WEB 2.0 SITES

Helpful LInks

Make Your Own Animations:
ZimmerTwins is a tool to make great and fun animated stories. You can start making your animation from scratch or you can create your own, using one of the story starters. You choose the characters, settings, transitions, actions and emotions by using drag-and-drop feature. Then, you only write the text in bubbles. Teachers can create the animation and children write the dialogues. When they finish, they can act it out in the class while they are watching the video or children can write an ending or a beginning of the story after they watch.

DVolver is a tool to create your mini animations by pointing and clicking. You can choose the setting, characters, music at  the background and how the chosen characters interact in your animation. You write what you want your characters to say and it shows up in bubbles in your animation.  Children can watch a video and write an ending for it or they can summarize a story.

GoAnimate is a tool to create your animations. You choose your theme and characters or you can even create your own animated characters by changing the size and  the  color of their body parts and clothes. Characters can do different actions such as walking, dancing, and talking. You can use text to speech application to make your characters talk or simply record your own voice using your microphone. Children can redesign a scene from the story or they can create their own animations using the new language that they have learnt.

Xtranormal is a text-to-movie tool that lets you create your movie using your own words and text-to-speech application. You choose your characters, settings, background, voice and music. You then write your text into the appropriate boxes and create your dialogue. You can also play with the  camera angles and sounds in the scripts. Children can create their own films on different topics and share them with others or children can create their animated book reports.

DomoAnimate is another tool to create animations. You can animate the characters, change the background, movement, sound effects and  emotions; you can add speech bubbles, interactive elements and music  to your animation as well. You can resize things, delete, and move or change their places. Children can create their animated books that talk or they can write their own screenplays and turn them into animation.


http://comiqs.com/index.html

http://www.creaza.com/

http://myths.e2bn.org/story_creator

http://pixton.com/schools/overview

http://superherosquad.marvel.com/create_your_own_comic

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/comicmaker/create

http://www.chogger.com/

http://www.befunky.com 
 
http://sketchfu.com/
 
Draw Island
 
Goanimate  Create animated videos
 
FluxTime is a tool to create animations, edit and play with them
 
Free Images and Clip Art:
 
Pics4Learning: Very popular site to find free safe-to-use images for school use.
 
Cyclo.ps: Search engine that searches the most popular free image engines around and provides them in one place.
 
School Clip Art: Great site for free school clip art.
 
Ookaboo: Creative commons (free) site for finding great images.
 
Picsearch: Excellent image search engine if used with a district's filtering system
 
Veezle: Wonderful free stock photo search engine.
 
Google Swirl: Innovative way to search for images and see their relationships with each other.
 
Free Photo Bank: Easy way to find creative common images.
 
Open Clip Art: Great place to find free clip art.
 
Find Icons: Nice site for finding icons.
 
Wylio:  Millions of free images
 
Sites for Photo Editing
 
  1. Sumo Paint - One of the most popular and oldest online photo editors around. Sumo Paint has lots of nice tools for editing a photo such as brush, shapes, crop and looks a lot like PhotoShop.
  2. Aviary - Aviary is one of the best online suites on the web for doing lots of multi-media things, including editing photos. Not only does it have an educational portal, but it also has browser extensions, and a very nice user interface.
  3. Splashup - A great site that is similar to Sumo Paint that allows users to edit photos and adjust pixels and layers as well.
  4. Cloud Canvas - Another great site for editing photos that allows users to draw, crop, and paint.
  5. Phixr - An easy site to use to upload a photo from a computer or social networking site and then edit by adding images or text.
  6. iPiccy - A great site for uploading a photo and then editing it with tools such as, text, drawing, or paint.
  7. Imageoid - A site that is similar to iPiccy for adding effects to an image.
  8. Citrify - An excellent free online photo editor with lots of options to choose from such as touch-ups, effects, etc.
  9. Fix Picture - A nice site for converting, resizing, or rotating an image.
  10. Picjuice - A site similar to Fix Picture where a user can crop, resize, rotate or adjust a photo.
 
Top 20 Social Network sites
 
  1. Twitter - Far and away one of the most popular social networks around. This micro-tweeting platform is used worldwide and especially in education (search hash tags; edchat or edtech). With the-soon-to-come parental controls, Twitter will become an even better option for educators.
  2. Classroom 2.0 - Created by Steve Hargadon and used by thousands of educators on a daily basis. This site alone changed the way I viewed education and ignited my passion for Web 2.0.
  3. Facebook -nuff said!!
  4. Google Plus - The highly-publicized social network by Google. While it is still in its early release, there are a lot of features that make this an attractive option for education, including hangouts; the impressive group video chat and circles; the way to control posts with privacy settings.
  5. Plurk - A social network similar to Twitter (micro-blogging) with a timeline view and fun karma-based platform.
  6. Educator's PLN - Built by Thomas Whitby, this social network is one of the fastest growing around, with some of the top technology based innovators.
  7. Sophia - A new (beta) social network for education. Lots of great features can be found here such as: free lesson plans, private group (study) creation, and online tutoring.
  8. Learn Central - Sponsored by elluminate, Learn Central is an ideal place for educators to host/learn through Learn Central's virtual conferences.
  9. ISTE Community - International Society for Technology & Education is a great place for educators to come together and collaborate on technology issues.
  10. WhoTeaches - A new (beta) network designed to bring students, parents, and educators together. This is done through collaboration with the ability to share documents and create groups. Also, this site offers high level education for online learners looking for tutors or to study.
  11. Edutopia - A very popular organization created by the George Lucas foundation.
  12. Technology Integration in Education - Wonderful social network created by Greg Limperis that is similar to Classroom 2.0. There are lots of groups and discussions for users to choose from in this educational network.
  13. The 21st Century Teacher - A new social network designed for teachers that is designed to help them facilitate using technology in the classroom. There is lots to like here such as the group forum, community blog, and abundance of resources being shared.
  14. Better Lesson - Free social network that is ideal for educators. 1000's of resources can be found here as well as collaboration with other educators to find out what teaching strategies work best.
  15. Diipo - A wonderful new (beta) social network that is similar to Moodle and Gaggle. This network prides itself on being social networking for your class, and allows teachers and students to not only collaborate online within the class but also to collaborate with those outside.
  16. Intel Education Teachers Engage Community - A nice community designed to facilitate online collaboration and increase teachers technology literacy.
  17. Everloop - An excellent social network, designed to teach students how to network appropriately. Also, this site is ideal for education as it is being monitored by parents and supported by such organizations such as iSafe.
  18. Edudemic - An online community, magazine, and social network that has lots of information on technology, education, and integration.
  19. K12 Advantage - A great online environment that has lots of resources for teachers such as forums and chats to bring them together.
  20. Collaborative Translation - Created by well renowned educator James O'Reilly, CT is a great place to learn and share innovative ideas.

David Kapuler is an educational consultant with more than 10 years of experience working in the K-12 environment. For more information about his work, contact him at dkapuler@gmail.com and read his blog at cyber-kap.blogspot.com
 
 
Convert Files

 http://www.online-convert.com/    Convert your data to another format
Interactive Sites:

Shmoop 

Shmoop will make you a better lover (of literature, history, life). See many sides to the argument. Find your writing groove. Understand how lit and history are relevant today. We want to show your brain a good time. Our mission: To make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age.

Voice Thread

Glogster

Museum Box

Improving Literacy With Digital Technology
 
http://www.literacynet.org/cnnsf/LearningResources  Provides simplified reading texts with interactive comprehension
  and vocabulary activities based on CNN and CBS news video.
 

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_ Page  Simple English Wikipedia is similar to the Wikipedia site, except it provides encyclopedia entries that are written in plain English.

 

http://www.learnersdictionary.com/   One of the best Learner's Dictionaries is the Merriam-Webster'sLearner's Dictionary.  In addition to the simplified definitions, It also gives users the opportunity to listen to the pronunciation of each word.

http://www.voycabulary.com/  Voycabulary is a reference tool that allows users to copy and paste a text on this web site, after
  which all of the words in the passage are converted into hyperlinks connecting them to a dictionary displaying their definitions. In addition, users can input a URL (web address), so the text on an entire web page is hyperlinked to a dictionary.
 

http://www.ipicthat.com/   Picture That Dictionary is a talking picture dictionary that is designed to meet the needs of people with dyslexia who are learning to read.  It offers a large collection of vocabulary items organized alphabetically and by theme. 

 

http://translate.google.com/Google  Translate is a translating application that could help someone who is literate in another language get the meaning of words.
 
Change Pictures to Drawings:

Picasa

Dumpr


PGIXR

Sketch my Photo

Photos and Slideshows
Divvyshot  A way to share pictures from events so that others may share.
Fotobabble  Make talking photos
Showzey  Collects all of your photos from Gmail, Facebook, Picasa, Flikr, etc. and lets you organize, make funny captions, share them, etc.
Zoto  Share and store photos
 
Deepzoompix  Upload your pics and Deepzoompix will create a custom slideshow
 
Photo  Take your photos and enhance them in many ways.  Can create cartoons of them too
 
Photo Peach this is a quick way to convert pictures to slideshows with music and text in order to tell a story.
 
Hazilmail  Take any picture and make it into a postcard that you can mail to anyone
 
Photie  Free and unlimited photo sharing
 
Collagr  Take you photos and make into a collage
 
kizoa  Make animated slideshows with your photos
 
zoom.it   is a neat application for displaying large images in blogs, wikis, and websites. Zoom.it creates a display of your images in a format that allows you to zoom in, zoom out, and scroll around a large image. To use Zoom.it your image does need to be hosted online somewhere (Flickr and Picasa work fine). Then to create your zoomable image just copy the url of your hosted image and paste it into Zoom.it. You can then share your image by giving people the direct link to it or embedding the image into your blog or website
 
Finding Podcasts of Interests To You
 
Podcasting Directory
 
Podcast Alley
 
Apple iTunes Podcasts
 
Soundlearning
 
Educational Podcasts
Karen's Mashups
 
PBS Podcasts
 
Cyber Ethics
Cyber Ethics for Teachers
 
Online Dictionaries With a Twist
Lexipedia:  Provides definitions of words with webbed diagrams of related words and their definitions
 
Wordia: Definitions of words through video
 
Snappy Words
 
Visuwords
 
Got Brainy: Comprised of images that demonstrate the meaning of a word
 
Voice Recording
Vocaroo
 
Videos
 
VuSafe  A place to store You Tube videos and videos from other places and then show them without ads or inappropriate substance.  Students can also access the videos directly from this site with a password-protected login.  Videos may be saved by bell, by tags, by subject, and more.
 
Pixilis   Share your videos online
 
Flixtime  Take videos, photos, and sounds and make amazing videos
 
Animoto Custom one-of-a-kind videos made from your pictures, images, videos and sounds
 
Magma  Video aggregator for exploring, discovering, collecting, and sharing videos from all over the world
 
Pixorial  Convert, preserve, and organize home video
 
Qwiki  turns searches into video explanations
 
Khanacademy  Tons of free mostly math and science videos.
 
Tubechop  allows you to take any part of a you tube video and chop it to share just that part with others.
 
Snipsnip.it  Also allows you to chop You tube videos and then embed them.
 
Video Sites Other Than You Tube
School Tube
 
Encyclomedia
 
Snag Learning
 
Teacher Tube
 
Teacher TV
 
Snag Films  Lots of National Geographic Films
 
How Stuff Works
 
Vimeo
 
CSpan Video Library
 
Hulu
 
Untamed Science
 
iCue  This site presented by NBC news features videos about history and current events.
 
PBS Video
 
History Channel and Discovery Channel
 
USGS Multimedia Gallery
 
WatchKnow
 
Explore
 
Website Enhancement
 
Butns  Allows you to add more destinations to each hyperlink on your website
 
Stiqr  Works on all Websites and allows you to decorate your web page by sticking and placing things straight from your browser
 
Flavorsme  Allows anyone to create an elegant website using content from all over the internet
 
Miscellaneous

A to Z Web Tools: G+H

Here are the web tools for G and H.

EduGlogster is a tool to create online visual posters that are called glogs. You can add text, images, music and video to your interactive glog.

GoAnimate is a tool where you can create your own cartoons/animations using a variety of tools.

GeoGreeting lets you create greeting cards using letters on google maps.

GeekChart lets you show where you share stuff online as a web widget.

Gickr is a tool to create animated pictures online.

Glypho is a great way to write and read novels. You can find many great ideas for novels or you can write your own to inspire others.

Grabbabeast is an interactive website where you can build your own beast using a variety of body parts.

GraffitiCreator allows you to create your graffiti and share it online.

Grapholite is a tool for designing professional-looking flowcharts, organizational charts, mind maps, venn charts etc. that can be used online and offline, in and out of browser.

Google Search Stories is a tool to create digital storytelling using google search.  You choose a video based on your search terms, add some music, then click create.

HideText allows you to convert text to image. This helps you to hide passwords, emails, personal messages, codes or any kind of information on a picture.

HearWho  converts your text to speech and saves it as an MP3 file so that you can listen to it on any device capable of playing MP3 files, such as ipods, PDAs, mobile phones, MP3 players.

HotPotatoes is a tool to create interactive exercises for your students.

HistoryPin is a tool to share small glimpses of the past with pictures and to build up the huge story of human history.

HearWho allows you to turn any text into speech so you can listen to it.

Hunch allows you to share what you like with other people and get recommendations based on your taste.

Huffduffer is a tool to create podcasts from audio links from the web and share it with others.
iPad Tips and Tricks
 
154 Ways to Use Moodle
 
Newspaper Map  is a new tool for locating and reading newspapers from locations all around the world. Newspaper Map claims to have geolocated 10,000 newspapers. To find a newspaper you can browse the map then click on a placemark to open the link within to read a newspaper. You can also locate newspapers by using the search boxes to locate a newspaper by title or location. Along with links to the newspapers, Newspapers Map provides links to translate the newspapers you find on the map.
 
Plagiarisma  Free site for checking for plagiarism
 
Dewey Digger
 
Kakomessenger Send singing telegrams from text that you write.
 
Prezi  Create large presentations for the Smartboard.  A different way of presenting your work.  Can even zoom in on pictures.
 

Readability  Add the Readibility Bookmarklet to your favorites. Then when you go to a website with text on it, you click on your Readability bookmarklet and it reformats the text in big print, wide-margins, and no ads—sort of like the page of a book.

 
TweetUp  Helps you find the world's best Tweeters
 
Topsite   Find the best sites on the web
 
Gapminder  Shows the world's trends
 
Giddi  This is a product rating engine that works by aggregating product details and reviews to find the best products
 
Freezly  Find free stuff on the internet
 
Babelwithme  Communicate with anyone, anywhere in up to 45 languages.  This is chat that translates your conversation as you type
 
Clipta  A video search engine
Wikirank  find out what's most popular on Wikipedia
 
Vodburner    Record and edit your Skype videos
 
Xtranormal  Converts text to movies
 
Spotify  Millions of songs for free
 
Hulu  Watch your favorite TV shows after they have aired
 
CastTV  Allows you to watch TV programs after they have aired
 
Kickfly  Lets you make compelling 3D virtual scenes personalized with your photos, friends, and music
 
Springo  Gives results to searches in a visual form
 
Freally  Give and get stuff for free
 
Preceden  Easy way to make a timeline
 
Fonts  Free fonts download
 
PaperRater  Free online grammar checker
Gapfinder  Software that shows trends in mortality rates, HIV, and others.
 
Polldaddy  Set up an online survey in minutes.
 
StudyStack  A place to find or create flashcards.
 
Timetoast  A place to make timelines.
 
 
Qwiki is a multimedia encyclopedia containing more than three million entries. Qwiki publishes narrated, illustrated, interactive reference entries.
 
Create a Story
Storyjumper  Create an online children's book
 
Storybird  Create a story with friends and family.  This is collaborative and soon will allow you to publish
 
Free eBooks for Reading Impaired
Bookshare
 
Accessible Book Collection
 
For Teachers
 
Thinkability   One of the most popular educational sites on the web.  Created By Verizon, Inc. with lesson plans and more.
 
Teachers.net  A wonderful site with lesson plans created for teachers by teachers.
 
Edhelper  A great collection of educational resources on all subjects.  This is a paid service.
 
Teachnology  100s of lesson plans can be found here as well as resources on holidays, events, etc.
 
Super Teacher Worksheets  A massive list of free printable worksheets for teachers on a number of subjects.
 
Education World  A great site for lesson plans and other materials for teachers.
 
TeachAde  A social network designed for educators with lots of free materials
 
Cybraryman  An excellent site wit multiple links and resources for educators and students
 
Free  Free lessons, videos, documents and more
 
Word Clouds
 
Wordle
 
Tagul
 
You Tube Safety and Editing
 

YouTube: Safety Mode - This is a great new feature which is simple to use. By clicking on the safety mode button at the bottom left of a YouTube screen, it filters inappropriate words from comments and doesn't allow inappropriate videos to be played.
 

ViewPure - Nice way to remove comments and ads from YouTube video and easy to use. Also, can install a bookmarklet into your browser for convenience.
 

Safe Share TV - Great site which generates a unique safe URL for viewing YouTube content.
 

Silentube - Installs a bookmarklet in your browser to watch all YouTube, Viddler, and Vimeo videos in peace.
 

Vusafe - An excellent way for an educator to create a safe environment for students to watch videos.
 

YouTube: Video Editor - Great tool that allows users to upload a video, then edit it by cropping, adding soundtrack, and creating a mash-up.
 

Tube Chop - Excellent site that is super easy to use for editing YouTube videos by entering a URL and selecting the start/stop times.
 

SnipSnip.It - Easy to use site by entering a URL and selecting the start and stop times (similar to Tube Chop).
 

VidScan - Great way to view YouTube videos in a timeline to figure out which sections you want to watch.
 

VideoANT - Fun way to watch a YouTube video and then annotate it as it plays along.
 
Other You Tube Helps
 

Kick YouTube - Easy way to view YouTube videos being blocked by a filter.
 

SaveVideo.Me - Great way to save any number of different video formats.
 
SaveYouTube - Excellent way to save YouTube videos
 
Self Help Sites
 
Woopid  An excellent site for 100s of free videos for help with technology.  Also can request tutorials for things not found on the site.
 
Internet 4 Classrooms  A nice site for tutorials for Mac and Windows users and lots of links for K-12 Classrooms
 
Explania  A fun site with animations similar to Brainpop.  Also users can create their own channel for videos and embed on web site or blog as well.
 
Web Tools
 

FontSelf is a tool to create fonts from your handwriting. You just draw your alphabet, upload it to fontself, review and save your fonts.It’s online, it’s instant and available only to you.
 

FillanyPDF is a site to upload your PDF form and link to it so other people can fill it out and sign it online.
 

FolfingStory is a group collaborative storytelling tool. You can create your own story or edit other stories and share them with the world.

FlipText is a tool that lets you write upside down.
 

FlockDraw is a web based drawing tool. You can collaborate with others to draw pictures using this tool.

 

Flashmeeting is a tool to meet people from anywhere around the world. You book a meeting time and assign a password. You share it with other that you want to collaborate.
 

Forestle is a green internet search engine that you can save 0.1 m² of rain forest free with your each search.
 
FluidSurveys is  a tool to create online surveys and polls.
 

Fix8 allows you to customize your on-screen virtual appearance in real time using avatar technology. In short, it’s a web cam technology that lets you animate yourself.
 
FormatPixel lets you create your online books, newsletters, magazines and portfolios. You can layout text, add your own images and interactivity and customize their appearance.
 

Fodey lets you generate animated pictures such as a newspaper clip, a talking squirrel, talking cats, ninja text or a talking flower.
 
FileDropper lets you to upload your file and share it with others on a link.
 
Top Wiki Sites
 
  1. Wikispaces - One of the most popular wiki creators that is free for education. Can also be made private (password protected).
  2. PBworks - Very similar to Wikispaces and free for a basic account. However, there are paid accounts as well that offer features for educators, such as more space and privacy controls.
  3. Wetpaint - Wikis in Education by Wetpaint is a great way to create a educational wiki and join a community of over 3000 members.
  4. Zoho Wiki - Very affordable site for creating not only wikis, but also a complete educational portal package.
  5. FreedomShare - Very easy-to-use site that can create a simple wiki that can be shared with others or made private. As with most wikis, comments can be turned on or off.
  6. Wikia - Fun site for creating a visual wiki.
  7. Wikispot - Wikispot teaches you how to create a free wiki and compares the features of a good wiki is versus a bad one.
  8. Wiki-Site - Free site for creating a wiki built on the same engine of Wikipedia.
  9. Weebly - Popular website creator for education that allows for blogging and a creation of a site that can be used as a wiki.
  10. Google Sites - Nice free way to create a project wiki through the use of awesome Google tools.
 

Top 10 Sites for Creating Outlines by David Kapuler

Outlines are used frequently in education to organize content and show relationships among items. While creating an outline is nothing new, there are websites dedicated to increasing this skill and taking it to the next level.
  1. Webspiration Classroom - From the creators of Inspiration, a wonderful graphic organizer that now allows for online collaboration. One of the best visual outline creators on the web.
  2. Quicklyst - A free user friendly site for creating outlines. Quicklist also integrates with a search engine and dictionary for enhanced note taking. Study queues can be made as well.
  3. Knowcase - Create collaborative outlines with this easy-to-use site that features a drag-n-drop interface.
  4. Thinklinkr - A real-time collaborative outline creator that has a nice built-in chat feature to engage in project development.
  5. Checkvist - A great collaborative online outliner that has an abundance of features such as: gmail/browser integration, mobility, and nice import/export features.
  6. CRLS Outline Maker - Takes users through a step-by-step process to create an outline.
  7. Read Write & Think Outline Maker - A very easy-to-use outline creator that teaches how to create outlines.
  8. Loose Stitch - A nice fun site for creating collaborative outlines that can the be exported to a blog or website.
  9. Wisemapping - More of a mindmapper than pure outline creator, but still a great visual site that teaches the basic concepts of creating an outline.
  10. Mindmeister - A fun site for real-time collaboration that is ideal for creating brainstorms, mind maps, and outlines.
David Kapuler is an educational consultant with more than 10 years of experience working in the K-12 environment. For more information about his work, contact him at dkapuler@gmail.com and read his blog at cyber-kap.blogspot.com

Digital Storytelling Tools by Özge Karaoğlu

Audio Tools:

LittleBirdTales is a tool that lets you capture your
voice; create an online book using artwork, pictures
and words. You can scan your pictures, upload them
from your computer or you can draw your pictures on
LittleBirdTales’ art pad. When you finish uploading your pictures, you write your
text and record your voice for  each one. When you finish, you can share it with
others via email or get an embed code to place it on your blog/website. This tool is
ad-free, user friendly and a great tool  to create digital stories with young
learners. It will certainly foster the creativity of our students.
LittleBirdTales is a tool that lets you capture your voice; create an online book using artwork, pictures and words. You can scan your pictures, upload them from your computer or you can draw your pictures on LittleBirdTales’ art pad. When you finish uploading your pictures, you write your text and record your voice for  each one. When you finish, you can share it with others via email or get an embed code to place it on your blog/website. This tool is ad-free, user friendly and a great tool  to create digital stories with young learners. It will certainly foster the creativity of our students.Children can illustrate their favourite stories and share them with others.

Vocaroo is a tool that lets you record your voice immediately and get a link for it. You don’t need to download any software or get an account  for  this tool. It’s the easiest tool for recording voice. Children can tell/retell a story by  recording their voices and sharing it with others.

Voxopop is a web-based audio tool. You can consider this tool as a message board that uses voice instead of text. You create a talk group and share it with others and let them record their voices on the same timeline.  Children can create a chain story by recording their voices on the same timeline.

Voicethread is a site to create collaborative and multimedia slides that you can navigate and leave comments for. Each slide can hold images, videos or documents such as PDF, Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents that can be commented by the people you choose to share your Voicethread.  Children can create a collaborative story by adding their own pictures or drawings and recording their voices.

Voki is a tool to create speaking avatars with your own voice. You choose your  avatar; you customize it by changing the hair, clothing, bling and the colour of the hair, eyes and skin. When you finish, you give your avatar a voice by recording your voice by phone or using a microphone. You can also upload an audio file or you  can  use text-to-speech feature to convert your text into speech choosing the gender and the accent. When you finish, you can get a link or the embed code to publish it on your blog or your website. Children can tell their stories by recording their voices or they can retell a traditional story with a different ending.

BubbleJoy is a tool to create and customize video greeting sites. You don’t need to download anything or get an account. All you need is a camera. You choose your message card and record yourself using your web cam and send it others via mail.Children can record themselves while telling/retelling a story that goes with the frame that they are using.

Fotobabble is  a tool to record your voice for pictures. You upload your picture, record your voice using your  microphone and publish it online. You can get a link or an embed code to place it on your blog/website.  Children can record their voices telling a short story or a poem about a picture or they can listen a fotobabble story and talk/write about their favourite part.

Jing is a tool to take a picture or make a video of what you see on your computer screen and share it online instantly via mail, web or by saving it on your desktop. Children can record their voices for the presentations that they have prepared or they can get a picture, talk about it and create a story for this picture.

Picture Tools

Bookr is a tool to create and share your photo book using Flickr pictures. You can write tags to find the pictures from Flickr photos or you can search your name on Flickr to find your own photos. When you find them, you drag and drop the picture on the book, write your text for that picture and share it with others via mail or you can place your online book on your blog or website. Teachers can create a Bookr and ask the children to add text on it. Children can answer questions, complete the sentences or answer true/false questions according to the Bookr they have seen.

Zooburst is a tool to create 3D popup book. When you start building your book, you can choose any angle and rotate the book. You can make the items click-able and let the readers read more about them. You can place speech bubbles on the  characters that pop up when it is clicked and make them talk with each other. Children can retell a story, book reports or biographies.

Animoto is a tool to create videos from your images and videos.  It produces a video from your pictures, video clips and music automatically using transitions and text. When you finish, Animoto does the rest by putting all the information together and creates your video in minutes. Children take their own pictures and create their own story or they can watch an Animoto video and write a story about it.

Mixbook is a collaborative tool to create customizable photo books, cards and calendars online.You choose your theme and start adding your pictures. You can move  and change the pictures move, rotate, crop, zoom into your photos. There are different fonts and styles to add your text to it. You can also choose your templates, backgrounds, stickers and you can add pages to your Mixbook.  Children can create a newsletter or a newspaper or they can publish their drawings and create a story using them.

ScrapBlog is a great way to share photos and videos on a creative outlet and create your own digital stories. You choose from colourful and cute backgrounds,  add speech bubbles and frames. You can delete or edit anything you want on your scrapblog. You can add your pictures, text or videos and you can create as many pages as you like. Children can illustrate a story that they have written or they can create a scrapblog for their favourite books.

PhotoPeach is a tool that lets you make slideshows using your pictures, adding captions and music. When you finish your slideshow, you can add a quiz to it. You can also leave comments to the slideshow.  Children can create their slideshows telling a story and add a quiz at the end for their friends to answer.