8.1.+Free+Web2.0+Tools

=**8.1. Free Web2.0 Tools**=

Web2.o Tools Introduction

Examples
= **[|Blabberize] ** allows you to upload an image, have the mouth’s image move in a comedic way, and then “speak” your voice. = [|Voki]  [|step-by-step instructions] [|Cinchcast]  audio blog. [|Outshouts]  lets you create a voice mail message that goes along with a song and email them both to a teacher or a friend. [|LiveMocha] is a fast-growing language-learning site
 * [|Voice Thread] **

[|Grapevine]  is an audio “chatboard” [|Voxopop]  to this list. Formerly called Chinswing, it lets you easily create private voice “chatboards.” [|Screencast-O-Matic] =** [|Vocaroo] ** is a super easy way for students to record a message — of any length — and then place a link or an embed code on a student or teacher website. = =[|The Art of Storytelling] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is a site from the Delaware Art Museum that allows you pick a painting, write a short story about it, record it with your computer microphone, and email the url address for posting on a student website or blog. = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|PodOmatic] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> easy way to create a podcast. Sign-up and your class has your own channel <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Woices] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> allows the user to easily leave an audio message about a specific place. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Chirbit] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> easily make a recording or use a text-to-speech feature to create audio. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Google Voice] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">, Google’s new phone tool. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Lifehacker’s guide] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">for English Language Learners, particularly those with no Internet access, to practice speaking “homework.” <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Audio Pal] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">is a new tool that lets you easily record a message — either by using a phone, computer mike, or text-to-speech — and then add the embed code to your blog or website. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Myna] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is a new audio recording tool that’s great for students to use for speaking practice and to create podcasts. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Fotobabble] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">lets you upload a photo, provide a minute audio recording to go along with it, and then you get a link and an embed code that can be used for sharing. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Audioboo] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> lets you easily create what is basically a voice blog. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|This Seems Like A Pretty Easy Way To Practice Speaking….] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">)
 * [|English Central] . ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">Learning English <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|English Central – Bringing “voice” and output to learning English] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Winkball] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> lets you easily create a video or just an audio blog. You can also use it to send video messages. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Hollur] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is like an audio blog. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Blurts] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> lets you quickly and easily record thirty second voice recordings with shareable url addresses. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|A teacher’s guide to using audio and podcasting in the classroom] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is a nice overview of applications to use in the classroom, including videos.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Little Bird Tales] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> lets you easily make slideshows where you can add text and, more importantly for English Language Learners, provide an audio narration.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|SoundCloud] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> lets you very easily record an audio message — =<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">** [|Spreaker] ** seems like a pretty easy way to have your own Internet radio show. =
 * [|Broadcastr] **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">is a new site that lets you record audio for up to **three minutes** and then “attach” it to a map location. It also gives you the url address of your recording. This could be a great resource for English Language Learners and all students.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Anmish] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> lets you choose a caricature of a world leader and then lets you put words in his/her mouth for thirty seconds via a microphone. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Photo Puppet Go] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Shoutomatic] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is a new site that lets you quickly and easily (after a very fast registration) record a thirty-second “shout” — an audio message — that you can embed or link to. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|QWiPS] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> easily lets you make a thirty second audio recording that you can share — you can also connect it to a photo or video. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Voisse] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is a relatively simple audio recording site.

Top 100 Sites of 2011 []


 * 1) [|Conduit Mobile] - Without a doubt the coolest, most innovative site I came across this year. This is ideal for bloggers, web designers, or schools in a one-to-one environment who are looking to create a great-looking mobile app for free or share news/homework in a mobile environment.
 * 2) [|Gnowledge] - One of the best collaborative quiz/test creation sites around. This excellent-looking site should be a mainstay for years to come.
 * 3) [|Google+] - A great social network and alternative to Facebook. Google+ really shines with its control and visually stunning video chat (hangouts) features.
 * 4) [|Watch Know] - An excellent place to find free educational videos for students. This is a very easy site to navigate as everything is categorized by subject and rated for age appropriate levels.
 * 5) [|Muvee Cloud] - Redesign of the popular video/presentation site Shwup. This site is very easy to use and has a nice polished look and great for creating projects with photos and videos. Best of all, Muvee Cloud is free for educators and students.
 * 6) [|Study Blue] - A great site for making flashcards and notes. Also, with its newly designed mobile app it makes studying a treat, with the ability to study anywhere or anytime.
 * 7) [|YouTube Teachers] - Wonderful site designed to help teachers use educational videos in the classroom.
 * 8) [|Primary Wall] - Similar to Wall Wisher with an educational portal. A paid account filters those "walls" (interactive bulletin boards) which are very easy to create. Also, there are lots of free educational resources to be found for lesson plans and ideas.
 * 9) [|Skype in the Classroom] - Designed for education, this site brings teachers, projects and resources together from all around the world. This is a free site designed for video conferencing and global learning.
 * 10) [|TXTNLRN] - Very innovative site that teaches through the use of text messaging. All enrollment is done via a text message and great for those wanting to learn at their own pace and try something new.
 * 11) [|Webspiration Classroom] - A wonderful site by the creators of Inspiration, designed for grades 5 thru 12. An ideal site for collaborating, brainstorming, and creating outlines with a web 2.0 interface.
 * 12) [|PikiFriends] - This is a great site for online pen pals to teach web 2.0 skills to students in a safe filtered environment. Teachers have lots of control over student accounts and an abundance of resources to show how to implement PikiFriends into their curriculum.
 * 13) [|Boom Writer] - A unique site for students to collaboratively write online in a safe environment.
 * 14) [|Sophia] - A new (beta) social network for education. Lots of great features can be found here, including free lesson plans, private group (study) creation, and online tutoring.
 * 15) [|Planbook EDU] - A great site/app for creating lesson plans on the web. More features are available with a paid account, such as attaching files and embedding into a site.
 * 16) [|Little Bird Tales] - A site that has been getting quite a bit of press lately for digital storytelling. This is a great site for elementary students looking to create a story, add their art work, and even record their voice.
 * 17) [|Sound Cloud] - An innovative site for creating, recording, and sharing audio/sounds for free. This is an ideal way to share, embed, and document lessons and lectures.
 * 18) [|Springo Kids] - A fun visual search engine for kids where results are given in thumbnails.
 * 19) [|SliderRocket EDU] - A great site to creating stunning presentations for schools.
 * 20) [|GameUp] - A fun site from the creators of Brain Pop for educational games. These games are focused on Brain Pop's highly popular animated lessons.
 * 21) [|APPitic] - A terrific site for finding educational apps. There are over 1300 apps reviewed by Apple Distinguished Educators.
 * 22) [|Useful Charts] - A wonderful collection of charts on any number of subjects.
 * 23) [|Much Enough] - An excellent site for educators to teach any subject online (webcam) and charge what they want.
 * 24) [|iCharts] - A great site for creating an online interactive chart, either from scratch or a spreadsheet.
 * 25) [|Tabblo] - Nice site for digital storytelling created by HP. The finished project can be shared with others or viewed in a slideshow.
 * 26) [|Study Ladder] - One of the fastest-growing sites around, with lots of educational resources such as games, worksheets, and lesson plans.
 * 27) [|Story Something] - A fun and great interactive storytelling site for kids. This is a great place for kids to read along with stories and interact with them.
 * 28) [|NBC Learn] - An interesting site aligned to state standards for implementing K-12 resources, such as historic videos and current events.
 * 29) [|Class Parrot] - A safe way for teachers to text students with the option to add parents as well.
 * 30) [|Study Stream] - Wonderful site for learning a foreign language with the use of videos, articles, and blogs.
 * 31) [|Paper Rater] - Free site that checks for grammar, spelling, proof reading, and plagiarism.
 * 32) [|WebSlides] - Site powered by Diigo that turns bookmarks into a interactive slideshow.
 * 33) [|Kideos] - A great site to find safe videos for kids that are organized by age level and abide by COPPA compliance.
 * 34) [|WhoTeaches] - A new (beta) network designed to bring students, parents, and educators together. This is done through collaboration with the ability to share documents and create groups. Also, this site offers high level education for online learners looking for tutors or to study.
 * 35) [|Weaving History] - New site that is great for making timelines based on history.
 * 36) [|Lesson Writer] - Nice site for teachers to create a lesson and save them online.
 * 37) ** [|ProProfs] -** A great "all in one" site for education that allows users to create quizzes, flashcards, polls, etc.
 * 38) [|Slime Kids] - Fun site that has lots to offer elementary students such as: book reviews, games, trailers, etc.
 * 39) [|Quicklyst] - A cool site for taking notes and studying on a mobile device.
 * 40) [|Embed Plus] - An innovative way to edit YouTube videos. It's like having DVD controls right at your finger tips.
 * 41) [|Better Lesson] - Free social network, ideal for educators. 1000s of resources can be found here as well as collaborating with other educators to find out what teaching strategies work best.
 * 42) [|Knovio] - Great site for making slideshows by syncing audio to a powerpoint. This is ideal for those that like to create Pecha Kucha presentations.
 * 43) [|Word Hippo] - An excellent online dictionary and translator as well.
 * 44) [|Concept Board] - An ideal site for creating an interactive whiteboard with many features, such as screen capture, mobility, etc.
 * 45) [|Mind Leap] - A great site for finding and reviewing educational apps on a five-star system for grades PreK - MS.
 * 46) [|Big Marker] - A free web conferencing community that is ideal for educators and students. This is a great place to create a private room for collaboration and document sharing.
 * 47) [|PikiKids] - A fun site for creating online digital comics.
 * 48) [|Quizilla] - A terrific site for kids ages 13 and up for creating and sharing quizzes, stories, poems, and polls.
 * 49) [|Study Shuffle] - A wonderful site for creating flashcards that allows for student tracking.
 * 50) [|Diipo] - A wonderful new (beta) social network that is similar to Moodle and Gaggle. This network prides itself on being social networking for "your" class. This allows for teachers and students to not only collaborate with themselves online through texting and blogging, but also collaborate with others.
 * 51) [|Tutor Hub] - A community where students can find an online tutor who sets his or her own rates.
 * 52) [|Frabroom] - A free online museum with lots of nice features, such as interactive books and games.
 * 53) [|Jellycam] - A free download for a Mac or PC for making stop motion animation.
 * 54) [|Study Stack] - Excellent site for creating flashcards and studying with educational games. Study Stack has a nice mobile app as well.
 * 55) [|aMap] - An interesting site for creating a visual debate and then embedding into a site.
 * 56) [|Everloop] - An excellent social network that is designed to teach students how to network appropriately. Also, this site is ideal for education as it is being monitored by parents and supported by such organizations such as iSafe.
 * 57) [|PhotoShow] - Create stunning slideshows with this very easy-to-use site.
 * 58) == [|We Video] - A great site for creating collaborative videos.==
 * 59) [|LearnBoost] - An excellent free online gradebook that is similar to Powerschool. Not only can a teacher do grades online, but there is student tracking, Google Apps integration, lesson plan creation, and more.
 * 60) [|Class Dojo] - Bring old-school verbal feedback to the 21st Century with this nice online behavior management system.
 * 61) [|19 Pencils] - An ideal site for creating quizzes and websites with student tracking.
 * 62) [|Popplet] - A graphic organizer that is great for brainstorming, creating mindmaps, outlines, etc.
 * 63) [|Study Boost] - A great way to study with others using a mobile device.
 * 64) [|VuSafe] - This site is a wonderful way to show pre-approved videos in a safe environment. Also, this site works well on mobile devices and is CIPA compliant.
 * 65) [|Huffduffer] - A great site for creating podcasts from audio links from around the web.
 * 66) [|Yaca Paca] - An interesting site that is free for students and teachers. This is ideal for online assessments and allows teachers to create quizzes, surveys, and more.
 * 67) [|Slidestaxx] - An excellent site for creating beautiful social media slideshows.
 * 68) [|Fresh Brain] - This is a neat site for educators and students for creating technology projects, such as a game or YouTube video.
 * 69) [|Watch2gether] - Great way to watch YouTube videos with others via a text chat.
 * 70) [|iGrade Plus] - A nice online gradebook with lots of features such as: attendance, grade management, parent notifications, etc. Also, there are different price options depending on what features best suits your needs.
 * 71) [|Desmos] - A cool new site for creating interactive lessons for education.
 * 72) [|K12 Advantage] - Wonderful site for educational resources, built around a social network for collaborating and sharing.
 * 73) [|Story Time for Me] - Excellent site for grade K-2 where interactive stories are read to kids by professional actors.
 * 74) [|Webdoc] - A cool new (beta) site for creating multimedia type blog posts with comments.
 * 75) [|Fauxflash] - A great site for creating flash cards and studying. Also, there are lots of different study decks to browse through on a number of different subjects.
 * 76) [|Study Egg] - An innovative site for helping students learn a given subject.
 * 77) [|edWeb] - A wonderful social network where educators can browse through webinars they may want to attend.
 * 78) [|Learn 360] - A site that is a cheaper alternative to Discovery Streaming. Learn 360 is ideal for streaming/downloading videos, creating digital content and more.
 * 79) [|FunnelBrain] - Great site for creating flashcards and quizzes and joining teams for studying.
 * 80) [|ASCD Edge] - An educational social network with over 25,000 members. Members can create their own blog and share news via real-time newsfeed.
 * 81) [|Memidex] - Excellent free online dictionary/thesaurus. Find out the origin of words and other interesting facts.
 * 82) [|Tiki-Toki] - Wonderful new web app for creating stunning-looking timelines.
 * 83) [|CK-12] - A great site for free digital textbooks that are aligned to state standards.
 * 84) ==** [|PodOmatic] ** - An excellent site for creating podcasts and adding audio via iTunes.==
 * 85) [|Schoology] - Content management system similar to Moople or Moodle. While this is a free site, a paid subscription gets users more features.
 * 86) [|Fish Smarty] - A terrific new site for online learning through games, digital comics, and coloring. Also, there is an educational portal that's ideal for student tracking.
 * 87) [|Plagiarisma] - Great site to check to see if an item/document is being plagiarized.
 * 88) [|TeachAde] - Social network designed for educators to share educational resources.
 * 89) [|Time Search] - Innovative site for searching for events on a timeline. Great for history teachers/students looking for events of a specific time.
 * 90) [|Grockit Answers] - Cool new (beta) site for interacting with educational YouTube videos. This is done by creating a public or private question/answer session around a video.
 * 91) [|Projeqt] - A very user-friendly site that is great for creating nice visual presentations.
 * 92) [|Present.me] - This is a wonderful site for uploading a Powerpoint presentation and then adding a narration. The finished product is quite nice, as it shows both the narrator and presentation in a side by side window.
 * 93) [|Moople] - A nice site that is designed to help educators and students with online learning. Users of Moodle or Blackboard should have a nice feel for what this site is all about.
 * 94) [|Scrumblr] - Create a fun interactive board with online sticky notes.
 * 95) [|Smore] - Smore is a site that reminds me a lot of Glogster for creating interactive posters/flyers.
 * 96) [|ThumbScribes] - A new (beta) site for creating collaborative digital stories on a number of different things, such as poems, stories, songs, etc. Once a piece has been created it can then be voted on by other members.
 * 97) [|Draw Island] - One of the better digital art sites to come around. Draw Island allows a user to create a custom drawing and then even animate it.
 * 98) [|Dweeber] - This is a social network designed for students looking to collaborate on homework.
 * 99) [|Catch] - One of my favorite new sites to come around for taking notes is Catch. Catch allows a user to capture anything on a site, such as text, audio or photos, and share with others. Ideal for those with mobile devices.
 * 100) [|Ptable] - Wonderful interactive periodic table. This tables displays all the elements and links them to Wikipedia, which makes it handy for studying.


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 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">19. <span style="color: #cc6600; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Top 10 Self Help Sites for Technology » ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">20. <span style="color: #cc6600; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Upgrade your KWL Chart to the 21st Century » ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">21. <span style="color: #cc6600; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Back-to-School Apps for Teachers » ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">22. <span style="color: #cc6600; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Digital Storytelling Tools » ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">23. <span style="color: #cc6600; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">E-textbooks made available offline » ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">24. <span style="color: #cc6600; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Top 10 Sites for Creating Word Clouds » ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">25. <span style="color: #cc6600; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Involve, Prepare, Apply, and Develop: iPads in the Classroom » ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">25. <span style="color: #cc6600; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Involve, Prepare, Apply, and Develop: iPads in the Classroom » ** ||

[|Cool Sites for Kids by Ozge Karaoglu]
[|Permanent link] Internet is a great way for children to learn and enjoy learning online. There are zillions of websites and everyday new sites are launching. It maybe difficult to choose the right sites for the kids. Here are my picks: [|ClubPenguin] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a virtual world where kids wander around with their penguin avatars, play games, interact with other friend penguins. They can chat, send greeting cards, use emotions, attend parties, take part in role-plays, adopt a pet. It's a great place to practice reading and participate in role playing. It's free and there is no third party advertisement. [|Shidonni] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a site where students can draw their favorite animal with a world to live in it and see the animal spring to life. Kids take care of their animals by feeding, petting or sending them to sleep. The animal eats the food that kids have drawn for it. They can choose if they want their pet to walk or fly, and they can name it. Kids can draw a background and change it whenever they want. They can play games with their virtual animals or send them to their friends to play with their animals. You can watch this introduction video. This site is great for kindergarten students but I’m sure primary kids will love and enjoy this site!! [|Nasa Kids' Club] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is an interactive site of NASA where kids can play educational games about math, science and technology, learn about space and astronauts. They can also chat with NASA experts. [|SFSKids] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a site where you can learn about music and instruments, hear, learn and have fun with music. [|CBeebies] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a BBC website for kids. There are songs, games, art&craft and stories section on the site. Each section has many different and fun activities for kids to play and learn online. The site also has Radio CBeebies where you can listen or watch shows. There is also a section for grown-ups to help teachers and parents to get most out of this site. [|InnocentKids] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a site where children play games and get prizes every week. [|National Geographic Kids] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a site where you can search on different topics such as animals, maps, geography, history and culture for young learners. It also has a blog section where you can read National Geographic articles for kids by kids. There is also an online homework section where you can find different lesson plans with resources for different levels and subjects. There is also a sister site, [|National Geographic for LittleKids] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">where you can find materials for preschool children. [|PBSKids] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a website that is based on favourite TV shows where you can find many activities such as games, songs, stories and colouring pages. [|MoshiMonsters] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a site where children can adopt their own pet monster, give it a name and design it. Monster can make friends and interact with each other. Children can nurture their pets by solving puzzles and playing games.

Top 25 Web 2.0 Sites for Education
 * 1)  Google/Gaggle - [|Google Apps] are some of the most popular services for document creation and collaboration. [|Gaggle] (for a small fee) filters Google Apps ( [|Zoho] as well) to make it an ideal choice for education. Also, Gaggle allows for filtered blogging, chatting, messaging boards, and filtered videos in You Tube, etc.
 * 2)  [|Edmodo] - A wonderful free site that creates an educational environment for students that focuses on skills such as blogging and collaboration.
 * 3)  [|Glogster] - A great multi-media site for creating interactive posters that can be viewed online. Plus, student accounts can be created by an educator without the need of a student email.
 * 4)  [|Voice Thread] - One of the most popular web 2.0 sites around. An ideal site for creating interactive presentations/slide shows.
 * 5)  [|Myths & Legends] - A free site that is wonderful for digital storytelling. All a teacher has to do is get approval from a school administrator to sign a school up for this great service.
 * 6)  [|Animoto] - Create dynamic slide shows with one of the most popular slide show creators on the web.
 * 7)  [|Mixbook] - A great way to create a safe and secure environment for students to create online or real books (for order).
 * 8)  [|Prezi] - The evolution of presentations has arrived with this zoomable presentation creator. Also, there is an educational portal in the works.
 * 9)  [|Aviary Education] - A safe, secure way that offers many services for students, such as photo editor, audio editor, and movie creator.
 * 10)  [|Diigo] - An ideal site for social bookmarking that allows teachers to create student account for sharing and annotating links.
 * 11)  [|Weebly] - A fantastic site for creating a student or teacher websites with the ability to blog.
 * 12)  [|ToonDoo Spaces] - One of the best online comic creators that allows for student accounts.
 * 13)  [|Kidblog] - One of the top ways for students to create blogs in a safe environment.
 * 14)  [|Primary Access] - A nice site for digital story telling that allows students to use a variety of different resources such as video, audio, photos, etc.
 * 15)  [|Zoho Wiki] - Similar to Google Apps, this online suite offers a secure way for students to create docs and share.
 * 16)  [|Kerpoof] - A multi-media site for creating stories, games, lessons, etc.
 * 17)  [|Zimmertwins] - A fun site for digital storytelling that is done by creating one student account for a class.
 * 18)  [|SymbalooEdu] - A great visual way for teachers to share sites and resources with students.
 * 19)  [|Pixton] - An excellent way to create online digital comics that is moderated by a teacher.
 * 20)  [|Zunal] - A fantastic webquest creator for teachers.
 * 21)  [|Alice Storytelling] - One of the best ways to learn about the basics of programming as well as digital storytelling (a free pc download).
 * 22)  [|Story Jumper] - A great way for students to create real or online stories and then have the ability to order a book.
 * 23)  [|Storybird] - A fun site for collaborative and digital storytelling.
 * 24)  [|Magic Studio] - A wonderful site for teachers to share multimedia resources with students.
 * 25)  [|Museum Box] - A great historical site for teachers and students to create multimedia projects.

[|Top 10 Sites for Images and Clip Art by David Kapuler]
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Finding images on the internet for classroom use has been a problem problem for many educators, for reasons such as copyright privileges, inappropriateness, etc.

While there are a number of paid solutions for finding images such as [|Nettrekker] or [|Discovery Streaming], there are a number of free alternatives that work nicely as well.

However, keep in mind that most of the sites listed below do not have built-in filters for images. These image search engines should be used either by educators (adults assisting students) or go in hand in hand with a school district filtering solution and Acceptable Use Policy.

David Kapuler is an educational consultant with more than 10 years of experience working in the K-12 environment. For more information about his work, contact him at dkapuler@gmail.com and read his blog at [|cyber-kap.blogspot.com]
 * 1)  [|Pics4Learning] - Very popular site to find free, safe-to-use images for teachers and students.
 * 2)  [|Cyclo.ps] - Search engine that searches the most popular free image engines around and provides one-stop shopping.
 * 3)  [|School Clip Art] - Great site for free school clip art.
 * 4)  [|Ookaboo] - Creative commons (free) site for finding great images for class work.
 * 5)  [|Picsearch] - Excellent image search engine, if used with a district's filtering solution.
 * 6)  [|Veezzle] - Wonderful free stock photo search engine.
 * 7)  [|Google Swirl] - Innovative way to search for images and see their relationships with each other (use with Google Safe Search enabled).
 * 8)  [|Free Photo Bank] - Easy way to find creative common images.
 * 9)  [|Open Clip Art] - Great way to find free clip art.
 * 10)  [|Find Icons] - Nice site for free icons.

[|My Favourite Web Tools of 2010 by Ozge Karaoglu]
[|Permanent link] Here are my favourite web tools from 2010: [|ImaginationCubed] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a multi user drawing tool. You can use a pen, stamp,shapes, line or you can type. You can also change the color of the background. I loved this one, it’s cool! [|WeToku] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is an interview tool that automatically records it to play it back. You can embed it and share it with others. [|WikiDot] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is wiki builder to share content, documents and collaborate with your students, colleagues, friends. You can create pages, forums,separate wikis for groups or students, discuss topics, upload files, documents,notes, images and share them with others. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">You can send video mails with [|EyeJot] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">. You don’t need to download any software. You only get into your account, record and upload your video and send it. It’s that easy! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">You can paste a text to [|JustPasteit] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">and you can get a link to share it with others. You can also upload pictures, save your document as a PDF file. [|LinkBlip] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">lets you monitor when the links you’ve sent to others has been clicked. You get a special URL and send it to other. When someone clicks the URL, you’re notified with an email with the time the link was clicked as well as the city which they were in. [|GoodWidgets] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a way to create photo widgets for your blog or websites. It has different displays of photos. You can check the gallery [|here] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">. This is sure to be my favourite photo presentation widget! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">I can only say WOW for [|EarthTunnel] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">! This is the most creative picture sharing site I’ve ever seen on web. You’re in a dark tunnel with pictures around you and you use your keyboard to move in the tunnel. What a great idea!!! [|BusinessCard2] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is an online service to create professional network and exchange business cards on web. You can add videos, slide shows, files,external links, your websites, social sites and you can let other people to leave messages and it’s embeddable of course. [|MadeupMemories] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">lets you customize videos by putting your personal pictures. You can choose to be a princess, a toy, a superhero! Just choose your video, upload your picture and publish it. You can also download it to your computer and keep it on your desktop forever! [|Stiqr] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is one of the best tools I’ve ever seen. The things you can do with it just is limitless. This tool lets you to create and design your website with sticking pictures. You don’t have to upload or download anything. The only thing you need to do is to embed the code to your website. Let’s give this tool a try! [|AcapelaTV] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a text-to-speech site where you can use this feature to make the characters talk. You can make different language selections. [|Packtari] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a bookmarking service that bookmarks your tweets that contains URL for your delicious account. You can choose the options to bookmark your favourites or @ replies. [|Prezi] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a unique way to create presentations without any slides but zooming sketches on a blank canvas. You can create your own group, collaborate on ideas and create your prezi presentation together. You realize that powerpoint is dead after using this tool, rest is your imagination.If you like it, you should also check <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">which is a similar tool. [|StoryBird] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">allows you to create their own stories from scratch using their own text and pictures. It’s also collaborating so you can start a story at home and you can finish it when you come back to school. [|PhotoPeach] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a quick way to create slideshows using pictures and music. It also lets you create quizzes on your slideshow. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">With [|QuizCentre] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">, you can create, administer and grade quizzes online. It also provides instant feedback. [|QuizMaker] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">lets you create multiple choice quizzes. You can add pictures or links to your quizzes. When you finish, you simply cut and paste it to your web page. [|Vozme] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">lets you turn your text into speech. You can choose a male or a female voice and you create mp3 files and listen to them anywhere you are. [|Kakomessenger] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a fun text to-speech application. It’s a singing telegram machine that will sing your text. You choose between two singers, Gina and Humphrey, write your text and let the singers sing them for you. [|CiteBite] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a tool where you can get a link directly to specific quotes in web pages.You simply paste a chunk of text and the URL of the page and get a link that opens directly to your selection by highlighting it. [|Bot Morpheus] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a bot that can write and speak at the same time. The answers are logical, it also asks questions and analyze your answers. [|Clue] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a fun and an interesting way to test people (or you) about what they remember on your site. You just enter the link of the site that you want to test, share the test with people via Twitter, Facebook or other social networking services. People who take the test, look at the web page for a few seconds and write what they remember.

[|A-Z Web Tools:A+B by Ozge Karaoglu]
[|Permanent link] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Here is the first part of my A-Z Web Tools: A+B

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**A**nimasher] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a site to make animations by using pictures from the gallery or you can use your own pictures too. You can add music, some sound effects, text or record your own voice for your animation. You can get a link or publish your video on the site. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**A**head] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a similar site to Prezi. It’s a way to create a presentation that transforms your layout into a zooming experience. You can add images, audios, documents, links and videos. You can also embed your presentations. The site itself is also created with Ahead. This experience is sure to be a great impression on your audience. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**A**capelaTV] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a site where you can find ready flash animations to reuse by customizing them. You can use text-to-speech feature to make the characters talk. You also have different language selections. It’s an interesting and a fun site to play with,and a good practice for writing and listening. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**A**wesomeHighlighter] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is the easiest way to highlight texts on web pages. When you finish highlighting, you get a link to share it with others. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**A**Map] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a great and a fun way to display your live debates on a very simple visual format. You can use it to review a book or a story you read. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**A**nimoto] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a great site to create video pieces from your photos, clips or music less than a minute. You just add your photos, choose music and add your text. Animoto does the rest. You can get a link or an embed code for your website. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">With <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**A**nimata] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">, you can create animations and interactive backgrounds. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**A**bout2Findout] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a site where you can create a quiz, interact and challenge each other. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**A**nyTypos] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a free,online spell checker. To check your text, just copy paste your content and you can get the results online instantly. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**A**lphabetizer] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a site to put any list in alphabetical order. When you finish, you can print it. There are also different options that you can use such as reversing a list, removing duplicates, capitalizing first words or ignoring definite/indefinite articles. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**B**uildYourWildSelf] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a site to design an avatar with animals parts. You choose a background and send it to others. The sites gives you a name and tells about your features. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**B**ubbl.us] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">lets you create a brainstorming sheet that can be embeddable to your website. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**B**itStrips] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a comic creator tool. You choose the characters from the gallery, write in the bubbles and publish it online or save it to your computer. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**B**eFunky] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a tool to add photo effects to your pictures to turn them into art. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**B**usinessCard2] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is an online service to create professional network and exchange business cards on web. You can add videos, slide shows, files,external links, your websites, social sites and you can let other people to leave messages and it’s embeddable of course. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**B**ot Morpheus] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a bot that can write and speak at the same time. The answers are logical, it also asks questions and analyze your answers. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**B**ubbleJoy] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">lets you create a video greeting card using your own video. You can choose from different fun card designs that will fit in to your topic. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**B**ookGlutton] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">lets you create virtual groups to meet up in the digital books and have discussions on any chapter. You can also chat by leaving comments and sharing them with each other. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**B**logBooker] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a site to produce a high-quality PDF Blog Book from all your blog entries, comments and pictures. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**B**oard800] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a multi user shared interactive whiteboard with simultaneous access and drawing capabilities. It lets you add as many as you want. Users can use each page independently, and each user can see the changes on each page. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**B**ox.net] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">lets you share your files with your visitors in a small widget box. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**B**ookr] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is another site that is featured by Pimpampum. You create and share your photobook using Flickr images. You can write tags to find the pictures from Flickr photos or you can search your name on Flickr to find your own photos. When you find them, you write your text that matches with the pictures. You may want to create your story with this tool <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**B**onzoBox] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is an interactive tool that lets you create a speacial BonzoBox site that you can build your page with your favourite websites. It has a drag and drop application that makes it easy for you to collect your favourites. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**B**labberize] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">lets you make a photo talk with your own voice. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**B**ubblr] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a way to create your comic strip with Flickr pictures and add bubbles to tell your story! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**B**ombayTV] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a tool for writing subtitles for Bollywood films. You can also record your voice or use text to speech application. There is also <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[| **B**ombayTV2] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">where you can edit different scenes from Bollywood films together and add subtitles to them <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**B**igHugeLabs] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">lets you create a slide show from images anywhere on the web. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**B**igUniverse] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is an engaging website. You can read book online or you can create your own and publish it. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**B**ubbleSnaps] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">lets you add bubbles to your pictures and create slide show. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**B**ibme] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is an automated bibliography generator. It finds information about your sources and formats the citations for you. This site can save you time while building your bibliography. It also allows you to search from a database of millions of entries to find your source. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|**B**rainFlips] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">is a tool for creating, sharing and studying flashcards. You can add text, images, audio or video to your flashcards. Thanks to <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0051a7; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[|Rupert] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">for suggesting this tool. Stay tuned!