Welcome+and+About+Web+2.0

__ Requirements for Wiki __

>> 8. You must create and insert a calendar from google calendar. It should have a personal and a school calendar and may contain any sports calendars you want to know.
 * 1) Must be created on wikispaces.com
 * 2) Send Mrs. Kosh the link for your site immediately after creating it. Make sure it is protected and by invitation only. You can change that later.
 * 3) There should be 6 categories
 * 4) Presentation tools
 * 5) Video tools
 * 6) Mobile tools
 * 7) Image tools
 * 8) Community tools
 * 9) Best of the Rest
 * 10) To add the categories to your navigation page
 * 11) Go to “edit navigation” under the navigation bar
 * 12) Make your list on this document, just as if it was a word document. There is no need to make the letters any larger.
 * 13) Save and your list will be on the navigation bar.
 * 14) Now whenever you add a page, simply move it under the appropriate category.
 * 15) You can have other pages that reflect the purpose of the wiki or with examples (if you choose to).
 * 16) ** You must include all of the programs that we review ** . You can include other programs that fall into these categories to get a better grade.
 * 17) Each program that you review should have the following:
 * 18) Name of program
 * 19) A direct link to the program at the top of the page. The Name of the program can be hyperlinked to solve “a” and “b”.
 * 20) Short blurb about program
 * 21) Strengths
 * 22) Weaknesses
 * 23) Like or dislike (you may choose to develop a rating system for the programs you review; ex. 1-5; put this information on the welcome page if you do.)
 * 24) Each program you review should have the following (in addition to #7) to receive the maximum grade
 * 25) A video tutorial—not just the link—embed the actual video. If you can not find a video tutorial, you may make one yourself or simply state on the page that no video tutorial exists.
 * 26) Ideas on ways to use the program or suggestions for projects using the program
 * 27) Any links to resources that you might find useful to you or your peers while using this program.
 * 28) You need to have AT LEAST 3 widgets. These can include a twitter feed, google calendar, glogster, youtube videos, etc.

Programs: >>>>>> iii. Calendar @ http://calendar.google.com >>>>>> iv. Presentation >>>>>> v. Earth > An easy way to share visual ideas > Easy way to create your own stories for kids and bring them to life > Make your own music or remix just about anything else > Fantastic timeline visualization tool to understand history > State of the art animation tools for schools > Thousands of educational wikis and workspaces (build your own!) > Learning management, online education tools, and much more > A unique way to view the news > Convert anything to anything (audio, video, text, etc.) > Tons of classroom resources and PD goodies > Build your own stories (with images) and share them with others > Phonics reinforcement and sentence building exercise > Innovative way to understand history > A build-your-own video game > Rich media presentation tool > A great alternative to Google Apps > The free automatic bibliography and citation maker > Easily publish custom comic strips > Annotate and edit PDFs
 * 1) Presentation Tools
 * 2) [|http://slideshare.net]
 * 3) [|http://prezi.com]
 * 4) Video Tools
 * 5) [|http://animoto.com]
 * 6) [|http://gizmoz.com]
 * 7) [|http://xtranormal.com]
 * 8) Mobile Tools
 * 9) [|http://polleverywhere.com]
 * 10) Image Tools
 * 11) [|http://flickr.com]
 * 12) [|http://bighugelabs.com]
 * 13) [|http://blabberize.com]
 * 14) [|http://myebook.com]
 * 15) [|http://voki.com]
 * 16) [|http://doink.com]
 * 17) [|http://warningsigngenerator.com]
 * 18) Community Tools
 * 19) [|http://twitter.com]
 * 20) [|http://edmodo.com]
 * 21) [|http://google.com]
 * 22) i. Docs
 * 23) ii. Sites
 * 1) [|http://wikispaces]
 * 2) [|http://tinyurl.com]
 * 3) Best of the Rest
 * 4) http:// []
 * 5) [|http://www.wolframalpha.com]
 * 6) [|http://wordle.net]
 * 7) [|http://tagxedo.com]
 * 8) [|http://glogster.com]
 * 9) [|http://voicethread.com]
 * 10) [|http://bubbl.us]
 * 11) [|http://audioboo.fm]
 * 12) [|http://quizlet.com]
 * 13) [|http://jeopardylabs.com]
 * 14) Popplet
 * 1) Storyjumper
 * 1) Aviary Myna
 * 1) TimeToast
 * 1) GoAnimate for schools
 * 1) PBWorks
 * 1) Schoology
 * 1) Google Timeline
 * 1) Online-Convert
 * 1) ReadWriteThink
 * 1) Storybird
 * 1) Word Magnets
 * 1) Museum Box
 * 1) Atmosphir
 * 1) Empressr
 * 1) Zoho
 * 1) EasyBib
 * 1) ToonDooSpaces
 * 1) Crocodoc


 * **__Search Engines: __** ||
 * **[|Addictomatic] ** || [[image:http://web20wikiexample.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=208&h=50 width="208" height="50" caption="Description: Picture_170.png"]] || Find news, videos, photos, blogposts and more. Set out by source. ||  ||
 * **[|Search Crystal] ** || [[image:http://web20wikiexample.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=200&h=80 width="200" height="80" caption="Description: searchcrystal.png"]] || Search and compare multiple engines in one place.

 It is a search visualization that enables you to compare, remix and share results from the best web, image, video, blog, tagging, news engines, Flickr images or RSS feeds. You can embed as a widget on your site or blog. ||  ||
 * **[|Wolfram Alpha] ** || [[image:http://web20wikiexample.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=200&h=50 width="200" height="50" caption="Description: Picture_1.png"]] || An ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question or calculation, and watch it compute the answer. Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing.. ||  ||
 * **[|FindHow] ** || [[image:http://web20wikiexample.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=200&h=96 width="200" height="96" caption="Description: findhow.png"]] || Find how to do things. This site gives you access to trusted, reliable How-To content on the Internet. ||  ||
 * **[|Info Please] ** || [[image:http://web20wikiexample.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=200&h=70 width="200" height="70" caption="Description: infoplease.png"]] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">General searches plus almanacs, biographies, dictionaries, encyclopaedia, spelling. ||  ||
 * **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Dogo] ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[[image:http://web20wikiexample.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=200&h=50 width="200" height="50" caption="Description: dogonews.png"]] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Fodder, cool sites and global news for young minds. ||  ||
 * **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Findthatfile] ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[[image:http://web20wikiexample.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=200&h=50 width="200" height="50" caption="Description: findthatfile.png"]] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Media file search engine. It locates media (documents, audio, video, etc). Searches media files rather than webpages from all over the Internet. ||  ||
 * **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Joongel] ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[[image:http://web20wikiexample.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=200&h=56 width="200" height="56" caption="Description: jongel.png"]] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Search the internet by category. || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|tour] ||
 * **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Nibipedia] ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[[image:http://web20wikiexample.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=200&h=50 width="200" height="50" caption="Description: nibipedia.com.png"]] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Video search. ||  ||
 * **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Spezify] ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[[image:http://web20wikiexample.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=200&h=68 width="200" height="68" caption="Description: spezify.png"]] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">New visual search engine that collects search results in different media formats (e.g. definitions, images, Flickr photos, quotes, wikipedia articles), arranges them on a desktop and can be dragged around as an (almost) infinite collage. ||  ||
 * **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Veezzle] ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[[image:http://web20wikiexample.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=200&h=50 width="200" height="50" caption="Description: veezle.png"]] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">100% free search stock photo service, no advertisements.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> It takes a long time for our servers to index the free stock photos of the internet but we are confident we can reach our goal, we have a strong algorithm in place that index’s thousands of stock photos every hour. ||  ||
 * **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Yolink] ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[[image:http://web20wikiexample.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=200&h=61 width="200" height="61" caption="Description: yolink.png"]] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Find and go to what you're looking for, then export your findings to your choice of social networks, collaboration, or document generation tools. ||  ||
 * **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Ant ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[[image:http://web20wikiexample.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=200&h=50 width="200" height="50" caption="Description: ant.png"]] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Find news, videos, photos, blogposts and more. Set out by source. ||  ||
 * **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">PDFCatch ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[[image:http://web20wikiexample.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=200&h=50 width="200" height="50" caption="Description: pdfcatch.net.png"]] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Ebook, PDF search engine. ||  ||
 * **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">WordSift ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[[image:http://web20wikiexample.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=200&h=50 width="200" height="50" caption="Description: wordsift.png"]] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Visual Search Engine. Type in text up to 65k characters. Creates visual links. ||  ||

Widgets <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Widgetbox] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Thousands of widgets for your blog, profile or web page. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Springwidgets] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Thousands of widgets for your blog, profile or web page.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Button Generator] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Create buttons and menus for your website.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Glittertools] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Website widgets

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Example - Glitter Memory

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Game

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; text-align: center;"> [|provided by: www.glittertools.com]

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Grazr] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Add this widget to any blog or Web page, and display a feed with no programming. Just enter the URL of any feed and click the button to create your free widget.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> The widget can display all standard Web files- view pictures from Flickr, play podcasts and MP3 files within the widget. watch videos from YouTube within the widget.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Wigflip **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Toys and tools for the web.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Generating a little tag graphic with text on it. After you make your tag, you can download it to your computer or save it to Flickr or Imgur with a single click.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">TinyTags (by Wigflip) **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> To get different sized words, try breaking up your text in different places.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Glitterfy] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Glitter up your text

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|FlashVortex] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Create menus, buttons, banners for free. No sign up, no software to install, no design skill required.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Screedbot] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Animated scrolling typewriter text generator. Write some text and click to make your own animated text.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Photoface] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Use your own photo or an avatar. Upload your audio, record directly or use text to speech for your personal message. Great for giving feedback to students.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Generator using photos. Make cool things with your digital photos.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Big Huge Labs] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Image Generator] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Image, sign, text generator. Lots of quirky widgets and generators to make frame, text in pics, insert images, and loads more.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> example

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Sign Generator] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> An online widget that allows you to change the letters in various photos of signs (road signs, people holding signs, product parodies) to make personalized images/graphics and ecards.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Add Letters] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Generate your own funny pictures based on the text you enter. The generated picture looks real and can be downloaded for your own enjoyment! Create your own newspaper headline, make your own diploma, or even make a custom restaurant sign!

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Big Huge Labs] **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Trading Card Maker] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Make your own collectible trading card! Or make a whole deck and create a card game.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|MagMyPic] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Fake magazine covers with your picture on them.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Amaztype] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Make interactive titles from books, videos or music.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> [|example] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Yourfonts] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Online font generation service that allows you to create your own fonts within a couple of minutes. Your own handwriting turned into your own font. Use your fonts on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Personalize your digital scrapbook pages. Make your own "family handwriting history. Make as many fonts as you like.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Geogreeting] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Send a message using images from Google Earth instead of letters.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> [|example]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Create mp3 and video playlists and many widgets. Get access to edit your existing playlists. You can add, remove songs and customize the players so you won't have to start from scratch!
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|MyFlashFetish] **

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Put a browser widget inside your webpage. Keep track of your favorite Web stuff by enabling navigable windows directly within your favorite sites.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|BittyBrowser] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Custom sign generator] **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Thousands of free dynamics JPEG, GIF & PNG image creators. **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Schedule Generator **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Enter information to create your own schedule sheets.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Sloganizer **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Create the perfect slogan from a keyword of your choice within seconds. Should you not be satisfied, go ahead and create another one.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Street Sign Generator **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Make your own street sign.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Warning Sign Generator **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Make your own warning sign.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Photosoup] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> A visual word puzzle generator that allows users to create word search puzzles with tag-photo pairs taken from Flickr. The tag is hidden in the puzzle, and only the associated photo is shown as a clue. The objective is to find all hidden tags in the puzzle before you run out of time. To create and play a new puzzle, you have to provide a topic,or you can use your own username to generate a puzzle that shows your photos.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|CoolText Buttons] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Button maker.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|BarcodesInc] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Generate a printable and scannable barcode in Interleaved 2 of 5, Code 39, Code 128 A, B, or C symbologies. This free service can be used to generate individual barcodes or called via URL's to include inline PNG or JPEG images directly into your documents.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|SpaceYourFace] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Put your face in the astronaut and do the astronaut dance.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">TimerCountdown **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Enter your own time or select from the common times.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">E.ggtimer **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Enter the time and the countdown begins.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">TickCounter **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Countdown Countup Timer Counter Stopwatch

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> A Simple, Fast Flash Online Stopwatch and Online Countdow
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|Online Stopwatch] **