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Tagxedo, word clouds with style. Create a word cloud within a shape, for example, take the words pertaining to flowers and put it in to the shape of a flower
http://www.tagxedo.com/

Graphics Programs

Internet Dectective - Use this free Internet tutorial to learn to discern the good, the bad, and the ugly for your online research.

(aimed for upper high schooland college, but I think you could adapt for MS)

Sweet Search- Sites that have been evaluated by research experts, teachers, and librarians.

Library Games - An online game to teach shelving skills and book order

Monarch Butterfly spring Migration - visuale chart of the migration timetable of Monarch Butterflies

Site Tour Of Finding Dulcinea Sweet Search and beyond

Top 25 sites Tech and Learning Magazine


    1. Kidblog - Great way for schools to have kids blog. No student email is required and everything is monitored before being posted online.
    2. Sweet Search - Excellent search engine for students, as everything has been reviewed by educators.
    3. Cacoo - Nice site for creating online charts and graphs with a built-in chat feature for collaboration.
    4. 21 Classes - Get students blogging in a safe and secure environment.
    5. Story Jumper -Excellent site for digital storytelling, with many educational resources for teachers.
    6. Middlespot - Innovative website for social bookmarking that allows users to collect sites in a visual way.
    7. Education Eye - Fun site for brainstorming with this visual search engine.
    8. Kizoa - Great site for creating animated slide shows with lots of different content to choose from.
    9. Drag on Tape - Very user-friendly site that uses a drag-n-drop interface to edit and mix video.
    10. Shwup - Great site for making collaborative slide shows.
    11. PreZentit - Very similar to Shwup, a nice looking site for making collaborative slide shows.
    12. Quintura for Kids - A search engine for kids that acts a bit like a tag cloud where results can be embedded into a site.
    13. TodaysMeet - Create a real-time, private, back channel chat that brings in tweets from Twitter.
    14. MeMoov - Very user-friendly site for digital storytelling that allows users to record their voice for narration.
    15. Wordia - Brings words to life through the use of video.
    16. Encyclomedia - Video encyclopedia where results can be embedded into a site.
    17. Zooburst - Great site for for digital storytelling, where a user can make an online 3D pop-up book.
    18. Jay Cut - Similar to iMovie that allows users to edit or create a video.
    19. Splashup - Looks like Photoshop and is a great way to edit photos and manipulate layers and effects.
    20. Comic Master - Fun site for digital storytelling that has a drag-n-drop interface.
    21. Knowcase - Create collaborative outlines with this easy-to-use site.
    22. Cloud Canvas - Great site for photo editing and drawing or painting, similar to Splashup.
    23. Magic Studio - Great multi-media site for uploading photos,documents or video and then editing them.
    24. Googlios - A way for students to create digital portfolios online using Google Tools.
    25. We are Teachers - Social network for educators where lots of ideas and lessons can be found.
David Kapuler is an educational consultant with more than 10 years of experience working in the K-12 environment. For more information about his work, contact him at dkapuler@gmail.com and read his blog at cyber-kap.blogspot.com