Bill Sheskey Blog » Web 2.0 http://www.billsheskey.com Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:21:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 20 Great Web 2.0 Tools http://www.billsheskey.com/2010/05/05/20-great-web-2-0-tools/ http://www.billsheskey.com/2010/05/05/20-great-web-2-0-tools/#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 12:07:07 +0000 Bill Sheskey http://www.billsheskey.com/?p=322 I hope that all is well with all my friends and colleagues as the school year comes to a close. We are facing serious budget challenges in South Carolina but it just makes us work smarter. You will be getting new announcements about the June conference in Charleston and new opportunities being built around the Curriculum 21 book.

As always, I like to share something I have found. Thank you to Simon Ward for creating 20 Easy Web 2.0 Tools. Some of our all time favorites are there and I found some new ones as well. Let us know how you are doing!

Easy Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers

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Today I have the opportunity to share Google’s Custom Search tool with media specialist and teachers in the Beaufort County Schools in South Carolina. In the search bar, type in search terms for anything related to the Haiti earthquake. Then type in any thing not related to the Haiti earthquake and see what happens. You can build your own search engines for specific research that you want students to do and reduce the risk of them getting away from the specific search task that they are assigned. See this and other powerful tools at the Google for Educators resource site

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It is a pre defined mind mapper which helps the user get all the related search results in a wheel shaped like display and is similar to mind mapping software like Inspiration.

At the CMI Regional Conference last week Ann Johnson and I used bubbl.us to guide our participants in their curriculum mapping implementation plans. It is a free web based concept mapping application that is simple to use. Try it out, it is fun!

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Richard Byrne is an educator in Maine and an EDuBlogs award winning blogger. He is sharing tremendous tools and we will be reviewing his site at the 11/14 conference. It is just amazing how much you can find on teachers blogs. Do some searching and see what you can find. Remember, it is not the tool but how the tool is used for student success. Richard does a nice job in his descriptions of the learning tools.

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