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Researching/Notetaking
Diigo - a social bookmarking website.
Springnote - an information organizing tool that lets you write thoughts and ideas anytime.
Zoho Notebook - an online portfolio.
Live Binder - students keep their research in a tabbed online binder.
Tizmos - a personalized homepage that allows you to see thumbnails of your favorite sites.
Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving.
Google Bookmarks-you can save shortcuts to your favorite webpages and navigate to them in seconds.
Google Custom Search allows you to create a search for your child based upon only sites that you approve.
Google Docs- users can create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users.
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Mindmapping/Timelines
Mindomo is an online mind map Software where users can create, view and share mind maps in their browser.
Dipity - is a free digital timeline website. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps.
Bubbl.us - concept-mapping web 2.0 application, similar to Inspiration, which allows the user to make graphical representations of ideas.
Grapholite - a web-based tool that makes creating graphs, charts and diagrams an absolute cinch. the same degree.
TimeToast - allows people to easily create interactive, online timelines.
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Blogging/Wikis/Story Telling/writing & Social Networking
PB Works - Online team collaboration to get work done.
Storybird - a service that uses collaborative storytelling to connect kids and families. Two (or more) people create a Storybird in a round robin fashion by writing their own text and inserting pictures.
Wordle - is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide.
Tagzedo - Turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
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Photography/Virtual Tours/Creating Maps
Picnik - is a onestop photo editing site.
Mapwing - Have you ever wanted to create a virtual tour a place you have visted? Now you can with Mapwing.
Google Maps - a Google service offering powerful, user-friendly mapping technology and local business information.
Google Earth - is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program
CommunityWalk - a website that is dedicated to providing a powerful yet simple and easy to use interface for creating informational, interacive, and engaging maps.
Photosynth - Capture your world in 3D!
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Video
TeacherTube - a site much like YouTube, but targeted towards teachers. It is a safe site to find instructional videos for your child.
One True Media - A video making tool for quick and easy video creation.
Vuvox - a site that allows users to make multimedia presentations in the form of interactive slide shows.
Animoto - is a web application that produces videos from photos, video clips and music.
Go Animate - an animation creation tool. Imagine the great animations your child can create based upon his/her interests.
Xtranormal - an animation creation site much like Go Animate
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Creativity
Google Sites - a structured wiki- and web page-creation tool
Protopage - read your own selection of news and blogs, keep bookmarks, to-do lists, sticky notes, and much more.
Wix - a free Flash-based website creation tool.
Glogster - create GLOGS - online multimedia posterswith text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds,drawings, data attachments and more.
Pixton - the #1 do-
it-yourself comic
website! .
ToonDoo - a fast and easy way to make comic strips, comic books and a lot more.
Museum Box - provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in avirtual box. |