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Some of these might not be considered web 2.0 tools, but they are great interactive sites that can be used in schools. Hopefully they won't be blocked.
Voki: Voki allows users to choose characters that can talk using their own voices. You can add your own voice using a microphone, phone or by uploading your voice. You can customize your Voki to look like you or other types of character such as animals, monsters, anime etc.

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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