Blogs related to Education and Web 2.0 Tools
Cool Tools for Schools wiki: This wiki contains a huge variety of web 2.0 tools arranged by categories with a brief description.
Free Technology for Teachers: Richard Byrne posts new web2.0 tools and possible uses in education everyday.
Teacher Training Videos by Russell Stannard: This is an extensive list of digestible teacher training videos. Russell gives overviews of sites and applications for teachers in these short video segments.
Playing With Media by Wes Fryer. This blog is a great frequently updated source for tools from audio to video. Wes creates many how-to example videos that accompany his posts. Share: Playing with Media is a great place to submit or view student media work. I'm partial to this one: http://bit.ly/nvWceN
Backchannel
Backchan.nl
Mister Thread
Create Comic Strips, Movies, Fakebooks, FakeText, and other Digital Storytelling
*This is a good post by Shelly Terrell about digital storytelling with young learners. It includes sites and apps.
Broadcastr (record audio and attach it to a map to tell a story) and Geo Trio
Comic Master
Chogger
Digger and the Gang BBC 7-9 year olds
Domo Animate
Dvolver
Go Animate and Go Animate 4 Schools
Kerpoof
Lego Comic Builder
Mugeda (a cloud based HTML 5 platform)
Pic Lits
Pixton
ifaketext (See Tammy Worcester's suggested ways of using it.)
Little Bird Tales (young learners)
MakeBeliefsComix
Marvel Super Hero Squad
My Fake Wall
Myths and Legends
Strip Generator
Storyboard Generator
Toon Do
Xtranormal
Zimmer Twins
Create books online
Bataluga
Boom Writer
Magnetic Poetry
Mixbook Education Program
Pandamian create ebooks
Picture Book Maker
Simple Booklet
Storybird (five star rec.)
Storyjumper *great for elementary Here's a video about it.
Zoo Burst in 3D
Create ebooks
Moglue
Create newspapers online or curate
Newscred
Fodey
Scoop.it
Storify
Qrait
Create In-class polls, Tutorials, Quizzes, Crosswords and More
Educa Play
Jeopardy Labs
Jog the Web
Kwiqpoll
Mentimeter (similar to Socrative poll students, etc.)
Socrative Student Response
Tilde Create Tutorials
Tag My Doc Share documents using QR codes
QR Voice Create QR codes that when scanned will play short audio messages
Zunal WebQuest Maker
Digital Storytelling and Social Media Storytelling
Bookr
Capzles
Creza
Educreations (whiteboard. Also has an app.)
Fotobabble
Life Photo Timelines
Picture a Story
Smile Box
Super Lame (add speech bubbles to your pictures)
Storify
Tamron My Photo Exhibits
Thing Link Education account
Voicethread Here's a digital library of examples and uses in education
The Best Digital Storytelling Resources: Larry Ferlazzo 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story Web 2.0Storytelling Wiki
Search Stories Video Creator
Information Literacy Tools
Boolify
Google Reading Level search
Insta Grok
Mashpedia (advanced encyclopedia)
Noodle Tools
Sweet Search
Bibliography Generators and Information
Bib Me
Cite This For Me Harvard Referencing Generator
Easy Bib
Purdue Online Writing Lab
Recording audio/video for digital storytelling or for easy/quick share
Audioboo(audio)
Eyejot (Record and send videos)
MaiVU (Record and send videos.)
Quips (Record 30 second audio and share link.)
Vocaroo (Record audio and share link or embed. No password)
Online Collaboration
Corkboard.me
Crocodoc (annotate, collaborate in real time, and more)
Diigo Educator Account
Edmodo
Hackpad
Linoit
Mixed Ink
Pearl Trees (combines social media and mind mapping)
Pegby Watch video explanation.http://vimeo.com/22584042
Popplet
Primary Pad
Primary Wall
Slatebox (collaborative mind mapping)
Scribblar
Skype in the Classroom (connect with classrooms around the world)
Spiderscribe.net (mind mapping)
TitanPad
Twiddla Use as a shared whiteboard, collaborate on a document, and more
Twiducate (Similar to Twitter, but private social networking for education)
Wiggio
Wallwisher
Watch2gether.com
Zoho
Make Music Videos with Image and Text
Animoto
Animoto educator's account
Clip Generator
Magisto
Online Dictionaries (see students page)
Lexipedia
Word Stash
Wordia Video Dictionary
Online Image Editor/Maker and 3D Design Programs
Google Sketchup
Giffy Online Diagram Software
Inkscape
Psykopaint
Seashore
Sumo Paint
Plagiarism Checker
DOC Cop
Plagiarism Checker.com
Plagiarisma.Net
Presentations
Knovio (add audio or video to Powerpoints)
My Brain Shark (add audio to Powerpoints, documents and videos) Russell Stannard's how-to
Prezi, Edu Enjoy accounts are free to educators, Prezi U, Learn Prezi info.
Present.me
PreZentit
Projeqt (How great stories are told)
SlideSix (record audio and video on presentations)
Programming Language for Kids and Adults Like Me
Alice
Ardunio
Code Academy
Hackety Hack
Scratch
Screensharing Tools
Active Presenter
Bounce
Jing
PicPick
Screencast-o-Matic
Screenpresso
Screenr
Social Networking Discussion Threads
Lefora
Voxopop
Timelines
Better World Flux (Uses info from the World Bank)
Capzles
Dipity
Timetoast
Tiki Toki
Xtimeline
Visual Words
Festisite
Tagul
Tagxedo
Vizlingo (Type in a phrase and Vizlingo generates a video that represents the phrase.)
Wordle and 50 Interesting Ways to Use
Wordlings
Word Sift
You are Your Words
Video Editors and Enhancers and more
Embed Plus (crop, resize, etc. you tube videos)
FileLab (video and audio editors)
JayCut
Jelly Cam Stop Motion Maker
Pskogif (Create Animated Gifs from webcam images very quickly.)
We Video (Collaborative online video editor in the cloud)
*Grockit Answers (Search for a you tube video, write questions/answers, and then share it.)
Others
Blabberize
Embedit.in (Easily embed documents on many platforms. Also allows you to annotate the documents.)
Jux
Solvr
Youblisher.com
Zoom.it
Avatars
Voki
Educational Blog, Wikis, or Site Sharing Possibilities
19 Pencils
Class Blogs
Class Chatter
Edublogs
Glogster Edu
Kidblog
Moodle
PB Works for Teachers (Here is a resource page for teachers.)
Pen.io
Posterous
Webdoc
Weebly
Wikispaces For Educators
File Conversions
PDF to Word Converter
Zamzar
Organization and sharing
Evernote
Delicious
Diigo
Dropbox
Fur.ly
Lino It
Only2Clicks
Pegby
Read Cube Organize, annotate, and reference articles
Scrible "Scrible lets you annotate web pages in the browser and easily save, share and collaborate on Web-based research."
Tag My Doc Share documents using QR codes
QR Voice Create QR codes that when scanned will play short audio messages
Podcasting
Blogtalkradio
Chirbit
NASA Do-It Yourself Podcast
Podesk
Wavosaur
Free audio and ebooks
Audio Literature (free and paid)
Books Should Be Free
Children's Books Forever (multilingual books)
Project Gutenberg free ebooks
The Story Museum 1001 Stories
We Give Books
Free Images for Educational Uses-- look at the copyright terms
Behold
The Best Online Sources for Images by Larry Ferlazzo
Google Custom Search
Compfight
ELT Pics Photosets #eltpics on twitter ELT Pics Blog contains ideas for using the pictures
FreeFoto.com
Informative blog post with links by Judy O'Connell
JISC Digital Media (video, audio, and images)
MorgueFile
National Science Foundation Multimedia Gallery
Pete's Power Point Station (Free Points in all subject areas and clip art)
Photo Pin
Stuck in Customs contains some great travel pictures
Wylio
ImageCodr (generate html code that includes attribution and links to image license)
Lists of Web 2.0 Tools for Education
A-Z Internet Resources for Education: Technology and Education Box of Tricks
Go2Web20
