Check out these convenient web 2.0 tools that make life a little easier...

Various Tools

• Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking tool. This resource is a must have for any educator that has a few favorites saved anywhere.
• Do you have a super long website address that you'd like to credit on a presentation or paper? TinyURL will shorten it for you.
• Try microblogging with your tweets at Twitter.

• Visual Literacy Tools-New ways to share ideas INSTEAD of the mis/overused Power Point Presentation.

Following is a sample of a presentation that attempts to follow Jakes' compilation of sound visual literacy concepts. 

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Here a few visual literacy tools to use...

• Animoto
• Flickr
• Flickrstorm
• BigHuge Labs
• More toys for Flickr
• Voicethread
• Bubbleshare
• Slideshare
• Slide
• Yotophoto

Video

These sites can provide some content to add to your curricula. Youtube is blocked at school but take a look at it at home and if you find something worthwhile, let me know. I'll help you download it.

• Teachertube
• Youtube
• Schooltube

Interested in streaming or collaborating online? Check out some of my favorites.

Conducting a Survey?

These tools will allow you to construct basic online surveys for free and they'll tabulate the data too!

Zoomerang allows for no more than 30 questions per survey and up to 100 respondents for free. You have the option to buy more features.

SurveyMonkey allows for no more than 10 questions per survey and up to 100 respondents for free. You have options to buy more features.