Tools+&+Apps

15 Essential Web Tools for Students toc
 * Startpages, social bookmarking, and other useful web2.0 apps**

Bookmarking
[|delicious] Use delicious to save and access bookmarks anytime/anywhere [|diigo] Similar to delicious but with many more functions such as creating/following groups [|gl.am] - Collect and annotate sites to share with others

Citation Creation (Making your bibliography)
 [|Bibme]

Collaboration & Notetaking
[|Google Docs] [|Zoho] [|ShareTabs] - Find useful sites and then share them with your class or group.

Startpages/Homepages
[|Pageflakes] [|iGoogle] [|Netvibes]

Digital Storytelling
Check with your teacher to see if they have a classroom account for any of these tools. [|Toondo] [|Glogster] [| Animoto] [|Six easy ways for students to create videos online]

Mind Maps & Graphic Organizers
[|bubbl.us] [|Graphic Organizers]

Conversion Tools
[|Zamzar] Convert images, documents, videos, presentations. If you create a document at home and it saves with a .docx you can convert to a doc at school by using Zamzar. Works for ppt. and pptx as well.


 * Tip**: Open your document using Text Edit and then save to the format you need.

