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Classroom 2.0 Workshop **Getting Set Up for a Social Studies Class** Diigo List of sites - view in Slideshow, if you can toc [|Getting Set Up for a Social Studies Class.doc]

**RSS Aggregators**

 * * Netvibes – netvibes.com ([|public page])
 * Google Reader – reader.google.com
 * [|Pageflakes] – Pageflakes.com

**Social Bookmarking Sites**

 * [|*Diigo] – social bookmarking (Teacher start here: [|help.diigo.com/Diigo_Educator_Account])
 * [|Delicious] – another excellent choice

**Wikis**

 * [|*Wikispaces] – [|www.wikispaces.com/t/x/teachers100K] (sign up for an ad-free teacher account)
 * [|PBWiki] – [|pbwiki.com/academic.wiki] - Another excellent wiki platform

Forums

 * Edmodo - Private chat area. Facebook-like interface. Can post files and assignments, as well
 * [|Lefora] - create free forums
 * [|Moodle] - set it up as a "social" format for create ALL forums. Your IU doesn't have Moodle? Get it here at [|Globalclassroom.us]
 * Online Town Halls - create a platform for //EXCELLENT// debates! Free!

**Online Office**

 * [|Google Docs] – [|Get Google docs for your whole district] – FREE!
 * [|Zoho] – another excellent choice. Check out the MANY apps

**PowerPoint Alternatives**

 * [|Slideshare] – sometimes slow, but a great choice
 * [|Sliderocket] – nice visual effects, too
 * [|Zoho] – another great choice
 * [|Open Office] – not a web app. Download for free and install. (Converts to flash to embed in web pages)
 * [|Authorstream] – This one keeps the animations, too, if those are important

**Search Engine (custom search engine to embed)**

 * [|Google Custom search engine] - Create and embed custom search engines

**Screencasts**

 * [|Jing] – free version plus very reasonably priced Pro version
 * [|Screencastle] – one-click recording
 * [|Screentoaster] – Create free screencasts here, too. Very easy
 * [|CamStudio] – open source version of Camtasia

**Miscellaneous**

 * * [|MappingWorlds] - excellent visualization map
 * * [|Gapminder] – See animated graphs over time. OUTSTANDING!
 * *[|Tabbloid] - specify rss feeds and it collects them all and send them to you in a pdf file, newspaper style. Imagine if your students were bloggin? Every day you can receive a newsletter of all their posts!
 * [|Timespace: World] - another must see
 * [|TrackThisNow] - great search tool for world perspectives
 * [|Manyeyes] – create EXCELLENT visualizations from your data.
 * [|UUorld] - EXCELLENT (free) application for creating AMAZING maps
 * [|Box.net] – online storage. Embeddable Public folders, as well.
 * [|CiteBite] – create links to exact spot on the page