50+Sites+for+Web+2.0+Tools


 * 1) **[|19 Pencils]** - 19Pencils is the easiest way for teachers to discover, share and manage web-based educational content with students. A teacher can create quizzes, websites, track students, and more.
 * 2) **[|ACMI Generator]** - This is a great site for older students for digital storytelling and creating a storyboard scene with a script.
 * 3) **[|Animoto]** - Create wonderful looking slideshows that includes, video, images, music, and more.
 * 4) **[|Aviary Education]** - A safe private environment to use Aviary's suite of online tools for: audio, video, and image editing.
 * 5) **[|Boom Writer]** - BoomWriter is a supremely engaging creative writing website that has students reading, writing and assessing content in ways they’ve never done before!
 * 6) **[|Classtell]** - A nice site for teachers to create an educational website.
 * 7) **[|Diigo]** - Social bookmarking for teachers where they can create free student accounts.
 * 8) **[|Dropbox]** - A great way to share and collaborate on documents on a number of different electronic devices.
 * 9) **[|Edmodo]** - A wonderful safe/secure learning environment for teachers and students. A nice all-in-one solution for education.
 * 10) **[|Educaplay]** - A excellent way to create interactive multimedia educational activities.
 * 11) **[|Every1Speaks]** - A learning platform where students learn through collaborative enquiry-based learning.
 * 12) **[|Gaggle]** - A excellent suite of online learning tools for filtered: emailing, messaging, forums, and more.
 * 13) **[|Glogster]** - Creating collaborative and interactive posters in this safe environment. A wonderful and very popular web 2.0 tool.
 * 14) **[|GoAnimate]** - A terrific way to create custom animations with an educational portal.
 * 15) **[|Google Apps for Education] -** Does it really get much better than this?
 * 16) **[|Gnowledge] -** A wonderful site to create collaborative online quizzes, share resources, view others quizzes, and more. Excellent tech support and tutorial videos as well.
 * 17) **[|Grockit Answers]** - A great teaching tool to create a Q/A session for any YouTube video.
 * 18) **[|Kidblog]** - A fantastic way to create a safe environment for students to blog in. Everything is controlled by the teacher as a moderator.
 * 19) **[|Kerpoof]** - Lots of educational activities can be found here such as: make a movie, draw a picture, and more.
 * 20) **[|Kubbu]** - A free site for teachers to create games, quizzes, or crosswords and then share them with students and view/analyze their results.
 * 21) **[|Little Bird Tales]** - A wonderful free site for digital storytelling that allows kids to record and narrate their story.
 * 22) **[|Live Binders]** - Is an excellent site for creating an online binder to collect and share resources with others.
 * 23) **[|MentorMob]** - One of my favorite new sites for curating the web into learning "playlists." This is an innovative way to teach a lesson, unit, or any given topic.
 * 24) **[|Mixbook]** - A great site for digital storytelling in a safe environment. Educators get a discount on printed books.
 * 25) **[|Musicshake]** - Legal, copyright, free music for every student in your school - created by students, right from a browser.
 * 26) **[|Myths & Legends]** - One of the best free sites around for digital storytelling in a safe environment with lots of characters, themes, and objects to choose from.
 * 27) **[|PhotoPeach]** - An excellent site for creating slideshows and creating and managing student accounts.
 * 28) **[|PikiFriends]** - A fun safe environment for online pen pals for middle school and high school students.
 * 29) **[|Pixton]** - A great way to motivate students by creating digital stories using this comic creator.
 * 30) **[|PresentationTube]** - A nice windows app for creating presentations out of PowerPoint slides.
 * 31) **[|Prezi]** - A excellent site for creating zooming slideshows and presentations.
 * 32) **[|Primary Access]** - A free suite of online tools for students and teachers to create digital movies, storyboards, and other activities.
 * 33) **[|Primary Wall]** - A real-time collaboration tool that allows students and teachers to create a page of online sticky notes. Great for mind mapping and brainstorming!
 * 34) **[|Skype in the Classroom]** - A great collaboration tool for classrooms to video or audio chat with other educators and students.
 * 35) **[|SideVibe]** - Turn bookmarked web content into blended classroom lessons.
 * 36) **[|SlideRocket]** - All you need is a Google Apps account to use this free tool to creating stunning presentations.
 * 37) **[|SpellingCity]** - One of the best sites around for teaching and learning Spelling and Vocabulary. A very user-friendly and engaging site to use.
 * 38) **[|Storybird]** - A fantastic site to inspire students to read & write through the use of digital storytelling.
 * 39) **[|StoryJumper]** - A great site for digital storytelling where students can incorporate their own art, publish online, share with others, or order a print copy.
 * 40) **[|SymbalooEDU]** - A wonderful way to organize educational sites into one location for students.
 * 41) **[|Triptico]** - A great free tool for teachers to help create, share, and edit interactive lessons.
 * 42) **[|ToonDoo Spaces]** - Create a private and safe environment for digital storytelling through the use of an online comic.
 * 43) **[|VoiceThread]** - One of the most popular web 2.0 sites around for creating dynamic and interactive slideshows and presentations. Also, another great tool for digital storytelling.
 * 44) **[|Webspiration]** - From the creators of Inspiration comes this excellent web portal for creating mind maps, brainstorms, outlines, and more.
 * 45) **[|Weebly]** - Create a free class/student blog or website.
 * 46) **[|Wolfram Alpha]** - There is now an educational portal for Wolfram's computational search engine. This portal contains dynamic textbooks, lesson plans, widgets, interactives, and more.
 * 47) **[|Yacapaca]** - A nice free all-in-one solution for schools for creating quizzes, surveys, assessments, and more.
 * 48) **[|YouTube for Schools]** - Access 1000s of YouTube videos in a controlled environment without having to worry about comments.
 * 49) **[|Zimmer Twins]** - A great site for digital storytelling with an educational portal.
 * 50) **[|Zoho Wiki]** - A nice site for educators to create online interactive content.

(Taken from **50 Web 2.0 Sites for Schools** a blog post in **Tech & Learning**, an online newsletter providing insight and innovation for technology leaders)