2.0+Websites+for+Students

Social Studies Myth Creator []

a wiki with lots

Polling website, Creating a Poll 99polls.com []

Social Learning Network site edmoto.com []

Create beautiful presentations, access them from anywhere, and share them with the world. With 280 Slides, there's no software to download and nothing to pay for – and when you're done building your presentation you can share it any way you like. http://280slides.com/

Turn your photos & videos into pure amazing.

Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips and music. Fast, free and shockingly easy.

http://animoto.com/

SMART Tech - Smartboard resources and tutorials

SMART Exchange - Lesson plans, notebook files,

student response system and questions sets

http://smarttech.com/us/Solutions/Education+Solutions http://exchange.smarttech.com/#tab=0

eduTecher - web resources on all the various web apps

Check out 1000's of great educational resources

http://www.edutecher.net/ With your free account from 99polls you can now create customized surveys and polls for your website, blog and social network profiles. http://www.99polls.com/ Wordle - is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. http://www.wordle.net/

Other sites similar to Wordle Check these out too!

http://www.tagxedo.com/ http://tagul.com/ http://worditout.com/ http://tagcrowd.com/ http://www.wordsift.com/ http://www.imagechef.com/ic/word_mosaic/ http://www.visualthesaurus.com/vocabgrabber/ http://www.tag-cloud.de/ http://www.tagcloud.com/ Voice Thread - is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too. http://voicethread.com/

Billstrips for Schools - Creative comic strips for your classroom

http://www.bitstripsforschools.com/ FlipBook - is the drawing game that allows people to create simple animations and share them with the world on the web. http://www.benettonplay.com/toys/flipbookdeluxe/ All My Faves - a place where you can find the best list of many favorite categories. Great place to start if you have no idea where to find good resources http://www.allmyfaves.com/ MyFavs - your default homepage with your favorite links and resources. Log on to any computer and have all of your "Favorites" right on the main screen. http://www.myfavs.com/ Delicious - A Social networking web site that allows you to organize and group your bookmarks. Work with others and share your resources. http://delicious.com/ http://www.delicious.com/TLTL/ The Awesome Highlighter - lets you highlight text on web pages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page. http://www.awesomehighlighter.com/ ThatQuiz - This is a awesome tool to set up a class and work on individualizing the quizzes to each students needs. Works for several subjects. The Math is really cool. http://thatquiz.org Skype is an internet video phone and or chat. I use this all the time. And it is free if you are using it from computer to computer http://www.skype.com/ Teacher tube has some great resources for your classroom. Upload ones you or your students have created or get one from someone else to use in your classroom. http://www.teachertube.com/ Schooltube is a place for teachers and students to share videos online. http://www.schooltube.com/ Rubistar is an online rubric creator. Awesome.... download to excel too. http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ Prezi - Create presentations online for your classes. Have others work on this too. http://prezi.com/ PB Wiki - a place to do collaborative work online with others. Wow... love this place. I am using it here. http://pbworks.com/ Great resources for teachers + links to other great resources as well. Check this out! http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ OER common source resources for educators http://www.oercommons.org/ Neok 12 - is a free place for online downloadable educational videos,lessons, games and more http://www.neok12.com/ Moodle - is a online classroom environment. It is free and available for you to use http://moodle.com/ Grant Alerts - Good place to locate grants around the country http://www.grantsalert.com/grants.cfm?id=4&gid=34617 Google.docs - a place to share and work on documents collaboratively https://docs.google.com/ Gettys Images, Google Images - Look specifically for royalty free images to use in your classrooms. http://www.gettyimages.com/ http://www.google.com/imghp Thinkfinity - Wonderful resources for your classroom. Lesson plans, activities and so much more. Partnering with the most trusted names in education to bring you teaching and learning materials, as well as a community excited about education. http://thinkfinity.org/

Flickr, Shutterfly, Walmart etc. ... so many more to many to list. These places have various features for uploading photos and doing things with them. I love Shutterfly because I like their photo books and calendars that I can create and share. https://www.shutterfly.com http://www.flickr.com/

Learning In Hand - Great resources for pricing, products and educational resources http://learninginhand.com

Flaming Text - A place to find fun and cool creative text that you can customize with your own phrases and words. Use on a web page or use in a word processing document. Great tool.

Cool Text is another one... just slightly different... I have given you two links to play with here.

http://www.flamingtext.com/ http://cooltext.com/

Drop.io - Time magazine says: "drop.io is a more elegant solution: a private file-sharing service...It's a great way to share a lot of data with other people"

http://drop.io/ Edutopia - Our vision is of a new world of learning. A place where kids and parents, teachers and administrators, policy makers and the people they serve, all are empowered to change education for the better. A place where schools have access to the same invaluable technology as businesses and universities -- where innovation is the rule, not the exception. A place where children become lifelong learners and develop the technical, cultural, and interpersonal skills to succeed in the twenty-first century. A place of inspiration, aspiration, and an urgent belief that improving education improves the world we live in. http://www.edutopia.org/

This place has videos and great success stories and ideas. And so much more.

Cybraryman - This is a huge list of web resources for the classroom. They are list upon lists of web sites all catalogued into subjects and topics. http://cybraryman.com/ Classroom20.com - the social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and Social Media in education. We encourage you to sign up to participate in the great discussions here, to receive event notifications, and to find and connect with colleagues. http://www.classroom20.com/ Spelling City.com - Great space to post your classroom spelling words and then let the students do all kinds of learning activities and quizzes for the week. Awesome website for all ages. http://www.spellingcity.com/ iLearntechnology is a blog that has great resources for educators http://ilearntechnology.com/

FunnelBrain is a collection of academic questions and answers that are created, edited and organized by its users. To get started, create some questions or join a study team and follow your friends http://www.funnelbrain.com/

Got Brainy is a vocabulary building site with a twist. Students and teachers can create or view mock-motivational-posters for vocabulary words that often pair ironic or sarcastic images with a word and definition. This site might be best used with an upper-level High School English class studying for standardized tests. However, it can be used for ESL students as well to pair images with new vocabulary words and simple definitions. http://www.gotbrainy.com/ This site is a wonderfully simple search tool and resource for students. It features information about a wide variety of subjects and is organized in a way that many students will be able to navigate with little or no teacher guidance. http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/

EnergyQuest

Energy Quest is the award-winning energy education website of the California Energy Commission. Energy is an integral part of our daily lives. Without energy our society would decay into pre-historic savagery. Teaching an "energy ethic" to conserve finite resources is essential to our energy future, which is currently dependent on fossil fuels. We also must rely on our youth to help us create new ways to harness the elemental forces of our planet and the universe. They are tomorrow's scientists and inventors. They will discover new means of energy production and innovative ways to use less energy. We hope Energy Quest will answer their questions and spur creativity and imagination.

Very interactive web site!!!

http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/index.html KidBlog - Great way for schools to have kids blog. No student email is required and everything is monitored before being posted online. http://kidblog.org/home.php SweetSearch - Excellent search engine for students, as everything has been reviewed by educators. http://www.sweetsearch.com/

Nice site for creating online charts and graphs with a built-in chat feature for collaboration. http://cacoo.com/ Get students blogging in a safe and secure environment. http://www.21classes.com/ Excellent site for digital storytelling, with many educational resources for teachers. http://www.storyjumper.com/main/teacher Fun site for brainstorming with this visual search engine. http://www.educationeye.org.uk/ Great site for creating animated slide shows with lots of different content to choose from. http://www.kizoa.com/ Very user-friendly site that uses a drag-n-drop interface to edit and mix video. http://www.dragontape.com/ Great site for making collaborative slide shows. http://www.shwup.com/ Very similar to Shwup, a nice looking site for making collaborative slide shows. http://prezentit.com/ A search engine for kids that acts a bit like a tag cloud where results can be embedded into a site. http://quinturakids.com/ Create a real-time, private, back channel chat that brings in tweets from Twitter. http://todaysmeet.com/ Very user-friendly site for digital storytelling that allows users to record their voice for narration. http://memoov.com/ Brings words to life through the use of video. http://wordia.com/ Video encyclopedia where results can be embedded into a site http://www.encyclomedia.com/ Great site for for digital storytelling, where a user can make an online 3D pop-up book. http://www.zooburst.com/ Similar to iMovie that allows users to edit or create a video. http://jaycut.com/ Looks like Photoshop and is a great way to edit photos and manipulate layers and effects. http://www.splashup.com/ Fun site for digital storytelling that has a drag-n-drop interface. http://www.comicmaster.org.uk/ Create collaborative outlines with this easy-to-use site. http://www.knowcase.com/ Great site for photo editing and drawing or painting, similar to Splashup. http://www.cloud-canvas.com/ Great multi-media site for uploading photos,documents or video and then editing them. http://www.magicstudio.com/ A way for students to create digital portfolios online using Google Tools. http://sites.google.com/site/googlioproject/home Social network for educators where lots of ideas and lessons can be found.

http://www.weareteachers.com/

Trackclass is a great, free resource for students. The site allows students to track their classes and assignments, and even will send reminders (email or SMS) for upcoming assignment due dates and test dates. There is also a note taking utility so students can take notes on it if they have a computer in school, or transcribe notes later. You can even attach files to each class and assignment to keep things organized. It is a great way for students to stay organized. There is also a version for mobile phones and the iPhone, so students can stay organized no matter where they are. I found it very easy to use, with a great help section. I wish they had this when I was in school! I was even thinking that teachers could use this too. http://trackclass.com/ Shoshiku is another free class organizer, similar to Trackclass. It has a calendar, notes, task list, and reminder system like Trackclass. It is not as full featured, in my opinion, as Trackclass, but it is easy to use and some students may like it better than Trackclass. http://soshiku.com/

Dweeber is a homework collaboration site that also has tools to help students learn better. It is described as a homework social network. Students sign up, for free, and can add their friends, known as "dweebs" to their network. Students can work on homework together and help each other out. It even as a virtual whiteboard so that they can work together just as if they were in the same room. There is a message center, study sessions, and even a place to post links to web sites that you find helpful in doing your work. This is a great resource for students who can't get together physically to work on homework or projects. http://dweeber.com/

I am a huge user and fan of Google's many applications and their use in education. I use Blogger for this blog and my classroom blogs, Google Sites for my classroom site, Google Docs, Google Earth, iGoogle and much more with my students and for my own use. I show my students Google's applications because they are easy to use, useful, and free.

Google recently launched the Google Student Blog. This blog site is a great resource for students who use Google's products. It includes information, updates, how-to's, tips, and much more on how to use Google's applications as a student. If your students use Google's products, they should be reading the Google Student Blog. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rV_MVEspCw4/TKCODHIo2VI/AAAAAAAABOs/gnJaI74sq3M/s1600/google+student+blog.png

Scribblar is an online meeting room / white board. Students can use it to collaborate on projects, teachers can tutor via the computer, and teachers can use it for collaborative meetings and projects. Scribblar gives the users a virtual white board on the screen and writing tools to create text, lines and shapes. They can even add images. There is also a chat window on the side bar so that users can talk to each other while working. There is even a live chat system if you have a microphone and speakers. I see students using this to work on homework problems together. Teachers could use this to help students with homework after school or on the weekends. Scribblar can now support PDF files. Free users can upload PDFs with up to 5 pages. Your uploaded PDF will be turned into an editable image in Scribblar. http://www.scribblar.com/index.cfm

Evernote is a great, free resource that allows you to easily capture information using whatever device or operating system you use. It then makes this information accessible and searchable from anywhere. Their tagline: Remember Everything. You can capture task lists, notes, web pages, white boards, business cards, pictures, and even clip web pages to Evernote. You can download a desktop version of the software, for free, which will sync to the Evernote web server, or you can just access it through the internet on their web page. You can also access it through a mobile device. They have downloadable applications for the iPhone, Blackberry, Android, and Windows Mobile devices. You can also access their mobile website on any web-enabled phone. You can create new notes via desktop, web, or mobile version. You can also use your camera phone or web cam to take a snapshot and Evernote can even recognize the text in the image. You can also email notes, clip web pages, record audio notes, and scan papers, receipts and more into Evernote. Their website has easy to follow instructions and help sections. Students can use Evernote to take notes in class, share notes with other students, capture notes off of a whiteboard or poster using their smartphone camera, and much more. http://www.evernote.com/ Dropbox is a service that allows you to sync your files on your computer with their system as a backup. This also allows you to access the files anywhere. You can also sync the files across multiple computers. This means that you have automatic backup of your files and 24/7 access to your files. I have it set up to sync a folder on my home computer and school computer so I don't have to worry about having multiple versions or forgetting a flash drive. There are also Dropbox apps for iPhone, Android, iPad and there is one coming for Blackberry. There is an independent app for Palm webOS, but you can also access the mobile site from any web-enabled phone. Imagine being able to access all of your files on your smartphone! One feature that is very nice is the fact that it works with network drives like we use in my district. Some of the other cloud file storage and sync systems can't work with network drives. I was very happy to see this was able to be done with Dropbox. Students can use this to access and back up their files anywhere. They can also share files with each other which is useful when working on projects. https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTU5Mjc0NTI5 This web site has some great resources for students and teachers, including test prep, study skills, organization, grammar and writing, and career planning. Everything broken down by topic and is listed on one page, so it is easy to find things. http://www.elearners.com/educational-resources/

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