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**Language Arts**


 * [|Voki] - talking avatars. Talking avatars are a really great way to get your students’ attention really quickly. A Voki can be created by a teacher to introduce material or to give directions, or better yet, created by a student to share information. Students can let their Voki give a character description, a science vocabulary word, or the reasoning behind a math solution. There’s no limit to what a Voki can do!

> Samples > [|Tutorial]Directions  
 * [|Blabberize] -Make a mouth move and talk.

> I made 2 accounts because one will only give you limited use. One is under pstrout: comets (using san roque school mail). The other uses home mail and is comets; comets1 - for this one I used Alan’s birthday as the birthdate. A "premium" version will be out soon for school use. > created accounts using studentname@srtechlab.otherinbox.com. passwords are all comets.
 * [|Zooburst] - Create 3-D PopUp Books - ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that is designed to let anyone easily create their own customized 3D pop-up books. ZooBurst books are completely web-based. The kids love them! Books can be inspected from any angle from with a 3D space, and rotating around a book is as easy as dragging and dropping your mouse. In addition, the author of a book can choose to make items "clickable," allowing you to learn more about individual characters within a story. Items within a book can be customized using a variety of tools, including item sizing, rotation and coloring. You can also upload your own images into ZooBurst using an integrated file management tool that maintains a "library" of materials on a book-by-book basis.

> I like the idea of this a lot. But am having trouble with it because it seems like you have to pay to use it. I need to check further to see about educational use. > Getting Started Guide > pstrout@sanroque.net > pstrout > comets
 * [|Voice Thread] - Voice Thread allows students to create slideshows that become interactive and collaborative. This is a great place for students to discuss common genres and books online. Students can create a slideshow summary of their book with pictures, audio, and text. Other students can leave text, audio, or drawn comments on the book reviews. Voice Thread would be a great place to begin online classroom book clubs.


 * [|Wildlife Film Maker] - From National Geographics. Combine video, sound, music and captions to make a film about an animal.

> The easiest way to start is to use it as a story starter. Students can watch a “starter” video and finish the story however they would like. The first time you introduce the site, it might be fun to complete a video as a class. Then students can take over and create their own ending to a movie. After your students are familiar with the website, they can start a story from scratch. Students could direct “screen plays” of their writing, as a way to publish their finished work. > Students could create a movie where the main character is being interviewed, the story is being summarized, or retold. Students could also create movies about historical events, describing a science experiment or concept, in math as a story problem, to demonstrate understanding any topic. > Students can create a movie without registering; however, they will not be able to save their creation. Creating an account requires an email address, so using otherinbox would be helpful to pre-make accounts.
 * [|Zimmer Twins] - Easy movie making. Edgar and Eva Zimmer are 12 year old twins who appear normal but have developed psychic powers. Strange things began to happen when the twins adopted a black cat named 13. On this website, students can create their own cartoon movie endings to a story starter or create their own animated movie from scratch. Students can create and edit movies solo or “Collab-o-write” and work together creating a collaborative movie.


 * [|MeMoov] - Make a movie

> pstrout > comets
 * [|Xtranormal - Make Movies] - write scripts, move camera angles, etc. - Xtranormal Text-to-Movie lets students create and direct their own animated movies. Students can choose a set, actors, and music for their videos. It allows students a huge amount of control of exactly how their movie will look - they can choose camera angles, animations, expressions, looks, points, and sounds. The site is very intuitive and user-friendly for students in third grade (with a little guidance) and up. Xtranormal is a great way for students to express what they know creatively. Students can use it to create mocumentaries on any subject, students could interview historical figures, report on geographical occurances, or create public service announcements. It would be an excellent alternative to the traditional book report. Students could interview one or several characters from the book or create a little review show about the book. The interface is intuative enough that the focus will be on the learning, not on the tool.


 * [|Domo Animate] - make a movie


 * [|Concrete Poetry] - program allows you to choose a shape or draw your own shape. Then you can fill the shape with words or poetry. There is a word bank to choose words from, or you can write your own words.


 * [|Newspaper]- write an article for a newspaper.


 * [|My Brochure Maker]

> Tutorial > pstrout@sanroque.net > pstrout - comets
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Glogster] -create an interactive poster - Use Glogster to create an online book poster that acts as an advertisement for the book they just read. Students should include the title and author of the book, key characters, use pictures that support the story line, and create a tag line that will make others want to read the book.

> Upload field trip pictures to Fotobabble and students can record thoughts, observations, and lessons they learned on the field trip. Upload student illustrations and record a story that they have written using their own voice. Upload a picture of a landmark or map and have students record fun facts that they have learned about the place. Take a picture of a project that the class has done, or of a fun activity from the week. Record special Mother’s Day or Father’s Day greetings.... > pstrout > comets
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Fotobabble] - upload a picture, record your voice. Just upload a photo, record your voice, and send or embed it. It is very simple to use and has really fun results! The only downside for use in education are: 1. on the home page you can see other members creations, which may not always be G-rated. 2. To use Fotobabble as a student, you must first sign up. This requires an email address . You can created an account that can be a “class” account. ---


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">﻿[|SuperLame] - add text bubbles to photos - It lets you upload a photograph, add text in balloons, and add script as a sound effect.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Create a Super Hero]
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Wordle] - Generates word clouds


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Word Clouds] - like Wordle but more for elementary age students - Wordle is for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Tagul] - like Wordle but with shapes

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Sketchcast] - record a sketch (or math problem) with voice over.

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Talking Pets] - choose an animal, write a script, make it talk
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Create an Animated Tomato] (or flower or squirrel)

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|The House of Scary Words] - a storybook where you can change words
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|A Journey to the Darkest Somewhere] - a storybook where you can change words


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Slidesix] - uploads Powerpoint or Keynote presentations to the web.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Imageloop] - create a slideshow from photos that can be put on the web.

> It can be used in place of PowerPoint type applications. Because it is web-based, students could start a project at school and finish it at home. Students can choose to narrate during the presentation or just sit and watch (this will save your shy students). This program is very intuative and easy for students to learn. > Prezentit equires a valid email address to activate your account - or you can activate using a teacher e-mail address.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Prezentit]- create presentations online. Prezentit is a free online resource for creating and sharing presentations online PowerPoint style. No special software is needed, It is an online application that allows teachers or students to create and present from a web browser. Presentations can be public or private and each has its own web address. Presentations can be downloaded and shown without any internet connection. There is no file size limit.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Animato] - Make a slideshow video or upload a video, add sound, etc.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|One True Media] - create presentations online


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Slide.com] - create a sldeshow. You can use images from your computer or from Flickr. After your images are in the correct order, you can customize your slideshow. Scroll up to the Customize Slideshow section. There you can add styles, skins, themes, and add music. The music is already licensed to slide.com, so you don’t have to worry about copyright issues. [|Sample.]


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Storybook Web] - This site helps students think like an author. It gives them an inside look at how authors think about writing. Use this site as an introduction to a writing activity. Students can watch the author videos and get an inside look at the process that a writer goes through. There is a nice wordbank in Storybook web to help young writers.

> Currently in an open Beta version. Right now all features on Storybird are free. Storybird plans to keep story creation, reading, and sharing as free features. Premium (pay-for) features will be added.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Storybird] - Writing Stories - Storybird is a fun new collaborative storytelling website. Students and teachers can create stories together by combining imaginative artwork and text. The final product can be printed, watched on screen, played with like a toy, or shared in an online library with the world.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Picture Book Maker] - writing stories - This would work well for the younger students after a trip to the zoo. The characters are zoo animals (limited choices) and each has several “actions.” The artwork looks like crayon art work and the font is child-like. I don’t see where it would embed, but it can be e-mailed as its own site. A link to that site could be included in a webpage.

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Story Jumper] - for writing and publishing books
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">T[|ikatok] - for writing and publishing books
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|MixBook] - create books online


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Toondoo] - Cartoon Strip Creator


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Kidblog] - for teachers to create class blogs


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|MP3 to Go] - a vast library of recorded literature to download or listen to. Listed by author.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Skype an Author] - virtual author visits


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Typedrawing]- Use letters to draw a picture. Saves to gallery. can be copied for webpage.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Read the Words] - Text to speech


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Flip Book Maker] from Read, Write, Think.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Answer Garden] - is a fun way for students to brainstorm, plan, and work together. Pose open-ended thinking questions on your classroom blog or website for students to answers or host a classroom poll. Create a geography Answer Garden that gives students a place that they can describe a state or country they are learning about. Use it during reading as a place for students to reflect on different characters, plots, settings, and themes. In history, give students a date range, event, or historical figure and let them add words to the Answer Garden that describe. In the primary classroom, type in a phoneme combination and have students submit words that fit the phoneme rule. Lots of possibilities.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Spelling with Flickr]


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Bookr] - Use Flicker images to write stories


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Phrasr] - Use Flicker images to illustrate a phrase


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|FlickerPoet] - Type in a poem - Flickr will illustrate it with pictures for you

> You make your sentences by dragging words up on the photograph in whatever placement you select. If you want a different version of the same word, you can click on the word and a small pull-down menu appears and you can select a version of the word.There is also a free-style feature where you can write from scratch without using the suggested words. > It is fun to look at different pic lits that use similar photos. If you used a dolphin, click to see other piclits that used the same dolphin. > PicLits does require registration, but once you’ve created a PicLit you can save it or embed it. > pstrout@sanroque.net > comets > pen name - srcomets
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|PicLit] - like refrigerator magnet poetry but with pictures - The idea is to select a photograph from the collection, then use the suggested words to write a sentence, a poem, a haiku, or whatever about the photograph. There is wide variety of photographs and each one has a range of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs specific to the photograph, as well as an assortment of universal words such as a, the, has, my, etc.