Web+2.0+Other+Tools

Social Media
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YouTube
An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube by Michael Wesch and the [|Digital Ethnography] Working Group to the Library of Congress June 23, 2008

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Flickr
[|Flickr] is a popular image sharing site. Look for images with creativecommons licensing.

Google Docs
With [|Google Docs], you can create documents, presentations and spreadsheets. Create forms/surveys and record the result in a spreadsheet. Twenty-one uses of Google Docs in the Classroom.

Etherpad
[|Etherpad] is a fun character by character text editor which allows real-time collaboration.

Concept Mapping
There are a lot of tools to do this online and collaboratively, like [|MindMeister]. See the [|huge list of tools on the Web2.0 in Education site]. A good example is "[|Using the Internet to Spice Up Your Math Class]" by [|Maria H. Andersen] on [|Mindomo].

Twitter
media type="youtube" key="ddO9idmax0o" height="344" width="425" [|Twitter] is a popular microblogging site. You can keep in touch with your personal learning network. Guy Kawasaki explains [|why you might want to].

Mashups
Refers to when several web tools are used in combination. Here is a [|mashup of Prop 8 donors and Google Maps].

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