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The official web site for the Smithsonian Institution. This is a wonderful site to use to research before presenting a lesson, or providing for the students when doing a research.

This site is a kid-safe search engine that is powered by google. It combines the google safe search with their own restricted elements. It also allows teachers to remove sites if desired. Great for elementary research projects.

This site allows teachers, students, or others to create presentations that can include multiple websites, photos, ect. The Flowgram also allows you to narrate throught your project to assist students or give them more information. This would be a great tool for assisting students in research project or a great tool for students to use when giving a presentation.

This site has lots of research, hints and FAQ's about block scheduling. It would be helpful for planning a schedule change, finding staff development ideas, or improving teaching methods.

WePapers helps students and others share and expand their knowledge for free. You can find and download papers and documents you need in a matter of seconds, discuss them with others, or just mess around. WePapers is where you find the kind of quality information you wouldn't find anywhere else on the web, the kind of papers you'd have to dig for in dusty library basements and still not find what you're looking for. WePapers is one big study group! Universities are even using it for class-notes and articles. I could see using this in a classroom situation for research papers and the such. Students would have the opportunity to connect with others around the world, get help, and feedback from others just like them.

This site let's you download, share and organize information. Sign up is free and if have a facebook account you do not have to sign up.

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.

This is a great tool for holding group conversations. It is a "collaborative, multimedia slideshow." You can add images, documents and videos. The creator can leave comments and doodle on top of the media as they comment. The user can then share their voicethread with others. Those who view the voice thread can add comments too. There are numerous ways to use this tool in the classroom!

Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.

A VoiceThread is a free collaborative multimedia slideshow that can contain images, documents, and videos. Viewers can leave comments via voice, text, audio file, or video. There are many ways to use this site: post a picture and have students record their thoughts; create a digital story with images, text, and voice; upload pictures of American Revolutionary heroes and have students record their research.

This is for anyone who spends anytime working on their family tree. It is very easy to use and you are able to add pictures. This would work great for a family tree project in class. It also has places to create timelines, which would be a great social studies project.

great for family tree project in Spanish class

With Geni, you can build your family tree, invite relatives to collaborate, preserve your family history, discover new relatives, share family photos and videos, and remember birthdays and anniversaries. Geni is private and secure. Only the people in your family can see your tree. I think this would be a wonderful tool to help teach research and organizational skills in a very secure and controlled environment.

This site lets you collect, manage and cite your resources. It has flexible notetaking with autosave. It also runs right from your browser.

Research or track the appearance of an image online

MLA writing format site

I am a little iffy about this site being interactive enough to be considered 2.0, but if you are teaching writing to older students, it is pretty nice. There are bibliography makers and tutorials so... I hope it is considered a 2.0 Web site :-)

Create Rich Internet Activities for foreign language students, including audio dropboxes, conversation practice, and mashups quickly and easily.

Interactive games and learning activities. This would be excellent to use when doing a Native American unit. Another excellent site is www.cherokee.org.

This site allows the user to create online surveys free of charge. Similar to survey monkey, but does not limit the number or questions being asked or the limit the number of responses. This could be used in schools for faculty or student surveys or even in the classroom for students to get data for a statistics project.

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.