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You can use this tool for digital storytelling. The site has a Mixbook for Educators Program which offers: free collaborative classroom tools for creating and sharing personalized Mixbooks, secure online environment for students and teachers to share and edit privately, and an education discount on printed products - (up to 40% off printed Mixbooks for your classroom.) Students can use this to create their own stories or younger elementary classrooms could use it to collaborate and create a class book.

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PollDaddy allows you to create your own poll or survey on any topic for free. You can then add your creation to your web site, blog, or social networking page. You can use them for fun or as an educational tool. Teachers can create polls or surveys for their students to answer, regarding current subject matter or students can use their math skills to create their own poll/survey. They can create polls and surverys related to specific objectives and they can incorporate their technology skills by adding their poll/survey to a web page, blog, powerpoint, or other media forms.

Students of all levels would be able to navigate this tool. This could easily be used as whole group or individual instruction!

Create flow-charts, diagrams, even floor plans! This tool makes it very easy to create great looking diagrams. In the classroom the students could design K-W-L charts and all types of graphic organizers. This could be added to a blog and look really professional. This tool could be used in a whole group or individual manner! Only negative is you can only have a free 30 day trial and then you have to pay a fee!

Create flowcharts, diagrams, or even floor plans! This could be great for creating graphic organizers or for my students to create and label floor plans when we discuss home vocabulary.

Free software to create and share your book digitally through this website. You can also purchase the book you created or sell it on their site. There is also a large library of other people's created books.

This collaborative video creating site offers many possibilities! Students could use the site to create videos for a variety of purposes and projects. Teachers and schools could use the site to create videos content knowledge, professional development, or parent information. The site offers tutorials and education specific solutions.

Blogger is a free site for blogging in just three easy steps: create an account, name the blog, and choose a template. It is one of the most popular blog creation sites. Choose a discussion topic and have students blog about it.

This web site helps you easily create a free online blog. You can use it showcase information about your classroom, such as photos, email links, student work, assignments/homework, and much more. Students can also create their own blog, to showcase their work, writing, what they've learned and technology experience.

This site captures history in numerous ways, videos, posters, photographs, historical documents, and more. What they are calling "digital vaults." However, this site goes much further than that... You can create your own posters or movies and many more creative historical items. They provide numerous photos, videos, and other things needed to create these items. You can also upload your own from your computer. There are lesson plans provided for educators using these resources.

ToonDoo allows you to create your own comic strip with speech bubbles. You can also upload your own picture and be the character in a comic strip. This could be used for story telling, a culminating activity for a research project, or creating a book trailer.

Kid friendly on line tool for creating graphs of all kinds. It includes a tutorial, tools, graphing, and various ways to understand graphing in a kid friendly format

This site allows you to easily create Bar, Line, Area, Pie, and XY graphs. When completed the graphs can then either be printed or saved. This site would work much better than excel for many simple student graphs, because of the complexities that excel sometimes leads to.

When I found this website I was so excited! This website makes creating a graph SUPER easy! Whether you teach Math or Science, this is a great website to use for graphing. The students are still responsible to collecting the data and knowing where to put the information. All they have to do is choose the type of graph they want, type in the data, and then the graph is created!

This site enables you to create a speaking avatar. It can be used to teach characterization or for presenting information in which students need to use oral language. The avatar can speak from recording your voice over a phone or typing in text.

A great way to give a daily message to the students. Can have the students record lunch menu for the class to hear each morning.

Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages. I personally have two of them on my teacher website. Sometimes you have to spell phonetically in order to get the Avatar to pronounce things correctly, but other than that, it is a blast creating them.

Blogging for teachers and students made easy. Edublogs allows you to easily create and manage student blogs. It includes several useful features and customizable themes, plus, it is ready made for podcasting, videos, photos and more. Edublogs also gives great tips on how to use blogs to revolutionize the way you teach and how your students learn.

Edublogs is an easy to use blogging program created specifically for teachers and students. You can manage your students involvement and participation at any time. I have created an eudcation blog, but in a math classroom, it doesn't get used very often. I do know teachers who use a blog consistently.

Podomatic allows users to find, create, and share podcasts. Students, teachers, and schools could create a podcasts for a variety of purposes that will be part of a free customizable podcast page. Audience statistics are available.

This site allows you to create an online wiki for free. Although it does cost to upgrade, it is a popular and easy-to-use site. This site would be a great tool to use for classroom collaboration.

Wikispaces is a wiki hosting service. They allow educators to create an ad-free at no cost. We use wikispaces in the classroom to collaborate on group projects and share the projects we have created in the classroom.

Create flipbook style animation. 100 frames unregistered, more registered. Also a gallery of previously created work. Check for content.

Create your own travel journal for free! This would be great for geography lessons. It would also be good for using with literature that takes place in real locations. Teachers could also explore already created journals for use with classes.

zWebquest is a web-based software for creating WebQuests in a short time. When you use zWebquest, you will not need any of writing HTML code or using any web editor software. zWebquest creates all the necessary files and puts them on the server automatically. Hosting is FREE!

Glogster lets you create a glog or an "interactive poster," that is, in effect, a personal Web page complete with embedded media links, sound, and video capabilities. Students can work with Glogster individually or as a group to create presentations, share information, and interact with their peers. Glogster now provides master-accounts for teachers integrating all student accounts. This is a very cool classroom tool.

Glogster is a site that allows you to mix movies, pictures, graphics and words to create a collage for others to view. This site is also perfect for your WIKIs. This link takes you to the educator's version of glogster. This site has educator's master virtual classrooms for using all the tools offered on this website.

Smilebox is a fun web site where you can upload your digital photos to create slideshows, ecards, photoalbums, and postcards. You can also add music to them. Then you can email your creations or add them to a blog. It can be used for personal use or you can have students create photo albums or slideshows relating to a particular area of study, to show what they have learned or to teach a concept to others.

faceinhole.com is a fun site with famous pictures of celebrities, movie scenes, music album covers, magazine covers, and more. Each picture has a hole where a face belongs. You can upload a digital photo of yourself and crop it to fit in the hole you chose. You can also post your creation to a blog. These can be done for fun or you can have students create one and tie it into subject matter. For example, they could create a picture of themselves and then use that picture and setting to write a story, using the particular writing elements in your classroom.

Create surveys for your students to take. Surveys could be adminstered to see students opinions or thoughts. They could also be adminstered as an assessment tool after completing a unit. This tool is free and very easy to use.

Our administration uses this all the time. It is quick and easy. You can create all types of information. It is easy to compile results also.

This seems like a neat site that could have all kinds of uses.