For+the+Student

A VERY Small Sampling of Some of My Favorite Web2.0 Tools!

|| Create a **free account** and upload photos to share with friends, family, or the world. **Unlimited storage** means you’ll never run out of space to keep hundreds, even thousands, of your favorite pictures. Add fun **clipart**, audio captions, video captions to your albums. Perfectly **frame your photos** with over 20 themes. Print stunning photo books, calendars and more! Create a slideshow using classroom pictures || || Make pictures talk with your recorded voice || || Free online tool allows teachers to create their own Flash-based vocabulary learning games. Program may also be downloaded for offline use. || || Comic Strip Maker || || [|Dipity] is a site that makes it simple for your students to create and share interactive timelines about any subject or topic. It allows students to embed You Tube videos, Twitter, RSS feeds, Blogger, flickr, Picasa, Last FM, and more right into their timelines. [|Dipity] makes timelines relevant and fun for students and best of all, students are creating timelines in “their language” of Digital Native. You have to check this one out…look at a sample timeline to see how truly superior these timelines are to the traditional paper/pencil timeline! Okay seriously, have you ever seen something so cool?! || || ReadTheWords.com is a free, web based service that assists people with written material. || || Social networking is now school networking! [|Imbee] allows teachers to extend their classroom beyond four walls and onto the Internet. Establish class blogs and promote online interaction and collaboration. || || Use [|Airtight Interactive] to build word maps for association. When students are given a new vocabulary word, they can create a map using software such as Inspiration with a definition, synonyms, antonyms and the word used in a sentence. [|Airtight] will give students a starting point to understand how words are associated. || || Teachers can use [|School Notes] to create notes for homework and class information and post them on the web in seconds using this free service. || || GabMail™ is a free, easy-to-use video email service that enables anyone with a webcam or video camera to send, reply to and forward VIDEO messages to anyone with an email address. || || [|mySchoolog] is a free, online web-based application that helps students organize their school life easily. Students can organize everything about their school life with [|mySchoolog] anytime, anywhere they have Internet access. Students can organize and share notes, to-do lists, appointments, store documents and files, and add lessons. || || [|Letter Pop] is a web-based newsletter publishing center. Best of all, [|Letter Pop] is free! The newsletters are easy to create, just add text and pictures. || || [|Digication] is a website that allows teachers and students to create and keep e-portfolios. E-Portfolios are online spaces for teachers and students to communicate, share, reflect and collaborate in and outside of the classroom and have created exciting opportunities for teaching and learning world-wide. E-portfolios can be a continuing body of work that follow students throughout their school experience. The communication aspect that [|Digication] provides makes for a richer school experience. The Student/Teacher edition of [|Digication] is free. || || [|Fleck] is a free web application (it doesn’t even require a download!) that allows teachers or students to add notes and bullets to any web page. The annotated pages can then be posted on a blog or shared with students or colleagues. This is amazing! [|Fleck]also provides you with a history of all the pages you have Flecked so that they can be updated and visited again and again. [|Fleck] makes the Internet a collaborative learning experience. || || [|Prezent It] is a free online resource for creating and sharing presentations online PowerPoint style. No special software is needed, [|Prezent It]is an online application that allows teachers or students to create and present from a web browser. Presentations can be public or private and each has its own web address. Presentations can be downloaded and shown without any internet connection. There is no file size limit with [|Prezent It] so create away! || || [|NoteSake] is an online note taking tool for students and teachers. Students (or teachers) can take and organize notes online. This makes it easy to access notes from any Internet connected computer. [|NoteSake] also provides students or teachers with the ability to collaborate in groups. Students can take notes for a group project in [|NoteSake] and share with other group members. [|NoteSake] is a God-send for the student who missed a class due to an illness…other students or teachers can share the notes from the day with the student who was absent. [|NoteSake]offers several options for organizing notes; organize by name, date, class, or custom tags that the student adds to the notes. || || [|Viddler] is an AMAZING web application that lets students (or you) upload, enhance, and share digital video quickly and easily right from your web browser. I know, cool right?! The best part is, students can collaborate and comment on each other’s Viddler videos. || || [|Bubblr!]is a tool to create comic strips using photos from flickr.com. You can use others public images or images from your own flickr.com account. || || [|Shelfari] is a virtual bookshelf that you create to show off books that you have read and recommend. It is a Web 2.0 site that allows you to connect with students, other teachers, and parents around books. [|Shelfari]is a great way to discover new titles, discuss books, start an online book club, and show others what you are reading. You can show off your [|Shelfari] bookshelf on your blog, classroom website, or other social networking site of choice. Really cool! || http://www.gliffy.com/ || Create and share graphic organizers || || Use this with your students to create an interactive map experience || || Asterpi x enables users to easily create interactive videos and share them through websites, blogs, and email. || || Students can create their own pictures books with just a few clicks. || || Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online. || || Create and edit on-line calendars || || Free online portfolio, fabulous way for art or photography student to share work ||
 * Tool ||  Website  ||  Description  ||
 * BubbleShare || http://www.bubbleshare.com/
 * Blabberize || http://www.blabberize.com/main/
 * Flashcardmachine || http://www.flashcardmachine.com/
 * ToonDoo || http://www.toondoo.com/
 * Dipity || http://www.dipity.com/
 * Readthewords || http://www.readthewords.com/
 * IMBEE || http://imbee.com
 * Airtight interactive || http://airtightinteractive.com
 * Schoolnotes || http://schoolnotes.com
 * GabMail || http://www.freegabmail.com/Composer/Composer.html
 * Student organization tool || http://myschoolog.com
 * Web-based newsletter || http://letterpop.com
 * E-portfolios || http://www.digication.com/products/students_teachers
 * Fleck || http://fleck.com/
 * PrezentIt || http://www.prezentit.com/
 * NoteSake || http://notesake.com/
 * Viddler || http://www.viddler.com/
 * Bubblr! || http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/index.php
 * Shelfari || http://www.shelfari.com/
 * Graphic Organizers || http://mind42.com/
 * Mapping || http://www.platial.com/
 * Asterpix || http://www.asterpix.com/
 * Big Universe || http://www.biguniverse.com/
 * Bubbl.Us || http://bubbl.us/
 * Calendar Hub || http://www.calendarhub.com
 * Carbonmade || http://www.carbonmade.com/
 * CAST UDL book builder || http://bookbuilder.cast.org/

|| Allows you to create your own interactive books to help young readers with reading strategies and build comprehension. || || Link directly to quotes in Web pages. Paste a chunk of text and the URL of the page containing the text and in return get a link that opens directly to your selection and highlights it. || || ** InstaCalc ** makes charts! You can even pick a color scheme. ||
 * Citebite || http://citebite.com/
 * Instacalc || http://instacalc.com/
 * MapSkip || http://www.mapskip.com/index.php

|| Online tool allows you to see cites and countries throughout the world. The site features place markers added by users to interactive GoogleMaps including stories, photos, videos, and comments. || || Create collaborative mind maps with this online tool || || Easy, shareable spreadsheets || || Very simple online tool to make simple, folded small booklets that fit into your pocket. || || Simple-to-use online tool allows users to create a “recording” of a drawing with or without narration. Simply “draw” on the whiteboard space on the computer screen. || || Very simple drawing tool records your drawing and allows you to replay to see it in quick motion and publishes the result on a web page. || || Create printable, downloadable, emailable online version of photo collages in a stained glass style using this free online tool. || || http://www.stellarium.org/ || Free planetarium software. You must download and install the software to your computer—not difficult. || || ** StumbleUpon ** discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more. || || Students and teachers can write their own original story, add your own images and artwork as illustration, and read you published books in interactive, online form. ||
 * Mindomo || http://www.mindomo.com/
 * NumSum || http://numsum.com/
 * PocketMod || http://www.pocketmod.com/
 * Sketchcast || http://sketch.basement.org/
 * Sketchfu || http://sketchfu.com/
 * Stained glass collage || http://www.sgcollage.com/
 * Stellarium
 * StumbleUpon || http://www.stumbleupon.com/
 * Tikatok || http://tikatok.com/
 * Trade Card Maker || http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/deck.php

|| Crate photo trading cards using images you create or store on Flickr. || || Online tool can convert online videos such as the ones on YouTube into a portable format you can play at school when filtering blocks your access. || || Free download of the total data and images that NASA has collection. With the Telescope you can explore the Universe in a free form way. || || Allows you to view, create and discuss interactive timelines. ||
 * Vixy.net || http://vixy.net/
 * World Wide Telescope || http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/
 * Xtimeline || http://www.xtimeline.com/
 * A few amazing websites: |||| http://freetech4teachers.blogspot.com/
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