Web 2.0 Sites

http://www.weebly.com
Easy to use, and free website creation site. This site was built for free with weebly!

http://posterous.com
Easy to use, blogging style website creation. You post to your blog through email. Posterous can properly display just about any type of file. Users can subscribe to posts through RSS or email. This is the site that I use for my middle school band program - http://gradyband.org

http://pen.io
Create beautiful text based web pages in seconds and share them with the world. It's one of the fastest ways to publish a text based web page. Here are some ideas to get you started: http://youcanusepento.pen.io/

http://xtranormal.com
Text to movie application that allows you to create an animated movie. Free and premium accounts are available.

http://vuvox.com
Create multimedia pieces combining video, pictures, music/audio, and more. Vuvox creates moving collages that allow you to easily integrate and manipulate your media for presentations. Free accounts are available.

http://wordle.net
A free word cloud generator. A powerful tool when analyzing text.

http://voicethread.com
An online tool designed to faclilitate discussions and share images, documents, and video. Free educator accounts are available.

http://animoto.com
Turn your pictures/slides into a professional quality video production in a few easy steps. Free educator accounts are available.

http://sketchfu.com
A simple drawing program that records your steps as you draw.

http://www.bubblebox.com/play/puzzle/975.htm
A fun problem solving game. Great for critical thinking.

http://www.diigo.com
A research tool for annotation and archiving of websites.

http://storify.com/
Currently only available by invite. Turn what people post on social media into compelling stories. Collect the best photos, video, tweets and more to publish them as simple, beautiful stories that can be embedded anywhere.

http://noteflight.com
A wonderful, FREE online music notation editor with built in collaboration tools.

Resources for Images and Sounds:

Creative Commons - a non-profit organization dedicated to providing a body of work that is available to the public for free and legal use. More information can be found at http://creativecommons.org

Searching Creative Commons
http://search.creativecommons.org

Flickrcc - Creative Commons photo sharing
http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net

Freeplay Music
http://www.freeplaymusic.com
Full Freeplay Music compositions and recordings may be used without a fee for in-classroom, non-broadcast projects; broadcast projects such as those posted on a website, blog, etc. must follow the Fair Use copyright principle.

Open Source Audio at Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio
The Internet Archive provides an Open Source Audio section with music contributed by community members; most music found on this site are released under Creative Commons Licensing, which typically allow full use with attribution.

The Freesound Project
http://www.freesound.org
The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds; Freesound focuses only on sound, not songs.