Collaboration+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?//  **In short, don't ask what you can do with the internet, ask what the internet can do for you**. 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.

(To earn 1 extra hour for missed class time, choose a second tool to review and turn in the review sheet by Monday, Feb. 1 and add the information to the appropriate wiki page. )


 * Visualize Data **


 * Charting **
 * **[|Chartle]**: Create simple interactive charts.
 * [|ChartGizmo] - visualize financial, scientific or other type of data.
 * [|Best4C] Online diagram tool that allows you to create, edit and share charts
 * [|ChartAll] Easy to generate graphs of all kinds
 * [|ChartGo] Create bar graphs, line graphs or pie charts. Paste your data in the graph data area and hit the create graph button.
 * [|Chartle]
 * [|Chart Tool] Generate graphs, flowcharts, bar charts, pie charts, line charts, bubble charts and radar plots.
 * [|Creately] Diagram anything from SWOT charts to organizational charts to mindmaps.
 * [|DrawAnywhere] Generate flow charts, organizational charts and diagrams online.
 * [|FlowChart.com] A collaborative flowchart creation tool.
 * [|Google Chart Tools]
 * [|Graphic Organizers] Generate custom designed graphic organizers
 * [|LovelyCharts] Drag and drop diagramming tool
 * [|LucidChart] Collaborative flow chart tool. Most recent version is always published.
 * [|NYTimes Visualization Lab]"create visual representations of data and information using data from today's news."
 * [|Swivel] Upload and explore data through charts and graphs
 * [|Tablefy] Create charts to help collect and compare data. Cells can contain images, sounds, video, text, etc. Publish online or embed in your own webpage. Search through tables others have created as well.
 * [|Verifiable] "Turn any set of numbers into an explanatory picture."

> Wordle > Tagul > Tagxedo
 * Analyze Text **
 * All 4 of these sites make word clouds, but have different features- be sure to compare these features. There are many more cloud generators. If you know of one or have used one, include it here as well.
 * **[|TagCrowd],** to find out more about it, be sure to read this page, [|TagCrowd blog.]
 * For lesson plan ideas using word clouds, check out this blog

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

**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

**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

**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!


 * Timelines **
 * [|All of Me] Mutlimedia timeline generator. " //Automatically// create a personal timeline of your life from any digital assets you have, usch as pictures, videos, blogs, documents, or any internet page." There is also a version to provide a [|timeline from any RSS feed.].
 * [|Capzles] An interactive multimedia timeline builder: videos, mp3s, blogs, photos; then share and see what others have created.
 * [|CircaVie] Build a timeline with your own photos, videos, text...and then share, rate and comment! Or view those created by others.
 * [|Free Timeline] Generate a timeline and embed it in report or webpage
 * [|Make Your Own TImeline] SImple timeline generator for elementary students
 * [|MyTimelines] Create an interactive timeline from your RSS Feed and then cut and paste your timeline into any blog or webpage.
 * [|OurStory] Save images, stories, videos in a collaborative timeline and then share online.