Web 2.0 - tools & tips
What's Web 2.0? Educator's Options RSS & Blogs & Newsfeeds Social Bookmarking Podcasting & audio
Photosharing & videos Social Networking And there's more    
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What's Web 2.0?
7 things you should know about.. ..[blogging, RSS etc] .from Educause - the ultimate Web 2.0 definitions - printable
Richardson, W. (2005). RSS: a quick start guide for educators.
Richardson, W. (2004). Blogging and RSS — The "What's It?" and "How To" of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators,
Harmelen, M. v. (n.d.). Briefing paper on Web 2.0 technologies for content sharing
Video: The machine is us/ing us Youtube

Video: Web 2.0 Youtube

Video: RSS in Plain English Youtube
Video: Wikis in Plain English Youtube
Video: Social Networking in Plain English Youtube

Video: A new way to publish - the rise of Web 2.0 Teachertube

www.go2web20.net - the complete web 2.0 directory. Set up an RSS feed from here to stay informed.

Educator's Options
Global Teacher Curriki - global education learning community
BBC-UK Teacher tools Australian Edubloggers
Edna - rich source of educational RSS  
RSS, Blogs & Newsfeeds

Bloglines - reader - get to in anywhere - online

Bloglines tutorial - 2005 edition but excellent starting guide

Google Reader - part of Google tools stable

Yahoo News - RSS feed on constructed search

2RSS.Com Microsoft Feeds Directory
My Yahoo - just like Google but puffing to keep up FreeforAll - for Macs - $39.95

Newsgator - free and online

Blogger - free, online blog editor

Blogs in Australian Libraries Wordpress - free, use online or download to your own host
Google Alerts

Typepad- some free, some you pay. Host on your site.

Marian Koshland Bioscience ...Library RSS Compendium - finding RSS feeds
RSS feeds for government agencies - Australia ABC Radio - Australia
EduBeacon- my educational blogging site All about RSS - incl finding RSS feeds & blogs
List of feed aggregators Syndic8 - international RSS syndicate
MediaFly - media aggregator  
Social Bookmarking
Furl Citeulike - academic
Del.icio.us Library Thing
Simpy Technotorati

Digg- the crowd as news editor

Linked in - social networking for suits
Photosharing & videos
YouTube Flickr
TeacherTube Kodak Easyshare

Istockphotos

Stumbleupon
Social Networking
MySpace - popular

Pageflakes - good for the little guys

Ning - preferred by social groups & organisations

Facebook - sober alternative to MySpace
Bebo - big on photosharing A Small World - private online community
Classmates Online Windows Live Spaces
Livejournal Xanga
And there's more
Craigslist-Melbourne
yourminis - 2007 site winner - loads of widgets 
Guide to Second Life for k-12 educators - Kathy Schrock
Wikipedia - everybody can contribute

Read/Write Web - oodles of ideas here

Marc Prensky's page - the gaming in education guru

© Camilla Elliott, 2002
Last updated May 2008