Creating a Virtual Learning Community
Edmodo (http://www.edmodo.com/)Edmodo is a lot like Facebook, but it has an educational focus. You can share information with students and parents, create assignments and polls, and it even has a gradebook built in. Check out the video for more information.
Schoology (https://www.schoology.com)
Schoology is another social networking tool that is similar to Facebook. It allows you to create groups for each class, post assignments and links for students to view and comment on, collect and grade student work, and create your own professional learning community to share ideas with other teachers.
Creating & Grading Assessments
RubiStar (http://rubistar.4teachers.org/)RubiStar is a site that lets you quickly and easily create rubrics. They have tons of premade rubrics for you to customize, or you can create your own. You can create a rubric without creating an account, or you can log in to save your rubrics. You can also analyze the rubric to see how your students did after you've finished grading to see which skills students are struggling with, so you can reteach the skill or provide more practice.
Self-Correcting Google Forms/Presentations
Google Forms are a nice way to collect survey information from students, but you can program your document to grade student responses! Here are two ways to do this:
Using Google Forms:
http://trendingeducation.com/?p=660
Using Google Presentation (like PowerPoint):
http://askauntieweb.blogspot.com/2010/07/self-correcting-quizzes-with-instant.html
Online Reading Communities
Shelfari (http://www.shelfari.com/)Shelfari lets you create a virtual bookshelf to keep track of what you're reading, discover new books, write reviews, and share with your friends. You can embed your bookshelf onto your website for your students to browse.
Goodreads (http://www.goodreads.com/)
Goodreads is similar to Shelfari. It is a good site for getting book recommendations based on other books you've liked, and it includes extras like book quizzes.
Photos & Videos
Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/)Flickr is a photo-sharing site, so you can upload your own photos or explore other photo streams, such as the Library of Congress, NASA, and the Smithsonian.
Animoto (http://animoto.com/)
Animoto lets you turn photos, video clips, and music into a short dynamic video that you can easily share.
Social Bookmarking Sites
Delicious (http://www.delicious.com/)Delicious is a social bookmarking site that allows you to collect, sort, and share your favorite links and access them from any computer.
LiveBinders (http://www.livebinders.com/)
LiveBinders is similar to Delicious, but it has more of an education focus. You can email or link each particular binder so that students can see the information you've collected.
Twitter (http://twitter.com/)
Twitter is a great way to keep track of what's going on in the world. You could use Twitter in the classroom to share assignments, events, and deadlines with students and parents, tweet daily summaries of what happened in class, connect with other classrooms, use it to poll students, and lots of other things!
Assignment:
Choose one Web 2.0 tool to try out. Embed your product or share the link in your blog, then reflect on how you visualize yourself using this tool in your classroom. Remember to comment on 3 other recruits' posts.
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