Web 2.0 for Secondary Education


Welcome to my eBook to help you learn more about collaborative tools that could be useful for students to use in school. If you wish to hear the text instead of read it, click on Bot, the alien, in the bottom left-hand corner of the book. Turn the page to find out more!


  • Tools for Graphic Organisers: Ideament

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  • Tools for Creative Writing: Gone Google Story Building

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  • Tools for Building Web Sites: WordPress

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Ideament is a tool that allows you to build graphic organisers, which can help you organise information or your thoughts in different ways. If you prefer to map your  thoughts in point form, Ideament can change your maps to point form, or point form to maps. I liked this feature because it would take into account learner preferences that are more text-based rather than graphics-based. It's also available for both Android and Apple devices, and the ability to download the apps would be restricted by access to these devices and also parental approval of downloading apps, even free ones.



This looks like a great tool to help students build stories. While it might seem somewhat simplistic for high school students, I think it could really benefit students that are learning English or that could use extra support for creative writing. With English Language Learners, sentence starters are often quite helpful, and a program like this is a very similar concept that I think would be really useful. As a Google product, it is open for use to anyone, and specifically in the case of this product is heavily encouraged for use in schools.



A great option for a class web site or blog, this is the kind of tool that offers students great opportunities to collaborate on projects. I think it would be a great way for students to engage in group projects since many kids today are heavily involved in extra-curricular activities, and a tool like this would allow them to work on the project on their own time. There do not appear to be any age restrictions for use that I could find.