PikiStrips

PikiStrips is a site that has been making some waves lately in the online world. It is a site that is similar to Pixton for creating digital comics.

While PikiStrips is a nice site for what it does, I would not recommend it for education, merely due to the fact of some of the inappropriate content for schools. There is a number of clip art that a person can select and some of them just wouldn't be school appropriate such as: Borat, body parts, etc etc. However, that being said I see this as a real nice/easy site to use and can see a teacher using it to create a digital comic for their class (via a screen shot).




Give PikiStrips a try by clicking here.

Tagexdo

Tagxedo is a new (beta) site for creating excellent looking word clouds. It reminds me very much of Tagul in where you can custom make your word clouds into anything you like. A really nice feature which I haven't seen before is the ability to even use words as custom "word cloud" shapes.

Below are samples of what you can do in Tagexdo...



Give Tagexdo a try by clicking here.

Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for the great site!!

TodaysMeet

TodaysMeet is a great back channeling site that I found out about from the equally great blog, Educational Technology Guy. After experiencing the use of a back channel chat at the Wisconsin Educational Technology Association (WEMTA) first hand, I really started to love the way it could be used during professional development/presentations.

TodaysMeet is another great site that does this very thing. It will create a private room, that people can chat in, in real time, and even bring in posts from Twitter via a hashtag.



I highly recommend checking out TodaysMeet by clicking here.

Open Clip Art

Open Clip Art is a great search engine for clip art that I found out about from Alexandra Fransisco. Since users can upload the clip art I doubt there is any filtering going on. However, if used appropriately I think OCA can be a great site for students.

Below is a search on the term, Technology...



I highly recommend checking out Open Clip Art by clicking here.

Flash Classroom

Flash Classroom is a site I just learned about from Zarco English. This is an excellent site which provides K-12 resources that use Flash technology in the classroom. This site provides ways to create content using flash as well as excellent ideas used throughout the world.




Give FC a try by clicking here.

VisWiki

VisWiki is a site which I learned about from Free Technology 4 Teachers and reminds me a lot of Navify. This is a great site for searching through resources (especially Wikipedia) visually.

Below is a search on the term, Technology Integration...



Give VisWiki a try by clicking here.

Space Time 3D

Space Time 3D is a new (beta) search that reminds a lot of Time Machine. It has a coverflow type look to it.

Below is a search on the term, 21st Century Technology....



Give Space Time 3D a try by clicking here.