Integrating Technology into Literacy Instruction

This website is a collaborative brainstorming tool that is used in real time. There is a blank work board where users type ideas onto "sticky notes" which are placed anywhere on the board. There are also tools that allow you to group ideas together by position and color.

Capture your child's imagination, celebrate your family stories, or express your own creative side by turning your Storybird into a book you'd be proud to display on any shelf or coffee table.

Bubblr is an interactive writing tool where students use Flickr's public collection of photographs to create a "comic strip". It's a simple and fast way for students to make their writing come alive and look professional. Some uses may be for poetry, short stories, and summaries. End products may be embedded into blogs or wikis.

Welcome to Tagxedo, word cloud with styles turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.

Lightning Bug is THE writing companion for young authors. Helping you to write a story from beginning to THE END.

Choose 5 books that have made you who you are. Share them. You Are What You Read allows people to create their own "Bookprint", consisting of books that have changed their lives. Once that's done, you're able to share your favorites with people that you know, or anyone from around the world.

To download your newspaper, use the link at the bottom of the generated image. You can use the images as you wish ie. put them on your own website or blog. Please note, that direct linking to the newspaper clippings doesn't work; the images are deleted from the server after a short time span.

Best mixes on planet Earth. DJs, radio, performing artists, educators, and more. Get a free podcast, share your faves. Only on PodOmatic.

Here's a pdf on how to create a podcast: http://fcit.usf.edu/laptop/pdf/podomaticnew.pdf

What is Dipity? Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Our mission is to organize the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps.

This simple site allows users to create their own fractured fairy tales.

If you are ever in need for some inspiration, this site is sure to get you thinking. With a mixture of music and images, you can choose preset moods or fine-tune the mood yourself. What you get is a continuous "film" where you can save the images you see to a mood board that can be referred to later. Good for all ages.

Zoho offers a suite of online web applications geared towards increasing your productivity and offering easy collaboration. Zoho's online office tools include a word processor, spreadsheet application, presentation tool, hosted wiki, notebook, CRM, Database software etc