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Tikatok is a great site that allows children to turn their ideas into real, hardcover books. With this application, children (with the help of their parents) can post stories online for friends and others to read, and even print the tale for their bookshelf at home. Pros: Creat stories from scratch or get some help from the site, stories are stored on the site, read and comment on posted stories, upload/scan in pictures/illustrations Cons: n/a

This may be helpful for educators to create a community for a class to create a project while connecting with other screenwriters around the world. I can see this being helpful for English or language teachers.

What is Forvo? Forvo is the place where you´ll find words pronounced in their original languages. Ever wondered how a word is pronounced? Ask for that word or name, and another user will pronounce it for you. You can also help others recording your pronunciations in your own language.

This would be great for creating Biographies for historic figures or story characters

What a great site to use for reading novels, prewriting a narrative writing piece or outlining history. I think students would enjoy this and it would really help to organize their ideas.

You want to model good behavior with you students, and this may be a good way to quote part of a web page by using an image map of that particular page. It may be helpful to use with education and presenations in your class.

Walletproof is designed to help you track what you spend you're money on, regardless of how your bank accounts are structured. Simply enter your monthly income in "Recurring income" and your rent, water and heating bills etc. in "Recurring expenses" and your day to day expenses in "This month's expenses". You will know how much you have left to spend, but it is up to you to know where that money is kept, be it in a current account, savings account or under your pillow.

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Helping People to Keep their Contacts via their Business Cards\nNuebbo is an online card holder and contacts manager aimed to be the natural evolution of the business card on the web 2.0 environment. Easy, safe and free, Nuebbo provides you with a place where you can store and keep for future reference all your cards and contacts.

This is a free site that allows users to preview picture books in their entirety. Users can rate and review books, create an online bookcase, and purchase books for their classrooms. A great way to view books without having to go to the library.

Bring children's books to life with interactive technology.

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This website could be used in a geometry class, or an art class. This could be one activity that you could easily relate to geometry content, perhaps replacing the age-old project of stellated dodecahedrons.

PicArtia is an online application that gives you the opportunity to create your own photo mosaics for free. You can use your own photos or download others from the web. PicArtia is free to use, however you can order high quality versions as well. HIgh quality prints start at $3. Cons: Still in the works, will soon have the opportunity to create photo mosaics out of your own photos in Flickr/PhotoBucket or your hard drive, but not yet