Ed Tech Boot Camp

• All web based - no software downloads (well, except for 1)
• All free
• None or minimal account setup for users

The Tools

• Firefox web browser The Swiss Army Knife of web browsers
  • Firefox Addons Where you can find many free tools for Firefox
  • Fireshot - create screen shots
  • CaptureFox - create screencasts
• Picnik Online photo editing
• Twiddla collaborative whiteboard
• Etherpad Simple collaborative text editing 
• Wikispaces Wiki allows many people to collaborate on a single website. Here is a wiki we can edit.

• Posterous They call it a blog but it is the easiest way to post content I've found yet. If you can email, you can post.

• Google spreadsheets A spreadsheet many can work on at the same time

• Voicethread - Tool to allow people to comment on a document, photo, video or other type of media in 5 different ways.An example of a Voicethread

Other things we may want to play with

• Wikipedia (if you want to try editing the granddaddy of all wiki's, here's the Wikipedia sandbox)

• YouTube EDU - a source of educational videos you can use in your courses