Web 2.0 Project Tools (Teachers Only)


 Web 2.0 Tools to Use for Projects:

Animoto "Turn your photos, video clips, and music into stunning video masterpieces to share with everyone."


Creaza  "an integrated, web-based toolbox for creative work, both at school and in your free time. "  - create movies, cartoons, etc.



Dipity Create timelines

Glogster EDU   Create interactive posters

Prezi  Create presentations (scroll to bottom of page for link to handout)

Screenr  Instant screencasts

SimpleBooklett  Create web books, newsletters, flashcards & more that can be posted anywhere on the web (education version available)

Slideshare Upload & share Powerpoint presentations

Storybird Create "art inspired stories"  (teachers can create accounts for students without email)

Voicethread  "is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam)."

Wiggio "makes it easy to work in groups" - have virtual meetings, share lists, calendars & files, send group texts or voicemails & more

Xtranormal  Animated movies


 "Word Cloud" generators 

http://www.abcya.com/  "kid friendly" word cloud generator

Createchef.com  Created by ImageChef, lets you create word clouds in shapes & save, print, or share through social media

tagcrowd  "Visualize word frequency with tag clouds"

tagul  Create word clouds in custom shapes & fonts - requires free account with email address

tagxedo  "Word clouds with style"  - lets you customize word cloud into available shapes

VocabGrabber Not as fancy as some other word cloud genertors, this one is great at pulling out key vocabulary words from text (requires sign-in)

wordle Create word clouds

wordsift  "Visualize text" - options include listing words alphabetically, from rare to common, looking up words in a visual thesaurus or Google Images



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