Web+2.0+Resources

Technology and Web 2.0 Resources 
 * 1) Animoto: Creates videos from your images, sound files, and videos. The education login gives you a 6-month pass with the option to setup accounts for students.
 * 2) Blabberize: Upload a photo or image, create a mouth, and use a microphone, phone call, or sound file to give it a voice.
 * 3) BubblePLY: Add word bubbles to videos!
 * 4) Glogster: Create online, interactive posters.
 * 5) GoAnimate: Create animated cartoons.
 * 6) MuseumBox: Create a "box" of images, text, video, and document files about a particular topic.
 * 7) Photovisi: Create photo or picture collages.
 * 8) Prezi: Create online, zooming presentations
 * 9) PollEverywhere: Create online polls that students can complete through text on their cell phone.
 * 10) Quizlet: Create flashcards, quizzes, etc. and share with others.
 * 11) ScanR: Scan and create PDFs of documents using your phone!
 * 12) Slideshare: Upload and share Powerpoint presentations. Can embed presentation in a blog or website, or email to others.
 * 13) Speechable: Add speech bubbles to a photograph.
 * 14) TED: A website featuring talks about a variety of subjects by experts in the field.
 * 15) ToonDoo: Create your own comic strips.
 * 16) Voicethread: Can upload photos, videos, or files for comment. Students can comment. Two ways to sign up -- education subscription with student logins is $60/year, or can do free access and have students create own accounts with parent permission.
 * 17) Voki: Create avatars and then use a microphone or type to record their voice. Free or paid education version.
 * 18) Wordle: Create word clouds. You can type in individual words or cut and paste from a paragraph, book, RSS feed, etc. The more often a word appears in what you write, the larger it will appear in the word cloud. Can be used for pre-reading exercises, etc.
 * 19) Xtranormal: Create videos using avatars. Students can type dialogue and change backgrounds and characters. Basic sign-up is free; you can email creators to ask for an educator account, which will unlock all backgrounds and characters for free.