Web+2.0+Tools

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[|Blabberize]

 * Add your voice, songs, or sound bites to photos with a mouth that you virtually "cut out".
 * Record from your computer, phone, or upload previously-recorded audio.
 * VERY easy to use.
 * Accounts needed to save and store Blabbers, but not to create.
 * Students can sign in with guest as username and password
 * [|Blabberize Examples and a complete Step-by-Step Tutorial]

[|Gizmoz]

 * Express yourself with a lifelike 3D talking head on a fun and exciting background.
 * Create Digital YOUs, Animated Shows, 3D Greeting Cards and Video Commentaries.
 * Choose from a variety of celebrity and comical "heads" or use your own picture to create your character.
 * Customize and add text for more effects.
 * Accounts needed to save but not needed to create.

[|Voki]

 * Create and customize your avatar using an extensive variety of characters, clothing, props and backgrounds.
 * Fine tune your avatar's features such as eye color, face shape, nose shape, skin color, and so forth.
 * Record your own voice or type in the text you'd like it to read in a variety of different accents and languages.
 * Account needed.

[|Teacher Tube Tutorial on Voki]

[|Xtranormal]

 * Create animated movies with nothing but text.
 * Choose from six pre-designed "sets" on the free version.
 * Add the script, select camera angles, dictate actions and facial expressions, and insert needed pauses and gestures.
 * Choose from a variety of characters and accents, including other languages.

=Concept Mapping =

[|CMAP Tools]
The **IHMC CmapTools** program empowers users to construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps. It allows users to, among many other features, construct their Cmaps in their personal computer, share them on servers (CmapServers) anywhere on the Internet, link their Cmaps to other Cmaps on servers, automatically create web pages of their concept maps on servers, edit their maps synchronously (at the same time) with other users on the Internet, and search the web for information relevant to a concept map. Requires a free download of the CMAP Software and creation of a free account.

[|Bubbl.us]
Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.

=Big Huge Labs =

There's tons of fun stuff here... Give one of our toys a spin! ♥
[|Gift Center], [|Motivator], [|Pop Art Poster], [|Magazine Cover], [|Mosaic Maker], [|Movie Poster], [|Jigsaw], [|Photobooth], [|Hockneyizer], [|FX], [|Map Maker], [|Favorite Surfer], [|Mat], [|Pocket Album], [|Sunset], [|Badge Maker], [|Top Cameras], [|Calendar], [|Trading Card], [|Framer], [|Wallpaper], [|Color Palette Generator], [|Cube], [|Bead Art], [|Guess the Title], [|CD Cover], [|Random Photo Browser], [|Captioner], [|Lolcat Generator], [|Billboard], [|Photo Fortune], [|Slideshow], [|Writer], [|Blog Header], [|Gallery], [|On Black], [|Profile Widget], [|Scout], [|Flickr DNA], [|Name That Contact], [|Favorite Finder], [|Pool Cleaner]

= Collage Makers =

[|StainedGlass Collage Maker]
=Presentation Alternatives to PowerPoint =

[|Make a Screen Cast] ScreenCast-o-Matic. Record anything that you see on your screen.
==[|Jing] Use //Jing// to capture anything you see on your computer screen and share it instantly...as an image or short movie. ==

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Corkboard

Just type in the web address: http://corboard.me and it automatically creates a unique url for your corkboard. Click to add a sticky note on the corkboard. Give students or other teachers the unique url so that they can add a sticky note. Easy! Sticky notes can be as big or small as you like. Click and hold down on a sticky note to move it around the corkboard.
 * How to integrate Corkboard into the classroom:** Corkboard provides an easy to use platform for students to brainstorm, collaborate, and share ideas. Students can use Corkboard to brainstorm ideas for writing, research, and collaborating on group projects. Ask students to add their thoughts to any conversation on history, literature, science, phonics, or vocabulary corkboard. Students could practice spelling by typing out their spelling words along with a sentence or synonyms on sticky notes. Students can share a board to discuss a book they are reading together, predictions for a class science experiment, and to share what they are learning in any subject or lecture. You could create a new corkboard each week where you post homework, resources, to-do items, etc. for your students. Students can add sticky notes to the board about what they are learning throughout the week. These Corkboards can be added to a Weblist.me so that there is a record of the whole year.

http://corkboard.me

Other Web 2.0 Tools

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