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Turns words into word clouds that highlight the frequency of words occuring within the text. Lots of options to fine tune: font, color, shape, etc. Free, no account needed. Applications: review of unit vocabulary, assessment of student writing, poetry format

Build an online wall that can be built by/with students.  Post up multiple stickies with short senteces, keywords and images to address a topic.

This site has the potential for many engaging uses in the classroom. A great tool for teaching social media responsibility and awareness.

Language Arts tool that engages the learner as they manipulate a variety of templates specific to the task given (i.e. Letter Writing, graphic organizers, storyline). This tool is best used as a form of assessment of the student outcomes tagged.

Little Bird Tales is a nice site intended for younger students to use to create digital stories. Little Bird Tales walks users through each step of creating a multimedia story. Users can upload images, draw images, or record from their webcams. Stories can be written with text or narrated by students using microphones connected to their computers. - Richard Byrne This tool allows teachers to create a free account, and easily bulk create student accounts and a class page.

news agency site which re-publishes news story in child friendly language.  Comes with writing/discussion prompts, grammar, reading prompts  from other teachers. Appears to be Canadian! At least al Canadian content appeared for me. 

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