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Add written text, choose an animated character, and xtranormal creates a movie! Great for creative writing lessons in the classroom. If students know that their 'writing' will be used to create a movie, they will be more cautious about their editing, wording, etc. Plus, they get to 'watch' something they created!

Have cell phone? Will VOTE! Sites such as this one eliminate the need for personal voting devices during lectures. The only requirement is that students each have a cell phone, but most high school students do. Regular texting charges apply, so the 'unlimited' plan is certainly best - it WILL come to this though!

A VoiceThread is a tool for having conversation around media. A powerful new way to talk about and share your images, documents, and videos. Viewers can leave comments via voice, text, audio file, or video. Imagine, an entire group discussion on ONE page; digital storytelling made simple! It is free and has an education side to it with a secure network for K-12 students and teachers to collaborate and share ideas with ANYWHERE in the world!

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. Larger words indicate the those used more frequently in the text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

This is a simple but clever tool that will take words or passages and randomly create a poster. This would be a good thing to generate word walls for vocabulary or even to do a passage that one might use to emphasize a theme or style.

This is just the first step in making education and technology more engaging for educators and students! Glogster is also a perfect web 2.0 tool for your learning and your WIKIs. Glogster provides master-accounts for teachers integrating all student accounts, which are kept private! Mix graphics, photos, videos, music and text into slick Glogs.

Great for students and teachers. You can communicate with other classes in the same grade. The teacher is the manager of the student blogs for it is very safe. There is also advance privacy available. The students can upload text, photos, and videos. Easy and fun!

Teachers can host and manage blogs for your students, use a Class Homepage to communicate with students, review capabilities of entries, and it offers advanced privacy. Students get fully featured blogs to upload text, photos, or insert videos, fun learning experience, customizable visibility and comment settings, and no e-mail address required.

Free video and text lesson on all math subjects and all grades, Worksheets, Tables and Charts, Glossary, Formulas, Symbols

Edweek.org is a teacher magazine giving educators access to ongoing trends and issues in education. This site provides detailed text of notable events in each state. The articles are interesting and give readers ideas to use in their classroom.

Glogster EDU is a creative way to express knowledge and skills in the classroom and beyond. Educators and students use technology to create an online multimedia posters (GLOG) using text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more.

Google can be used in so many ways. Google has images, allows you to create and share documents as well as other create your own blogs, and maps. You can also translate, turn a voice message into a text message and many more ideas.