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Takes text and lays it out in spiral, valentine, rebus, etc. Good for language arts visuals as Web 2.0 tool.

Open Source Drawing Software for Children; more digital storytelling tools including sound effects and nice storyline for tutorial.

A cool way to actually use student's cell phones as a tool in the classroom.

Virtual Classroom Management is a collection of free online tools gathered by the Technology Resource Teachers of Frederick County, Maryland. Tools include timers, noise monitors, point trackers, random name generators, charts, and more. Online Stopwatch includes analog and digital timers as well as an egg timer, stopwatch (count up or down), talking clock, metronome, chess clock, an interval timer, and split lap timer.

Unfortunately this site is only free for 14 day trial. The minimum price is $9.00/month. The cool about this site is that you can create animation. It is an animation site to create movie, stories. It is simple to use by dragging the cartoon from the tool box. this can be used with students to create digital stories.

Create animated videos and presentations in the classroom. This is great for digital storytelling.

PowToon is an online business presentation software tool that allows you to create free, cool, and awesome animated video explainers as an alternative to using powerpoint

"Grab a cup of java, pull up a chair, and check out some of our favorite 21st century tools--the best teacher sites on the web!"

""i Tell a Story" allows children to narrate and record their stories. But as a complete audio recording and editing tool, there are countless other uses, such as having adults record stories and messages for the little ones in their lives to listen to. Add funny sounds and music if you want, plus a picture, title, and your name, and send your audio book"

Great site to see Flash projects and interactive finished pieces.