Snip.ly is a new service for clipping and sharing parts of websites. The idea is this; when you want to share just a portion of a webpage with someone you can now highlight the text you want and share it. To do this you can either use the browser extensions offered by Snip.ly or copy a url into Snip.ly. Either way Snip.ly allows you to highlight text on the page and generates a new url that features the text you highlighted. Share this new url (via email, Twitter, or Facebook) and the recipient will see the webpage you shared with the highlighted text featured.

Super book of web tools for educators…

Check out this website for lots of downloadable fonts for Windows & Mac

Wallwisher is an online notice board maker. It allows people to post messages to a online bulletin board or “wall”. Audio, video and links can be added right to the “sticky-note” along with your own message. The owner of the wall can screen the posts. Anyone can add to the wall by just clicking and adding their note–it can have your name or left anonymous.

Many possibilities, including book reviews, to do lists, feedback on a topics.  No cost and the wall can be embedded into a blog as well.

Sign up and create a Wallwisher account – it’s free!
If you want to create a wall without creating an account, it’s very simple – just click, write, post.
To build a wall:

* Select Build a wall from the top right menu and create a wall.
* Select an image and give your wall a title and a sub title

* Choose your wall url (6 – 20 characters)
* Decide who can view your wall and who can post to your wall.

* Select to approve every post before it shows on the wall. This way you can moderate all comments whether they are posted anonymously or by a named student.

* Choose a theme / color for the wall and select Done.

Double click anywhere on the wall to add a sticky note

https://docs.google.com/a/edublogs.org/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_436f8kscmdc

What a find!!   Most of the web sites have many elements that are free–you may need to register first but have fun with it…..

I found this information interesting in light of the current events in this area.  Watch the “deep zoom” effects on this map –>  What Size Is Africa?

Along with this image, I found a website that is a free service for viewing and sharing high-resolution imagery.  Zoom.it will give you a link to any image on the web in deep zoom format and lets you smoothly and efficiently explore the whole image, no matter how large.

A long laundry list of web sites for Web 2.0 educators and students…more to come at a later date….