Gifted and Talented in the 21st Century

Photo Sharing Digital photography websites are numerous and offer free services to upload photos, edit them, organize photos into galleries, and share them with others.

• Fauxto (www.fauxto.com)
• Picnik (www.picnik.com) Edit photos online without software on your computer.
• Flickr (www.flickr.com) Share photos and tag both images and parts of images.
• Voicethread (voicethread.com) annotate pictures with text or audio messages.
• Morgufile (www.morguefile.com) View and download royalty-free, high-quality images that are well categorized. Enable students to use professional art and photography in their projects.

Video Create custom videos and share them with others.

• Splashcast (http://web.splashcast.net/) Create Your Own TV Channel.
• Animoto (http://animoto.com/) Create short videos.
• dFilm Movie Maker (http://www.dfilm.com/live/moviemaker.html)
• Jumpcut (http://www.jumpcut.com/)

Document Sharing, Presetation and Collaboration Tools Collaborative documents enable students to work together on a word-processing document, spreadsheet, or presentation.  Collaborative documents are very similar to their single user versions but allow students to work together without being in the same room.  A Wiki is an easy to edit web page that does not require programming knowledge. 

• Google Docs (docs.google.com/) Set up an e-mail account, sharable calendar, and collaborative document account (documents, spreadsheets, and presentations) that you have control over. Write and create collaboratively with your students.
• Wikispaces (http://www.wikispaces.com Offers ad free space for educators. Create an easily-editable collaborative website that uses a wysiwyg editor.
• PBWiki (www.pbwiki.com) Another free wiki site for teachers and students.
• Slideshare (www.slideshare.net) Upload your presentations and share/embed them anywhere. Add voice to create an enhanced presentation. Put Smart Board notes online. Share conference presentations. Share student work in an organized format.

Mapping

• Community Walk (www.communitywalk.com) add pictures and annotations to any map.
• Google Maps ( maps.google.com/)
• Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/)

Research Tools

• Internet Archive (www.archive.org) Access sound files, video files, and documents all shared under creative commons licenses. Remix and mashup others’ content.
• Footnote (http://www.footnote.com Find primary source documents about nearly any subject.

Writing

• Glypho (www.glypho.com) Submit a novel idea and collaborate on plot points, chapters, and organization. Work on a class novel or researched book.
• Story Creator 2 (http://myths.e2bn.org/create/) Create your own myths and legends.
• Fodey (http://www.fodey.com/) Create your own newspaper clipping.

City Simulators

• City Creator (http://www.citycreator.com/) Build a virtual city.
• SimCity Classic (http://simcity.ea.com/play/simcity_classic.php) Another city building application.

Graphic Organizers

• Bubbl.us (bubbl.us/) Create graphic organizers on the web and embed it onto any webpage.
• Gliffy (www.gliffy.com) Create diagrams and flow charts.

Cartoons/Comic Strips

• Toondoo (http://www.toondoo.com/Home.toon)
• Comic Strip Generator (http://stripgenerator.com/)
• Make Belief Comics (http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/comix.php)
• Quicktoons (http://www.quicktoons.com/create)
• Howtoons (http://www.instructables.com/group/howtoons/)
• Pixton (http://www.pixton.com/home)

Drawing and other Creativity:

• Letter Pop (http://letterpop.com/)
• Sketchcast( http://sketchcast.com/)
• Create an Art Scrapbook (http://www.artic.edu/artexplorer/)
• Kerpoof ( http://www.kerpoof.com/)
• Google Sketchup (http://sketchup.google.com/)
• ArtPad (http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/)
• Architect Studio 3D (http://www.architectstudio3d.org/AS3d/design_studio.html)
• Floorplanner (http://floorplanner.com/) Create a floor plan for a room.

Miscellaneous

• Survey Monkey (www.surveymonkey.com) Create a survey. Take an informal assessment or survey of students. Perform interest and ability surveys.
• CircaVie (http://www.circavie.com/)create an interactive timeline.
• Create A Crossword Puzzle (http://puzzles.puzzled.com/crossword/) create a crossword puzzle.

Please share your favorite tools and sites with us!

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