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Read/Write Web Tools

__Description:__ Diigo is a social bookmarking website which allows readers to bookmark and tag web pages. Diigo also allows users to highlight any part of the webpage and attach sticky notes. You can share these notes, highlights, and sticky notes with other people or keep them private. __Potential Educational Uses:__ Resarch - Diigo puts all of your notes in one spot and it annotates them for you. Diigo teaches students to scan for information, find main ideas, and summarize. Students can research and collaborate together. Teachers can build a library of bookmarks for students to use. Teachers can even define confusing words using sticky notes and create directed reading activities to help deepen student understanding of the reading. __How to Get Started:__ Go to [|www.diigo.com]. Watch the video. Click on get started now. Sign up for Diigo. Download the tools to be added to your toolbar.
 * Diigo**

__Description:__ Wallwisher is an online notice board maker. Teachers can design a wall. Then, students can put sticky notes on the wall. They can see all of the other sticky notes as well. Wallwisher is quick and easy to use. __Potential Educational Uses:__ Wallwisher allows students to collaborate or brainstorm. It allows teachers a place to post a question and a place for students to answer. I've used it in my classroom to allow students to share answers on opinion or open ended questions. Students can also categorize questions and answers. __How to Get Started__: Go to [|www.wallwisher.com]. Click on build a wall. Type in your name and email address. Design your wall. Share the URL with your students.
 * Wallwisher**

__Description:__ Glogster is a social network that allows users to create free interactive posters. The user can insert text, video, pictures, clipart, audio, and special effects into their "glog". The posters can be shared with other people. __Potential Educational Uses:__ This is a great place for students to express themselves. Students can create their normal poster but in a more interactive way. Students could create an advertisement, alternative to a book report or book cover, poem, historical timeline, campaign poster, public service announcement, etc. The possibilities are endless. Basically, anything you would normally have your students make a poster about; they could create a glog instead. __How to Get Started:__ Go to []. Click on try to create yours to try out the program. If you want to create an account, go to register virtual class. You can sign up your classroom and create accounts.
 * Glogster**

__Description__: TeacherTube is an safe online source for sharing instructional videos for schools and home learners. Teachers can post videos for students to learn certain skills or concepts. After teachers upload the educational videos, they are encouraged to evaluate with a rating system. __Potential Educational Uses:__ This site includes an array of educational videos from every subject area. You type in your topic in the search tab. The site allows you to choose from videos, docs, audio, photos, channels, and blogs. It also provides //teacher resources// to click. Teachers would type their lesson topic into search to find results to enhance their teaching. __How to Get Started__: Go to www.TeacherTube.com and log in with the free sign up. A great number of videos are available and ready to utilize for teaching. Some are serious presentations and some are focused on 'fun' learning.[|TeacherTube]
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__Description:__ SlideShare is an web tool for uploading powerpoints, word and PDF documents and video presentations. Categories to browse range from automotive to health and medicine to pets, etc. A person can create a webinar by linking slides with audio and can also embed YouTube video into presentations. __Potential Educational Uses:__ This site provides the opportunity to create book reports and share with classmates. There are also ebooks to use individually or with a group. The plethora of topics or categories for teaching, learning and presenting makes the site useful for teachers and presenters of all ages. __How to Get Started:__ Go to [|SlideShare] and sign up for free access to the sight. There is a slideshow presentation to explain the many possibilities and ways to use SlideShare.
 * SlideShare**

__Description:__ This webbing tool provides graphic organizer forms for students to use hypertextual thinking and writing. It can be a flowcharting tool and a prewriting activity. The site includes classroom resources, professional development and parent and after school resources. There is a wonderful publishing program that is easy for students to use and publish a variety of materials such as advertisements, fliers, newsletters, etc. __Potential Educational Uses__: Students can analyze readings and vocabulary words with this free interactive site. Students can maneuver freely to enhance the graphic organizer to arrange their layout and make connections. Students can create stories, analyze stories, examine literary elements, explain character traits, explore word meanings and synonyms to enhance writing, etc. __How to Get Started:__ Go to [|ReadWriteThink], sign in and then begin to use the webbing tool: continue to add circles to make connections in all subject areas. Studies show that graphic organizers improve comprehension.
 * ReadWriteThink**