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Web 2.0 Gadgets We Love

Here are a few of the gadgets we use regularly on our blogs. See also the Web 2.0 Links list for other awesome, embed-able tools.

Clustrmaps & Voki

Clustrmaps tell us where are visitors are from and Voki helps us to talk to them. Sometimes we use a Voki to do a "book talk" or make book characters talk to each other.











Shelfari

Readers love to share books!
When we recommend a book to a friend, it's because we really loved it!

Countdown Clocks
We are always thinking and planning for the future. Countdown clocks help us to remember important dates. It's fun to countdown days, hours, minutes, and seconds to the events we look forward to the most!





We are great at creating Keynotes to share what we've learned. Slideshare helps us embed those presentations on our blogs so we can teach our classmates:

                                
It's easy to upload a picture and write a sentence about it, but it's lots more fun to use Superlame to add vocabulary labels or to have the people or items in an image speak for themselves:


What would you say to Ratty Tatty if she kept stealing your snacks? With I Fake Text students can create fake conversations with book characters, historical figures and more!


In Kindergarten, we use Wordle or Taxedo to practice typing the words we're learning to read. When finished typing, we create a "word cloud". We can put that single image on our blogs, or, like this second grader's example, we can upload several word clouds into Animoto to "produce" our own videos:

                                  


We are work in groups to take photos of our alphabet pictures. After that, we work together to record ourselves in a Voicethread.