Must+Haves

If you're just starting your "Web 2.0 Toolbox", you'll want these tools to start with, toc no matter what you teach!

Please take the time now to make accounts at Diigo, Google, and Wikispaces.


is a social bookmarking site, like Delicious, where you can keep your favorite bookmarks, find them by tags, visualize them using a tag cloud, share bookmarks with Diigo friends and groups, share annotations on sites, and more! It now has an educator account where you can create student accounts and class groups. Diigo serves as a nice alternative to a Google search, as sites you find there are ones that someone else thought important enough to bookmark. Here is my Diigo cloud. (...actually Delicious, as my Diigo cloud gets cut off at 100 tags) =)  media type="custom" key="4549348"


is great for working on documents anywhere, sharing documents, and creating forms to collect information. Use them to allow your students to work together on a project, store work at a location that can be accessed at home as well as at school, or to survey your students and collect data.

Let's look at the results of today's survey.

Click here to collaborate on one now: Morning Session Afternoon Session


At the main google search page, at the top right, you'll see a link to start your iGoogle page. On that page, you could subscribe to all of your favorite blogs, add the local weather, to do list, picture or youtube video of the day and many other gadgets! And customize your theme - there are hundreds to choose from!


is a site with over 55,000 resources carefully selected and reviewed for educators. You can better search for your keyword by type or by content partner.
 * Types of resources include lessons, interactives, media, worksheets, primary sources, reference materials, and assessments.
 * Content partners are ARTSEDGE, EconEdLink, EDSITEment, Illuminations, Literacy Network, ReadWriteThink, Science NetLinks, Smithsonian's History Explorer, Xpeditions.
 * All resources are also classified by grade level, and many are even matched up to <span style="color: #ff8100; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">//state standards// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">!!!

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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 135%;"> I use wikis for everything! Last year's wiki designed for Ambridge CFF teachers has been revised this year for our entire staff to use. Many of our CFF teachers have since created their own wikis. They are just such //easy// websites to build! If you would like to start your own, there are many sites you can use. Wikispaces, PBWiki, and WetPaint are just a few. To start one for yourself on wikispaces, free from ads for educators, start by visiting this site: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%;"> media type="custom" key="4527690"