1. Enhancing Your Online Community with Web2.0 Karen Brooks

2. 3. What is a Widget?

According to Wikipedia, Aweb widgetis a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. They are derived from the idea of code reuse.Other termsused to describe web widgets include:gadget, badge, module, webjit, capsule, snippet, mini and flake . Web widgets usually but not always use DHTML, JavaScript, or Adobe Flash.Widgets often take the form of on-screen tools (clocks, event countdowns, auction-tickers, stock market tickers, flight arrival information, daily weather etc).

The technology used for widgets has been around for 25 years.

http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/timelines/widgets/links to an interactive timeline of the widget.

4. Important to Know

They are used on phones, on computer desktops and on the web.

As any program code, widgets can be used for malicious purposes. One example is the Facebook Secret Crush widget, reported in early 2008 by Fortinet as luring users to install Zango adware.

Educational Widgets should come from reliable sources.

5. Samples

Education.com Widgets -http://www.education.com/tools/

Yahoo Education Widgets -http://widgets.yahoo.com/tags/education

Iknowthat.com -http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=Widget

Today in History -http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open&source=gghp&num=24&url=http://michaelthompson.org/goo/uhist.xml&output=html

Widgetbox.com -http://www.widgetbox.com

Mental Workour Widget -http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open&source=gghp&num=24&url=http://www.mental-workout.com/gadgets-words-exercises/google-gadget.xml&output=html

Spring Widgets -http://www.springwidgets.com/widgets/

Match up Word Game -http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open&source=gghp&num=24&url=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/WoD/matchup-module.xml&output=html

WidgEd -http://www.widged.com/labs/

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Audio Word of the Day requires FlashPlayer

• • Japanese

• • French

• • Italian

• • Russian

• • Korean

• • Spanish

• • Chinese

• • German

• • Arabic

Widgets and samples on Wikispaces -https://goldict.wikispaces.com/Education+Widgets

Widgets for Elementary -http://widgets.primarygames.com/

iGoogle Widget Directory -http://www.google.com/ig/directory

Type Pad Widget Gallery -http://www.sixapart.com/typepad/widgets/

Widgipedia -http://www.widgipedia.com/widgets/search/tag/website

Dashboard widgets -http://www.dashboardwidgets.com/showcase/showcat.php?cid=45

Widgetophttp://www.widgetop.com

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Google Radio Automation Widgetshttp://www.google.com/radioautomation/products.html

Cool Widget samples for Education -http://tell.schoolwires.net/16621065151648627/blank/browse.asp?A=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&C=54945

8. Create or Customize Your Own Widget

Local School Data Widget -http://www.education.com/schoolfinder/tools/localschools-widget/

Widgetbox http://widgetbox.com

9. 10. What is a Generator?

Generators usually referring to text or graphics.

They are free and can be animated text or banners, clocks, counters for your webpage or Moodle Course.

They also use and embed code to place on a webpage or Moodle class.

11. Samples

Cool Text Generator -http://cooltext.com/

Pimp Text -http://www.pimptextlive.com/

Glitterizer -http://www.glitterizer.com/

YourGen -http://yourgen.com

Textanium -http://textanim.com/

Some Samples -https://tools-4-teachers.wikispaces.com/Web+2.0

and many, many more!

12. 13. Sampling of Embeddable Web 2.0

Sni-pshttp://www.sni.ps/

Voki http://www.voki.com

Blabberize http://www.blabberize.com

360cities -http://www.360cities.net

Slideshare.net =http://www.slideshare.net

Embedr http://www.embeder.net

Vocaroo http://www.vocaroo.com

Photopeach.com http://www.photopeach.com

Voicethread http://www.voicethread.com

Wordle -http://www.wordle.net

Animoto http://www.Animoto.com

dvolver http://www.dvolver.com

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