Web+2.0

Sites for creating free Wiki's

 * ====What is a Wiki? Find out by watching Wikis in Plain English by the Commoncraft Show ====
 * ====Wetpaint- is the largest network of free websites. Wetpaint sites are great for fansites, groups, classes, and more ====
 * ====Wikispaces ====
 * ====PB Wiki ====

Sites for creating free Blogs

 * ====What is a Blog? Find out by watching Blogs in Plain English by the Commoncraft Show ====
 * ====Blogger- Create your own free blog. It's easy to post text, photos, and videos. Flexibility to personalize your blog with themes, gadgets, and more. ====
 * ====Wordpress- A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. ====
 * ====Edublogs- is focused on providing a fast, reliable, secure and safe blogging environment for teachers and students. ====
 * ====Typepad- is the premier blogging service for professionals and small businesses. ====
 * ====Moveable Type- Movable Type 5 takes a new approach to social publishing by starting with a website and adding blogs. ====

RSS

 * ====What is RSS (rich site summary)? Find out by watching RSS in Plain English by the Commoncraft Show ====
 * ====Bloglines- ====

Online Photo Sharing

 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">What is Online Photo Sharing? Find out by watching Online Photo Sharing in Plain English by the Commoncraft Show ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Flickr- ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Picasa ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Shutterfly ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">SmugMug ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">MorgueFile- free photos, public images ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Kodak Gallery ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Cooliris- photo walls from search results (plug-in for browsers) ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Tag Galaxy- world of photos from search results ====

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Image Games and Generators

 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Spell with Flickr- ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Flickr Color Pickr- lets you find public photos in Flickr that match a specific color. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Flickr Montager- Enter a tag and this site will create a mosaic comprised of images. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Flickr Memry- Traditional memory game created with Flickr images. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Big Huge Labs - Here you might want to try the motivational poster, badge maker, magazine cover, movie poster, Jigsaw, or trading cards. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">ImageGenerator.org - This site represents one-stop shopping for image generators. You may find it more challenging to use than Big Huge Labs, but it definitely has possibilities. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Sketch Up - free computer-aided design ====

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Presentations

 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">SlideShare ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Zoho Show create, edit and share your presentations online ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">PreZenit- Create presentations in a few clicks, wherever you are. Work with your team in the same presentation at the same time. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Animoto- upload pictures. Animoto analyses the images, feels the music, customises the video. Publish to any webpage ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Animoto for Education: @http://animoto.com/education ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Flixtime (similar to Animoto) ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Prezi- Create maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings and present in a nonlinear way. Move beyond the slide. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">xtranormal: @http://www.xtranormal.com/ ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Slidesix- Upload your presentations and share them with your friends (publicly or privately). You can even add video and/or audio by recording it directly within the site! ====

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Word Clouds

 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Wordle- is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">WordSift: @http://www.wordsift.com/ ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Word It Out: @http://worditout.com/ ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Visuwords: http://www.visuwords.com ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Tagul Word Clouds (Word Cloud Shapes): @http://tagul.com/ ====

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Podcasts
> ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Great Educational Podcasts - Part 1 ==== > ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Great Eduational Podcasts - Part 2 ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">What is a Podcast? Find out by watching Podcasting in Plain English by the Commoncraft Show ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Watch these two episodes of RESA's Tech to Go for a guided tour of educational podcasts. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Education Podcast Network ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Podcast Alley ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Audacity- Free Download. You will also need LAME in order to convert to MP3s. ====

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Copyright Friendly Music

 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">PodSafeAudio ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Jamendo - music you can use ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">PartnersInRhyme - both royalty-free and free sound effects ====

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Online Productivity-

 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">What is Google Docs? Find out by watching Google Docs in Plain English by the Commoncraft Show (you need to scroll down for this one) ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Google Docs ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Google Voice ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">DocStoc- is a community for people to find and share professional documents ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">bubbl.us brainstorm online with this free, concept mapping tool ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Remember the Milk create task list, share it, get reminders ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">30 Boxes online calendar ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">LibraryThing personal online bookshelf ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Trailfire create a "trail"of annotated web pages on any subject ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Dropbox- is the easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online. There's no complicated interface to learn. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Google Calendar - (Other Calendars -> Add -> Browse Interesting Calendars) lots of fun stuff! ====

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Polls and Surveys

 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Polldaddy ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">SurveyMonkey ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Poll Everywhere ====

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Online Video

 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">YouTube ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">TeacherTube ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">SchoolTube ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Ustrem.tv- allows you to set up a free account and post videos and stream live ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Next Vista for Learning ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">United Streaming ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Photo Story 3 ====

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Download and/or Convert Online Video

 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Zamzar ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">KeepVid ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">PWNY on YouTube ====

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Widgets

 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Miniclock just what it says, a mini clock ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">ClustrMaps visual map of who visits your blog ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Voki ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Google Gadgets collection of Google widgets ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Widgetbox huge assortment of widgets ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Widgetbox: Education list of education related widgets ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">PBS Teacher Activity Packs education related widgets ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Wallwisher- is an online notice board maker. ====

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Social Bookmarking & Tagging

 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">What is Social Bookmarking? Find out by watching Social Bookmarking in Plain Enlish by the Commoncraft Show ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Delicious- Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using Delicious, the world's leading social bookmarking service. ====

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Make Flashcards

 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Knowtes create a deck of virtual flashcards for study ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Flashcarddb- is the smarter, faster and more elegant way to create, study and share flash-cards online. ====

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Social Networking

 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">What is Social Networking? Find out by watching Social Networking in Plain English by the Commoncraft Show ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Facebook- is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">MySpace- Find friends & classmates, meet new people, listen to free music & build playlists, share photos, watch videos. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Twitter- is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Classroom 2.0- the social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and Social Media in education. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Fresh Brain - a place for teens to be wildly creative ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Ning- An online service to create, customize, and share a social network. ====

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Misc

 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Voice Thread- Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Urban Dictionary ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Tinyurl- Free URL redirection service. Turns a long URL into a much shorter one. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Evernote- a clever, worthwhile way to organize your thoughts, documents, and ideas. ====