COOL+TOOLS

Students actually make a picture "talk." It could be a picture of a person, animal or an object. It could even be a drawing. They could report about something or someone or tell a story.
 * **COOL TOOLS**
 * =**Blabberize**=
 * **[]**

Be sure that you follow copyright laws when choosing pictures. Pictures that are Public Domain can be used. Be sure to cite where the picture was found. You can cite in the summary section when saving it or you can cite within the recording. You will need an account. It is quick, easy and free. *Notes:
 * Do not close the lid while working on a Blabber.
 * Students must speak clearly and loudly.
 * **Mixbook**

Mixbook allows you to create books using photos and text. More than one person can collaborate on a book. It is great for digital storytelling. Mixbooks can be embedded on your site. [] With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with **no software to install**. A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds [|images, documents, and videos] and allows people to navigate slides and leave [|comments in 5 ways] - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). [|Share] a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too. Users can [|doodle] while commenting, use multiple [|identities], and pick which comments are shown through [|moderation]. VoiceThreads can even be [|embedded] to show and receive comments on other websites and [|exported] to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies. Users can [|doodle] while commenting, use multiple [|identities].
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 * =**VOICE THREAD**=

=WORDSIFT= =[][]= WordSift was created to help teachers and studnets manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials. We especially hope that this tool is helpful in supporting English Language Learners. We want WordSift to be a useful tool, but we also want it to be fun and visually pleasing. We would be happy if you think of it playfully - as a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts, and to help create an opportunity to talk and explore the richness and wonders of language! WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text into WordSift and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture! The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. This function is widely available in various Tag Cloud programs on the web, but we have added the ability to mark and sort different lists of words important to educators. We have also integrated it with a few other functions, such as visualization of word thesaurus relationships (incorporating the amazing Visual Thesaurus® that we highly recommend in its own right) and Google® searches of images and videos. With just a click on any word in the Tag Cloud, the program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text.

@http://metaatem.net/words/
 * Storybird
 * Story Book Maker
 * Picture Book Maker
 * StoryJumper
 * Comic Life
 * Green Screen
 * Spell with Frickr**

@http://iconscrabble.com/
 * Icon Scrabble**

@http://cooltext.com/
 * Cool Text**

**Ninja Words** []

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