Thing #19 Web 2.0 Award winners

Writeboard is listed on the Web 2.0 Award winners in the writing category. It makes it easy to...

• Write without fear of losing or overwriting
• Compare different versions of a document
• Collaborate with colleagues or fellow students on projects
• Subscribe to documents via RSS and be notified of changes
• Keep your writings organized with Backpack (which isn't free)

With the emphasis on collaboration and communication in all of the new tech standards, our teachers must start to use some of these online tools--especially the free ones. I am sharing this site with our language arts teachers at the middle school level.

I also checked out .Docstoc and downloaded some Kidspiration graphics on education topics. We are always looking for more images to use with interactive whiteboards and software such as Kidspiration and Inspiration. I had to register but it did not cost anything to download. This site also had downloadable Powerpoint jeopardy quizzes for math and science plus lots of other educational resources.

CareerBuilder is an employment / job site that shows jobs available with 30 / 50 / ? miles of your location. After looking at it, I think that our career education teachers might make use of such a practical site to demonstrate to our students where the jobs are in our area right now.

I was surprised to see how many jobs were available just 17 miles from our school at one of the local hospitals.