Cool Tools for Schools: This site is a major gold mine for Web 2.0 tools. You could spend a great deal of time exploring these links. I only wish there was more time in the day.

Animoto: This free website will allow you to create your own videos by incorporating images, video and sound. Your final production could look like a trailer. You can e-mail to friends, post it to your site or download it to your computer. Check out the following themes: Problems of the 21st Century; Victims of Afghanistan; Make a Difference

Assign-A-Day: "Assign-A-Day is a free tool designed to enhance teacher and student communication through an online teacher-managed calendar. Teachers create a calendar for each of their classes and add assignments for the students to view. " Example

Be Funky: "Turn your photos into incredible artwork with one click"

Bookr: This is a site that lets you create and share your own photobook using Flickr images.

ccMixter: "ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want. "

Clear: This site is a center for language education and research at Michigan State University. "The majority of our products are available free of charge. This includes web applications for language learning and teaching, CD-ROMs, and a variety of downloadable PDF publications. "

Common Craft: Common Craft has an array of videos available for people interested in learning about a variety of topics ranging from internet concepts to business. It is a great resource for teachers that want to simplify concepts that might otherwise be considered complex. Their method of instruction includes the use of video and paper to make complicated concepts easier to understand.

Community Walk: "CommunityWalk is a website that is dedicated to providing a powerful yet simple and easy to use interface for creating informational, interactive, and engaging maps. " Check out my China map.

Complete Web 2.0 Directory: This has an overwhelming number of web 2.0 sites.

Del.icio.us: "Keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, reviews, recipes, and more, and access them from any computer on the web. Share favorites with friends, family, coworkers, and the del.icio.us community."

Digital Web Magazine: This site has great resources for web users. There are articles about blogging, design and more.

ePals: "ePals is the leading provider of school-safe collaborative learning products for K-12 across 200 countries and territories."

Everlater: "...Everlater, a place for you to beautifully record your travel experiences, share them with friends and family, and discover new travel ideas from your social network & other travelers like you. Our goal is to unify all of your travel conversations and information sharing into one place, and make the online travel world a more social and enjoyable experience. "

flauntR: "flauntR is created with the vision of enabling consumers to enhance photos or images without reading through heaps of user manuals or purchasing and downloading expensive software."

Flickr: Flickr is a fabulous tool that allows online photo management and sharing.

Gabcast: This free service allows you to record using your phone, create podcasts, host conference calls and post audio to your blogs.

Gcast: This site allows you to set up an account with your cell phone and a designated pin number. Once you set up an account, you call an 800 number. Once you give your pin number associated with your phone number, you can record a message. That message will then be uploaded to your website on Gcast after pressing the pound button. You can see my podcast page that I set up through Gcast.

Glogster: "Mix graphics, photos, videos, music and text into slick Glogs. Glog yourself every day! Amaze your friends - send others links to your Glogs. " Check out some of my examples: Virtual book report:"Three cups of Tea" , Culture , Cool Websites and Colorado, PhotoFunia and prodigies.

Google Language Tools: "Type a search phrase in your own language to easily find pages in another language. We'll translate the results for you to read. "

Google Sketch Up: "Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create 3D models of anything you like."

Internet Classrooms: This education site is packed with resources pertaining to Web 2.0 tools.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: This site has a variety of resources for teachers. Don't miss "The Icing on the Cake Online Tools for Classroom Use"

Library Thing: "LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth."

Mastery Maze: "The goal of this site is to combine content management with a little social networking to create a space on the web where teachers and students can work together to achieve MASTERY in the classroom!"

Page Flakes: Pageflakes is a free online tool that will allow users to create and organize a newspaper style website. They can select news topics that interest them. They can drag and drop stories wherever they want on the page. Users are able to change the newspaper or other interested sites that have rss feeds. I can't wait to explore and possibly incorporate this into my curriculum.

Picasa Web Albums: "Picasa will help you find and organize your photos, and with one click you can upload photos directly to Picasa Web Albums."

Photoshop Express: This site allows you to manipulate images, store images and more.

Remix America: "RemixAmerica.org is a multi-partisan, non-profit website that uses digital technology to give everyone the chance to own the words, the music, the images and sounds of America in digital form; to remix those expressions and ideas with their own; and to send the products of our community's creativity out to the world... where others will come back to us and start it all over again..."

Rombla: "Discover a visual website builder powerful enough for designers and easy enough for small businesses to use. Share fully editable sites and collaborate on content and style."

Scrapblog: This site will give you the opportunity to create online scrapbooks, slideshows, greeting cards and more.

Scratch: "Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively."

Scribd: "Today, Scribd is the largest social publishing company in the world — the website where more than 60 million people each month discover and share original writings and documents."

Senduit: Senduit is an easy way to send files. You can upload a file to be retrieved at a temporary website provided by the services of this website. You can retrieve your uploaded files up to seven days. This would be a great way for students to upload files to be retrieved at home or at school. You can send up to 100 MB.

Shelfari: "Shelfari is the premier social network for people who love books. Create a virtual shelf to show off your books, see what your friends are reading and discover new books - all for free!"

ShowBeyond: This site allows you to creat a slide presentation and record a message to be associated with the photo. Check out my example.

SimplyBox: This site offers a service that allows you to capture, organize and share content from websites.

Snipshot: This website allows you to upload images from your computer for editing purposes. You can even enter a Web address of any photo stored online and get a copy with which to work. The site will keep a copy of the uploaded image for 24 hours before they get rid of it.

SoundTransit: "SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography. On this site, you can plan a sonic journey through various locations recorded around the world, or you can search the database for specific sounds by different artists from certain places."

Splice: "Make music with the world's most advanced online sequencer, complete with real-time synths and DSP sound effects."

Stixy: Stixy allows you to collaborate with friends and family online. It is considered fun and easy.

Teaching with Technology: This site is packed with many wonderful online tools.

TimeRime: "TimeRime.com is an online community that allows people to create, compare and upload information by creating timelines."

Tumblr: "Effortlessly share text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your computer or phone. "

Twitter: "Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?"

Ustream TV: "Ustream.TV is the live interactive video broadcast platform that enables anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to quickly and easily broadcast to a global audience of unlimited size."

Virsona: Virsona is a unique “Online Community,” that gives you the ability to create, store and then interact with the entirety of your life experiences. You can ask questions of famous people. If they answer incorrectly or if they don't know the answer, you can teach them. It will be evaluated by the founder and updated if appropriate.

VoiceThread: "A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish." Check out my VoiceThread on the Colorado Renaissance Festival.

Web 2.0: Web 2.0 offers a free web-based education for teachers, students and parents. Anyone can utilize this site to teach and/or learn.

Webon: "You can have a professional-looking, easy to manage, FREE website up and running in just moments with Webon."

WikiSpaces: WikiSpaces allows you to set up a wiki. You can contol who sees and edits your pages. You can link to great resources for projects, imbed videos to enhance your curriculum and more. Check out my simple wikispace that I have yet to perfect.

Wix: This is a free service site that allows you to create Flash websites. You can customize 100s of free Flash templates or create your own.

WizIQ: "WiZiQ brings students and teachers together regardless of the boundaries. With absolutely no cost to join or use its state-of-the-art virtual classroom, WiZiQ is becoming a vital tool in an online teacher’s or a student’s toolkit."

Wordle: "Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. " Check mine out.

Yodio: You can add your voice to digital photos for free. Check out my simple one created on images from Utah.

Zoho Notebook: This website allows users to freely set up an account in order to put content, images, audio and video online. You can grant reading and writing permissions to online viewers.

Yola: "Our website builder lets you easily take what's in your head and turn it into webpages in front of your eyes. Yola lets you make great-looking sites with webpages that work beautifully together. We do it without imposing banner ads or throwing up pop-up ad windows everywhere. "

Zunal: "With Zunal Teacher Website, you can create teacher websites to keep students and parents informed outside of the classroom. "