7.+Tools



Learning to read effectively online is not an easy task for students to grasp or for teachers to instruct. We have compiled on this page a few online Web 2.0 tools that could assist your students within the various online reading strategies. Please feel free to add other online reading tools that you think would help our buccaneers:

**Diigo** - [|Diigo] is a social bookmarking tool would be an asset to any student as they were reading and gathering information for research. Not only that, but Diigo has several applications within the bookmarking tool itself. Users are able to highlight, make comments, capture images, and leave sticky notes on the websites they have saved in their library.

**Readability** - Readability is a new and free app that allows online readers to transform their reading experience by cleaning up the webpage and even adjusting the size of font.

**Bubblus** - Bubbl.us is a mind mapping tool that would help students to synthesize the information they've found on the internet as they were reading and researching. Students could also collaborate with others using this unique tool. Check out how it works with this tutorial created on School Tube:

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**Mindomo -** [|Mindomo] is another mind mapping tool that can be used to help students keep track of where they looked for information, and the search terms they used.

**Visual Thesaurus** -[| Visual Thesaurus]could be used in many ways in the technology integrated classroom, for our online readers, Visual Thesaurus would help students in the search process to find other keywords to help in locating information.

**Instapaper** - [|Instapaper] a simple tool that allows you to save webpages to ‘read later’ – online or offline. If you only have time to skim a page but it looks interesting, this tool allows you to save it and access it later from your computer, mobile device, or Kindle. It may also be useful for those that are easily distracted by hyperlinks; reading your webpage offline effectively removes the hyperlink temptation. It also offers highlighting and note taking features.

**Jog the Web** - [|Jog the Web] is a tool that would be helpful to collect, organize, and keep notes on websites that you have used in your research.

**Joyce Valenza's** Note-taking, Brainstorming and Mindmapping Collection of Tools - Without a doubt, you can always count on Joyce Valenza's treasure trove of invaluable tools to help students with anything related to research, reading and writing online.