Tools

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**1. Weblogs**
Websites that allow an author to publish instantly on the internet. They can be interactive, allowing teachers and students to begin conversations or add to the information published there.

**2. Wikis**
A collaborative Webspace where anyone can add content that has already been published.

**3. Rich Site Summary (RSS)**
A technology that allows educators to subscribe to "feeds" of the content that is created on the internet. Content comes to the reader instead of the reader retrieving the content.

**4. Aggregators**
Collects and organizes the content generated in an RSS feed.

**5. Social Bookmarking**
Bookmarking sites allow users to save and archive entire web pages thus producing a form of searchable "personal Internet". Teachers and students can build subject specific resource lists that they can easily share through RSS. This creates a community of information gatherers.

**6. Online Photo Galleries**
Publishing digital photos to the Web means becoming a part of a community of photographers sharing ideas and experiences.

**7. [|Audio/Video-casting]**
Voice and video files distributed via the Internet.

Richardson, Will. __Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for the Classroom__. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2006.