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Educational Web2.0 Resources for Adult Basic Literacy Practitioners
Designates personal fav
Blogs and Blog Tools
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23 Things Learning2.0-
23 Things (small exercises) you can do on the web to explore andexpand your knowledge of the Internet and Web 2.0.
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Blogger - easy-to-use site, to quickly post thoughts, interact with people, and more
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BlogLines- free service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogsand rich web content.
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Edmodo- private microblogging platform that teachers and students can use to send notes,links, files, alerts, assignments, and events to each other 
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edublogs- Simply create, manage, moderate blogs for your students with a minimum of fuss.
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Google Blog Search – search using edublogs tag (or not)
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International Edubloggers Directory – open to all edubloggers from around the world
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OTAN info on Blogs –
all you need to know and more, resources galore
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Twitter -
microblog in 140 words or less – a must have resource to connect witheducators
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weblogg-ed-
one of the best educational bloggers out there. Will Richardson
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WordPress- get a blog started in less time than it takes you to read this sentence
Bookmarking
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BlinkList – intuitive, easy and fast
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del.icio.us-
del.icio.us is a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else's. Keep linksto your favorite articles, blogs, music, restaurant reviews and access them from any computer on the web; discover new things. Discover both the favorite content of others and browsewhat's currently popular 
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Digg- Digg is all about user powered content. Everything is submitted and voted on by thedigg community. Share, discover, bookmark, and promote stuff that's important to you!
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Diigo-
combining social bookmarking, clippings, annotation, tagging, full-text search of everything, easy sharing and interactions, a powerful personal tool and a rich social platform.
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Furl - Make your favorite web bookmarks accessible from anywhere; easily save, take notes onand share links you've stored, browse others' most popular bookmarks to find new andinteresting things.
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StumbleUpon- uses thumbs up and down ratings to form collaborative opinions on websitequality. When you stumble, you will only see pages which like–minded stumblers have liked
Charts, diagrams, mind mapping
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Bubbl.us- simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online
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Flowchart.com- The title says it all really. Flowchart allows you to create charts and diagramsin a nice drag & drop interface. (Private Beta)
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Gliffy- Likely the most technical and detailed option on this list. It has many more optionsavailable than the others.
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LovelyChartsextremely simple and intuitive drag'n drop drawing mechanism. powerful toolfor creating and editing all kinds of flowcharts and diagrams
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Mind42- browser based online mind mapping application.
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MindMeister - Offering both a free and premium version, MindMeister focuses on collaborationin an easy to use mind mapping environment.
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Webspiration- online visual thinking tool
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Chat
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campfire- Simple, Web-based group chat for businesses, allows real-time sharing, editing, andcollaboration for team members in a secure, password-protected chat.
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Gizmo- Gizmo Project uses your internet connection (broadband or dial-up) to make calls toother computers. Connect to friends, family, and colleagues anywhere on earth.
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Joopz- Allows users to send text messages from Web to both individuals and groups; enablesrecipients to respond directly to the originating PC or Mac. web texts can be sent from anyweb-enabled device worldwide to any U.S. or Canadian mobile phone.
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Meebo- web messenger lets you access IM from anywhere. supports msn, yahoo, aol/aim,google talk and others
Communication Services
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Google 411-
service is likely something you have never tried before, but once you do, youmight use it for a long time coming. A good 411 replacement. (US Only)
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Google Alerts-
Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web,news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. If you want to keep up with news about e-learning, type that in as your search term and you will receive notifications of all new Googleresults that contain that search term
 
http-//www.google.com/alerts?hl=en
Digital storytelling
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Mixbook- allows educators easy access to powerful suite of digital storytelling tools
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Photostory for Windows- Create slideshows using your digital photos. Touch-up,crop, or rotate pictures. Add special effects, soundtracks, voice narration to your photo stories. Small file sizes make it easy to send your photo stories in an e-mail
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PicLits – Inspired picture writing. Creative writing site matches images with keywords
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VoiceThread- create collaborative presentations by collecting comments - both text &voice
Emails
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Gmail - Much more efficient at handling large volumes of email than rival services.
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Zookoda- email marketing app designed for bloggers. Enables you to send daily,weekly or monthly summary of your latest blog posts directly into your visitors inbox.
File conversion
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Media-Convert- Free online file conversion no installation
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Zamzar  – free online file conversion
File Storage & Sharing
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Backpack- web-based service that makes organizing your information incredibly easy.Backpack lets you make pages which can contain any combination of notes, to-dos, images,files, etc. keep pages to yourself or share with colleagues, co-workers, friends, or family.
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Box.net- very nice solution to uploading and backing up your files, as well as sharing them.sign up for free, get a gig of space, additional storage with premium options.
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Docstoc- DownloadLegal, Business, Tech&EducationalDocs; Store Your Documents Privately Online for Free, upload, share, embed
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Drop.io- create drops, privately share files by web, email, phone, fax, and more. Share whatyou want, how you want, with whom you want
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Dropbox- Store, Sync, and Share your files online
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Esnips- place where you can share ALL your passions; your thoughts, photos, files, stuff youfind on the web... and you control who you share it with and how
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LiveBinders- Share all your documents in an easy presentable format. Use for presentations.Build a library of binders and become a valuable resource for others
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LiveDrive- Unlimited storage space. See the same files on all your PCs, the Web and your mobile. Send large documents, presentations and ZIP files to contacts
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Omnidrive- Bring all your files and content together from your desktop, devices and the webonto a single space that's easily accessible from any platform.
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Posterous- Have your own website to share thoughts and media with friends, family and theworld. Send any type of file and Posterous will convert it to the most web friendly formatavailable. Docs, ppt, pdf, jpg, gif, png, mp3, avi, mpg, etc.
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Tumblr - lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, andvideos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be. You cancustomize everything, from colors, to your theme's HTML.
Goals
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43Things- List your goals, share your progress, cheer each other on
Images & Photos
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Flickr - store, search, sort and share your photos (limit of 200)
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Photo Peach- quick easy way to make an audio slideshow video. Many music options for Photo Peach are classical which could make a nice accompaniment to slideshow of art work.
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Picasa –
Picasa and Picasa web albums (no limits)
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Picnic – store share tweak to your heart’s content
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PictureSurf - a community of people helping each other understand the world through imagesand video
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Pimpampum-variety of tools that use images, photos, ed games (includes bookr, bubblr,memry, phasr and other fun tools for projects
Mapping
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Google Earth 5- just released; includes a host of new tools that educators can tap in theclassroom. Google Ocean is being touted in particular, allowing users to interact with 3D mapsof the ocean floor, courtesy of US Navy data National Geographic, the BBC, Cousteau’s OceanWorld, and several others to provide a wealth of information about everything from the globalfishing crisis to footage of shipwrecks.
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Google Maps- Not only does it have streets, but you can get an insane amount of datadisplayed on Google Maps through other services like StreetAdvisor .
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Mapquest- A very reliable source for getting you from point A to point B
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 Yahoo Maps- Google has obviously driven Yahoo to improve its mapping services, and itshows here.
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WindowsLiveLocal - http://maps.live.com/
Office ProductivityTools
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Blists –
neat online database
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Dabble – Create reports, calendars, charts and whole databases in a sharable format. Easilyimport data and present it in simple, attractive ways.
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GoogleApps- powerful online applications to help you manage your time, collaborate ondocuments and keep in touch. Google Apps Education Edition is free for educationalinstitutions
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Google Docs & Spreadsheets-
Create, collaborate, share, documents, spreadsheets,presentations. Create surveys, forms
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Scribd-
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publish, discover and discuss original writings and documents. "one of the besttools for English Language Learners to use for language development.” (Larry Ferlazzo)
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TextFlow – parallel, cooperative word-processing
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ThinkFree- Think Microsoft Office, except this is the online equivalent.
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Writeboard- Write, share, revise, compare
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Wufoo- create contact forms, online surveys, and invitations
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