Web+2.0+Apps

This is the place to talk about those apps that kids love and teachers (including us) may not be familiar with!

I wanted to paste a picture of my iGoogle page here. All I could manage to do was upload a word document which contains a picture of my iGoogle page. You may possibly be able to open it by clicking on the Great Big Button above. With the iGoogle page, you can What you can't do:
 * customize a Google News search, so that stories in categories of interest to you (e.g. politics, sports) will constantly be refreshed on your page
 * aggregate content from your various Google apps, so that when you log in your Google Reader feed will appear in one box, your most recent Gmail in another
 * you can see the weather
 * you can embed charming widgets. you can have a hamster who will follow your cursor around, run on its wheel, drink from its water bottle, or eat a snacks
 * link to non-Google apps that you might really like to have on the page, like the excellent TeuxDo, which leaves Google's to do list in the dust. No Facebook or Twitter, no how.

The educational point:
 * Setting up the Google Reader and Google News search to bring you information on topics of interest.

An logistical downside:
 * You have to create a Google account to do any of this, and you have to log in each time you want to use your iGoogle

If you're going to try this out yourself, be sure to add a tree frog to your page. Tres nifty. sincerely yours, Lucy

Cacoo is a collaborative drawing tool that allows one person or several people to draw many types of diagrams in **real time**. Multiple people can work on the SAME drawing at the SAME time!!  It is a free web site although you need to create an account. One person logs in and invites the others (who already have accounts and ID's) and they can work on the drawing/schematic together. There is a 'chat' feature which allows for discussion among participants while creating. Cacoo utilizes a series of stencils and drawing tools and allows the user to 'drag and drop' to achieve the desired drawing. These can be saved, and imported into blogs, documents, and a variety of other applications. Click on the link below and then click on the 'TOUR' tab to see all the things CACOO can do!  [|http://cacoo.com]

 Here's a diagram I made while exploring the site...just for fun!  []

**WORDLE**


=MOVAVI= Movavi Online is a web-based service that allows you to download videos from video-sharing sites and save them in different video formats. (AVI, MPEG, MOV, FLV, MP4, 3GP) Movavi Online also converts videos already on your computer. Another important point--it's free! Get information and answers to your questions at** http://www.movavi.com/faq.html**