onesentence.org
Clever, diverting, addicting. This site is everything I love and hate about the web.
http://docs.google.com
I can't say enough about this product. I have used in in my 5th grade classroom all year long and it is fantastic. It allows kids to work on a document at home and at school, without carrying a flash drive back and forth. It also allows several students to work on one document together, which is how writing really works in the real (aka non-school) world. What I have liked the most about GoogleDocs, however, is that it has revolutionized writer's workshop. Kids invite me to their documents and then we are able to talk about them online. I can leave notes for the author, and vis versa. Best of all, if a student accidently erases or deletes work, every single revision of the document is available to be recalled. I LOVE this product!
http://www.go2web20.net/
I looked up and down the award winner list to find something that I don't currently use that would be particularly useful to me. I came across this site, which is a wealth of information about web 2.0 applications -- a web application index!
I signed up with a discussion group on ning -- image, it was a Classroom 2.0 site. Although I understand the need to try new projects, I feel like I am getting spread too thin. Just for this class I am writing my blog, checking colleague's blogs, and posting on moodle. In my life, I facebook, twitter, manage google reader, skype, and email (3 separate accounts). And I'm sure I've forgotten something! When I was checking Twitter this morning, I noticed a posting via TweetDeck, so I investigated it. TweetDeck, at first glance, looks like an interface to manage social networking, so I'll probably look into using it. If only someone would develop a product that pulls everything together in one place, that would be a godsend.
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