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Here are some links to online web tools that I have shamelessly copied from Donna DesRoche's Wiki. Play with them to try them out.

Blogs
[|Blogger] - [|Edugblogs] - [|Early Literacy] [|WordPress] - [|Classroom Tech Tips;][|Albert E. Peacock Collegiate;][|Educational Discourse] (Thoughts from a Saskatchewan Principal) [|Classblogmeister] - [|I am David] ( A journal writing project); [|Mrs. Sparrow's Grade One Blog;] [|Mr. E's World]

**Wikis**
Wikispaces.com - Meet the Stars (A professional development opportunity for teacher-librarians) [|pbwiki] - [|Arts Education Professional Development]

RSS Readers
[|Bloglines] [|- Donna's Bloglines Account] Google Reader -

[|Protopage] [|Donna;] Reg [|PageFlakes]- Jim Ellis; Amy Williams [|iGoogle]
 * Start Pages**

Productivity Applications
[|Google Docs] (Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations) [|Google Notebook] - Clip and collect information as you browse the web [|Gmail] [|Spresent]- New Teacher Presentation [|SlideShare] - online storage for sharing Slide presentations - [|The Times They Are A'changin] (Principals' Short Course '07)

**Social Bookmarking**
[|Delicious]- [|Donna's Bookmarks]

Image Generators
[|ImageChef] [|Image Generator] [|Generator Blog] [|Cartoon Machine] [|Be Funky] [|Logo Ease]

Photosharing
[|Flickr]- [|Donna's photos] Sherron Burn's visual Story, [|Incoming Call] [|Vocabulary Words] [|A Flickr Math Project] [|fd's Flickr Toys]

Digital Storytelling: Slide Shows
[|RockYou] - [|Mrs. Sparrow's Blog] [|Animoto] - music videos from your photos - [|Donna's flowers] [|BubbleShare] [|Pictobrowser] - slideshow from your flickr pictures - again... my [|flower photos] [|Slide] - very easy - very slick looking - [|a family trip]

Digital Storytelling: Multi-Media
[|VoiceThread] - [|Comic Life Project at Lawrence School] [|Splashcast] - A Visit to [|Solar Gardens] [|Photoblog] - A Trip To [|Solar Gardens]; [|Ruddell Canada Day Parade] [|Toufee] - online flash movie maker - see the [|examples]

**Mindmapping Tools**
[|Bubble.us] [|Thinkature] [|Xtimeline] [|Create a Graph]

Video Tools
[|YouTube] [|TeacherTube] [|Flixn] [|Zamzar] - an online conversion tool [|Media Convert] - another online conversion tool: seems to convert some files that Zamzar doesn't (Terry K)

Survey/quiz tools
[|SurveyMonkey] [|Viewlet Poll] [|Stellar Survey] [|Survey Scholar] [|Zoomerang] [|Zoho Polls] [|Response-o-matic] (for websites)

Back Chatter
[|Twitter] - [|Donna's Tweets] [|Meebo]

Audio Tools
[|YackPack] (walkie talkie widget)[| - Kathy Cassidy's Blog with YackPack] [|Evoca] - perfect for sound bites! [|Voki -] see my voki at the bottom of this page [|Skype] - (application not web-based) [|Splice] - make music with the world's most advanced online sequencer

Web Pages
[|Google Page Creator] - [|Bready School Library]; [|Le Lycée North Battleford Comprehensive] [|Piczo]

Podcasting
Once you have created a podcast in [|Audacity] or [|Garageband] you need to upload your audio file to a web storage site. From there you can embed the code on your web page, blog or wiki. [|Odeo]

Social Networks
[|MySpace] [|Facebook] [|Ning:] [|Classroom 2.0;][|Digital Internship Project]

Learning Systems
[|WizIQ] - An Elluminate-like program for online teaching - a virtual classroom read one user's [|review] of the system

**Content Management Systems**
[|Drupal] - [|NBCHS], [|Bready,] [|Connaught] [|Joomla] - [|McKitrick]

[|Second Life]

Global Project Examples
Flat classroom Horizon Project [|International Teen Life] [|Teen Tek]