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Shwup is a site that can be used for making collaborative slide shows.

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Splashup looks like photoshop and is agreat way to edit photos and manipulate layers and effects. It allows you to share with picasa, flickr, facebook

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Jay Cut is a site similar to iMovie that allows users to edit or create a video. FREE

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Zooburst is a digital storytelling site. Users can make a 3-D pop-up book.

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Brings words to life through the use of video. FREE

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I have shared this before but I am sharing again because I think it would be a good one to share with students.

This site links to the American Museum of Natural History. There are a number of topics to select and then learn about. It looks very engaging.

Blooming Peacock ilearn technology

This free site provides the user with the tool needed to create a live online binder around a specific topic. What a cool way to organize content, information, articles, recipes, professional development training materials, etc. Lots of home and school uses for this tool.

This is a very cool tool.

This is a livebinder all about wordle. Very helpful for anyone who wants to know more about wordle and see an cool example of how a livebinder can be used to provide professional information for educators.

Great example of a livebinder organized to teach about wordle. The tutorial tab is a great place to start to see how useful Wordle can be in the classroom.

Studyblue is a free tool that allows users to create flashcards, quizzes, and lecture notes and share them with others. Teachers can set up a "class" and give students a code, and everyone with the code can create collaborative study materials. There are mobile phone apps that the students can use to take their flashcards and notes anywhere. They can access their files offline. StudyBlue also sends helpful test and study reminders via email and text message.

I learned about this tool from an article in Learning & Leading with Technology, August 2011. An educator shared how her students use it.

Develop your students brain with the variety of games provided on this Fit Brain Games site.

Novel Games provides a large list of fun, simple, educational games. The list of games includes numerous math and word games. All of the games are free and are available in multiple formats. All of the games on Novel Games are easily embedded into your class blog or website.

"Everybody learns better when they are having fun! Here at Quiz-Tree.com you will find educational games and quizzes on many subjects, including Math, Reading, Spanish, Geography, SAT, Spelling, Music and more. All"

Ghost Blasters is designed to help students learn to multiply and divide quickly in their heads. To play Ghost Blasters select a multiple of which each "bad" ghost will have a value that is a multiple of that which you chose. Students then use their mouse to blast every "bad" ghost. For example, if I select "5" at the beginning then all bad ghosts will display a multiple of 5. I then have to blast all of the bad ghosts to gain points, but if I blast a "good" ghost (a ghost that does not have a multiple of 5) I lose points.

Check out this link for screencasting options.

What 2 Learn is a website offering more than two thousand educational games for middle school and high school age students. What makes What 2 Learn particularly useful though is the capacity for teachers to create accounts in which they can monitor their students' scores. Teachers can create custom games using twelve different templates provided by What 2 Learn. What 2 Learn is a European based website so some of the games, particularly the math games where money is expressed as Euros and Pounds, may not be appropriate for US students. Aside from that most games are appropriate for use with US students.

Interesting Ways includes ideas for using Google Tools, including forms, docs, earth, searching, and maps. It also includes information on ipads in the classroom, IWB, Ipod touch, class blog posts, mobile phones, audio, video camera, QR codes, reading, creative commons, writing, internet safety gaming, wordle, twitter, voicethread, prezi, moodle search engines, wallwisher and wikis.