander type thing on your web screen. A cool thing about this app is that you can do it on your phone because there is an app for it. It could be a good group work website. Students could use this for presenting and working on group work projects at home. Photobucket.com is something sort of like pinterest, it has stuff that is trending and you can connect with people through common interest. You can make it private. You can buy more storage if you run out of space. Quinturakids.com is a search engine geared more towards children. It is not very updated so it is not as widely ranged. It is based only by kids and it will pull only from childrens websites. DuckDuckGo is a search engine like google but is for children. It has a filter bubble which will put all of your information in this bubble. For instance, if you search bing alot and click on wikepedia then alot of your searches will bring up wikepedia GOGooligans.com is an educational and academic search engine. It is not very accurate or easy to use. Did not work when we tried to search the United States. Vimeo is a website that you can look up videos kind of like youtube. It is free and does not really have a filter for students. It is just a video search website. Wordpress.com is a blog site where you can find other peoples blogs and search things under tags to make it easier. Alot of people use wordpess because it is very flexible and has more creative things to do. You can follow peoples blogs and like and share them. Evernote.com is a a website where you can take notes and search for certain words in your notes. It is a very organized place to keep all of your stuff in one spot. You can have different folders kind of like documents for your computer Compflight is a website that is a ittle like google images. It is used for locating images, for blogs and for research. It gives you a better selection for images and it makes them more of a varied selection. Diigo.com is a place where you can organize and share information that youve found. You can highlight things and add sticky notes. Blabberize is a site that you can insert and image and create a mouth for something that is not your face. For instance, you could record your voice acting as George Washington and put his face on the screen saying what you said. Easelly.com is a place that you can create and share your information in cool ways such as a timeline or map. Animoto You can choose your own theme to upload pictures or videos. It is not free. The free trial only lasts up to a few seconds. You can add text and images. It is kind of like a powerpoint Bookbuilder is a website that you can go to create, share, publish and find books for things. Easy for kids and good for kids. Weebly.com is a place that you can make your own website. You can sign up using facebook, which lets you get to know who else has sites on Weebly.You can insert audio and video more easily. Storyboardgenerator has a group of videos that you can choose from in order to teach a class. It has a feature on it specifically for education that has videos of personal stories. Tagul clouds is a place where you can create word clouds. Similar to wordle. Edmodo.com is like a facebook for teachers. It is a place where all teachers get together and post pictures and status' that could help them with their teaching. They can ask questions on how they could use certain things in their classroom. Socrative is a website that teachers can use quizzes, fun educational games and record scores. PodBean.com is just like itunes. It is a music website where you can download songs and/or create your own. Pigskin is a site that you can create comic strips iCloud is a place for an apple product to keeps its apps and programs. It automatically updates apps and stores all your information on your phone so if your phone crashes or gets stolen then you will have your stuff on your iCloud account. Infogr.am is basically a place where you can create charts and graphs in order to have a cool way to store your information