Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Glossary of Our Favourite Web 2.0 Tools Used
in eTwinning Projects
by Cristina Nicolaita and Cornelia Melcu
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EasyPolls is a user friendly tool for creating online
polls. It is free to use for everyone! There are
premium features that cost a little, but you can
create great polls without paying anything.
Our example:
http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=510012b4e4
b0b57dea95423b
Amara gives individuals, communities, and larger
organizations the power to overcome accessibility
and language barriers for online video. The tools
are free and open source and make the work of
subtitling and translating video simpler, more
appealing, and, most of all, more collaborative.
Our example:
http://www.amara.org/ro/videos/9eASg2KVRHHG/i
nfo/caracal-olt/
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Blogger is Google’s free tool for creating blogs. It
can be found on the web at
http://www.blogger.com. Blogs, short for web-logs,
are a form of online journal you can use for your
eTwinning project. You can host blogs with multiple
contributors, or you can run your own solo show.
Although there are fancier blog tools out there, the
mixture of cost (free) and flexibility makes Blogger
one of the best deals around.
Our example: http://king-of-my-castle.blogspot.ro/
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Fodey website provides templates to apply text to.
This seemingly simple idea creates fun clips and
resources. You can apply these features to almost
anything and enlighten any project by using them.
Our example:
http://mathematicomix.files.wordpress.com/2012/0
8/newspaper.jpg
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Classtools is a great place to create free games,
diagrams, quizzes and other activities in seconds.
Then you can easily host them on your twinspace or
blog, with no sign up, no password, no charge.Our
example: http://www.screenr.com/ahu7
Google Docs brings your documents to life with
smart editing and styling tools to help you easily
format text and paragraphs. Google Sheets makes
your data pop with colorful charts and graphs.
Built-in formulas, pivot tables and conditional
formatting options save time and simplify common
spreadsheet tasks. Google Slides makes your ideas
shine with a variety of presentation themes,
thousands of fonts, embedded video, animations,
and more.Our example:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?usp
=drive_web&formkey=dEFYX0gwdE5tNVFGSWVMQ
nJ6Rk9lY2c6MA#gid=0
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Dvolver Moviemaker is a simple tool that enables
you to create your own animated cartoons by
selecting from a range of characters, backgrounds
and scenarios, and adding your own dialogue text
bubble. The movies can then be sent by email or
embedded into blogs or websites for others to
enjoy. Our example:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/dv_assets/plot_template
_lang3.swf?movie_id=363413
Historypin is a global community collaborating
around history. Historypin is a way for millions of
people to come together, from across different
generations, cultures and places, to share small
glimpses of the past and to build up the huge story
of human history.
http://www.europeana1989.eu/en/
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