Digital Books (aka Blog Companions)

• Volume I- educational sites for educators/students
• Volume II - educational sites for educators
• Volume III - multimedia sites (audio/video,/presentation)
• Volume IV- search engines
• Volume V- digital art & photo editing
• Volume VI- technical resources
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Audio | Bookmarking | Charts/Graphs | Digital Art | Digital Storytelling | File Conversion | File Sharing | Misc. | Photo Editing | Presentation/Slideshow | Project Management | Search Engines | Social Networks | Suvey/Polls | Timelines | WebQuests | Word Processing | Video/Screencasting

Audio

Audioboo	nice site for recording audio and sharing w/ others online	review
AudioPal	record audio and embed into site	review
Contrapunctus Variations	create orchestra music by clicking	review
Cut MP3	great way to get snippets from your favorite MP3's	review
Dirpy	extract audio from YouTube videos	review
Glitchscape	make music by drawing shapes	review
Hear Who	turns text into audio (mp3)	review
Incredibox	fun way to create online music	review
iNudge	create music by drawing	review
Jam Studio	create/mix music	review
Music Theory	great site for teaching music skills	review
Myna	site very similar to Garageband	review
Read the Words	great site for converting text to speech	review
Recordr	nice way to record audio/video then embed	review
Roc	from Aviary, excellent site for making music, bit of a learning curve	review
Sound Bible	get royalty free sound effects	review
Soundation Studio	easy to use site w/ drag/drop interface	review
Voices in the Dark	audio books read aloud on a number of different subjects	review
LicenseQuote	sell music licenses from your website and keep 100% of revenue

Blogging

Instablogg	nice site for creating a simple blog	review
Tumblr	does not require students to validate email addresses

Bookmarking

iCyte	great site for bookmarking and annotating web pages	review
Instapaper	install a bookmarklet to read sites at a later time	review
Pinboard	simple bookmarking site	review
School Noodle	social bookmarking site built for teachers	review
Zootool	nice bookmarklet for bookmarking and sharing sites	review

Charts/Graphs

Cacoo	nice site for creating charts/diagrams/flow charts	review
ChartGo	create simple looking charts	review
Chartle	create unique/interactive charts	review
Geek Chart	graph/chart your favorite social networking stats	review
Debate Graph	excellent site for graphing debatable topics	review
Diagramly	A nice free way to create a diagram then share w/ others	review
Grapholite	great site for making online graphs/flow charts	review
Lovely Charts	one of the nicer looking chart makers around, especially for those doing a home network diagram	review
Lucid Chart	a simple to use free site (for education) for making charts, graphs, wire frames, etc	review
MyPicsMap	a mashup of Google Maps & Flickr	review
Pie Color	make beautiful looking pie charts, very user friendly	review
Pretty Graph	create excellent looking graphs	review
Rich Chart Live	create beautiful animated/flash based graphs	review
Scribble Maps	draw/share on Google Maps	review
Slatebox	create beautiful looking mind maps and organizational charts	review
Widgenie	upload/create amazing looking graphs, embed into site	review

Digital Art (painting/drawing tools)

Art Pad	great site to use for painting w/ brushes, record while you work to create time lapse videos	review
Board800	collaborative drawing board, very easy to use	review
Bomomo	fun site for making some crazy looking designs	review
Cloud Canvas	great site similar to Sumo Paint/Splashup for drawing/painting online	review
Cosketch	great collaborative drawing site	review
Crayloa Digi-Color	fun w/ drawing/coloring	review
Doink	fun site for creating animated drawings	review
Doodle Wall	create your own private room and draw once a day	review
Draw.to	excellent site for creating a drawing and sharing w/ others, the ability to embed into site	review
Drips	have fun painting like Pollock	review
Flowckdraw	great site for collaborative drawing, ability to embed into site	review
Graffiti Creator	fun w/ text	review
Imagination Cubed	unique drawing site, nice backgrounds	review
Kuler	great for mixing and matching colors, uses Adobe Air	review
Live Brush	create gorgeous looking pictures	review
Logo Ease	one of the best sites for making custom logos	review
Muro	nice site for creating digital art w/ lots of tools to choose from	review
Mutapic	visual brainstorming w/ art	review
Odosketch	great site for making cool looking sketches	review
Paint Brush	free Mac app that brings back memories of Mac Paint	review
Picartia	great site for making mosaics/collages	review
Psykopaint	upload a photo then tweak it w/ paint	review
Shape Collage	wonderful site to make collages	review
Sketch Cast	create nice drawing tutorials, ability to record audio while drawing, similar to doodle in Voicethread	review
Sketchpad	fun w/ drawing/painting	review
Slimber	nice site for creating beautiful looking drawings, check out their examples	review
Sumo Paint	very popular online drawing/painting site	review
Supalogo	nice logo creator	review
Typo Generator	make cool fonts/text	review
Upperx	great site for getting textures	review
ViewAt.org	create/share panoramas	review
Voice Draw	draw w/ your voice	review

Digital Storytelling

5 Card Flickr Draw	choose 5 pictures and put them in order to tell a story	review
Alice Storytelling	excellent, free windows app, for creating digital stories	review
Art of Storytelling	wonderful site for creating own digital story or comments on others pieces of art	review
Batalugu	excellent new site for creating digital stories	review
Bookemon	a cross between Mixbook & Bookrix to make a great digital book creator	review
BookRix	excellent site for creating/uploading books, sharing/embedding	review
Create Your Story: From Old Japan	nice digital story telling site w/ all the fixings	review
Digital Directors Guild	great great site to learn how to create a digital story w/ lessons	review
Digital Films	fun/easy site to use, a cross between Myths & Legends and iMovie HD	review
Domo Animate	create fun stories w/ the anime character Domo	review
Dvolver	fun site to make cartoony looking stories	review
Fuzzwich	fun way to create stories using animated characters	review
GoAnimate	great site to create custom animations w/ educational instance	review
Google Search Stories	excellent storytelling site, add clips via search terms, easy to use	review
Make Beliefs Comix	fun site to create digital comics w/ lots of teacher resources	review
Memoov	fun site similar to My Storymaker and Myths & Legends, can record audio too	review
Mixbook	create amazing digital books and order, w/ educational instance	review
MotionFX	easy to use, add chapters, effects, text	review
My StoryMaker	fun site for creating digital stories	review
Myths & Legends	great site w/ educational instance	review
Panraven	similar to Mixbook, great for making digital stories w/ video	review
Picture Book Maker	nice book making site for the younger kids	review
Pixton	nice comic making site w/ an educational instance	review
Primary Access	create digital stories w/ historical stock footage	review
Stage'D	create digital stories w/ amazing viusals	review
Storify	nice site for creating a story w/ social media	review
Story Top	create/share online comics	review
Storybird	nice site for creating digital storybooks	review
Story Jumper	great new site for creating online stories or physical copies	review
Super Hero Squad Show	create nice looking comics based off the hit cartoon	review
Tikatok	create books then share them online or purchase	review
ToonDoo Spaces	nice site for creating digital comics w/ educational instance	review
Witty Comics	create digital comics that are more dialogue based	review
ZimmerTwins	fun animated site for creating digital stories	review
Zinepal	create nice looking magazines/ebooks	review
Zooburst	create 3D pup-up books and share on the web	review

File Conversion

Booklet Creator	turn PDF's into a booklet	review
Carryout Text	speech to text converter	review
Comet Docs	nice visual file conversion site	review
Create PDF	merge and add watermarks to PDF's	review
DocsPal	excellent site, very easy to use	review
File2.ws	convert any file into a web page	review
HTML to PDF	html to PDF converter	review
Loop Apps	easy way to combine PDF's	review
Miro Video Converter	convert video to any format, great for mobile apps	review
Text 2 Mindmap	convert text into mindmaps	review

File Sharing

Airdropper Author Stream	request files from dropbox users easy way to share powerpoints/presentations	review review
Box.net	great way to upload/download files, email notification	review
Crocodoc	nice file sharing site which generates unique URL for collaborating	review
Dinky Page	create text and share/collaborate w/ others	review
DocDroid	easy to use and can password protect files	review
Drop.io	real time/private sharing of all types of docs	review
Droplr	great/easy site for file sharing	review
Dushare	send files while chatting	review
File Dropper	share up to 5 GB online	review
justpaste.it	great way to share text or images	review
Note Pub	create/share/organize your notes	review
PDFVue	edit/share/annotate PDF's	review
PinDax	create message boards for collaboration	review
Pipe Bytes	great site for sharing files privately	review
S4ve.as	file sharing made easy, host for 24 hrs	review
TinyGrab	share screen shots	review
Troovi	upload photos then share URL	review
Wall Wisher	create a wall and share sticky notes	review
WeTransfer	very easy to use	review
ZohoWiki	similar to Google Docs for creating/sharing digital content	review

Misc.

60 Second Recap	great video reviews of pieces of literature	review
360 Cities	check panoramas from around the world in Google Earth	review
Aardvark	ask a question and have people post answers	review
AR Sights	augmented reality, a must see	review
Big Huge Thesaurus	search for antonyms/synonyms	review
Blixy	create embeddable widgets	review
Book Seer	fun site to find out what to read next	review
Book Wink	listen to stories from 3rd-8th grade	review
Citizendium	similar to Wikipedia w/ more credible sources	review
Closr.it	upload photos and create zoom-able widgets	review
Conflict History	Google mash up w/ a time line, very interesting	review
Culture Crossing	great site for social/economical data	review
Differentiator	create sentence structure w/ Blooms Taxonomy	review
Easy Define	excellent site for gathering different info about words	review
Edmodo	educational microblogging	review
Embedit.in	upload data and embed in your site	review
Full Wiki	mash up of Wikipedia & Google Maps	review
Histografica	view historical photos w/ Google Maps	review
Interactive Quiz	create embeddable quizzes	review
KidBlog	one of the best new sites for educational blogging	review
Krunchd	organize bookmarks into shareable links	review
Lexipedia	visual words w/ a concept map	review
LiveTyping	record while you type	review
Navify	visual search Wikipedia	review
Ninja Words	cross referencing dictionary	review
OneLook	reverse dictionary	review
PaperRate	excellent site to check spelling/grammar/plagiarism	review
Pinball	great site for brainstorming ideas	review
ReviewBasics	a great collaboration site for getting feedback	review
Planting my Ideas	interesting site to create interactive plants, nice look	review
Roohit	annotate/highlight on the web	review
Shahi	a visual dictionary/mash-up of Flickr/Wikipedia	review
Shmoop	excellent multimedia resources for study materials	review
SignApp Now	create free online sign up sheets	review
Snappy Words	nice visual thesaurus and dictionary	review
Story Cove	interactive story telling site	review
Storynory	similar to Book Wink, stories read outloud	review
Tagul	create tag clouds, similar to Wordle	review
Telescopic Text	understand sentence structure w/ this interactive site	review
Thinkature	create a virtual room to collaborate w/ text, chat, etc	review
Tutor2u-Wisdomap	excellent mindmapping site designed specifically for education	review
Visual Dictionary	great educational site w/ lesson plans/games	review
Visualizing Culures	interactive/multimedia for social & cultural learning	review
Visuwords	search/create terms, nice visuals, graphic dictionary	review
VocabGrabber	target keywords, create tag clouds	review
Weebly	great site w/ educational instance for making blog/website	review
Wikify	enter text to generate links to Wikipedia	review
Word Counter	great site for writers to learn word efficiency	review
Word Sift	visualize words, create tag clouds	review
WordItOut	great for creating word clouds	review
Wordnik	learn the origin/history of any word	review
Words Like	mash up of a dictionary and a thesaurus	review
World Digital Library	great multimedia map of the world	review

Photo Editing

Alpoy	avatar creator	review
Aviary	similar to Photoshop	review
Big Huge Labs	nice site for adding effects to photos, w/ educational instance	review
Cameroid	have fun w/ photos	review
Cartoonize	fun site for turning photos into cartoons (a la Scanner Darkly)	review
Citrify	nice site for editing photos and adding Photobooth type effects	review
Fine Tuna	add comments to a pic	review
FlauntR	nice online editor w/ a bit of a learning curve	review
Fotobabble	add audio to any photo	review
Bubblesnaps	add speech bubbles to your pictures	review
Image Chef	turn your photos into incredible things	review
ImageEnlarger	enlarge image w/out pixelization, free app	review
Image Lobe ImageOid	free download for adding effects to photos nice site for adding special effects	review review
Live Quartz	nice free app for Mac for editing photos	review
Loogix	create animated avatars	review
Photo Face	excellent site for editing/animating photos	review
Pic Lab	nice online editor easy to use	review
Picjoke	edit pictures w/ entertaining photos	review
Pixer.us	similar to Acorn or a basic Photoshop	review
piZap	fun photo editing site for adding effects	review
Rollip	create polaroids from your photos	revew
Speechable	add a speech bubble to a picture	review
Splashup	nice/free alternative to Photoshop similar to Sumo Paint	review
Thumboo	great site for creating thumbnails	review
Tilt Shift	great way to add subtle effects	review
Tuxpi	add fun/special effects to photos	review

Presentation/Slideshows

Ahead	create zoom-able web pages	review
Book Mash	runs on Adobe Air, great way to search multimedia data	review
Clipgenerator	similar to Animoto, add photos, select music, etc	review
Creaza	a suite of multimedia tools	review
Digital Vaults	create digital posters, movies, or pathway challenge	review
Flixtime	create slide shows similar to Animoto	review
Fotonea	create/edit a photo collage	review
Fotopedia	nice multimedia site for creating dynamic encyclopedia	review
Free Book -S	search engine to find free online books	review
Glogster	create interactive/multimedia posters w/ educational instance	review
iLovePhotos	similar to iPhoto w/ face recognition	review
KickLight	mash text w/ videos to make a wonderful presentation	review
Kizoa	excellent site for making animate slideshows	review
Magic Studio	great multimedia site	review
Magnoto	similar to Glogster create interactive pages	review
Me and My Movie	create/share/comment on movies	review
Museum Box	upload multimedia content into boxes	review
My Hero	create media rich webpages/presentations	review
One True Media	excellent site for making beautiful presentations	review
Pho.to	share nice looking slide shows, embed into site	review
PhotoPeach	great slideshow making site w/ the ability to create quizzes	review
PhotoSnack	create beautiful looking slide shows	review
Photovisi	create beautiful looking collages	review
PreZentit	make excellent looking slideshows, nice user interface	review
Prezi	great site to make zooming slideshows	review
RockYou	fun site for making multi-media presentations	review
Shwup	make excellent looking slide shows, similar to Animoto	review
Slideroll	wonderful looking slide shows, educational instance	review
Vuvox	create amazing looking multimedia slide shows	review

Project Management

Diagrammr	easy way to make mindmaps/diagrams w/ text	review
EdiStorm	real-time mapping w/ sticky notes	review
Education Eye	great way to brainstorm w/ this innovative search engine	review
Gnatter	very easy to use, web based project management site	review
Live Binders	organize digital content, educational instance	review
Onyaka	great for scheduling	review
Slick Plan	create beautiful looking mindmaps/flow charts	review
Thinklinkr	make collaborative outlines	review
Toobla	great way to organize multimedia data via channels	review

Search Engines

AudioOwl	search engine for finding audio books	review
Bevyfind	search engine designed to speed up the searching process	review
Bingle	mash up of Google & Bing	review
Biographicon	search engine for biographies	review
Blekko	engine that uses hash tags to filter results	review
Blinx	search engine for video that is great at organizing it's content	review
Collecta	engine based on real time results	review
Cyclo.ps	search engine for royalty free photos	review
DeweyDigger	catalog of the web via the Dewey Decimal System	review
DocJax	document/eBook engine	review
Duck Duck Go	a nice simple search engine that can search on multiple meanings	review
Europeana	European/cultural engine w/ Web 3.0 capabilities	review
EyePlorer	excellent/unique engine which visual searches Wikipedia	review
Factbites	a mash up of a encyclopedia and search engine	review
Famhoo	family friendly search engine	review
Faroo	real time seach engine w/ ranking system	review
Feedmil	adjustable search engine on different categories	review
Find Icons	great site for finding icons	review
Find that File	ideal for finding specific file types on the web	review
Find the Best	comparative search engine	review
Forestle	help save the rain forest by searching here	review
Goofram	mash up of Google & Wolfram Alpha	review
Google Squared	from Google Labs, results in a spreadsheet format	review
Google Swirl	innovative way to search for images	review
GoT	mash up of Google Blogs and Twitter	review
Hakia	search engine built on semantics aka Web 3.0	review
IsInVideo	real time search engine for videos	review
Jamendo	search engine for free/open source music	review
KidRex	built by kids w/ Google's custom safe search engine	review
Kngine	web 3.0 search engine	review
Kosmix	searches the web for best in social media content	review
Lavva	user generated search results	review
Leap Fish	similar to Dogpile	review
Librophile	great search engine for audio books	review
LocPDF	excellent visual way to search for PDF's	review
Mashpedia	a search engine/visual encyclopedia that is real-time	review
Middlespot	innovative search engine that works like an online sticky note	review
Murgurdy	search engine that displays visual results,	review
Muzic	great search engine for independent music, ability to download song	review
NachoFoto	real-time search engine for images	review
Neotake	search engine for ebooks	review
Number Gossip	search engine for numbers	review
Oamos	excellent new engine w/ multimedia results, nothing is quite like it	review
Open Clip Art	great search engine for clip art	review
PanoGoogle	search engine for panoramic images	review
Picture.of.a	search engine for free photos	review
PreKinders	search engine designed for Pre K and KDG	review
Qwiki	innovative information experience must-see	review
Quintura	interesting search engine where results come in clouds/tags	review
Refseek	academic search engine	review
Scoopler	real time engine where you can share results	review
Search Cloud	results return in the form of a tag cloud	review
Search Credible	collection of 26 search engines in one page	review
Search Motive	results from people not "web crawlers"	review
Slidefinder	search engine for slides	review
Sleedo	search engine where results feed the hungry	review
SortFix	interesting search engine where you can customize your search fields	review
Space Time 3D	search in a coverflow visual style	review
Specra	results ranked/weighed	review
Sperse	search results w/ preview icon	review
Spezify	results come in a variety of multimedia formats	review
Sprixi	search engine for finding pictures	review
Sputtik	very original search engine	review
Stinky Teddy	search engine powered by gossip	review
Surf Canyon	interesting way it refines search results	review
Sweet Search	great search engine for students	review
TinEye	reverse search engine for photos	review
Topic Box	a nice educational search engine w/ over 2000 sites	review
Topsy	a great search engine that indexes it's results via social data	review
Twick.it	searching via micro/user defined data	review
Twine	web 3.0 search engine	review
Twurdy	get results based on readability levels	review
Typedia	search engine for fonts	review
Veezzle	great search engine for finding free stock photos	review
Video Search in 3D	cool way to search for videos	review
WebKruz	multimedia visual search engine	review
Wolfram Alpha	computational search engine that solves problems	review
Worio	search engine that divides up key words	review
Wylio	search engine designed for bloggers, results are all common craft	review
Ziipa	Web 2.0 search engine	review

Social Networks

Book Army	network for sharing/collaborating on books	review
Diipo	a new social network for teachers and students	review
Educator's PLN	great new Ning network, similar to CR 2.0	review
Goodreads	network for book lovers, nice user interface	review
Hollur	social network where leave posts via audio messages	review
Kubbu	similar to Moodle, w/ an educational instance	review
Parentella	network for teachers & parents to collaborate	review
Teacher Lingo	network for teachers, great for blogging	review
Twiducate	great way to teach social networking to students	review
Worldbuilder	fourth world media educational community	review

Survey/Polls

Flisti	very user friendly for embedding poll into site	review
Fluid Surveys	one of the most robust survey creators around	review
Insightify	interesting site for making polls/surveys	review
Obsurvey	excellent site, alternative to Google Doc's survey	review
PollDaddy	Add a little poll box to your site
Pollmo	create simple polls w/ a unique URL	review
Runpolls	nice drag/drop interface for making polls/surveys	review
Strutta Swayable	make online contests, educational instance visual way to make polls	review review
Text the Mob	create entertaining polls/discussion boards	review
Urtak	nice site for creating yes/no polls	review
Vorbeo	create polls that can embed into a site	review
Yarp	user friendly site for creating short surveys	review

Timelines

Capzles	create beautiful looking timelines w/ a cover flow style	review
Preceden	simple to use, can make multiple lines	review
Tiki-Toki	wonderful site for making visual timelines	review
TimeRime	interactive timelines w/ educational instance	review

WebQuests

Historical Scene Investigation	excellent webquests for history teachers/students	review
Zunal	great site for creating own quest	review

Word Processing

Ether Pad	simple to use, real-time collaborating	review
Folding Story	great way to create/collaborate on an online story	review
Primary Pad	built w/ Ether Pad engine	review
Text Flow	parallel word processing at its best	review
TypeWith.me	very easy to use no registration, real-time	review

Video/Screencasting

12 Seconds	Is a great way to share short video clips then rate them	review
Explore	great site for downloading/viewing video, similar to United Streaming	review
Fliggo	create your own instance to host video, comment moderation too	review
Jelly Cam	great free app for mac/pc for stop motion	review
KickYouTube	easy way to download YouTube videos to your desktop	review
Kids Tube	great site for students to view/share video	review
Memo Share	a great site for creating fun mash-up videos	review
Neo K12	great site for free K-12 videos	review
Open Source Cinema	excellent site for editing/remixing video	review
Pixorial	Easy to use site for creating video/e-cards and sharing	review
Quiet Tube	weblet that removes comments from YouTube	review
SafeShare TV	make YouTube safe	review
SaveVideo.Me	easy way to download video from your favorite sites	review
Screen Jelly	very user friendly, nice online screencasting site	review
Stroome	Excellent site for creating/mashing video, similar to Jaycut	review
SynchTube	create a virtual room to "house" a YouTube video and chat	review
Teach w/ Movies	get lesson plans/guides to teach w/ popular movies	review
VidMe	great way to share private videos, ideal for education	review
Vidinotes	add notes to videos	review
Vod Pod	house your own videos and create widget for sharing	review
VYou	great site for creating conversational video	review
WatchKnow	excellent site w/ 1000's of educational videos to choose from	review
YouCube	upload YouTube videos onto a 3D cube	review
YouTube Video Editor	add transitions and edit clips in this simple to use editor	review