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Read Children's Picture Books Online (or create your own) at BigUniverse. Big Universe has both fiction and nonfiction picture books to read. Books are easy to search by category, grade, reading level, interest age, and language. The free version of Big Universe offers a limited look at the premium publisher books. With the free version you can only create one ebook per user account.

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Use a variety of tools and colors to create unique and original digital art. Choose one of 20 patterns, and use the cursor to move across the screen. The buttons are found at the bottom of the drawing box. Save as a .jpg or .png file on your computer with one click.

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Creaza is a suite of web-based creativity tools. There are four tools in the Creaza toolbox that will help your students organize knowledge and tell stories in new creative ways. Mindomo is the mind mapping tool.

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Repper is a free-to-use pattern creator that turns your images into eye-catching designs.

You can start playing right away: just upload an image and start dragging!

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Vocabulary Videos and Flash Cards for SAT, ACT and GRE -

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This generator from Image Chef allows you to write a comment or a poem in the shape of a heart or other symbols.

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Penguin’s pioneering online book community for teenagers. Reading and book review site written by and for teenagers and run by teenagers themselves

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Space for teachers and librarians to SHARE wisdom and instruction--understandings, lessons, units, handouts, rubrics, presentations, images, and teaching tips that have been either rotting in our file cabinets or posted and lonely on our individual sites.

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Photovisi makes creating collages of digital photos quick and easy. Simply select a collage template, upload images from your computer or Flickr account, sequence the images, and the collage is created. No registration is required to use the service, but you also cannot save the collages on Photovisi, you have to download your completed collage.

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Shape Collage: either specify individual snaps or full picture folders that are to be used in a collage or poster. Then you select a shape for your collage - it could be a pile of scattered images, a rectangle or you could draw some shape with the mouse and Shape Collage will match the layout of pictures in the collage with that hand-drawn image.

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Mixbook is a web2.0 tool that easily allows the creation of an online books. Simply start by selecting a theme or create your own. Upload images from your computer or from the web. Then arrange page layouts and add text. Another option is to invite other classrooms to collaborate as co-authors. Printed copies are available for purchase. Or, simply copy and paste the embed code into your web page or blog.

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Quizlet is an online flashcard making service. You can make your own flashcards or study from publicly shared sets of flashcards. Quizlet offers you the ability to study your cards in five different ways including playing a couple of games with your cards.

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FontStruct lets you create or browse into existing or user-created fonts.

How it works--FontStruct is a free website that lets students build, share, and download fonts that they create in a simple font editor. First students name their font, then they use the font editor to draw each character of the alphabet using font bricks and a grid system. After each character has been created, the font can be downloaded and added to the fonts folder to be used in any word processing program or desktop presentation program.

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Blank Sheet Music.net allows you to create your own blank sheet music. Before printing you can select the key signature, time signature, number of staves per set, sets per sheet, and the cleff.

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Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X. Inkscape uses the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format and it supports many advanced SVG features

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MindMeister-collaborative mind mapping

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Create photo mosaics and Polaroid pics in a snap with Pixisnap!
Turn your lifeless picture to awesome photo mosaics or cool Polaroid
and make them your desktop wallpaper

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SoundJunction covers sounds. Use interactive tools to discover how sounds are made, get samples to make your own music, hear musicians talk about their work and watch videos of musical instruments in action. Learn about the history of classical music periods.

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