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 * Group D:** Search out Web 2.0 tools and write a short description of how they could be used in an educational setting. Begin each post with your name. While there is no minimum required, you should try to have at least 2 for each group member.

Cristie

WordPress is an online blogging tool. I have never used it but can describe how it can be used. My son is a senior in college and is majoring in electrical engineering. He is doing an independent study this semester with a professor that he has had before for a computer science class. His task is to create a wiki, but he was to use Wordpress for his professor. He has to make a website that will be used as a community forum where people will go to upload samples of code and use programming language and give feedback on how programming languages would be made better. I look forward to his final product! It brings us one class closer to graduation.

Matt SurveyMonkey Is a excellent data collector. I have a new superintendent where I work and SurveyMonkey has become a frequently used tool among the staff. It's very simple to use and a effective way to take staff surveys. I have yet to use it with students but plan on it soon.

Matt This maybe a little obvious but SKYPE is a tool Ive been hearing about on NPR " Via SKYPE" and I wasn't really sure what it was. As I write this it is downloading on my computer. It is a incredible communication tool. It could be used to bring students unable to attend class into the class. I watched a video where a girl with cancer unable to leave her home was brought into the class using SKYPE. She was not just an observer but a participant.

LaShell Flickr is like a picture version of Youtube. Personally, I have never used it, but once I started looking around the site, I found that you can not only add your own pictures and share them within a private group, but you can also view their online archives to see moments in history through photographs. I think it would be different and interesting for kids to have actual pictures of events that they are talking about in the classroom.

LaShell I have always seen this written as del.icio.us, but never knew it was from a site called Delicious, which is like a social networking site for bookmarking websites. It allows you see what sites other people are bookmarking, and you can organize and share your sites with other students.

Cristie Wiffiti.com is a site where you can create a space that students can reply to or post to. For instance the teacher can post a question on the site or on the whiteboard. Then, the students can respond via text message or if they are on their computers, they can post directly to wiffiti. Their responses show up as "sticky" notes. Fun, fun!

Julia The Brain is a brainstorming site where students can gather thoughts, pictures, and links in one place for a project or a paper. []. ClassTools.net allows you to create educational games. Teachers or students can create them and place them on their blog or website.

Julia There is a great listing by group at [] for anyone who is looking to apply more technology in his or her classroom.