Technology

Podcasting- Web 2.0 Style
 
Little bird tales
Easy to use and manage for teachers. 
No music available- only voice recording
 
Example:
 
 

 
tikatok
Create your own stories or use a template.
Teachers can create student accounts.
Write stories, upload pictures or use clipart from site, voice recording available.
Books can be printed for cost, published online, and can be embedded on Schoolwires web page.
 
 
animoto
Free Animoto Lite account offers teachers unlimited videos- 30 seconds or less.
Can be embeded on Schoolwires web pages.   
 
 
 

photo peach
 
 

 

Free account has 30 picture minimum.
 

 
StoryBird
 Storybird is free and offers up to 75 student accounts (no email required), 3 classes, unlimited Storybirds, private environment,  and collaboration available.  
Stories can be embeded on Schoolwires web pages.


 
zooburst
ZooBurst books 'live' online and can be experienced using nothing more than a web browser running the Adobe Flash plug-in. Authors can arrange characters and props within a 3D world that can be customized using uploaded artwork or items found in a built-in database of over 10,000 free images and materials.
It's Free, Teachers can create classes. No audio unless you upgrade to premium version.
 

 
Slideshare
Slideshare is a free site that allows:
  • Upload presentations publicly or privately
  • Download presentations on any topic and reuse or remix
  • Embed on blogs, websites, company intranets
  • Slidecast: sync mp3 audio with slides to create a webinar (only for PowerPoint presentations)
  • Embed YouTube videos inside SlideShare presentations  

  • screencast
    This free site lets you manage and share videos, images, documents, or anything else online. Screencast.com's high-quality content-hosting gives you complete control over how, when and to whom your content is distributed.
     

    Kerpoof-

    The Kerpoof website is owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company. What is Kerpoof? The answer to that is not so simple. Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Here are just a few ways that you can use Kerpoof:

    • Make artwork (even if you aren't good at drawing!)
    • Make an animated movie (really! it's easy!)
    • Earn Koins which you can trade for fun things in the Kerpoof Store
    • Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug
    • Tell a story
    • Make a drawing
    • Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made
    Primary Access- using Primary Source Documents to make digital stories, projects and more.
     
    Story Jumper- StoryJumper is a website that allows kids to build their own books. You can easily create cover pages, add text, upload drawings or photos to illustrate your
    story, and you can use the StoryJumper clipart gallery, too. When you re done, you can order your own professionally published hardback book
     
     Pixton For Schools- (only 30 free trial) Pixton introduces the world to Click-n-Drag Comics™, a revolutionary new patent-pending technology that gives anyone the power to create amazing comics on the web.
     
    Myths and Legends- free with request- create your own myths and legends online- fun but site is a little quirky.
     
    Museum Box-This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie.