With this post, I’m nominating the bests for

Best individual blog TeacherBootCamp by Shelly Terrell
Best individual tweeter Steven W. Anderson @web20classroom
Best new blog TEFL Matters by Marisa Constantinides
Best resource sharing blog Nik’s Learning Tecnology Blog
Most influential blog post Burcu Akyol’s Spread Your Knowledge Series
Most influential tweet / series of tweets / tweet based discussion #edchat
Best teacher blog Life Feast by Ana Maria Menesez
Best educational tech support blog David Kapuler’s blog
Best educational use of audio Breaking News English Lessons by Sean Banville
Best educational use of video /visual Teacher Training Videos by Russell Stannard
Best educational wiki Cool Tools For Schools
Best educational use of a social networking service The Educators PLN
Lifetime achievement Ken Wilson’s Blog

Thank you all and the rest that are on my PLN for your great work, you’ve helped me a lot to grow and become me today!!

PsykoPaint is an excellent photo painting tool. You can easily turn your photos into amazing paintings with a few clicks. Your pictures will never be the same!!

Privnote let you sen notes that will self-destruct themselves after being read. You write your note, get a link and send it to the person you want to read the notes via mail. You can get a notification mail after the person reads the note. It’s also available in many languages.

Do you want to save the rain forests for free? Forestle is a green internet search engine that you can save 0.1 m² of rain forest free with your each search. Let’s go green everyone!!

You can write remarkable messages on the sky of the World Wide Web with SkyWriteMe. It gives an extraordinary, glamorous touch by writing them into the Sky. Everyone sees the same messages who opens it and the messages at 5 minute intervals.

I love this collage tool! ShapeCollage is an automatic shape photo collage maker. It gets your pictures from different photo sharing or URL of the pictures and creates a photo collage that you can use on your blog, web pages or you can send them to people or create your own scrap blog with them. Have a look at the gallery, it’s amazing!!

PicsViewr is a free service that turns Flickr photos into stunning slide shows. It has numerous templates that showcase your photos. If you like this tool, you can have a look at Splashr as well.

I’ve learnt Acepela TV from Ana Maria Menesez who has sent me an text to speech thank you card with it. You choose your game from flowers to bunnies, fish or birdies and you write your text and they speak it for you! It’s a cute and funny text to speech site.

For more, you can check Shelly Terrell’s Cool Sites Series!

Here is the last part of my series with 25 digital storytelling tools.

LittleBirdTales is a site where you can upload your drawings and record your voice for each picture to create your story.

Vocaroo lets you record our voice and send it to other via email or you can get the embed code and put it on your website.

CrazyTalk let you make your pictures talk. You can add emotions and you can use text-to-speech form.

StoryBird is a collaborative storytelling tool. Two or more people create their stories by writing the text and adding pictures. You can share it with others.

You can create your own comic on Mashon by adding text, pictures, videos and audio.

ComicBrush lets you create your own comics by using your drawing, photos and ready to use artwork. You can publish it and share with others.

Vuvox is a site where you can mix, create and blend your videos, photos and music into rich personal expressions.

Heekya is a social storytelling platform that lets you create, share and discover your stories.

Scratch allows you to create your own interactive stories, animations and share your creations on web.

Tabblo lets you make your pictures talk.

SketchSwap lets you draw a picture and when you finish, you can see somebody else’s drawing.

Plurk is a site where you can showcase the events of your life on a timeline.

Zinepal lets you create printable PDFs and e-books from any online content.

WittyComics allows you to create comic strips. StripCreator is a similar site.

SuperHerosSquad lets you to create a comic book using heroes.

You can create time lines using TimeRime and MyTimeLines.

Privnote lets you to create notes that will self-destruct themselves after being read.

You can turn your Flickr photos into visually stunning presentations with Picswievr.

CropMom lets you create your online scrap books.

You can make and send greeting cards with your own voice using VoxCards.

Skywrite allows you to write your message on sky.

PhotoSnack is a site where you can create professional photo slide shows.

You can write your own story, add an existing or illustrate one with Colla-O-Write.

Linoit lets you leave sticky notes to existing web pages.

You can create your own stop motion animation on ClayAnimator or you can try Fluxtime.

Enjoy!

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This is the third part of my 100 Digital Storytelling Tools series. I hope you have fun while creating your digital stories with different Web 2.0 tools.

DVolver can make you a director in minutes. You choose your character, scene, background, title, music and you only add what you want your characters to say. This is one of my favourite off all.

With WritingFun, you can use text organizers to assist your students with the writing process.

Write4Net is a similar to prorperous. You can publish your texts without needing a blog or a website. You write your text and Write4Net publishes it using your Twitter account. It’s interesting though I’m not sure if we can consider this blog under digital storytelling tools.

 With Xtimeline, you can create great timeles for biographies,resource, history or current issuses.

Glogster is a tool to creare online and interactive posters. You can add pictures, videos, texts or podcasts to your glog page. Wix is a similar tool like Glogster. You can create your own page with podcasts, pictures,videos, effects and texts.

Yodio allows you to add voice to your photos and create your own presentations.

Xtranormal lets you create your unique stiroes with your own messages. Drag and drop animations and use text-to movie application. 

Timetoast is another site to create timelines and share them on the web with others.     

With SuperActionComicMaker, you can create your own super comic hero and tell your story with him. 

Gnomz and Mainada are other sites where you can create your own comic.  

Kerpoof is a site where you can create original artwork, animated movies, stories, greeting cards and more.

You can create own photo scripts by chhosing your layout, uploading your pictures, adding bubbles with texts and effects on Comeeko.

Blabberize lets you make a photo talk with your own voice.

Pixton is another comic strip creator and you can create in multiple languages.

 Prezi has become my favourite presentation tool from now on. It has a very unique interface to present your topic. It’s zooming sketches on a digital page.

Ahead is similar to Prezi. You share any media on your own zooming web spaces.

Mapskip is a site where you can tell your stories on a map.

You can create multimedia presentations, movies and podcasts with MediaWorks.  

WallWisher is a great way to collborate and an online notice board maker though you can use it for so many other purposes.

AMap is a great and a fun way to display your live debates. We can use it to review a book or a story we’ve read. I loved it!

OneWord is a minimalistic storytelling. It gşves you a word and you have to write about it in sixty seconds.

PicLits is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you.

You’ll find more  on my next post. Enjoy!!

“I know only one thing about the technologies that awaits us in the future:We will find ways to tell stories with them.”  Jason Ohlar

Here is the second part of 100 digital storytelling tools series.

DigitalFilms is a website that lets you create your own film for free. You choose your background scene, characters, animated actions, dialogue, introduction and ending credits.

WebSlides let you convert your feeds and bookmarks and present them as live web pages in an interactive slide show. It’s a great way to create and share unique presentations based on web content and user annotations.

Dipity is an online timeline that you can add videos and pictures.

Doink is a great way to create your own stories and share them with others. You can create your own story from scratch or you can use other animated stories to create yours.

Empressr is a media presentation tool. You can add pictures, videos, audios, music and share it with the world.

Jaycut lets you edit your movies online.

Mixbook allows you to create your collaborative photo books and albums.

Fix8 allows you to customize your on-screen virtual appearance in real time using avatar technology. In short, it’s a web cam technology that lets you animate yourself.

With FuzzWich, choose your settings, characters. If you like, you can even customize your character with your face. You drag the character and decide on its move and create your animated film. You can also have a look at FuzzWichFridge where you can play with magnetic words upon a fridge.

GoAnimate is a site where you can create your own animations. You don’t need to have a drawing skill or know about Flash.

With LifeHabs, you can create a sharable interactive timeline of the significant events in your life.

TimeGlider lets you create your web-based timeline software to create and share history and project plans.

PhotoAlbum lets you share and archive photos and videos. You can create your own albums with your photos,videos and add your text.

You can create your timeline with OurStory, you can add photos,videos and write your text.

MyStoryMaker allows you to create your own online story.

With SmileBox, you can create scrapbooks and e-cards with using your pictures,videos, words and music to share it with the world.

You can create easy slide shows on PhotoPeach and tell your story over photos.

You can decorate you pictures, add bubbles, create clips and photo galleries on PhotoShop.

Tikatok is an online platform where you can write your story, illustrate it and publish your original story with others.

Slideoo is the horizontal photo slide show for Flickr and Splashr is a tool for presenting Flickr photos.

SlideStory lets you share your photos with your narrated voice.

With Speechable, you can  upload and add speech bubbles to your photos.

You can create comic scripts with Toondo.

Enjoy exploring those tools!

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