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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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Myplick is a free service that lets you share, embed and discover presentations and slide shows online. You can upload your presentation documents in a variety of formats such as powerpoint, pdf, etc. If you want to add narration or sound effect to your presentation, you can upload an audio file and have the option to synchronize the audio with your slides. After you create a presentation you will have the choice to either publicly share with everyone or only share it within a private group. You can also find out how users are viewing your plick, for example, how much time people stayed on each slide. This would be a good way for students to share their presentations with others.

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.

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.

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.

This is a fun online timeline creator, which can be shared with others online. A valid email is needed to create a timeline, but that could be set up by the teacher or LMS. It's very visual in learning about time.

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 would be a good place to create presentations to download and save. It requires subscriptions to create presentations to share online.

Subscription required if presentation is to be shared online.

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

This is a free private journal on the web. How much fun would that be to use the web to keep track of your daily journal entries at school? These entries can be shared with others ONLY when you allow them to be. Images can be added on entries as well. Those who keep a journal are known to have a better "working memory." Keeping a journal also improves the writing process and aids in creativity. No more pen and pencil for journals after today!

Lookybook is a wonderful website that allows the user to read through a variety of picture books. After reading a book, the site also offers the opportunity to purchase the book through several different companies. The user can also create a "bookshelf" of favorite books to share with other users. This site could be used to do an author or illustrator study and is very helpful when deciding to read or purchase a book.

This site takes uploaded digital pictures and places them into a video set to music of your choosing. This is a fabulous tool to use in the classroom for various presentations. Everything from book reports to science presentations to classroom exhibitions can be shared using this site. The sky truly is the limit.

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 is an awesome site for book lovers! It allows you to browse through popular books, which I love to do, just to see what people are reading for an idea of what to read next. Then you can put books that you own on your "shelf". You can then have friends and share actual books with each other, if you live nearby. It is also a great place to read ratings on books. It then links you to Amazon and other libraries where you could check our or buy the books! You can also put your "bookshelf" on a blog to show off your interests to all your friends.

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 tool allows the user to create powerpoint presentations and share them on the internet. Once the presentations were created, they could be accessed from anywhere. This could be easily used in the classroom.

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.

Scratch is a programming language that allows students (ages 8 and up) to create interactive stories, animations, and games online. These creations can be shared on the web. This would be great to use in the classroom for the development of 21st Century skills. Students learn math skills, creative thinking, reasoning, and how to work with others.

Students can create and share interactive stories, art projects, games,etc...

Bubbl.us is a brainstorming tool online. You can use it to create colorful mind maps online, share and work with friends, embed your mind map in your blog or website , email and print your mind map, and save your mind map as an image. It is free. It would be a good tool for students to use.And it's FREE!

Bubbl.us is a simple, free web application used to create concept maps. The website can be shared in blogs and websites.

Create mindmaps together as a class, or independently. Great for people like me who hate to draw a mindmap because it always turns out lopsided, or you don't make the boxes big enough!

Shelfari is a social networking site to share a collection of the books you have read, the books you want to read, and your favorite books. The books are displayed on a bookshelf for you to share with others. Students could display their choices for others to view. This could also be added to a library media website so others could see what the media specialist is reading.

This is a great site that allows you to compile your own personal booklist. It is set up like a bookshelf and you can add titles of the books that you are reading, have read, or want to read. It also allows members to see what other members have on their book shelf. You may also create a group to which members of the group may add books to the book shelf. I have set up a book shelf of my personal books and also one for the Washington High School Library. This is exciting because I have invited the entire staff to be members and hopefully they will add books that they have read or ones that they want students to read. As soon as it is up and running I am going to add a link to our interactive grading system called, Schoolloop for the students to view. Maybe this will spark some interest in reading some great books.\n\n