Resourceful Web 2.0 Tools

Resourceful Web 2.0 Tools

Kerpoof
Kerpoof is a a fun Web tool because it allows you to become an animator. This tool gives you access to various characters and environments so that you can craft your own movie. I love this tool, because I love implementing creativity into both my future classroom and job.

Voki
Voki is neat because it allows you to speak to text. The cool part about this tool is that it enables me to be able to help my students from afar. For instance, if a child cannot read what I have assigned for them they can simply click on this tool and hear me say the words to them.

Create-A-Graph
Create-A-Graph is a intriguing tool, because it allows teachers to implement graph training at home. Students can log on and start making their own kind of graph. By suggesting this to them you are implanting the seed so that they can have a broader understanding of it further down the road.

Yack Pack
Yack Pack is cool because it operates a lot like a voice-mail system. You might be wondering how this could be handy, but just like an infomercial there is more. Teachers who don't feel comfortable giving out their phone number and parents who can't ever find time to schedule an appointment with their child's instructor can simply utilize Yack Pack as a communication method.

Animoto
Animoto is deep. It allows students to create presentations solely out of images. Yes no words would be used in the making of these presentations. The point is for students to look further than what they are being told. Let your students choose what the million words being said are.

Glogster
Glogster is ideal for social media fans. The reason being it allows students to share presentations, information, create group presentations, and simply communicate. I like this tool because it allows students to get into contact with their group partners from a far. In this day and age you can contact anyone, so long as they are not a group partner. I think Glogster could really help the world wide dilemma of dead beat partners.

Blogger
Blogger is ideal for students to express themselves. It is in a sense an online diary. The bonus side of this is that it allows students the ability to communicate, share their ideas, and promote reading and writing.

Google Docs
Google Docs is ideal for students who lack access to Word at home. Word is pricy and not everyone has the luxury of owning it. Google docs can enable students to do their homework. Some students actually fail to turn in their work due to their lack of utensils. You can't write a paper without a pen, so why expect someone to do an assignment without the program?

SkypeSkype is an awesome web tool that many people simply write off as social media. Well in an essence it is social media, but it is also so much more.  Students could utilize this for group work, tutoring, and even one on one time with their instructor. I believe this tool could truly change students life's. 

PicMonkey 
PicMonkey is a fun editing picture site. Students in yearbook who despise the complexity of photoshop can utilize this tool to help them discover their imagination. Not to mention this site is FREE. Some schools lack the funding for Photoshop, thus the reasoning for PicMonkey.