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.

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

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.

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."

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.

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"

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.

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.

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.

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?"

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.

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."

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.