Doggone Great Sites!

 

What are Web 2.0 Tools? Here is a great resource!

Presentation Tools

280 Slides

Create a slideshow directly on the web, no software required. Professional quality built-in themes. Add photos and movies to your presentation directly from popular web services like Flickr and YouTube.
Store your presentations securely so you can take them anywhere in the world where there's an Internet connection.
Download to PowerPoint with a single click.
Put your presentation on SlideShare, e-mail it to a friend, or embed it directly on your own website.

 

Slide

Upload pictures, create effects and transitions

Photoshow

Turn your photos into a musical PhotoShow in just minutes

Voicethread

Create a slideshow of images or video and you and others can comment on each
photo by text, audio or video. Embed into any webpage.

Letterpop

Create professional looking newsletters

WebPoster

This tool allows educators to create a lesson, worksheet, or class page and immediately publish it online. Teachers can also set up classes and assign projects to students. Students complete the assignments by creating their own online projects or reports. Teachers and students can even add images and links to their pages.

Photo Story 3

Free download for Windows.
Create slideshows using your digital photos. Touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures.
Add stunning special effects, soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your photo stories. Personalize them with titles and captions.

Smilebox

Fun tool. Free! All you do is add photos, videos, words, music. Email, blog or print it

MuseumBox

Provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. You can add text, images, video and sound to the side of the cubes.

Get Organized!

Webspiration

This is the web version of Inspiration.
I like this, but it does ask a lot of questions when you register (free). It will help you capture ideas, organize information, diagram processes, create clear, concise written documents. Publish your diagram or outline to a hosted and protected area of the Webspiration web site. Share the URL with friends or colleagues or use the code provided to embed the document in a web page, blog, or wiki.

ClassTools

A favorite! Templates for source analyzer, priority chart, jigsaw diagram, learning cycle, living graph, hamburger, target, lights out, venn diagram, fishbone, diamond 9, post it, dustbin game, random name picker, random timer, flash card generator. Embed into any webpage.

EducationOasis

58 graphic organizers. Download as PDFs.

Timetoast

Create timelines or view others, share them on the web. Upload photos.

Teachnology

Make a simple timeline of up to 6 events. Time Lines can run horizontal or vertical.

Diigo

 
Save your favourite websites and tag pages. Join groups and invite friends to be part of your group. Annotate webpages and read annotations of others.
 

 

Delicious

 
Save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what other people are bookmarking. Search and tagging tools to help you keep track of your entire bookmark collection and find new bookmarks.
 

 

Bonzo Box

 
Instantly save your favorite websites to your BonzoBox as real-time images. Save time by clicking through to your favorite websites without having to retype your log-in information every time.

The Funnies!

Toondoo

Create cartoon strips and cartoon books. Use your own photos or site graphics. Embed into any webpage.

Make Beliefs Comix

Use simple tools to create comic strips

Super Action Comic Maker

Create a story using super action comic heroes. Make a futuristic sculpture and watch it react.

Funny Times

Build your own cartoon.

Let's Write!

Piclits

Perfect for ESOL or Special Education ! This is an awesome creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.

Writing Fun

Using text organisers to assist students with the writing process
 

CitationMaker

Create records for books, web sites, interviews, images, music and sound effects, videos and animation, and more. Records can be formatted in either APA or MLA format.
 

Citebite

Paste a chunk of text and the URL of the page containing the text and in return

Confusing Words

A collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused

Grammar Grater

A weekly podcast about English words, grammar and usage for the Information Age.

WordAhead

Vocabulary videos for word meanings and use in sentences. Can upload own

Doodle, Paint, Draw...it's all here!

Artpad

Drawing pad with paint and text. Choose a frame, save and play back as a movie of the drawing being created. I cannot find any way of embedding.
Tux for Kids Tux4Kids develops high-quality software for kids, with the goal of combining fun and learning into an irresistible package. This  software is free: you can download it for use at home or onto hundreds of computers in a school

Google Sketchup

A 3D software tool that combines a tool-set with an intelligent drawing system. Enables to place models using real-world coordinates.
Create, modify and share 3D models.

Wordle

Generate “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

Cartoonster

Teaches you how to draw and animate cartoons online

Bonomo

Creative art work VERY COOL! Younger kids will love this!

Pictaps

Draw your person, let it come to life with preset animation.

Scribbler

Create spectacular line sketches from a simple drawing.

Cool Text

Free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own custom image created on the fly

Typogenerator

Turns a piece of text into a piece of art

Yourfonts

Online font generation service that allows you to create your own fonts within a couple of minutes. Your own handwriting turned into your own font. Use your fonts on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Personalize your digital scrapbook pages. Make your own "family handwriting history. Make as many fonts as you like.
NOTE - as from 21 April, 2009 downloads will require a payment.

FontCapture

Create a font from your very own handwriting. There's no software to download and install, all you need is a printer and a scanner.

Glitter Text Live

Glitter text generator to embed into any webpage

Fontstruct

Build, share and download your own fonts.

Build Your WILD Self

Design your human self and then add your animal parts