Creativity+and+Collaboration+Websites

[] Storybird is a visual storytelling community. A global hub of readers, writers, and artists of all ages. Sign up today for a Free account.

[] StoryJumper is a site that gives parents, kids, and authors a fun set of intuitive tools for writing and illustrating kids stories

[] With Blabberize students actually make a picture "talk." It could be a picture of a person, animal or an object. It could even be a drawing.

[] Check out this site for a different way for students to present reports and stories

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com The Web 2.0 Cool Tools for Schools portal offers an extensive number of Web 2.0 tools for educators. The resources are easily navigated and accessed through indexed categories, including but not limited to: presentation tools, collaborative tools, research tools, video tools, audio tools, image tools, writing tools, and widgets. The teacher resources link organizes the links by subject area.

[] a tool for students to create and share interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art. Designed specifically for 8 – 16 year olds. Scratch engages students in the creative process through which students learn mathematical and computational ideas, to think creatively and systematically, and work collaboratively.

[] The iEARN Collaboration Centre enables youth to learn with, rather than simply about, the world. Find project partners quickly. Read 200+ project descriptions and browse student-produced media.

[] “world’s largest kid’s art museum online”. Educators cab access thousands of art project starters via the teacher portal. [] PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools. The storyboard enables users to create comic strips and slideshows using images, thought bubbles props, and actors.

[] engages students in games, quizzes, and skill building centered on math, probability, and graphing. The Create a Graph tool provides an interactive graphing experience using bar, line, area, pie, and xy graphs. Dare to Compare invites students to pick a subject, grade, and content area questions, answer them, and see how their performance compares with other students nationally and internationally. Subjects include civics, economics, geography, history, math and science. Grab Bag offers fun and challenging games and data. Chances demonstrates how increasing or decreasing the number of dice rolls affects an outcome.

[] comic strip maker

[] Dipity lets students create their own timelines on any topic.

[] __Shidonni__ lets kids draw animals online, give them names and design backgrounds for imaginary worlds. (ages 5-12)

[] - Students record themselves explaining how to solve a math problem and choose a character to "speak" their recording. We have posted them on our classroom website. Lots of other ways to use it too, read something they have written, read word problems, explains science concept, talk about a famous person or event in history...the possibilities are endless! And it's free!

[] - //PicMonkey// is a feature-rich, free online photo editor that works right in your browser; no downloads necessary. Touch-up tools like Teeth Whiten, Blemish Fix, etc...

[] quickly, easily, and for free, create online videos - you can use photos, text and music to create video clip

[] alternatives to blogging

[|Pixton] Comic strip creator