Web 2.0 Tools for Learning Web 2.0 tools have a lot of importance when we consider collaborative learning methods. Web 2.0 tools are useful for effective learning and finding better results with less effort. Here are the top 10 web 2.0 tools for learning. Wikis Through wikis, we are able to learn everything that reached human’s hand. It is a powerful tool to create a useful content to share it with fewer efforts. You can embed any kind of content to wikis and hence the learning becomes easy and special. Take a look at Wikispaces for some great examples. Blogs With the large number of blogs around the web, we are able to know everything in this world. Also there is a possibility to meet a large community through blogs if you wish. Edublogs, based on WordPress, is one of the largest networks of educational blogs used by teachers and students. Highly recommended. Empressr Empressr is an effective tool that allows you to upload images, videos, music and audio to make a final video. The video can be shared publicly to reach a large amount of audience. Students and teachers can make use of this to make study materials, presentations etc. Animoto Animoto is a video presentation maker that allows you to create your own videos with images and caption effects. Students and teachers can experience the free service for creating unlimited videos for class seminars and presentations. Also they offer a paid service. Kerpoof As the name seems different, its services are special. Kerpoof is a website which will be useful for businessmen and students to draw graphics, create animations and movies. Kerpoof’s easily manageable tools will help you to draw whatever is in your mind. You may save or convert the output according to your needs. Voicethread It is an online tool which is being used by a lot of schools and colleges worldwide. Through Voicethread, you are able to upload your images and videos to add text, audio comments later. It will be a great experience to create study materials yourself through Voicethread. Glogster EDU It is another online tool that allows teachers and students to create and use virtual class rooms and tutoring materials such as presentations. Class rooms are called as Glogs. Students will have the ability to express and share their skills, creativity and knowledge through their glogs. Skype Skype is a familiar service to all of us. Skype offers free voice and video calling with other skype users around the world. It helps us to conduct virtual class rooms sitting at home! Skype is mostly being used by professionals, students and teachers. Create-A-Graph It is a good online tool which allows us to draw graphs such as Bar, Line, Pie, Area and XY graphs. This tool will be useful for students and researchers to summarize their data. Totally millions of graphs are already created by the users in this site till the date. Voki Are you having some difficulties to pronounce something? Let the Voki clear your vocal problems. Voki is a text to speech converter which is able to generate the speech of text you entered. You can create your own avatar and add voice to it. Finally you may include it in your website or blog. Web 2.0 tools are the sophisticated learning tools available today for students and teachers. Most of the web 2.0 tools are available for free of cost and there is no country restriction to use these valuable tools. About the author: Margaret is a blogger by profession. She loves writing on environment and automotto. She recently did an article on full windsor. These days she is busy in writing an article on automotto.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:13:12 +0000
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