Web2Tools

Creativity:
Glogster EDU to create online multimedia posters.  Teacher can safely manage students and classes. I think students would enjoy using glogster for writing a descriptive text, retelling an event (e.g. field trip), sequencing (e.g., butterfly cycle) or advertising an event (e.g., open house, friendship party).  http://edu.glogster.com/

Twitter Chat Tools:
Are you looking for an easier way to follow along a conversation on a chat? Try the following:
Tweetchat: http://tweetchat.com/
Twubs:  http://twubs.com/


Books:
Storybird to make stories, share them and print them.  Fantastic for shared writing.  http://storybird.com/

Zooburst lets you create your digital story book in 3D.  http://www.zooburst.com/
Littlebirdtales to create your story with your art work, voice and text.   http://littlebirdtales.com/

Zinepal to create an online ebook.  http://www.zinepal.com/
Youblisher to turn your work into publications.  http://www.youblisher.com/
Simplebooklet   Create multi-page brochures, guides, books that can be shared across the web.  http://simplebooklet.com/index-sb.php

Flyers/Brochures:
Zeen:  easy to use, you can include words, pictures, links...  http://zeen.com/
Posterini:  create posters http://posterini.com/
My Brochure Maker:  choose from many templates http://www.mybrochuremaker.com/
Smore:  to create flyers, there is a monthly fee https://www.smore.com/

Presentation:
Voicethread a collaborative multimedia slide show that allows people to leave comments in 5 ways.  I've use this to work on oral language goals such as students recording their persuasive texts, evaluating the author's point of view...  It's a great for collaboration as the students can comment on their peers work.  http://voicethread.com/
Prezi to create dynamic and engaging presentation with Prezi.  You can collaborate with your colleagues or students on the same presentation in real time.  I think I will use this to wow my parents at the next meet the teacher night.  You can also get the app!  prezi.com

Sharing Presentations:
Slideshare:  share privately or publicly a power point presentation, word document...  http://www.slideshare.net/

Mind Mapping:
Popplet is great for brainstorming and lets you share your ideas with others popplet users.  You can also get the app!  My students enjoyed using popplet to predict/visualize our Winterlude field trip activities.  After our fieldtrip we used popplet to share our ideas on our likes and dislikes.  popplet.com
Mind42   mind map collaboration tool http://mind42.com/
Bubbl.us  for brainstorming ideas https://bubbl.us/
Padlet:  great for exit cards and consolidation of student learning  http://padlet.com/
Mural.ly:  great to discuss ideas

Thanks to twitter I will be trying more web 2.0 tools to use in my classroom, visit the following link!  101 Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers You Should Know About:   http://www.goedonline.com/101-web-tools-for-teachers

Looking to create avatars?  Check out these sites, they are free and easy to use.

This is a social networking that lets you play games, chat, create your own avatar...  So far, I've only use this to create my MeeWee and export it to use for my messenger client.  If you have a yahoo, gigya or outlook email, you can your export to create your email signature. Pretty Cool!
http://www.weeworld.com/

Have fun and create clay avatar and share it through twitter.  No need to sign up for an account with your email!  I've created virtual characters to use in newsletters or websites instead of photos. 
http://clayyourself.com/







I've used Voki with my students to record messages for their parents (e.g., field trip tomorrow, what they learned that day, spirit day tomorrow) The students love to create their avatars, record their voices and post them to our class blog or twitter.  It's a great way to motivate students to participate orally!
http://www.voki.com/  kid


http://www.messdudes.com/

Create Puzzles Using the student's Pictures!  I learned from Celestina,  a teacher from the United States, involved in our Building Bridges global project how to use jigsawplanet.com to create an introduction activity "handshake" to present her class.

 Here is what she did to create the project: 

1)  Students wrote their names on paper and a fact about themselves. 
2)  She took a picture of them holding their paper. 
3)  She uploaded their pictures to her Diigo account, which is a social 
bookmarking website.  She had them all on this list.
4)  They used the laptops and students found their picture and saved it 
to that computer. 
5)  Students then uploaded their pictures to this site: 
http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=createpuzzle&ret=%2F 
6)  Once they created their puzzles, they saved them into this Google 
Doc.

jigsawplanet.com

Easy way to create cartoons and comic strips: 
http://goanimate.com/
http://www.bitstrips.com/
http://www.toondoo.com/