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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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This would be a great tool for teachers/students to use to organize photos and videos for classroom projects. These can be shared on the web or securely and privately. Notes, comments, and tags can be added to each photo and video by the teacher and all the classmates.

Flickr allows you to share your photos with anyone. This could be helpful in the classroom to share class photos with all of the families.

This website takes regular photos and turns them into a piece of art. A normal photograph could be turned into an oil painting, a modern design (Andy Warhol, etc.), or you can even have a photo put on canvas. This isn't free, but it would be great to use for a photography club. It could also be used as an art lesson. A class could have a photo contest and the winner could get the photo made onto a canvas. The possibilities are endless. A great website (and tool) to know about!

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.

Great for introducing students to social networking in a safe environment.

Create Your Own Social Network for Anything\n\nThis site allows you to create a social network for any topic. It is very simple. \nStep1 Name Your Social Network. Here you identify what your group is about.\nStep 2 Pick a web address for you group. \nStep 3 Sign up for a Ning account\nStep 4 Agree to their Terms of Service\n\nThis would be a great site for having an online book club or library blog for students. You can post videos, photos and pages. Students could have a poetry page or short story page where they are writing for a real audience.\n\nThere is already a TeacherLibrarianNing for teachers and librarians to post events, photos, and a forum for discussion. This would be great to network with other librarians and see what is going on in our profession.\nhttp://teacherlibrarian.ning.com/\n

Picnik makes your photos unique with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart's content and get creative with effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. The regular service is free or you could upgrade for a fee. This could be a great tool for teaching a digital camera lesson. It is important to teach students about backing up work and pictures are no exception!

Tried to find the easy free photo editor. This was not to bad.

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.

Internet4Classrooms is a website designed to assist teachers in using the Internet more effectively. The site contains information about blogs, Wiki, podcasting, photo and video management, social bookmarking, RSS resources and Web 2.0 tools.

Great Free Blogging website. Conect teachers, studetns and administrators. no email address required for students. Can even get a Teacher Website.

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.

This is a great site if you are a pet lover like me! This site is a good tool for people wanting to find a safe, reliable home for their pet or for people wanting to find a certain type of pet. You can search for any type of pet, even insects!! You can search by country, location, age, etc. It makes it very easy to find any pet you may be wanting, without wanting to contribute to puppy mills or other breeders. It is also great for people wanting to find a good home for a pet for people, for whatever the reason, can no longer care for it. There are photos to browse through as well. It is a great tool for keeping pets in good, loving homes.

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.

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 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.

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.

Create and share your own photo book by using flicker images. It's as easy as searching, adding text, and publishing. Check it out!

Found many useful web 2.0 connections here.

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.

This could be a great way for students to share pictures or tell a story.