Exploring+Web+2.0

=Exploring Web 2.0 Resources=

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**//Wiki//**
A Wiki is used to collaborate with multiple people and share a document in which everyone can write, comment, change and/or respond to what is written.

Here is a great website to share how awesome wikis are for classroom purposes: http://wikispaces-class.wikispaces.com/

Want to start your own? Check out here: [|wikispaces]

**//Blog//**
A blog is used as if it were a personal journal including reflections, and comments. Some may share links to other websites, videos, and photos that the author provides. Others can subscribe to a blog in which they can read and write comments in response to the blog.

Check out some examples of blogs here: []

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Want to start your own? Check out these: http://edublogs.org

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**//Social Bookmarking//**
Social Bookmarking is a way for students or teachers to save all their links found on the internet and put them in one place. This makes it easier to find sites in the future.

Here is a short read on the greatness of Social Bookmarking that even shares links to get started with social bookmarking. []

**//Podcast//**
Podcasting is a new method of communication using technology to record, brainstorm, and share ideas, stories, essays, etc. by creating audio files and posting them on the internet in which people can download and listen to them at anytime.

Here is a link I found that shares uses for using Podcast in the classroom, equipment you need, and examples of Podcasts directly from classroom: []

**//Social Calendar//**
Having a social calendar can keep students, teachers, parents, and the school up to date with assigned/due homework, events, and holidays.

**//Facebook//**
Using this type of Social Network can implement classroom/teacher discussions by having online discussion in a facebook group. Here is an example: []

**//Twitter//**
25 ways to teach with Twitter - This sight really says it all: []

**//Skype/Google Chat.Hang Out//**
Skype/Google Chat.Hang Out are ways in which you can communicate with someone face to face online. It is a video chat or messaging chat. If someone is away or cannot physically make a conference, meeting, or class, this is a great way to incorporate these people so they are able to be a part of it. Here is a link I found which states 50 ways of how to use online video chats for the classroom. []

**//YouTube//**
YouTube is a great online source in which students and teachers can share a variety of videos to enhance ones thinking and learning. Videos range from clips from movies, music, advertisements, documentary, etc. YouTube even has a page specifically for educational used with documentaries, biographies, and more multiple teaching tools. []

**//Moodle//**
Moodle is a great way to have your classroom be completely online or for colleagues to find materials online.. One can post documents so people can look at them any time of the day.

Here is a video in which a teacher shares a variety of ways to use Moodle in the classroom:

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