Have you tried these tools?

Last weekend, I attended Learning2.0 up in Loveland and heard Amy White talk about some tools she uses in her classrom. I showed these to my students as soon as I got bakc Monday morning. They wanted the tools to all be in one place so they could come back and find them. SO...
Go2Web20.net- resource of things that help with web 2.0 applications (go look at the e-learning tab)
www.edzone.net -Marilyn Western’s Technology Tips for Classroom Teachers

http://www.xtranormal.com presentation and summarization of reading

http://animoto.com/ make a video from images-

http://goanimate.com/studio (every time you create something, you get points)-create own people and scenes; more time consuming than Xtranormal.

http://prezi.com/ going beyond Powerpoint

http://foldplay.com –show relationships between three ideas/symbols/pictures Kaleidocycle
make your own photo collage

http://glogster.com –create posters
create posters with photos post reading of novel.

ComicLife/ToonDoos/Bitstrips

PowerPoint- illuminated texts- animate words to come alive with words or phrases in text
Great idea for poetry!Select text and animate text using animate feature

Garage Band-podcasting and music –could use for interviews (Audacity and Finale Notepad)
(Create a song for the character in the novel- make sure to couple this with narrative and reflection about creating piece)

iMovie- digital storytelling instead of personal narrative (Photostory? Moviemaker)
make the example with video, stills, and voiceover so kids can see all those elements