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Here are a few useful tools for the classroom!
 * **Tool Name** || **Brief Description** ||
 * [|Google Drive] || Productivity suite and online storage ||
 * [|Animoto] || Create and edit videos ||
 * [|Prezi] || Presentation tool ||
 * [|Glogster] || Create media rich digital posters ||
 * [|TimeToast] || Create your own timelines ||
 * [|VoiceTread] || Digital storytelling program ||
 * [|Poll Everywhere] || Audience response system ||
 * [|Google Earth] || Explore the planet and space! ||
 * [|SketchUp] || Create virtual models and drawings ||
 * [|Wordle] || Word cloud generator ||
 * [|WordItOut] || Another word cloud with some nice customization features ||
 * Wikispaces || A wiki to work collectively or individually ||
 * [|Pbworks] || Another wiki ||
 * [|Blogger] || Create classroom or individual blogs ||


 * __Example Activity- US State Project__**

// **Without Web 2.0 tool-** // The 4th grade students will have to study and report on an assigned state. One of the the requirements for this unit is for the students to put together a map and collage that depicts their assigned state. Students will work in partners and may use classroom copies of various magazines and newspapers as well as their own drawings to compete this assignment.

//**With Web 2.0 tool-**// The 4th grade students will have to study and report on an assigned state. One of the the requirements for this unit is for the students to Glogster to create a digital poster. Students will have include a state map, images, and at least one video that depicts their assigned state. Students can work on this project in school and at home with their partners. By using this Web 2.0 tool, students will have access to more images and be able to include media in their project that they would not be able to do with the regular collage. The tool will also allow the partners to work on the same project together from different locations.

QR Code Posters for several of the tools listed above.