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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."
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."
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 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.
Jumpcut:
Jumpcut is a free online place where you can use all your media,
create great looking movies and publish to anyone you choose.
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"
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!"
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."
Penzu: This is
an online journal application for writing down your thoughts.
You can write from any computer. You can insert photos and share
your information with colleagues.
Prezi: Prezi is
a zooming presentation editor. You can create an attractive
presentation and then publish it to be shared privately or with
the world.
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.
ShowBeyond:
This site allows you to creat a slide presentation and record
a message to be associated with the photo. Check out my example.
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."
Story
Jumper: This site allows you to create your own stories
online. You can create a book from scratch or choose from a
variety of templates. There are scenes and images in their
selection or you can import your own images. You can embed the
book on your own site.
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?"
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."
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.
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.
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."
Yodio:
You can add your voice to digital photos for free. Check out
my simple one created on images from Utah.
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. "
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