My Favorite Web2.0 Tools

Web2.0 refers to web applicaions that feature interactivity, user developed design, and collaberation, such as those used in a varity of Google applications. Also, blogs, wikis, Facebook,Utube, and other social sites.

For personal productivity I chose Dropbox.

Dropbox allows synchronization of files from various devices without having to e-mail yourself or use a thumb drive to transfer the data. It does all this on the web as a coud based cross platform tool

This would bring convenience and a timesaving method of  keeping your stuff together--between home computer, work computer, laptop, i-phone, etc.

For Screen Recording I chose Voice Thread

Voice Thread allows you to share group conversations and mulimedia presentations anywhere in the world. It's a cloud based tool. It's multimedia capapbilities include slide shows, video, voice, and still images, You can doodle (draw on videos and images), use muliple identites (without signing in and out, ideal for classes), you can edit comments through moderation. Files can be embedded and published to web pages and also, exported to MP3 players and DVDs.

This tool is ideally suited to the classroom/educational environment. It encourages collaberation with students and between students and other people in other places. This tool was demonatrated effectively by Tim Lauer and the school he used to teach in at the OTEN conference during his keynote presentation.