Sloan-C Online Workshop

Web 2.0 Applications - Links, Descriptions, Ideas for Use in Higher Education

Participants in the workshop should add a link below to a new page in the wiki.

Polling tools

• Interested in Polling Tools? My favorite by far is PollEverywhere, which allows participants to vote via cell phone (sure beats paying for a Student Response System!), but I've tried out quite a few. -Mary McGlasson
• Zoomerang is worth checking out.--Kathryn Broyles

Wikis

These pages describe various uses for wikis in higher education.

• "Technology Tuesdays" is our web 2.0 workshop series for faculty, using PBwiki for the workshop resources. - Mary McGlasson
• my class wiki for Public Economics - Susan Dadres
• Wiki for Beth Lifson
• Wikispaces - Dorothy Anthony
• The Google
• Wikispaces - Tamara Fudge
• A Wiki Assignment for a literature class - Lisa Schreibersdorf
• Being a 21st Century Learner and Teacher
• Rebecca Olien- Wikis
• Niz Wikis - Kim Nisbett ... response to Kim's question from Tamara Fudge
• Action Research Support Materials (Demo Site Using Wikispaces) Jackie Gerstein

Blogs

• twitter - Monica Yatsyla

Aggregators

These pages describe various lists, aggregators, and other similar applications.

• Blogger-Tom Gluick
• Blogger (Google's blogspot) - Tamara Fudge
• delicious: Shelly Zimmerman by Shelly Zimmerman, Centenary College
• Stumbleupon - Chantelle Ferguson
• Citizendium – Isabel Carvalho

• Kartoo - Isabel Carvalho

• Streamlining RSS-Aggregator Use
• Tag Crowd - Kathryn Broyles
• Delicious - Isabel Carvalho
• Blogger - Carol Edwards
• Digg - Kathy Ward
• Hordit - Trisha Alexander 
• Diigo - Melanie Morris 
• DIGG - Sally Dodge 

Audio/Video

These pages describe online audio/video applications

• Flickr - Burks Oakley
• Audacity - Stephen Fowler
• Podcasts - Liat Dobrishman
• Video Podcast using Podomatic - Kate Winsor
• YouTube - Angela Ellis
• IMEEM
• Elluminate - Rhonda Meyers
• Jing - Tamara Fudge
• Livescribe - Caroline Richards 
• Jing Jane Herder Once you have tried Jing, you love it!
• Camtasia - Caroline Richards
• Dimdim - Jeff Bailie - VoIP freeware app for up to 10 participants, less expensive than Elluminate for larger groups.

• Odeo - Tricia Berry

• Snag-It - Caroline Richards
• Multiply - Audio-Video, Doc Sharing, Blog - Tom Rich
• Dimdim - Kathleen Kinney 
• Gabcast

Office-like Applications

These pages describe online versions of word processors, spreadsheets, presentation tools, and other similar applications.

• Gliffy- Patsy Beffa-Negrini
• Gliffy - Isabel Carvalho
• Slides Share - Cara Sherman
• Google docs- Frank Pelli
• Slide Rocket Jackie Gerstein

Virtual Worlds

These pages describe various virtual worlds, like Second Life:

• Virtual Worlds Review -- I've compared Second Life, There, OpenCroquet, and Qwaq. My actual favorite was Google Lively, but Google gave it the axe on 12/31/08. -Mary McGlasson  

• Jackie's Virtual Worlds for K12 Education Jackie Gerstein
• Active World Review - Carol Edwards - I compared Active Worlds 4.2 to Second life. 

Miscellaneous

These pages describe Web 2.0 tools that do not fit elsewhere above.

• ADrive - www.adrive.com - another online storage area very much like XDrive, but this one gives you 50GB of storage instead of 5GB.
• Google Sites - Yet another place for people to collaborate and share
• Skype-++Kathy+DeBarr
• Edublogs - Melissa Samaniego
• iGoogle - Deborah Krumtinger
• Google Sites and Apps - Cassandra Shaw
• Google calendar - Tamara Fudge 
• Symbaloo - Caroline Richards 
• Search Cube - Caroline Richards
• iTunes U - Erica Ellsworth Hanaczewski
• Oikos - Thea Leonard
• Twitter- Jackie Gerstein
• www.mindjet.com - Gary Parks
• Flowgram - Kathleen Kinney