Microblogs

Seminar Demos: Blogs-Microblogs 

•  Twitter
• Checkout these add-ons
• Hootsuite 
• Echofon
• Digsby
• Chirp.ps: used for tweeting audio. Can also grab the embed code and add it to your blog or wiki.

• Twitterrific or Pockettweets for ipod touch & iphone. Search the apps store.

• Learn10 uses twitter for "authentic context"

• Edmodo
• Wallwisher
• Plurk
• Also try plurk novelas to tell a digital story collaboratively in 140 character increments.

Blogs

Seminar Demos: Blogs-Microblogs

Create your own blog...

Blogger

Wordpress

Edublogger

LifeType

Add widgets, news and photos

BlastCasta

Instagram

Class blog examples & information:

BloggingTeachers: a site full of information on how to become a blogging teacher.

Global Collaboration: here is what an elementary school is up to. Look at the links under categories for more tech in the classroom ideas.

Workshop Demos

Wikis

Seminar Demos: Wikis

• pbWorks
• Wikispaces
• MediaWiki 

Podcasts

Seminar Demos: Podcasts

• Storyboard (Word doc download)
• Podomatic
• PodBean
• GCast
• GabCast
• Podcast helper apps
• Feedburner
• Audioboo - great for a mobile option as well 
• Podsafe Audio-Music Alley  
• iTunes
• Examples to check out:
• Learn Chinese-ChinesePod
• Slow German
• The Bob & Rob Show
• Carte Postale de...
• Personalidades de la cultura hispánica
• Lit2Go
• Radiolingua

Videoconferencing

• Skype
• Sightspeed
• iVisit
• Tokbox
• Around the World in 80 schools: a project connecting K-12 students around the world through video, blogging, and many other web 2.0 tools.

Constructive Commenting

• Edgehill Spanish
• Cross School French Collaboration: Blake School

• Constructive Commenting

  Starters recommended by Anne Davis in Blog2Learn: 

  This made me think about....... 

  I wonder why....... 

  Your writing made me form an opinion about....... 

  This post is relevant because.......

  Your writing made me think that we should....... 

  I wish I understood why....... 

  This is important because.......

  Another thing to consider is....... 

  I can relate to this.......

  This makes me think of....... 

  I discovered....... 

  I don't understand.......

  I was reminded that.......

  I found myself wondering.......

Your Ideas

Tell us how you use these or other tools for creating a web presence. Don't forget to give us your web address to check out the cool things you are doing with Web 2.0. Visit the Your Ideas Page to contribute.