Suggested Web 2.0 Service Sites


Laddie Odom
Multimedia Producer
Center for Support of Instruction
Published: September-October 2008

Category: » Online-pedagogy » Emerging-technologies

Suggested Web 2.0 Service Sites

The following Web 2.0 service sites provide automatically generated embed code for users that has been tested and proven to work in WebTycho. The generated embed code from these sites is free, can be added easily to the WebTycho classroom, and works with the Text Formatting Editor. For some sites, registration and/or a download may be required to create and publish Web 2.0 objects.

"A" Site List - (Content is theoretically of value to all WebTycho classes; zero to light branding)

YouTube (Video clips)

  • Thousands of clips and types of subject matter
  • Quality varies
  • Most videos are 10 minutes or shorter
  • Easy access to embed code with limited customization tools

Viddler (Video clips)

  • Can add annotations/transcript to the video timelines
  • Customizable/brandable player

Hulu (Video clips)

  • Owned by NBC
  • Long-format broadcast videos
  • Advanced player and embed features
  • Can add start and stop points
  • Closed captions

Google Maps (Customizable, collaborative maps)

  • Easy to use
  • Highly customizable via the Google Maps API (currently requires technical knwledge of the API) 

flickrSLiDR (Photo slideshows)

  • Can create slideshows of any available content within Flickr.com

SlideShare (Online PowerPoint presentations)

  • Browse/search published presentations
  • Upload and publish PowerPoint presentations

AuthorStream (Online PowerPoint presentations)

  • No registration required to browse/search and embed published presentations
  • Registration required to upload and publish PowerPoint presentations

ZohoShow (Online PowerPoint presentations)

  • Currently in Beta version
  • No registration required to browse/search and embed published presentations
  • Registration required to upload and publish PowerPoint presentations

Scribd (Online documents)

  • 17 billion words in its library, making it five times the size of Wikipedia
  • Easily searchable
  • Can upload DOC, PDF, PPT, XLS, RTF, TXT 

ZohoSheet (Online spreadsheets)

  • Currently in Beta version
  • No registration required to browse/search and embed published spreadsheets
  • Registration required to upload and publish spreadsheets

EditGrid (Online spreadsheets)

  • Collaborate and visualize dynamic data
  • Powerful macros available
  • No registration required to browse/search and embed published spreadsheets
  • Registration required to upload and publish spreadsheets

RSSviewer (RSS feeds)

  • Creates embed code for any RSS feed

"B" Site List - (Content is of value to selective WebTycho classes; light to moderate branding)

SlideFlickr (Photo slideshows)

  • Beta site
  • Requries Flickr account
  • Easily customizable slideshows

VoiceThread (Collaborative online media albums)

  • Requires -email registration
  • Unique collaborative online media album
  • Allows group conversations consisting of text and/or audio and video, to be collected and experienced in one place

ScreenCast - O - Matic (Screen capture based presentations)

  • Requires e-mail registration for upload to their server, free to create downloadable Quicktime (MOV) of the presentation, which can be placed on Polaris and then embedded
  • No downloads required
  • Editable, timeline-based screen annotations/transcripts

Poll Daddy (Online polls)

  • Requires e-mail registration
  • Selection of skins
  • 11 question types
  • Online reporting in real time
  • Can export data as XML or CSV and subscribe to results via RSS
  • Can close surveys after a certain date or quota has been reached
  • Can create custom start and finish pages
  • Can create multi-question, multi-page surveys

About the Author(s)

Laddie Odom began his professional career over two decades ago in Detroit as an animator and special effects artist for regional and national television commercial campaigns.

After moving to Chicago in the 1980s, he first found employment in "multimedia", which at the time meant slide shows, produced with traditional analog photographic and graphic tools. Shortly afterwards, he was one of the first persons in the multimedia industry to be trained to operate large, specialized, ridiculously under-powered (compared to today's machines), graphics computers that created and presented slides digitally. Several years later, after helping pioneer the production of digital imagery and animation in multimedia presentations, he began to produce a new kind of multimedia, which was delivered via CD-ROM, was interactive and was usually authored in Macromedia Director. In the mid 1990s he was given the opportunity to apply his extensive experience as production manager for several companies and as an independent producer of interactive marketing and educational materials.

For the last two years he has helped UMUC explore and implement new technologies in order to help staff, faculty, and students achieve their goals.

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