Sites

Below are all of the sites that we presented and used in class today. These are also listed on your class handout. Please know that there are a large number of sites here. We will be presenting these tools a few at time and then give you time to work on the one or two that you find to be most applicable to your uses.


 * Tools for You**
 * **Animoto** - @http://www.animoto.com - Create beautiful, professional looking slide shows. Free educator upgrade allows you to download the video.
 * **Delicious** - @http://delicious.com - Social Bookmarking. Watch video.
 * **Go to Web 2 0** - http://www.go2web20.net
 * **Safe Share** - @http://www.safeshare.tv - Generates a link to a Youtube video without all the adds and possibly inappropriate materials.
 * **Show Me What's Wrong** - @http://showmewhatswrong.com
 * **Slide Share** - @http://www.slideshare.net
 * **Teacher Tube** - @http://www.teachertube.com
 * **Zamzar** - @http://www.zamzar.com


 * Tools for Your Students**
 * **Build Your Wild Self -** @http://buildyourwildself.com - Avatar creator. Allows you to create an avatar and save it as an image for download. Great for students - no need to upload an actual picture of themselves as an online presence.
 * **Glogster** - @http://edu.glogster.com - Online poster creator. Embed video, images, text, graphics and more. Teacher can create student accounts, view and approve student blogs and students can view/comment on classmates' glogs.
 * **Prezi** - @http://prezi.com - Non-linear presentation tool.
 * **Storybird** - @http://storybird.com - Digital story telling sight. Images provided, text added by user. Teacher can create student accounts, add assignments and due dates.
 * **sketchfu** - @http://sketchfu.com/home - Online whiteboard. Draw images for play-back. Create a class account for students to log in and share drawings of story maps, processes, solving problems, and drawings.
 * **Voicethread** - @http://voicethread.com - Interactive slide shows.Teacher creates student "identities" so they can comment on slide shows and create their own.
 * **Wallwisher** - @http://www.wallwisher.com - Online post its. Great for student share-out or parking lot questions. Tom Barrett has a collection of ways to use Wallwisher in the classroom HERE
 * **Word Cloud Generators**
 * **Wordle** - @http://www.wordle.net/create
 * **Advanced Wordle** - @http://www.wordle.net/advanced
 * **ABCya Word Clouds** - @http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm - Many of the same features of Wordle but you can download the images and delete words from your word cloud.
 * **Tagxedo** - @http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html - Word clouds with shape
 * **WordSift** - @http://www.wordsift.com - In-line word clouds


 * Tools for Research**
 * **Bing** - @http://www.bing.com - Search engine that groups search results by topic.
 * **Eye Plorer** - @http://eyeplorer.com - Search engine that places definitions into a graphic organizer.
 * **Netvue** - @http://www.netvue.com - Image search engine with Adult Content filter.
 * **Search for an Appropriate Search Engine** - @http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html - Helps you find the right search engine for your needs.


 * Extras**
 * **Pixlr** - @http://www.pixlr.com (secondary)
 * **Pixenate** - @http://pixenate.com (elementary)
 * **Flash Vortex** - @http://www.flashvortex.com - Create free banners, menus, and buttons for your website, blog or wiki quickly and easily.


 * Extending your Professional Learning Network**
 * **Linked In** - @http://www.linkedin.com
 * **Classroom 2.0** - @http://www.classroom20.com
 * **K-12 Online Conference** - @http://k12conferenceonline.org