With the end of the year right around the corner I decided to dedicate a post to my favorite websites of the year. At first I wanted to do a list of 10 choices, but after looking through the 100's of posts that I've done throughout the year I had to up that total to 25. Depending on feedback I might even do a top 100 or 50 if there is a demand.Top 25 Sites of 2010
- Kidblog - A great way for schools to have kids blog. No student email is required and everything is monitored before being posted online.
- Sweet Search - Excellent search engine for students as everything has been reviewed by educators before hand.
- Cacoo - A nice site for creating online charts/graphs w/ a built in chat feature for collaboration.
- 21 Classes - A nice way to get student's blogging in a safe/secure environment.
- Story Jumper -Excellent site for digital storytelling that has lots of educational resources for teachers.
- Middlespot - Is an innovative website for social bookmarking that allows users to collect sites in a visual way.
- Education Eye - Is a fun site for brainstorming w/ this visual search engine.
- Kizoa - A great site for creating animated slide shows w/ lots of different content to choose from.
- Drag on Tape - A very user friendly site that uses a drag-n-drop interface to edit/mix video.
- Shwup - Is a great site for making collaborative slide shows.
- PreZentit - Very similar to Shwup this is a nice looking site for making collaborative slide shows.
- Quintura for Kids - A search engine for kids that acts a bit like a tag cloud where results can be embedded into a site.
- TodaysMeet - Create a real-time, private, back channel chat that brings in tweets from Twitter.
- MeMoov - A very user friendly site for digital storytelling that allows users to record their voice for narration.
- Wordia - Brings words to life through the use of video.
- Encyclomedia - A video encyclopedia where results can be embedded into a site.
- Zooburst - A great site for for digital storytelling where a user can make an online 3D pop-up book.
- Jay Cut - A site similar to iMovie that allows users to edit or create a video.
- Splashup - Looks like Photoshop and is a great way to edit photos and manipulate layers/effects.
- Comic Master - A fun site for digital storytelling that has a drag-n-drop interface.
- Knowcase - Create collaborative outlines w/ this easy to use site.
- Cloud Canvas - A great site for photo editing and drawing/painting similar to Splashup.
- Magic Studio - A great mult-media site for uploading photos/documents/video and then editing them.
- Googlios - A way for students to create digital portfolios online using Google Tools.
- We are Teachers - A social network for educators where lots of ideas and lessons can be found.
I really like the Sweet Search. This would be a great search engine for students to use when they are doing a research paper.
ReplyDeleteI also like the different types of cites for making videos and editing photos.
Thank you for this list. It was of much help!
Do you have any others for a high school classroom?
Exploring all these will be one of my MLK weekend activities. I will need to categorize the list by function, e.g., how do KidBlog and 21 Classes stack up? I am always looking for incredibly easy-to-navigate tools for my K-5 students. Thank you!
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