Newspaper Clip Generator, allows to create a newspaper article cutting. You can add your own newspaper name, along with article heading and the article itself. Newspaper Clip Generator will then create a “newspaper cutting” of your article, which you can download as an image.

http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp

The links range from tools to use in digital storytelling to examples of the different kinds of digital storytelling methods used in schools.

http://livebinders.com/play/play?id=7414

Neat Chat is the easiest and fastest way to have an online conversation with a group of friends or colleagues. No signups or software installs are required. You simply use a web browser to communicate via Neat Chat.

To start a chat session, all you need to do is go to our homepage, enter your nickname, and click the Start Group button. Once you do that, your chat session is started, and your browser loads the session’s chat room. You then invite people by sending them the URL of the chat room. When your invitees access the URL, they enter the chat room to chat with you. It is as simple as that!

Neat Chat provides you a clean, fast, and robust chat room. You can share files, send private messages, and change your status through an intuitive interface. If you are late to a chat session, no problem! Neat Chat allows you to access all the conversations that took place in your absence.

http://www.neatchat.com

SpellingCity.com is a great site for creating interactive material for spelling, as well as creating printable test sheets, games and puzzles from the word list you create.

You can use the site without registering, however the word lists won’t be saved. (to save your wordlist, you can register for free).

This site has an audio playback feature, where the words you enter can be played backed for students to hear, as well as a sentence  read out using the “word” in context, for better understanding.

The website is American is some of the pronounciations and spellings may differ.

http://www.spellingcity.com

Online Audio Stories is a website with a collection of free stories that has both a text and audio version of each story. Includes some classics like “Jack and the beanstalk” & Goldilocks and the three bears” to name two.

Each story has the text of the story displayed along with an audio version. Kids can read the story themselves or follow along as they listen to the story being read to them.

http://www.onlineaudiostories.com/

Professor Garfield has an array of interactive games and activities for kids,ononline safety and cyberbullying

This is an excellent place for primary students to begin learning about how to keep themselves safe online.  Make a point to visit Internet safety throughout the school year.  Start the year with a few weeks that are focused on and dedicated to Internet safety.  I make a big deal of the activities that take place during those weeks.  At the end of the Internet safety unit, students can  take a quiz so that you can gauge their understanding.  Each student must pass this quiz in order to receive their Internet drivers license for the year.  Professor Garfield’s Internet Safety is the perfect addition to the Internet safety week.  The videos and activities are fabulous!  Revisit the site throughout the year so that students are reminded of the safety rules they agreed to follow at the beginning of the year.   This is a great time to reintroduce Cyberbullying, and the lesson on Professor Garfield is a great way to do this.

In the lab setting, each student can go through these lessons at their own pace. Students will receive immediate feedback from the activities if they have any misunderstandings.

Use the interactive whiteboard or projector to watch the videos as a class.  During the try and apply, turn the questions into a class discussion and choose the answers together.

http://www.infinitelearninglab.org/

A great website to test math. You have a set number of problems to solve within a set time frame. At the end you have your score, and can print a certificate with your name and achievement.

http://resources.oswego.org/games/mathmagician/cathymath.html

ShareTabs is a great online tool for teachers who want their students to view specific websites.

Instead of waiting for kids to type in several URL’s to get to the days activities, they type in one URL and share tabs does all the work.  I know in my classroom, I don’t want to spend 15 min typing in web addresses.  I would rather that students have that time to spend on the web activities.  Share Tabs is perfect in the computer lab setting or any time that you want students to visit multiple websites for a lesson.  Use Share Tabs for virtual field trips through cyber space without spending time creating a webquest.  Share Tabs also makes sharing sites with colleauges a snap.  As you are finding resources for a lesson, put them into Share Tabs and send one link.

http://www.sharetabs.com/

PreZentIT is an online presentation tool similar to Powerpoint. It’s an attractive and easy-to-use web-based presentation builder with sharing and collaboration features. Here you can easily create (alone or together with others), store, share and display your presentations. One of the features that make PrezentIt standout and make it very conveninet is the ability to download and view created presentations offline using a web browser.

• Create, Store, Share and Collaborate on presentations online.
• Simple and easy-to-use presentation builder.
• Each stored presentation gets its own web address.
• Presentation builder is compatible with Firefox, Internet explorer and Camino browsers.
• Download and view presentations using only a web browser. Even if there is no internet connection.
• Get 250 MB of storage space for images.
• Store and collaborate on as many presentations as you need.

http://prezentit.com/

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With Wetoku, you can video interviews to your blog. There is no software to install. You can use webcams to conduct and record the interview, and embed the video right away, into your blog.

Videos are limited to 10min per interview.

www.wetoku.com