Colloration+Tools

**Free or Mostly Free Web 2.0 Tools for Collaboration and Sharing**
Download the attached review sheet, Choosing an Online Tool. [|Choosing_an_Online_Tool.doc] The internet is brimming with new and exciting ways to enhance the teaching and learning process and we must learn how to make the most of them. But remember: focusing on the problem, //what can I do with this tool?// is the wrong way to go about it. Instead we must focus on the solution and ask //what can this tool do for me?// There are 25 Web 2.0 tools linked below. These are just a sampling of tools available. While I have put them in categories of use, don't let that limit your own creativity. ** Working with a partner, choose one tool to review and complete the review sheet as thoroughly as possible. ** Type in your descriptions/answers on the Word doc. After you have competed the document, copy and paste it into the wiki page in the category, Visualize Data, or Presentations, etc. etc. Remember, if you get the message you will overwrite someone, you need to stop trying to save. Wait, then try again.
 * In short, don't ask what you can do with the internet, ask what the internet can do for you**.

Visualize Data **
 * **[|Chartle]**: Create simple interactive charts.
 * [|ChartGizmo] - visualize financial, scientific or other type of data.
 * [|xtimeline] - Create a timeline with images and text (check this one out English teachers: [])


 * Analyze Text **
 * You've seen [|Wordle], now see a variation **[|TagCrowd],** to find out more about it, be sure to read this page, [|TagCrowd blog.]

**Manage Tasks**
 * **[|Remember the Milk]**This tool is also available through gmail and for smartphones.
 * [|Tasck] - Organize and refine you to-dos
 * Edmondo
 * Evernote - keeps everything together

**Creativiity**
 * [|DecideAlready] - Ask questions, provide response, weight them or rank them
 * [|Solvr] - What's your problem, figure out a way to solve it
 * [|Diffen] - Compare and Contrast
 * Big Huge Labs - make stuff with your stuff

**Games**
 * [|Samorost] - An [|adventure]/[|puzzle] [|Flash] [|game] short and simplistic in its gameplay, its surreal graphics and memorable score make the game stand out.
 * [|MagicPen] - It's physics at play
 * [|Auditorium] - Is it Math is it Physics?

**Writing**
 * [|MixedInk] - collaborative writing
 * [|Phrasr]- images and text, how they go together
 * [|PicLits] - images and text
 * [|aMap] - an argument builder

By the time we get to presentation and digital storytelling, these tools overlap in possible uses. You decide.

> photo by text, audio or video. (did you catch "audio"? that would be by microphone or cellphone)
 * Presentations **
 * [|MuseumBox] - Provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. You can add text, images, video and sound to the side of the cubes.
 * [|VoiceThread] - Create a slideshow of images or video and you and others can comment on each
 * [|Glogster] - Combine images, video, music, photos and audio to create mulitmedia pages. Think "poster" and blog.
 * [|Prezi] - Not for the faint of heart, makes PowerPoint so old-school
 * [|MyBrainShark] - Create presentations with your voice-over
 * Slideshare - provide access to presentations
 * Story Telling**
 * [|Animoto] - similar to PhotoStory application on our windows computer, but more creative, readily shareable
 * [|Scrapblog] - develop through images a digital story
 * [|xtraNormal] - If you can type, you can make movies. Make animations from preset characters. Put in own actions and script. Do it in a foreign language!
 * [|Chogger] - makes comics