Web 2.0 Tools

Search Engines
Sweet Search
Applies your search to a set of websites that have been evaluated by research experts.
Ask Kids
Kid friendly search engine that allows different options such as image or web search.
EyePlorer
Finds topics related to your search and organized them into a color coded wheel.  Perhaps the most powerful visual search engine I have seen!
Search Cube
Places your search results into a 3-D cube you can rotate and explore.  Powered by Google
KartOO
A highly customizable search engine that can place results into a map relating sites by category.
Google Squared
Google powered search that organizes search results into a table that you define.
Presentations
Blabberize
Go Animate!
Create your own animations from scratch using a wide variety of characters, props, and movements!
Glogster
Create online posters that are interactive!  Include web links, video, sound and much more!
Animoto
Upload pictures or video (new!) and choose or upload a song and Animoto puts together a great video for you!
ToonDoo
Create comic strips using their pictures and characters or upload your own.  You can even create your own character!
Timetoast Timelines
Create timelines and share them on the web.
Sketchcast
Records your drawing and turn it into a video.  You’ve got to try it on an Activboard!
ClassTools.net
Create a variety of flash based content including quizzes based on 1980s arcade games, flashcards, animated books, timelines and much more!
Blurb
Create your own books using their software, then publish as many as you like.
Pixlr
Very versatile web-based photo editing tool
Tux Paint
Great drawing tool for younger children.
Music
Free Play Music
Huge collection of royalty free production music and sounds, search by style, instruments, or even feeling.
Free Music Archive
A vast collection of royalty free music to use in podcasts or other creations.
Audacity
A free audio recording/editing platform
Language
Wordle
Copy text into this website and it makes a word picture, revealing which words are the most used, lots of great applications for this.
Taxgedo
Similar to Wordle, except this website allows you to create Word pictures around specific shapes and images.
World Lingo Translator
A completely free and very accurate language translator.  Paste in some text and select your language!
Sharing Ideas
Debategraph
A visual and interactive map of debates on different issues.  Log in and join the discussion!
Poll Everywhere
Online polling tool, can utilize computers or cell phones.

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