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This tool will allow you to create image and photo galleries of a variety of resources for class activities. It also has a very thorough and rich help/support feature.

If you like creating with wordle, you will love this site. There are many more creative options and numerous choices for sharing students' work online.

I think this tool gives a voice to all of those students who are being bullied (and cyberbullied) and feeling that they are alone in this world. It engages the students so that they can make their own creative submissions to help cope with the isolation they are experiencing and to take control of their situation. There is even a game called "Bully Busters" that allows students to create their own heroes and personalize their experience. Furthermore, there is a section that talks about "Peer Power Presenters", a program that coaches and empowers students to make presentations during Bullying Awareness Week, asserting that presentations will only be made by youth to youth. Finally, there is an option to submit and access helpful resources that include multimedia, books, articles, laws and policies, projects, research, and lesson plans. This site is packed with information and hands on materials.

This is a great website for ear training. One of the downsides is that it does have a cost to get the full benefit of the tool but anyone can sample the activities for free. Teachers can track student progress as well.

This is a cool website for elementary students to use to have a more hands on and interactive research experience. Students can find out information about composers and the orchestra and listen to radio broadcasts about them as well as hear samples of music.

This wiki is part of a group project between four educators with a common interest in Critical Literacy and Creativity. The authors assert that creativity is a part of human beings that affects how we live and understand and that it is an integral part of education and learning, not an added extra.

You can create a two, three, or four panel comic strip on this site. It offers a variety of characters, emotions, thought and talking bubbles, objects and scenes. I created a three panel comic strip on this site and enjoyed it very much. It is fairly simple to use but probably would work best with upper grades - third or above.

This is an interactive site which allows children to make movies, draw pictures, create stories and cards, as well as spell words to match pictures. I went on the site and created a very short movie and found it to be very fun. This site is free to educators and their students once registered.

This is free and there's no need for an email address. I think I would create the site for each group of students so that I'm in control of the user name and passwords. I can enroll them in an "author" role so they can be in control of the pertinent areas of the page. I think this would be an awesome thing to incorporate into my political parties and election simulation for my class "parties" to create a fake blog for their candidate on the campaign trail. After spending too long trying to create a sample, I realized I'll need more direction with this one. It's not as intuitive as I thought it would be. If anyone has any hints or tips, I'm open.

General listing of types of tools and several venues to use for each. Thought is was worth a post.

Site has videos and lessons for subject specific content realted to space program. I was excited to see separate lessons ideas and tools for calculus, chemistry, physics and biology at the high school level

I also read the article "The Creativity Crisis" and found it very interesting. The article ends with describing how the mind of a creative person works and the connections they make. There are methods, which I will need to research, to help all students think creatively. This is something that I am going to try to find out more information on so that I can help out the students within my classroom to become more creative thinkers as well as myself.

Scribblar is an online collaborative tool that empowers users to develop and maintain a conversation via online whiteboard, audio and text messaging features. This is an ideal tool for groups of students and teachers to brainstorm and plan outside of class hours. This is great!

Scribblar is a free multi-user whiteboard that allows for brainstorming and collaboration. It has text-chat and works in all browsers. I plan to use it to have students create a review for the properties of quadrilaterals.

This was a link I used from Heather's list. It allows students to create cartoons. I developed lesson for reviewing one of the most confusing topics for periodic table. Only low point is students cannot save work on this site.

Power Point Professional development from UG

Good for me

allows for mapping ideas

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