- 50 Web 2.0 Sites for Schools

50 Web 2.0 Sites for Schools

19 Pencils - 19Pencils is the easiest way for teachers to discover, share and manage web-based educational content with students. A teacher can create quizzes, websites, track students, and more.
ACMI Generator - This is a great site for older students for digital storytelling and creating a storyboard scene with a script.
Animoto - Create wonderful looking slideshows that includes, video, images, music, and more.
Aviary Education - A safe private environment to use Aviary's suite of online tools for: audio, video, and image editing.
Boom Writer - BoomWriter is a supremely engaging creative writing website that has students reading, writing and assessing content in ways they’ve never done before!
Classtell - A nice site for teachers to create an educational website.
Diigo - Social bookmarking for teachers where they can create free student accounts.
Dropbox - A great way to share and collaborate on documents on a number of different electronic devices.
Edmodo - A wonderful safe/secure learning environment for teachers and students. A nice all-in-one solution for education.
Educaplay - A excellent way to create interactive multimedia educational activities.
Every1Speaks - A learning platform where students learn through collaborative enquiry-based learning.
Gaggle - A excellent suite of online learning tools for filtered: emailing, messaging, forums, and more.
Glogster - Creating collaborative and interactive posters in this safe environment. A wonderful and very popular web 2.0 tool.
GoAnimate - A terrific way to create custom animations with an educational portal.
Google Apps for Education - Does it really get much better than this?
Gnowledge - A wonderful site to create collaborative online quizzes, share resources, view others quizzes, and more. Excellent tech support and tutorial videos as well.
Grockit Answers - A great teaching tool to create a Q/A session for any YouTube video.
Kidblog - A fantastic way to create a safe environment for students to blog in. Everything is controlled by the teacher as a moderator.
Kerpoof - Lots of educational activities can be found here such as: make a movie, draw a picture, and more.
Kubbu - A free site for teachers to create games, quizzes, or crosswords and then share them with students and view/analyze their results.
Little Bird Tales - A wonderful free site for digital storytelling that allows kids to record and narrate their story.
Live Binders - Is an excellent site for creating an online binder to collect and share resources with others.
MentorMob - One of my favorite new sites for curating the web into learning "playlists." This is an innovative way to teach a lesson, unit, or any given topic.
Mixbook - A great site for digital storytelling in a safe environment. Educators get a discount on printed books.
Musicshake - Legal, copyright, free music for every student in your school - created by students, right from a browser.
Myths & Legends - One of the best free sites around for digital storytelling in a safe environment with lots of characters, themes, and objects to choose from.
PhotoPeach - An excellent site for creating slideshows and creating and managing student accounts.
PikiFriends - A fun safe environment for online pen pals for middle school and high school students.
Pixton - A great way to motivate students by creating digital stories using this comic creator.
PresentationTube - A nice windows app for creating presentations out of PowerPoint slides.
Prezi - A excellent site for creating zooming slideshows and presentations.
Primary Access - A free suite of online tools for students and teachers to create digital movies, storyboards, and other activities.
Primary Wall - A real-time collaboration tool that allows students and teachers to create a page of online sticky notes. Great for mind mapping and brainstorming!
Skype in the Classroom - A great collaboration tool for classrooms to video or audio chat with other educators and students.
SideVibe - Turn bookmarked web content into blended classroom lessons.
SlideRocket - All you need is a Google Apps account to use this free tool to creating stunning presentations.
SpellingCity - One of the best sites around for teaching and learning Spelling and Vocabulary. A very user-friendly and engaging site to use.
Storybird - A fantastic site to inspire students to read & write through the use of digital storytelling.
StoryJumper - A great site for digital storytelling where students can incorporate their own art, publish online, share with others, or order a print copy.
SymbalooEDU - A wonderful way to organize educational sites into one location for students.
Triptico - A great free tool for teachers to help create, share, and edit interactive lessons.
ToonDoo Spaces - Create a private and safe environment for digital storytelling through the use of an online comic.
VoiceThread - One of the most popular web 2.0 sites around for creating dynamic and interactive slideshows and presentations. Also, another great tool for digital storytelling.
Webspiration - From the creators of Inspiration comes this excellent web portal for creating mind maps, brainstorms, outlines, and more.
Weebly - Create a free class/student blog or website.
Wolfram Alpha - There is now an educational portal for Wolfram's computational search engine. This portal contains dynamic textbooks, lesson plans, widgets, interactives, and more.
Yacapaca - A nice free all-in-one solution for schools for creating quizzes, surveys, assessments, and more.
YouTube for Schools - Access 1000s of YouTube videos in a controlled environment without having to worry about comments.
Zimmer Twins - A great site for digital storytelling with an educational portal.
Zoho Wiki - A nice site for educators to create online interactive content.