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 * Eight (or so) Easy 2.0 Pieces to Piece Together**


 * 1. Playing with images**


 * Avatar Makers**
 * [|Dream Avatar Creator (Joyce's favorite)]
 * [|Yahoo Avatars] (must have account)
 * [|Mr. PicassoHead (for cubist-types)]
 * [|Simpsons Avatar] and [|SimpsonizeMe]
 * [|Voki (talking avatars for blogs and wikis)]
 * [|Joyce's Avatars]


 * Image generators**
 * [|Flagrant Disregard's Flickr Toys (Joyce's pick)]
 * [|Image Chef (Joyce's pick)]
 * [|MagMyPic] (mock magazine covers)
 * [|TypoGenerator] (Create a poster from images and letters)
 * [|Swivel] (Quickly create graphs with data)
 * [|Says It.com]
 * [|Glass Giant's Make pictures]
 * [|Blackboard Generator]
 * [|Text 2 Pic]
 * [|Spell with Flickr]
 * [|Amaztype] (create words from stacks of books)
 * [|Graffiti Creator]
 * [|Catalog Card Generator]
 * [|Generator Blog]
 * [|Picnik] (if you don't have PhotoShop)


 * Copyright-friendly images and sound
 *  [|Creative Commons]
 *  [|Online Photosharing in Plain English]
 *  [|SpringfieldGallery]
 * [|Springfield Clipart]



 **2. Wikis** (the killer app!) 
 * [|Wikispaces for Teachers] (Joyce's pick)
 * [|PB Wiki For Education]
 * [|MediaWiki]
 * [|Wikia]
 * [|Tiddlywiki]
 * [|Wet Paint]
 * Examples:**
 *  Prerequisite (summer) reading lists!
 * German Art Project
 * [|Pathfinders]
 * Salute to Seuss
 * [|Welker’s Wikinomics]
 * Examples of educational wikis
 * WWI Poetry Visualization
 * [|AP World History Review Wiki]
 * [|Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki]
 * [|Lemony Snicket Wiki]
 * [|Third Grade Wikis] Grandview Library
 * [|Wikimedia]
 * [|Wikibooks]
 * [|Wikijunior]


 * Rationale** **and instruction**
 * [|Ten Reasons Why Your Next Pathfinder Should be a Wiki]
 * [|Video: Wikis in Plain English]
 * [|Classroom Use of Wikis] Teaching Hacks Tutorial


 *  3. Digital Storytelling / Booktalking**
 * 50 Ways to Tell a Story (Alan Levine--CogDogRoo fabulous list of tools and examples!) A must see!

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 * Tools**
 * [|VoiceThread]
 * VoiceThread for Education Wiki
 * German Art Project
 * Spanish 5 Myths and Legends
 * Spanish 4 Experiencias
 * AP Spanish Scary Stories
 * [|Global Studies VoiceThreads] (private)
 * [|Grandparents' Day]
 * [|Color Poems]
 * [|Animoto] (create music videos)
 * [|It's about equity]
 * [|Springfield Montage]
 * [|Animoto for Education]
 * [|PhotoShow]
 * [|ToonDoo] (cartoon generator)
 * [|xtimeline] (collaborative timelining tool)
 * [|ScrapBlog] (online scrapbook production)
 * [|OurStory]

Background Examples:  
 * [|Center for Digital Storytelling]
 * [|Elements of Digital Storytelling]
 * [|Apple Video Journalism]
 * [|Digitales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories]
 * [|Reading Olympics]
 * [|GreatBookStories] (digital storytelling about books)
 * [|BBC Telling Lives]
 * [|StoryKeepers' Gallery]
 * [|iCan Film Festival]
 * [|Parents]

  4. Personal Information Portals (for libraries, for teachers, for learners) >  Examples 
 *  [|iGoogle]
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> [|PageFlakes]
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> [|NetVibes]
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> [|Yahoo Widgets]
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> [|Dublin City Public Library]
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> [|UnQuiet Library]


 * 5. Polling / Information Gathering**<span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)">
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> [|PollDaddy] (Joyce's pick)
 * [|SurveyMonkey]
 * [|Viewlet Poll]
 * [|Stellar Survey]
 * [|Zoomerang]
 * [|Zoho Polls]
 * [|Response-o-matic] (for websites)
 * [|PollDaddy]

6. Free Blogspace

 * [|Edublogs.org]
 * [|Learnerblogs.org]
 * [|Uniblogs]
 * David Warlick's [|Blogmeister]
 * [|Blogger]
 * [|LiveJournal]
 * [|Thingamablog]
 * [|Lyceum]
 * [|Wordpress]

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 * Best Practice and Instruction**
 * [|Edublogs Awards]
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> [|ResearchLogTemplate!]
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> [|Tony's Blog]
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> Jeff's Class
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> Kevin's Class
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> Dallas' Class
 * Mr. Rodoff's Hamlet Blogs
 * Mr. Woehlcke's Hamlet Blogs
 * Mrs. McCaslin's Lit Circle Blogs
 * [|Gatsby Blog]
 * [|Hurston Blog]
 * [|The Secret Life of Bees] (Will Richardson's class)
 * [|Duck Diaries]
 * [|Trout Blog]
 * [|TipLine - Gates’ Computer Tips (resource blog)>>]
 * [|Mrs Cassidy's Classroom Blog]
 * [|Indexed]
 * [|Kate Says]
 * [|Mabry Middle School Library Blog]
 * [|Washington Middle School Library, Seattle]
 * [|The Reading Room (Northfield Mt. Hermon)>>]
 * [|World History Online]
 * [|Ten Ways to Use your Edublog to Teach]
 * [|Blogs in Plain English]
 * [|Alice Yucht's List of Librarian Blogs]

//(Ning will turn off ads if users are between 13 and 18)// [|Social Bookmarking in Plain English]
 * 7. Nings (social networking)** / **Social Bookmarking**
 * [|Ning.com]
 * [|TeacherLibrarianNing]
 * [|GlobalStudiesNing]
 * [|Edubloggercon]
 * [|Classroom20Ning]
 * [|Youth Services Ning]
 * [|Twitter]
 * [|Twitter WhoShouldIFollow]
 * [|Twitter in Plain English]
 * [|Diigo]
 * [|Del.icio.us]
 * [|Shelfari]
 * [|LibraryThing]
 * [|Children's Literature @ Library Thing]

<span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> **8. PowerPoint Reform Tools**

Other Slide Tools
 * [|Google Presentations]
 * [|Zoho Show]
 * [|Slide Rocket]
 * [|SlideShare]
 * [|Preezo]
 * [|Spresent]
 * [|MyPlick]
 * [|Thumbstacks]


 * Interactive Calendars**
 * [|Assignaday]
 * [|Google Calendar]
 * [|Scholastic Calendar]
 * [|Yahoo Calendar]

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 * Professional Development** (not just for you!)
 * [|California School Library Learning 2.0]
 * WebTools4U2Use
 * [|Helene Blowers' Learning 2.0]
 * [|Paul & Karen UDL Series]
 * [|Apple Learning Interchange: NECC]
 * [|TED.com] Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers
 * [|Hitchhikr] Hitch a conference ride
 * [|K12 Online Conference]
 * [|EdTechTalk]
 * [|Common Craft Show]