Toolbox

=The Four Corners' Staff Room Toolbox=

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These are the Web 2.0 tools that cement the connections and allow classrooms from around the world to communicate and collaborate online. For a full set of tools used in 2006 see the Flat Classroom Project Overview
 * Blogs: [|Blogger.com], [|Eduspaces.net]
 * Wikis – Discussion Tab to talk, RSS subscriptions, embedding multimedia
 * [|Elluminate] (synchronous Communications)
 * [|Ning.com] - social networking to join all participants in a virtual environment
 * [|Youtube], [|TeacherTube] – Videos uploaded online
 * [|Skype] to bring experts into class
 * [|Delicious] – Social bookmarking
 * [|Bloglines] – for RSS
 * [|Google] Notebook – to track sources to cite.
 * [|Evoca] – to record and post introductions
 * [|Facebook] and [|Myspace] to connect and talk abut the project
 * [|Firefox] and live bookmarks to keep track of things
 * Windows Movie Maker/ PhotoStory/ Audacity
 * [|Meebo] – the project managers kept office hours.
 * [|Flickr] – to share photos
 * [|CamStudio] – to create sceencasts
 * [|Twitter] – help them see what the other is doing
 * [|SlideShare] – to share slideshows
 * [|Grazr] widget to pull RSS tags as appropriate
 * [|Clustrmap] to show what countries people were from
 * [|Airset] – set it up so we were each in our time zone and could schedule meetings with each other and see when the others were in the classroom. Used it to find when we were in class at the same time
 * Gtalk, Skypechat
 * [|Pretty May] to record skype conversations
 * Logitech QuickCams w/ avatars
 * Macromedia Flash animations – PhotoShop, Adobe products