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Now that school’s out, kids are looking for Web sites that are just plain fun. This 2009 Webby Award-winning site—and homage to abstract painter Jackson Pollock—is perfect for the start of summer vacation. It’s all about fun, color, and, most of all, creativity. Kids don’t need instructions to start “painting” online, but here are a few hints to pass along to them: moving your mouse slowly or quickly over the screen creates different-sized blobs and lines; moving your mouse in different patterns (circles or zig zags, for instance) creates different effects; clicking your mouse changes the paint colors; and continuously clicking while moving your mouse around the screen creates a really interesting and beautiful effect.

To have your work of art signed and dated by creator Miltos Manetas, press the “Delete” key. Kids can also print their completed works of art. This site is wonderfully simple (even toddlers can create amazing images), wonderfully creative (teens will find that they can, with a bit of patience and practice, create subtle and real works of art) and also wonderfully addictive—just the thing to keep kids of all ages not only entertained, but also challenged to create something new and beautiful each time they visit this truly amazing site. (And if you’re wondering who created the image above… I did!)

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is a free, online tool that makes photo-editing fun and easy. Picnik began its life with one purpose: To bring photo editing awesomeness to everyone!
# Fix your photos in just one click
# Use advanced controls to fine-tune your results
# Crop, resize, and rotate in real-time
# Tons of special effects, from artsy to fun
# Astoundingly fast, right in your browser
# Awesome fonts and top-quality type tool
# Basketfuls of shapes from hand-picked designers
# Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux
# No download required, nothing to install

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you can easily create a collaborative workspace with sticky notes, pictures, calendar items and documents and no login required!
Upload your work, add comments, share files, and more. Invite your co-workers and start collaborating.

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collaboration web2.0 sharing tools filesharing

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photos poster generator fun posters web2.0 tools

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the animated scrolling typewriter text generator. Write some text and click Create Screed to make your own animated text.ou can change the width, size of the text, font style, color, and size. Click save it to your computer and it will be saved as screedb

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generating a little tag graphic with text on it. After you make your tag, you can download it to your computer or save it to Flickr or ImageShack with a single click.

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webdesign picture tools text blogabout signs tinytags

has some great places you can go to make some fun signs, graphics, scrolling text, or sticky notes.

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TrackStar from 4Teachers.org is a free online resource for teachers to
organize and create Web-based lessons that can be linked to and accessed
for classroom use and made public for others who visit the site to use.
The Track database is searchable by key

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Jing is a free screencasting tool available for Mac and Windows. Jing allows me to make short screencasts to explain to students and colleagues how to perform a function on the computer. I used Jing numerous times this year to produce screencasts for my c

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The first time I saw Drop.io I knew that it would be a very useful tool for teachers. Drop.io was launched in the fall of 2007 and continuously add new, free, features throughout 2008. Some of things that I've done with Drop.io in the last year include re

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Animoto's tagline is "the end of slide shows" and while Animoto has not stopped the creation of boring slide shows, it certainly has provided a great alternative to slide shows. Animoto allows students to create great looking videos without the need for a

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I am an also an Adobe Education Leader, so use Adobe Connect Pro for
all videoconferencing. They have an "express" version, called
ConnectNow, that allows 3 users for no cost. I suggest you give it a
try!

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webconferencing tools videoconferencing

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webdesign pictures tools photos images opensource flash cube

simple to use and has the largest selection of gallery and special effects. While clearly aimed at the MySpace set, this site still has terrific potential in the classroom, and would allow teachers and students alike to create intricate, interactive slide

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webdesign pictures tools photos slideshows webpages

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