Here are some more Web 2.0 links for tech savvy teachers to explore in summer time.

Answers is an excellent site for researching anything at all. You make a search and you receive results from dictionaries, articles and other information sources.

Using Gizmoz, students can easily create 3D talking characters. Gizmoz let us put our faces and voices to the characters. Students can even fashion the characters and they can express themselves in a very imaginative way on this social networking site.

Highlighter is a site where you can select to highlight any webpage you want. With using this site, we can show our students what is important on the page that we have assigned them to read. We can even send notes with site that we have highlighted or students can be assigned to highlight different grammar points like phrasal verbs, past tense etc. on a webpage.Here is another site that is similar to this one,Wizlite. 

Magmypic lets its users to create magazine covers with their own pictures. Students can create their own magazine covers and talk or write about the news about themselves on that online magazine.   

Whichbook  is a site that gives readers to find books according to their moods.

You can build a robot, a spaceship or any machine you want on Golemgame. You can add motors, clocks, rockets, controls to your machine and bring that machine to life. Doing project homework can be a good idea using this site.

You write your text and let the SingYourText site sing it for you. It's been my favorite tool these days. 

With Voxopop, you can easily create talkgroups and discuss about your interest, likes, dislikes with people all over the world using your own voice. You can join a group or start your discussion. We can create podcasts for our students, ask them a question to be answered, we can discuss a topic or brainstorm with our students even we are out of the school yard.

I think creating a story has never been that easy and enjoyable. I'm sure kids will love to write their stories using Storymaker.

Readthewords is a site where you can convert your text into speech. This can be a good tool for improving pronunciation. 

If you are bored with ordinary fonts, give a try Fliptext. ˙ǝɹoɯʎuɐ uʍop ǝpısdn ǝʇıɹʍ uɐɔ noʎ. ˙ʇı ǝʞıl llıʍ ʎǝɥʇ ǝɹns ɯ’ı 'uʍop ǝpısdn uǝʇʇıɹʍ sʇuǝpnʇs ɹno oʇ ʇxǝʇ ɐ ǝʌıƃ uɐɔ ǝʍ.

I hope you enjoy the links.

All the Best,

Özge

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