Storybird. Your collaborative storytelling.

Use Storybird to create, read and share stories online. You can also build classroom libraries.

Urtak. Your smart polls.

Urtak lets you make smart, sticky polls where participants can ask and answer questions. With Urtak you can:

 

• Make unlimited free polls.
• Embed polls everywhere.
• Analyze results in real time.

WiZiQ. Your web 2.0 virtual classroom.

WiZiQ helps you Teach Online. More than 650000 learners & 70000 teachers are now using it. You can publish your tests, send it to your contacts, view or upload audio and video files and share them online.

• The free Virtual Classroom
• Tutorial in Spanish

Penzu. Your online diary.

Penzu is a free online diary and personal journal focused on privacy. You can keep it for you own or share it with colleagues. A perfect tool if you reflect on your teaching practices and want to write things down.

Puzzlemaker. Your own puzzles.

Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool. You can create and print customized word search, criss-cross, puzzles, and more—using your own word lists.

Timetoast. Your timelines.

Timetoast is a place to create timelines that you can add to your blog or website. You can, for example, create historical timelines of important events or build a time sequence.

Wordle. Your key words.

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

Online communities in the classroom

Teachers.tv offers hundreds of educational videos and classroom resources. You can watch an interesting experience on how to integrate online communities in the classroom.

eLanguages. A teacher community.

eLanguages is a global online community of teachers sharing ideas and working together with their students on curriculum-relevant projects.

You can create your own school profile, meet teachers from around the world and share a variety of resources to make your projects lively and interactive.

Creative Commons. Your license.

You can create your copyright license of all the digital materials you elaborate. Creative Commons is free and easy. This video tells you about CC.

This article by Raquel Xalabarder will help you understand what CC is . In Spanish!

Poptropica. A virtual world.

Poptropica, a virtual world for kids to travel, play games, compete in head-to-head competition, and communicate safely. Kids can also read books, comics, …

Calameo. Your documents online.

Calameo is a good place to publish and share your documents (pdf, doc, ppt, odt, xls) with your friends. You can also embed rich-media content to your publications like videos and audios. Ideal to publish stories created by students.

Shidonni. Your online animal drawings.

Shidonni can be used to draw animals with a world to live in and see the animal spring to life. Kids take care of their animals by feeding, petting or sending them to sleep. The animal eats the food that kids have drawn for it. They can choose if they want their pet to walk or fly, and they can name it. Kids can draw a background and change it whenever they want. They can play games with their virtual animals or send them to their friends to play with their animals. Kids can design their own storytelling, describe animals or talk about daily routines.