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Are you tired of typing long URL’s to send via email or use in Twitter, Facebook or blogs, the you should look at Tiny URL, which instantly converts it into an ‘tiny url’. You also have an option of creating links based on your desired keywords! This also allows you to hide the actual URLs.

AirSet is an online group solution to organize, collaborate and communicate with your family or any other group that you are a member of. It has a shared calendar, contacts, lists, files, messaging, albums, playlists, blogs and links. Start using it today to organise your life. You can find use for it your school, private groups, church groups etc. It can send email reminders to all members of your group(s) to remind them of appointments etc.

Sign up today HERE.

Kartoo

Kartoo is a search engine with visual display interfaces. Kartoo gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of attractive, interactive and visual maps. Your kids will love using it. Quickly gather and present information related to a theme or topic. the visual results interface makes it good for searching the web as a group.

Survey Monkey

Survey Monkey is an online tool to quickly create and publish custom surveys and then view results graphically and in real time. Let your students create a
questionnaire and then get other students in the school to take the survey. The students can view the results as they are collected in real-time and watch live graphs and charts, and then dig down to get individual responses.

Skrbl

Skrbl is an online web resource which allows users to type notes, sketch drawings, upload pictures and share files. You can use it as an online white board or notice board, wher you could put all sorts of information. Or simply use it as a shared common space where everyone in your team can write, read, draw, edit, share files and show pictures… all on the same page. You don’t even have to sign up to start using it.

Digital Tools is list of numerous web 2.0 tools that you can include in your classroom. There are too many to name.

Below are a small sample of these programs. Click on the icon to go to the site.

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own websites, blogs, wikis etc. that are accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity.

I have been using Bluehost as a webhost for about US$7.00 per month, which is very cheap considering all the space and other features they provide. Today I joined another web hosting service called Host Monster costing US$5.00 per month, paid in advance for two years. They have all the features provided by Bluehost, including Fantastico, which automates the installation of many softwares, including Moodle. They also provide a free Domain as part of the deal. My new domain name is itwinning.com.

Click on the banner below if you want to sign up to Host Monster.

BubbleShare is another free photo sharing program, which makes sharing of photos via blogs, netvibes, websites etc a breeze and it does an attractive job too. You can see some photos in the sidebar of this blog.

Vodpod to help you collect videos from 1000s of sites around the ‘Net. You can use Vodpod search to find videos on YouTube, Google, Myspace, Comedy Central and Daily Motion. Or, use our browser button to add videos from 1000s of sites around the web. When you see a video you like while surfing the web, just click the “Save to Vodpod” button and we’ll add it to your Pod (that’s what we call video collections).

Once you’ve collected a few videos, you can put them on your blog, Facebook, Myspace, Netvibes or your personal website with our widgets. It is sSimply the best way to collect, share and watch videos. Adnd it is FREE and easy to use it. Sign up today.

Web 2.0 Workshop

Blogs, wikis, Webcasts, podcasts, RSS feeds, social networks . . . they’re all a part of what has come to be known as Web 2.0. Workshop author Vicki Davis is a classroom teacher who has been recognized for her innovative classroom practices using Web 2.0. The Flat Classroom Project, which she coauthored, won ISTE’s Award for Best Online Learning project for 2007, an Edublog Award for Best Wiki in education for 2006, and inclusion in the best selling book The World is Flat. Her Cool Cat Teacher Blog received an Edublog finalist award for Best Teacher Blog of 2006.

Atomic Learning, who host this tutorial, has given FREE access to this tutorial for the month of November (2007). The great thing about Atomic Learning tutorial is that it is built upon little short movie clips so you may just go into the tutorial and look at a few of the items that will help you.

The other Atomic Learning tutorials are also available for free for eteachers until the end of November. Send me an email if you would like to access these tutorial (there are many hundreds of them).

If you are interested in creating movies, digital stories etc and not sure what to do, then have a look at Jennifer’s Blog. You may get some ideas to use with your class.

If you have made a good movie with your class why not enter in the first ever TROP JR: The Worlds Largest Short Film Festival for Kids! By Kids! (By Australian Children’s Television Foundation).

The Ed Tech Crew chew the fat on all things ICT. They are from Melbourne, Australia. Listen to their podcast to find out how a podcast could be done and if you are planning on becoming a podcaster yourself (Maybe a famous one!).

A weekly podcast about technology in education hosted by Darrel Branson (The ICT Guy) and Tony Richards from itmadesimple.com. They discuss all things digital in education – technologies, issues, great websites, web 2.0 and much, much more!