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Great place to get photos that are free to use or share.

Great place to get photos that are free to use or share.

Flickr offers students and teachers a great way to share photos or for educational purposes such as projects or research.

Create movies using your photos or videos. Add your story with text or audo.

HistoryPin is a focused collaboration site for including your own photos as part of the dialogue about larger historical events and topics.

turns your Flickr photos into visually stimulating presentations. Choose one of the 10 slideshows templates available and enjoy!

Blabberize is a fun 2.0 tool that allows you to record your voice with a static photo. Besides, they use a llama on their home page to demonstrate how it's used. What's not to love about that?

I could see a student using this to create an audio story for a classroom exercise. It's pretty ridiculous, but I imagine that's the appeal of it. It looks so simple that it would be a shame to not try it out! And I'm not aware of anything like it, except for JibJab, but that's much more limited in what you can do with it. I just am surprised that the Llama's audio is so poor...

Create interactive infographics & online charts. Add photos, video and more to share or embed on your website or blog.

Store documents in Dropbox and share them with colleagues.  They can edit the documents and save them in Dropbox and it will update on everyone's copy.  

Dropbox has been a life saver for me with my 8th grade science kids. We do a weather photo project and they must digitally send it to me. Well, the photo projects are usually too large for email so Dropbox to the rescue. This product is one that both teacher and students can use. Perfect for collaboration as others can edit what you share with them. A similar product would be Google Drive.

A convenient way to blog, search blogs of interest and stay connected with your PLN. Similar to Facebook. Offers great tutorials.

Tumblr is a photo blog that allows students to tell a story through pictures. It is like instagram but has different properties.

TeacherTube is similar to YouTube, except the videos on here are meant to be shared with students, where on YouTube that isn't always the case.  There are videos, photos, and even groups to join.

This site allows people to collaborate and create stickies to help share and remember ideas.

This would be great for formative assessment. You create a wall on which students can post "sticky notes" to add to discussion, answer a question, ask questions, etc.