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This is a kid-friendly site that allows students to publish their own podcasts concerning subjects that matter to them. Each podcast is rated in a way that is similar to the rating system used for video games This is to ensure the age-appropriateness of each podcast. This would be a great tool to use in the classroom for a variety of projects. Students could share their thoughts on classroom topics, current events, or book reviews.

Kid-cast.com is a website for that allows kids to publish their own Podcasts to share with other kids. The website is designed to be kid safe.

Tikatok is where kids channel their imagination into stories - and publish those stories into books for you to share and treasure with friends and family. Tikatok also has a separate education site. Storytelling comes alive here! First, Tikatok has developed the StorySparks system, a database of hundreds of interactive story prompts that help a child get started in the writing process and get help when they need it. StorySparks help activate a child's natural motivation. Kids pick the topic, choose character names and genders, and always have the ability to modify or ignore any part of the prompt. Second, Tikatok connects kids to a community of passionate storytellers like themselves, but in a safe and parent-moderated environment. Here they can share their books with other kids, collaborate with their friends, get writing advice, and communicate their love of reading and writing in book clubs. Tikatok makes digital storytelling the social activity that kids are familiar with from the playground. Finally, Tikatok can turn a child's stories into real printed books. The physical books, just like the ones on the shelves at the bookstore, reinforce the child's perception that their contributions are valued by their parents and peers. They help create a sense of pride, and of confidence in one's writing abilities, and drive the child to continue writing and creating. The passion for reading and writing that children develop on Tikatok will serve them well as they face more and more advanced educational challenges at school.

Tikatok is a great site that allows the user to create and publish hardback or paperback books. The site is free and the printed books cost about $20.00. This site encourages students to use their creativity to write a story, draw illustrations and more!

This website is another site that allows children to author and illustrate a book online. The books can then be purchased in hardback, paperback, or PDF format. I really think that this site would appeal to students who like to use technology. It's an alternative to the paper and pencil writing that some students really seem to fear and avoid.

This site provides teachers with suggestions on how to integrate video production into the curriculum. It explores the world of media literacy. This would be a great tool to use with struggling readers needing that extra motivation. After students have completed the task there is even a place where kids can get advice from other kids.

This tool allows the user to download a book to your IPod for students or kids to listen to. This would be great for the reluntant readers or ones who struggle with reading. This site would be a great addition to the classroom.

AudibleKids allows you to purchase an audible version of books. They are fairly expense but would be worth the money if it was a download you knew you would use repeatedly. This could be especially helpful when making adaptations and modifications for lower level readers. The other thing I really liked is that you can listen to a short samples for free.

I use this to buy audio books for both personal and school use. If you buy a lot of audio books, they have membership packages which can allow you to buy books for about $7. That's a great price!

Kids create videos with this site.

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.

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!

Created by the National Gallery of Art, this interactive site allows students of all ages to create online art using many different styles and mediums.

cartoon maker

This site is really fun, and I think it would work for ALL ages:-) When I use it is when the kids are learning about a plot graph. We will read a short story that has clear elements (exposition, complications, etc), then the kids will have to change the story into their own words, showing me in each cartoon slide, that they understand what those elements are.

Lets you take pictures (your own or others) and makes them talk.

This is a bit like an avatar but it is more funny. Sometimes (If I can get lab time) I will let my kids do an "oral presentation" by using blaberize. There are lots of rules of course, but it is fun seeing them up on the smart board and the kids can get a little goofy with it.

Fatburgr provides nutrition information for many of your favorite restaurants. Calories, fat grams, carbs, and fiber are all listed for menu items from restaurants such as Schlotzsky's, Chili's, McDonald's, Panera Bread, Krispy Kreme, and many more. With the focus on childhood obesity, this is a great site for kids (and adults) to compare menu items and learn how to make better choices when eating out. This site could be a fun resource for a health, or maybe even a math, activity.

Live chat and blogging

This one seems like it could be a double edged sword, but MAY be appropriate for Jr.'s and Sr.'s. I am thinking especially for the kids who are in vocational classes. It would be a good way to reach out to communities of people that are already in the field. They could talk to others who are out there right now, doing what they are thinking that they want to do.

Step by step help with grammar

This site is great for kids who struggle with sentence diagram concepts. They can work at their own pace and check their answers.

This web 2.0 tools allows a person to design their own comic strip. It can be used for language arts. This would also be a great tool for incorporating language arts into other areas of curriculum. This could be something that a student could get on by his self and work on individually. It could then be shared by the entire class by viewing it on the SmartBoard.

This site allows you to preview books. It is free to register. You can search by author, illustrator, subject, or genre. You can also browse new and highly rated books. This site would be great for librarians or teachers wanting to check out book before buying them!

This website was designed by the United States of Agriculture. This particular activity teaches the importance of getting a variety of food from the food pyramid and the serving size of such in a rocket ship format. Students can reach Planet Power by fueling their rocket with food and physical activity. "Fuel" tanks for each food group help students keep track of how their choices fit into MyPyramid. Students will understand the food pyramid better and have fun while learning about it!

This website offers students the opportunity to practice their math facts. There is addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills to practice. The site is designed for first through fifth graders. I think that students would like the site because they could create their own character and challenge other players. Also, I've had parents ask for math sites that they could use at home with their kids. I would probably recommend this site.