What is Web 2.0? Web 2.0 is a term given to describe a second generation of the World Wide Web that is focused on the ability for people to collaborate and share information online. (Solomon & Schrum Web 2.0 how-to for educators)   

Here is a list of useful Web 2.0 tools for teachers and students:

Annotation and Note Taking Tools:

•  Awesome Highlighter (www.awesomehighlighter.com) This website allows you to highlight text on any web page and allows you to short link the page to share.

Podcast & Vodcast Tools:

• Chirbit (www.chirbit.com) This website allows you to record, upload, listen to, and share sound to create podcasts, vodcasts, micropodcasts.

Blogs:

• Class Blogmeister (www.classblogmeister.com) This is an online publishing tool. In this blogging engine the teacher maintains the accounts and are responsible for them because the internet an be a hazard when not used properly.
• Weebly (www.weebly.com) This website allows you to create a classroom website and blog. Teachers can manage students' accounts, homework, and keep parents up to date. 

Calendars:

• Assign-A-Day (http://assignaday.4teachers.org) This free tool is designed to enhance teacher and student communication through an online teacher-managed calendar. 

Idea or Mind Mapping Tools:

• MindMeister (www.mindmeister.com) Students can create, manage, and share mind maps online. 

Photo Editing and Photo Sharing Tools:

• Befunky (www.befunky.com) An online photo editor that provides digital effect tools to turn photos into special effect digital artwork.
• Photo Story (www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/PhotoStory/default/msxp) This tool allows you to create a story out of digital photos and you can create narraration, effects, transitions, and music.

Presentation Tools:

• Prezi (http://prezi.com) This tool allows you to create online only presentations.

Publishing and Drawing Tools:

• Formatpixel (www.formatpixel.com) This tool allows you to create an online magazine, fanzine, brochure, catalogue, and more.
• Pixton (http://pixton.com) This tool allows students to create comic strips to tell a story or present a lesson.

Social Bookmarking Tools:

• Jog the Web (www.jogtheweb.com) This bookmarking tool allows teachers to guide their students in topic related web pages for safe and guided exploration. 
• Diigo (www.diigo.com) This bookmarking tool allows you to archive and organize web resources. 

Quiz and Activities Generators:

• Quizlet (http://quizlet.com) This tool allows educators to create online flashcards or find cards that others have created. This helps with test preparation.
• Wordle (www.wordle.net) This is a tool to generate word clouds from any text you provide.

Wikis:

• PBworks (http://pbworks.com) This is a web publishing and wiki site for educators to collaborate and share content. 
• Wikispaces (www.wikispaces.com)  This is a wiki and publishing site in which you can embed documents, images, audio, and video files. 

Virtual world

• Club Penguin (www.clubpenguin.com) This tool is a virtual world for children. It is a creative and safe way for children to create a penguin avatar and wander around this virtual world.
• Virtual Field Trip to Africa  http://www.elecam.org/
• Virtual Field Trip to Niagara Falls  http://www.niagarafallslive.com/Niagara_Falls_Webcam.htm

click on the pyramid for more useful Blooms Taxonomy information for your classrom

 For technology related terms you may not know, here is a tool Wiktionary.org.