Best Web 2.0 Software of 2006

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Calculators

Survey Random Sampler Calculator

Collaborative Word-Processing

Gliffy

Free online application: http://www.gliffy.com that is run within your web browser. Some similarities to Visio.

eFax Services

eFax

20 free incoming faxes per month; no outgoing.

Encyclopedias

Email Services

Online Video & Audio Content

American Rhetoric Audio Speeches

Online Quizzing Tools

Some free access; full access costs $. Quia is an impressive online subscription-based service ($49/yr) for creating games, quizzes, web pages, surveys, calendars, and more. It features a directory of thousands of online activities and quizzes in more than 50 subject

EasyTestMaker

With Easy Test Maker you can create free online multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false questions all on the same test. You can also insert instructions and divide your test into multiple sections. You can also print a master answer sheet.

Discovery School Quiz Center

A free tool to create, administer, and grade quizzes online. Discovery School Quiz Center provides a web address for students to access the quiz and emails the graded and corrected results to you, but has no database to keep the scores.

QuizStar

A free web-based program to create a custom quiz that others can take online. Quiz Star provides a web address for students to access a quiz and tells you when a student takes it. It also keeps aggregate data on the website for all quizzes taken by students.

Hot Potatoes

The Hot Potatoes downloadable program includes several applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for non-profit educational users who make their pages available on the web.

Quizlet

You enter a vocabulary list of any words or data you want. (ex. SAT words, history dates, French-Spanish translations, etc.) Quizlet gives you a specialized learning mode, flashcards, randomly-generated tests, and collaboration tools for classmates to help you study those words.