Pictotool is a tool to create fun images, stickers with pictogram and text.

PollMo is a very simple poll creator application.

PhotoPin is a free photo source for bloggers.

Present.me is a tool to record your ideas with you and your slides.

Picartia lets you create photo collages of your photos.

PageOrama lets you create an online page with pictures with simple steps.

Paper.li is a tool to create an online newspaper.

PhotoShow lets you create picture slide shows with music, text and transitions.

Picfull lets you edit your pictures with one click.

Postica is a tool to let you leave sticky notes on web pages.

Panfu is a virtual world for kids to meet, chat and play with friends in a safe way.

Pencamp lets you create and share a web page with a story, poem or a joke.

PasswordBird helps you to generate passwords for you.

Poraora is an online 3D website.

Peg lets you to create web pages instantly.

TypeRacer is a website that you can learn your writing speed and increase your speed while racing with others.

Piecolor is a tool to create colorful pie charts.

PimptheFace is a tool to create online portrait caricatures.

Posterini allows you to create online posters.

Pica.pic is a website where you can find and play retro handheld games.

Pen.io is another tool to create a page page instantly.

Pandamian is a tool to help you to publish your books online in chapters.

PikiFriends is a pen pal tool that lets you find a pen pal in a safe and easy to use way.

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Penzu is a web tool to keep an online diary and share it with others if you like.

PhotoPeach is a tool that lets you make slide show quizzes  using your pictures, adding captions and music.

Pixton is a tool to build comics online using a freestyle comic layout.

Picfont lets you add text, comment on a picture,  a canvas or on a shape.

Planetaki is a tool that lets you read all your favorite websites on a single page.

PDFmyUrl is a web tool to turn a web page into a PDF file.

Packtari is a bookmarking service that bookmarks your tweets that contain URL for your delicious account.

Prezi is a unique way to create presentations without any slides but zooming sketches on a blank canvas.

PrintWhatYouLike is a free online editor that lets you format any web page to print.

Prezentit is a tool where you can create and share your presentations online.

PrimaryPad is another collaborative tool for schools. It’s a web based processor to collaborate with students in real time.

Phrasr lets you find Flickr images that will go with the words that you have written.

PicsViewer is a tool to turn your photos into visual presentations.

PaperRater is a tool for grammar & spelling check and proof reading.

PDFtoWord is an online tool to turn your PDFs into a word document.

PearlTrees is a place to collect, organize and share everything you like on the web.

Phras.in  is a tool to learn how to decide how to say a word if there are two alternatives of it.

PhotoFunia  helps you to add photo effects to your pictures online.

Pinterest  is an online board where you can pin images, videos and other online content.

PollDaddy is a tool to create online and easy-to-use surveys and polls.

Popplet is an online board to create galleries, mind maps and diagrams collaboratively.

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StoryBird is a collaborative digital storytelling tool. You can search from professional artists’ artwork to start building up your story and you can set up a class account, work and moderate your students’ works easily.

Start choosing one of the illustrators work  and simply drag&drop the images on the pages of your online book. Add your text and add more pages if you like. You can add other collaborators to your story and start building a story together. The best thing about this tool is that every story is being moderated when they are published.

When you finish, you can navigate the finished product by turning the pages virtually. You can share your Storybird with a link, embedding the story or mailing it.

Storybird is a great tool to support writing activities. The possibilities to use this tools in our classes are endless and here are a few of them:

Give the beginning of a story and ask children to complete the rest of the story.

Children can keep a diary of one of the character’s in one of the illustrations.

Children can create introductions for different topics.

It can be good to ask children to create an introduction about themselves using this tool.

Give text to the children and ask them to find pictures that go along with it.

Storybird can replace book reports, dialogues, letters and essays.

Children can rewrite and reillustrate a traditional story that we all know.

Children can choose the same topic with a theme, but they can come up with different stories.

Children can read a Storybird and they can answer questions about it.

Each class can create a class story in which each child contributes to the story.

They can read a Storybird and write an ending for it.

Storybirds can be a great way to illustrate poems.

Children can compare tow differents stories about the same topic.

Regardless the ages of the users, Storybird encourages creativity and collaborating. It’s an interesting and a fun tool to promote writing and reading activities.

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Our Story is a tool to make your timeline by writing your stories and adding pictures, videos and text.

Odiogo lets you give a voice to your text or your blog into speech.

Oddcast is a tool to create online talking avatars using text-to-speech application.

BuildYourWildSafe

The best part about this tool is that you don’t need to sign up. Start with choosing the human body and browse through the different parts that you can add such as nose, hair, legs, arms etc.Then add some animals ears, bottoms, tails, backsides, arms , face and headgear. As you choose the body parts, you can also hear the sounds of the animals. When it is over, choose a background and click I’m done. Congrats! You have created your first wild self.

It gives you all the information about your new wild self. Print it out or mail it to others.

and, here are some ideas for you how to use this tool with your students:

Ask children to create their wild selves and write about what they can and what they can’t do.

Children can create a story about their new wild selves.

Show different wild selves and children can try to guess which animal parts you have used.

Print out some wild selves, as children describe their animals, the rest of the class try to create the same one as it is in the picture.

Children can describe their animals.

Children create a zoo photo album with their wild selves and their descriptions. They can even create their own “wild self zoo” on the bulletin board.

Children can write more about the animals that they have used on their wild selves.

Each child shows their wild selves, imitate their animals and rest of the class asks  some questions about them.

Show them a wild self picture, give them the beginning of the story and ask them to write or tell the rest of it.

This tool will be great fun for primary as it colorful, fun to play with and engaging.

Enjoy!

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