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BLOGS Blogs can be used in an educational setting to foster essential communication as well as provide additional content information in social studies. Various blogging sites are available, with [|Blogger], [|Edublogs] , and [|WordPress] being among the most popular and powerful. PODCASTS Teachers can create educational content for their students and share information with the community. Also, students can develop their own podcasts as a form of assessment. [|GCast] is a great platform to create podcast, free, from your cell phone!

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SOCIAL NETWORKING [|Ning] - A social networking community that can be converted to a historical facebook for specific topic areas. TIMELINES [|Dipity] - This online timeline program is a great way to have students organize events chronologically. [|Timetoast] is another productive time lining site.

WIKIS Wikispaces - Probably the most popular wiki site available, with thousands of educational examples. PRESENTATIONS [|Slideshare] - A great location to create, upload, collaborate, and share presentations with others. [|VoiceThread] - A great site that allows users to share images, video, and audio comments and collaborate and comment on others' ideas.

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING [|Del.icio.us] - One of the most popular social bookmarking tools, in which bookmarks can be stored online, tagged, and shared with others. [|Google Docs] - An easy way to create, store and share documents, spreadsheets and presentations, including the opportunity to collaborate.

SCREENCASTS [|Jing] - An easy way to capture and share images and video from your computer screen.

FLASH CARDS [|Knowtes] - An easy online flashcard system for reviewing vocabulary, major concepts, even images! Other flash card sites include [|Open Flash Cards], [|quigli] , [|Quizlet] , [|StudyStack] , and [|Rememberize].

COMIC STRIPS Students can create and share comic strips containing class content and creativity. [|Make Beliefs Comix] is a quick and easy tool. [|Comic Creator] is a resource from [|Read Write Think], which contains some additional awesome tools!

WORDLE Using [|Wordle], students can brainstorm words that come to mind for a certain topic and create a cool collaborative word cloud. Or, you can enter the text of a document, passage, poem, or speech and find out the main words of the speech.

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