These sites are meant to provide information and/or access to a Web 2.0 tool. These tools include blogs, video sharing, media streaming, collaborative web based work spaces, et cetera.

animoto - the end of slideshows
Animoto videos--music videos for your images and pictures. With high production value motion graphics synchronized to every beat of your music, Animoto videos blow the doors off traditional slideshows; it's time to move past the slideshow and embrace Animoto--free, easy, beautiful.

Digg Overview
Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users.

Welcome to Flickr - Photo Sharing
You can share your digital photographs on this website. It is also a place where you can store you pictures as a way to back up and organize them forever and hopefully ever!

Introduce to Home | Diigo
another social bookmarking webpage. maybe it's better than delicious? maybe it's not?

Twitter: What are you doing?
Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time. This is a short mini small blog. All one line updates.

Welcome to Shelfari! Read, Share, Explore! - Shelfari
A Social Networking Site that helps you keep track of books to buy and read and share and love.

Welcome to Wikispaces - Free Wikis for Everyone
Wikispace is a website for everyone. It is a place where people can publicly work on projects and share. A great website for collaboration.

WordPress.com » Get a Free Blog Here
This site hosts blogs. You can read other people's blogs or write your own.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
Share your videos with friends, family, and the world. Careful, this site is often blocked in schools, but a good site to use as a research tool at home.

These sites are all examples of BLOGS in action.

Edwards IB Library Blog
This website is created by Mr. Loreto for the Edwards Elementary School Middle School Students. There are lots of different things that students can do: learn about technology, learn about ways to do their class work, voice their opinions and look at news.

flatclassroom09-3 - home
A page from the Flat Classroom website listing the classes in different countries that are "Flat."

LibraryRoom110 - home
This is the Richard Edwards Elementary School Wikispace. It has content created by the Edwards School Librarians and teachers. It is a website that serves as a resource to help you figure out what's going on in the Library and in the classroom at Edwards School.

KidEarth
A website designed and maintained by a teen, Aitan Grossman. It is his response to stop global warming. Great piece about student activism. He wrote and produced a song, "100 Generations", to help spread awareness about global warming. Won't you sing with him?

May Community Academy BLOG
May Community Academy in CPS school blog. Check it out. See what going on at May from the Principal.

May Community Academy Wikispace
Wikispace centered around May School technology curriculum and school.

Media in the Middle
a blog dedicated to using technology in middle schools

THS Library Hot Topics
The library blog for Taft High School in Chicago, IL. The blog features books that should be read!

What Kids Can Do
A website dedicated to show "What Kids CAN do". It showcases youth around the world and how they work to create a better world.

Right to Write
This website is the classroom blog for Mr. Loreto's creative writing class. It is the portal for which students get daily journal writing assignments, classroom announcements and other vital information related to the class.

School Library Media Activities Monthly Blog
Blog for School Librarians

yawp Blog
YAWP is Young Asians With Power! It is a performing arts and writing group based out of Chicago for youth that identify as APIA (Asian Pacific Islander American). Good good good stuff!
 

These sites give information about how to integrate technology into the classroom and possibly ideas on how it can make your life easier.

Adobe - AYV Youth Work Gallery

Website that features media created by students through the Adobe Youth Voices Program. Check it out!

Adobe Youth Voices
 
breakthrough learning experiences using video, multimedia, digital art, web, animation, and audio tools that enable youth to explore and comment on their world. A good place for ideas. A good place to inspire.

Apple Learning Interchange - Podcast Sound Booths! A ReMix Recycling Project
how to make a sound proof booth for podcasting

Apple Learning Interchange - Show us your world!
A lesson using iMovie and photojournalism. A photo memoir
 

Center for Digital Storytelling
This is a website for an organization that asks you to "dig deep". There are dozens of personal stories that are shared on this website. These are all stories using slideshow, audio recording and editing software. Anyone can do it! Everyone has a story.

Common Craft - Our Product is Explanation
Like the famous "A Dummy's Guide" series of books that explain things "simply"; common craft is a web site that creates videos that explain all sorts of different concepts. Everything from what is twitter to how does insurance work. Check it out. A good review or a simple explanation or both.

Edutopia: What Works in Public Education
Edutopia is a website that provides news in education specifically related to the latest trends, innovations in instruction, and latest application of technology in the classroom, school wide, district wide and nation wide.

Flat Classroom Project
Official website for the Flat Classroom Project, an initiative meant to make the world a smaller place by breaking down classroom walls so that the world is our classroom.

FreeRice
A great website that tests your vocabulary skills. And Lots of FUN!

Hindi Dictionary
Multimedia internet based English-Hindi Dictionary that was made by kids for EVERYONE!

ISTE | National Educational Technology Standards
Technology teaching standards for students. What you should know about technology and what you should be learning....

Listen Up!
Youth created media websites. Movies created by youth.

ManagedQ.word
PowerPoint Slide Show Presentation that describes how much to use the website ManagedQ in the classroom. A professional development presentation to teachers.

NewsHour Extra: Lesson Plan | PODCASTING -- SHARING YOUR IDEAS ABOUT FEATURED TOPICS AND ISSUES | PBS
Lesson plan teaching how to create a podcast.

These sites are all examples of Digital Media Websites

IMEEM - what's on your playlist?
imeem is the world's largest social music service with millions of free streaming songs and videos. Make playlists to share with friends and embed anywhere.

Last.fm - Listen to free music with internet radio and the largest music catalogue online
The world’s largest online music catalogue, with free music streaming, videos, photos, lyrics, charts, artist biographies, concerts and internet radio. Great research tool for pop culture and inspiration for digital media projects.

Metacafe - Video Entertainment - Movies, TV, Music, Video Games & Sports
One of the world's largest video sites, serving the best videos, funniest movies and clips. Not only entertaining, but can also be used as a way to research pop culture.

Pandora Radio - Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music
Listen to music based on your personal preferences. Though be careful, sometimes they play things you might not like or things that could get you in trouble with your teacher. Some practical uses for this application is to find similar

Vimeo, Video Sharing For You
Vimeo is a respectful community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the videos they make. We provide the best tools and highest quality video in the universe.

Youtube
Youtube is a video sharing website that has seems to be a phenomenon.