News and Trends
Top 25 Sites of 2010
1/4/2011 By:
1 Kidblog: a great way
for schools to have kids
blog.
2 Sweet Search: an excellent
search engine for
students, as everything has
been reviewed by educators
beforehand
3 Cacoo: a nice site for
creating online charts
and graphs; it has a built-in
chat feature for collaborating
4 21 Classes: a good way to get
students blogging in a safe,
secure environment
5 Story Jumper: an excellent site
for digital storytelling that has
lots of educational resources for
teachers
6 Middlespot: an innovative Web site
for social bookmarking that allows
users to collect sites in a visual way
7 Education Eye: a fun site for
brainstorming with this visual
search engine
8 Kizoa: a great site for creating
animated slide shows that has
lots of content to choose from
9 Drag on Tape: a very user-friendly
site that uses a drag-and-drop
interface to edit and mix video
10 Shwup: a great site for making
collaborative slide shows
11 PreZentit: Very similar to
Shwup, this is a nice-looking site
for making collaborative slide shows.
12 Quintura for Kids: a search
engine for kids that acts a bit
like a tag cloud in that results can be
embedded in a site
13 TodaysMeet: Create a realtime,
private, back-channel
chat that brings in tweets from Twitter.
14 MeMoov: a very user-friendly
site for digital storytelling that
allows users to record their voices for
narration
15 Wordia: Brings words to life
through the use of video.
16 Encyclomedia: a video encyclopedia
with which results can
be embedded in a site
17 Zooburst: a great site for digital
storytelling on which a user
can make an online 3-D pop-up book
18 Jay Cut: a site similar to iMovie
that allows users to edit or create
a video
19 Splashup: Looks like
Photoshop and is a great way
to edit photos and manipulate layers
and effects.
20 Comic Master: a fun site for
digital storytelling that has a
drag-and-drop interface
21 Knowcase: Create collaborative
outlines with this easy-touse
site.
22 Cloud Canvas: a great site
for photo editing and drawing
and painting that is similar to Splashup
23 Magic Studio: a great multimedia
site for uploading photos,
documents, and video and then
editing them
24 Googlios: a way for students
to create digital portfolios
online using Google Tools
25 We Are Teachers: a social
network for educators where
lots of ideas and lessons can be found
David Kapuler blogs at techlearning.com. Send your favorite Web site to
cweiser@nbmedia.com.