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media type="custom" key="12684188" align="right"Wecome to Watertown Unified School Dristict's Web 2.0 Wiki. These are tools we presented at the 2012 Professional Development Day.

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**WEB 2.0 TOOLS**
 * Presenters: ** Lynn Miller, Rhonda Nachtigall, Jamie Klubertanz and Curt Mould

A delicious place to collect your favorite sites on the Internet. Share your finds with friends or search the Delicious stacks to find things that you can use!
 * Delicious – ** [|http://delicious.com]

Looking for a new way to connect with your students? Grab their attention by communicating through social media
 * Twitter – ** [|http://twitter.com]

Create a Google account to store all of your documents and presentations so that they are accessible from any computer with Internet access. Google allows for easy collaboration with students and colleagues. Use forms to collect data and do assessments. You can even make a classroom website!
 * Google Docs – ** [|http://google.com]

Store up to 2G of your documents, photos and videos for FREE. Access everything in your Dropbox from any computer at home or at school. Here is a link that compares five different cloud services available []. To access Lynn Miller's Dropbox Public Folder to copy or print this document [|click here].
 * Dropbox – ** [|http://dropbox.com]

Let students create a virtual timeline on the web! Easily add written descriptions, pictures and videos to any event on your timeline. Make timeline presentations a multimedia event!
 * TimeToast – ** [|http://timetoast.com]

Show your students how to create a virtual presentation. A Prezi is a blank canvas where you can collect your and share them with others. Presentations are saved out in “the cloud” (on the Internet).
 * Prezi ** – [|http://prezi.com]

Take any text (articles, speeches, even your own writing) and turn them into a world cloud or other shape.
 * Wordle - **[|http://www.wordle.net]** & Tagxedo – ** [|http://tagxedo.com]

Edit, comment and highlight PDF docs, Word docs and pictures.
 * Crocodoc – ** [|http://crocodoc.com]

[|Voki.com]

** Want to try even more Web2.0 Tools? **

Create slides that hold images, documents and videos. Record your voice on your own presentation or comment on others.
 * VoiceThread ** - [|http://voicethread.com]

Record your voice over a picture to make it come to life!
 * Blabberize ** - [|http://blabberize.com]

A tool to create a class website.
 * Wikispace - ** http://wikispaces.com

Annotate a word document or PDF.
 * Awesome Screen Shot ** – [|http://awesomescreenshot.com]

Need to meet? Invite and poll guests online.
 * Doodle ** – [|http://doodle.com]

Talk and listen to your audience in real time.
 * TodaysMeet ** – [|http://todaysmeet.com]

Send questions to your audience and get instant feedback.
 * PollEverywhere ** - []

Create a virtual pin board. Include documents, images and videos. Collaborate with peers.
 * Popplet ** – [|http://popplet.com]

Jamie’s guilty pleasure. Organize ideas you love in one place.
 * Pinterest ** – [|http://pinterest.com]

Need more? Check out this wikispace - Cool Tools for Schools