Wikipedia-  Students can actually create encyclopedia entries and publish them here.  http://www.wikipedia.org/

Podcastings-  Gcast is a site that you can use to record podcasts easily either with your phone or with Audacity, which is a recording program.

Some schools use this for school announcements and put the podcast player on the district webpage for people to access.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

http://www.gcast.com

Digital Storytelling- Use Windows Movie Maker to publish stories or research projects.  This is already on everyone’s computer.  View a sample and tutorial I created:  http://jaimeholderbaum.weebly.com/digital-stories.html

Google Applications

• Google Docs and spread sheet- like a word processor that you can use collaboratively with multiple people working on the same document

• Presentation-Similar to PowerPoint but free!!

• Google Earth-a globe that you can zoom in on.  You can pin United Streaming Videos to places and play a Google Earth tour, stopping at pinpointed locations along the way to view streaming video or web pages that coincide with the location.

• Page Creator-  create free webpages

• Custom search- allows you to build your own search engine.  Great for helping guide students to specific approved sited when doing research

• Picasa-photo editor

• SketchUp- Build 3D models.  Would be good for high school math or CAD teacher

Zoho- another company that offers free tools like word processors, Powerpoint tools (Zoho Show), spreadsheets, etc. 

http://www.zoho.com/

Zoomit- a program that allows you to zoom in on an area of your screen and write on it.  Great presentation tool or could be used for editing/revising lessons.  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx

Visiblebody.com - Similar to the Google Earth concept, however you can zoom in on an organ in the human body.

http://visiblebody.com/

Slideshare - Place to publish and share PowerPoint presentations. 

http://www.slideshare.net/

Record your voice by phone and your voice is transferred into a text file.  Presenter said it was 99% accurate.  Could be a great tool for special ed or autistic children.

Comment collaboratvely on slideshows/presentations

http://voicethread.com/

Epals-sign up to have pen-pals in various locations in the world.

http://www.epals.com/index.tpl

Skype- a free program that allows you computer to call any other computer in the world that also has Skype on it and have voice or video conferences.

http://skype.com/welcomeback/

TeacherTube-a place where teachers and students can publish and share video, such as ones made with Movie Maker.

http://teachertube.com/

Vokis- create an animated character and add a voice recording.  Could be used to create a test study guide or as a tool to introduce each member of your class to a class in a different location.

http://www.voki.com/

Blogs - Some examples are Wordpress.com and Edublogs.com.  Can be used to  encourage class participation and writing skills.  Some teachers use blogs for their students to have book discussions.   Some people use this as their webpage.

http://edublogs.org/

http://wordpress.org/

Weebly-free webpage design and publisher

http://www.weebly.com/

Freewebs-free webpage publisher

http://members.freewebs.com/

NVU-  Free design program for creating webpages, which is similar to Frontpage or Dreamweaver.  Must be used in conjunction with FTP program and an owned domain name.  MSU has their students use this program.

http://nvudev.com/download.php

Filezilla- free FTP program that you use in conjunction with NVU, FrontPage, or Dreamweaver to transfer files to a server.  This is also used at MSU.

http://filezilla-project.org/

Ikeepbookmarks.com  -a place to bookmark sites online, therefore making it easier to access necessary webpages from any internet connection

http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com/

Netvibes  -this is a place where students can collect the blogs that they belong to for easy access.