MECA 2010 Conference Presentation

1. Top 20 Web 2.0 Tools
for Teachers and Librarians
Patrivan K. Yuen, M.A., M.Ed., & M.L.I.S
Technical Services Librarian
E-mail: pyuen@wmcarey.edu
&
Steve C. Yuen, Ph.D.
Professor
The University of Southern Mississippi
E-mail: Steve.Yuen@usm.edu
2010 MECA Conference, Jackson, Mississippi, February 9, 2010

3. Web 2.0 allows learners to:
• create
• contribute
• collaborate
• connect
• share
• participate in a learning community

5. Our Top 20 Web 2.0 Tools
• Selection Criteria
– Free
– Web 2.0 Applications
– Easy to learn and use
– Useful for teachers and librarians

6. Categories of Web 2.0 Tools
• Productivity
• Online Publishing
• Communications
• Virtual Community
• Media Sharing
• Blog
• Podcast
• Wiki
• Teaching and Learning

7. 1. Google Apps – Education Edition
www.google.com/educators/p_apps.html

9. Gmail
• Come with built-in Google search technology and
over 2.6 GB of storage.
• Also available on mobile devices.
• Integrate instant messaging right into the email
• Provide spam protection using Google technology.
• Messages can be sent and read in most languages.
Gmail interface is available in 40 languages.
• Free automatic forwarding and POP3 access

10. Gmail

11. Google Talk
• Instant messaging and group chat
• Free PC-to-PC voice calls (VOIP)
• Real-time file transfers
• Send and receive voicemails
• Integrated contact list
• Integrated into Gmail
• Mobile access
• Available of Windows version and Web version
• Multi-Languages Support

12. Google Talk

13. Google Calendar
• Calendar Sharing
• Invitations
• Gmail Integration
• Search
• Send Reminders
• Mobile Access
• Event Publishing

14. Google Calendar

15. Google Docs
• Consist of Web-based word processing,
spreadsheet, presentation, and form
• Online document creation
• Real-time collaboration
• Revision history
• Search tools
• Mobile access
• Supported multiple languages

16. Google Docs

21. Google Sites
• Create web pages right in your browser
• A WYSIWYG Web authoring program
• Pages are hosted on Google servers at
http://sites.google.com/sites/yoursitename/
• No HTML required
• Customizable look and feel
• Settings for accessing and sharing information

23. 2. YouTube
• www.youtube.com
• Online video streaming service that allows anyone to view
and share videos
• Accept many video formats (wmv, 3gp, avi, mov, mp4,
mpeg, flv, and mkv)
• Videos can be up to 2GB in size and 10 minutes long
• Unlimited uploading
• Each clip must have at least 3 tags
• Allow linking and embedding clips to your blogs or
Websites
• Students can create projects with video and share them
on the Web

25. www.teachertube.com

26. 3. Ning
• www.ning.com
• An online service where you can create, customize, and
share your own Social Network like MySpace and
Facebook
• Has customizable themes and templates
• Offer a public or private option
• Your network can be customized by selecting a
combination of features (music, videos, blogs, photos,
forums, groups, RSS, etc.) from a list of options
• Members who join your network will automatically have a
customizable profile page and will be able to message and
friend each other

27. www.ning.com

31. 4. Polldaddy
• www.polldaddy.com
• Create surveys and polls for your website, blog, and social network
• Survey
– Create multi question, multi page surveys with 11 question types to choose from
– Insert HTML directly allowing you to add pictures and video
– Online reporting in real time of your data as it is collected
– Close surveys after a certain date or quota has been reached, and create custom start
and finish pages for your survey
– Export your data as XML, CSV and subscribe to your results via RSS
• Poll
– Unlimited free polls with unlimited votes per poll.
– View poll results online, as XML, CSV, or subscribe to them via RSS!
– Add text, pictures and video to your polls.
– Block repeat voters by IP address or cookies.
– Create single choice or multiple-choice polls, randomize answers
– Close polls after a certain date

35. 5. Shelfari
• www.shelfari.com
• A book centered social network where members
can catalog, tag, review, and discuss books
• Create virtual bookshelves of books you have
read, plan to read and currently own
• Search for books by title, author, ISBN and
subject
• Show off your books and reviews on your blog or
favorite social networking site with Shelfari widget

37. 6. SlideShare
• www.slideshare.net
• Let users upload their presentations and share them online
through a YouTube-like interface
• Accept PowerPoint (ppt & pps), PDF, & OpenOffice (odp)
files with a maximum file size of 30 MB for each
presentation file
• Presentations can be tagged, and comments left by viewers
• Slide transcripts are automatically generated from text
elements of your individual slides
• Each slide has its own URL for reference
• Has a Slidecasting capability that allows authors to
synchronize slides with an audio file

38. www.slideshare.net

41. 7. WordPress
• www.wordpress.com
• Free blogging platform
• Hosted by Wordpress
• Provide variety of attractive themes, plug-ins, and
widgets
• Categorize and tag your posts
• Provide many features: Spell-check, Previews,
Autosave, Words, Photos, and Videos
• Can import from Blogger, TypePad, LiveJournal,
and More

42. blog.yuen.us

43. 8. Podomatic
• www.podomatic.com
• Find, create, distribute, promote, and listen to
both audio and video podcasts
• Record a podcast or vodcast directly to the Web
• Handle RSS feeds and allow your listeners to
subscribe to your podcast in iTunes

47. 9. Wetpaint
• www.wetpaint.com
• Free wiki websites
• Allow anyone to create an entirely new
website and invite others to help them build it.
• Combine the best aspects of wikis, blogs,
forums and social networks so anyone can
click and type on the web
• Can be a private or public site
• Wetpaint Education Wikis are Ad-free

48. www.wetpaint.com

50. 10. Flickr
• www.flickr.com
• A free photo sharing site
• Upload, organize, and share your photos with
anyone or selected individuals
• Get photos into and out of the system in as many
ways: from the web, from mobile devices, and from
the users' home computers
• Can tag and map your photos, create albums, view
slideshows, and post pictures to external blogs
• Allow RSS feed
• Allow annotations

51. www.flickr.com

52. 11. Second Life
• www.secondlife.com
• Shared experiences
• A feeling of presence
• Visual and social cues
• Closer to face-to-face conversation
• Real-time collaboration
• Immersion
• Engagement

53. www.secondlife.com

56. 12. Picnik
• www.picnik.com
• Upload a photo or import online photos from Flickr,
Picasa, Facebook, Webshots, and others
• Offer real-time online editing tools to crop, resize,
sharpen, adjust exposure, color, apply effects, and
then share them with your friends.
• Provide many special effects, from artsy to fun
• Has many fonts and top-quality type tool
• Get creative with a collection of effects, fonts, shapes,
and frames

57. www.picnik.com

59. 13. Zamzar
• www.zamzar.com
• Free online file conversion
• Support 5 different file format conversions
– Document
– Image
– Music
– Video
– Other Formats
• 100MB maximum file size for the free account
• Receive converted files via email
• Larger file conversions and online storage for Basic and
Pro accounts

60. www.zamzar.com

61. 14. del.icio.us
• del.icio.us
• A social bookmarking site
• Allow you to store bookmarks on the Web,
instead of inside your browser
• Share bookmarks with friends, family,
coworkers, and the del.icio.us community.
• Use tags to organize your bookmarks
• Can import and export bookmarks
• Keep tabs on other users’ links, and mark
certain links as private

62. del.icio.us

63. 15. Dimdim
• www.dimdim.com
• Web conferencing tool
• Nothing to install to host, join, and record
• Free for up to 20 participants
• Easy Share desktop & Webpages
• Audio & Video Conferencing
• Talk, listen, chat and broadcast via Webcam
• Present PowerPoint slides and PDFs
• Private & Public Chat
• Whiteboard & Annotations
• Record and Embed Meetings

66. 16. Scribd
• www.scribd.com
• A free, web-based, document sharing community
and self-publishing platform
• Let you publish, distribute, and share your own
documents with the world
• Support PDF, Postscript, Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, OpenOffice, Rich text, plain text,
and other OpenDocument formats
• Allow you to print your document and view it full-
screen

70. 17. ScreenToaster
• www.screentoaster.com
• No download. Compatible with Windows, Mac
OS X, Linux.
• Capture videos of onscreen action in one click
• Share and stream videos online in Flash
• Embed them on blogs and webpages or send
them by email.

72. 18. MediaFire
• www.mediafire.com
• Free file hosting service
• Upload, download, manage, and share your documents,
presentations, videos, and images with others.
• Upload unlimited number of files to share with colleagues
and students or storage
• Unlimited downloads
• Unlimited storage
• RSS file feeds
• No registration necessary and no software to install
• Up to 200 MB per file

74. 19. Animoto
• www.animoto.com
• A web application that automatically generates
professionally produced videos using their own
patent-pending technology and high-end motion
design.
• Each video is a fully customized orchestration of
user-selected images and music.
• Animoto Shorts are 30-seconds in length and
free for everyone. Users can produce, remix, and
share as many as they like.

81. 20. WiZiQ
• www.wiziq.com
• Conduct live online classes using free Virtual Classroom
• Create & share tests using Online Tests
• Upload & share content using Content Sharing
• Group different learners through Contacts Management
• Free version – 500 attendees/class
• Cannot login until session begins
• Can make 3 recordings and downloads
• Provide whiteboard, audio, video, and text chat

85. The End
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