SUZANNE SWAIN -
Web 2.0
Animoto is designed
to be an easy and
quick way to create
videos with highlevel formatting and
interesting camera
angles and
animated content.
Upload your photos
and it compiles
them for you into a
format you enjoy.
ToonDoo is a
website where
individuals can
create their own
cartoon strips
online.
COLLECTION:
 Great for
novices
 Imports
material easily
 Makes
professional
looking videos
 Versatile to
any subject
 Great project
idea for class
 Helps those
without artistic
tendencies
create
something
professional
 Paid website
 Free
materials are
limited
 Has a
tendency to
crash
 Can be hard
to save files
created within
this format
1.
ELA: This website is
easily used to do book trailers,
photostories for book reports,
and movie trailers for a book.
2.
SCIENCE: Website can
be used to show transformation
of photosynthesis or biological
concepts or even
metamorphosis as a final
project.
3.
SOCIAL STUDIES: This
website would make a great
culminating project for
descriptions of historical figures
or for creating memoirs of
family members for a genealogy
project.
4.
MATH:
This website could be used for
math to explain multiplication
skills to students through
compilation of materials and
showing visually how they can
multiply.
1. ELA: Creation of a graphic
 Must create a
novel retelling or re-ending
free account,
plausible (culminating
which some
assessment)
parents may
2. SCIENCE: Create a cartoon
not like
about animal interactions
 Slow to load
and food chains or Rube
 Slow to
Goldbergs
compile
 Saves your
work
 Variety of
layouts to
choose from
 Makes highquality
cartoon short
films
 Easy to
utilize, but
take some
time
 Easy to save
work
w/storage
GoAnimate! is a
fairly easy to use
cartoon movie
maker, very similar
in style to “Family
Guy” type of
animation. Can save
videos to personal
or professional use.
Dubbed as the
Xtranormal
replacement, this
website allows
registered users to
create short
 Required
Adobe Flash,
which
crashed
several times
on my Mac
during testing



Replaces

Xtranormal
Free Account 
Easy to set
up

 Go create
your own
character,
have more
layout
options,
design
options, and
more, you
need to pay
for it at $58
a year
Have to
register
Limited
options, as it
is a new site
Animation
3. SOCIAL STUDIES: Create a
carton depicting lives of
soldiers during a war or use
cartoons to create an
historical fiction graphic
novel zine
4. MATH: Use a cartoon to
better explain how a math
concept works, such as
a2+b2=c2 in a visual format
1. ELA: Website is easily
used to animate creative
writing narrative stories
created by students.
2. SCIENCE: Videos can
be made to teach
scientific concepts – lots
on here with Space
themes
3. SOCIAL STUDIES: Have
students give an
“animated alter ego”
speech about an
historical figure
4. MATH: Use this tool to
animate a particular
concept in math
5. I have used this for my
“Welcome to class” video
at the beginning of the
year.
1. ELA: Make a classic
story into a short
synopsis film
2. SCIENCE: Make a short
animated story about
how to save the
animated films

scene by scene with 
complete control
over background,
characters, and the
like.
Easy to use
May options
for the novice
cartoon
maker
gets kind-of
choppy with
frame rates
being off
Comic Creator is
 Easy to use,
one of the oldest
even for small
apps for utilizing
kids or older
comic strips in the
adults
classroom. Students  No need to
can make and
register
publish their own
 Free – No
comics through this
subscriptions
educational website
needed
.
 Basic for
many
people’s
needs. Not
very
advanced or
with great
capabilities
 Hard to print,
usually have
to use a
screenshot
environment
3. SOCIAL STUDIES:
Create a Vlog from a
cartoon perspective of a
point in history as if you
were there or newscast
4. MATH: Determine frame
rates of animation
through using this tool
and having student keep
track of animated frames
needed to make
animation work better
1. ELA: Create a comic
strip regarding the use of
irony and puns after
looking at comic strip
examples
2. SCIENCE: Make a Rube
Goldberg
3. SOCIAL STUDIES:
Make a comic to promote
an historical event, such
as an ad for The
Declarations of
Independence
4. MATH: Work with the
ELA to work on Rube
Goldbergs and figure out
angles and percentages
of the movement they
would create.
Prezi is an online, 
login-based service
where you can
make and
manipulate
presentations on the
web, while creating
outstanding effects 
and connections
between slides. It is
a newer and much
more spiffed-up
version of

Powerpoint, and it
keeps the interest of
the students easily
because of the
amount of
movement in a
Prezi. It will save
your work and you
can find Prezis on
many subjects
easily.
Penzu is an online
journal or diary that
you have the option
to make public or
private depending
on the needs of your
students or class. It
reminds me of the
old OpenDiary.
Makes

amazing
presentations
: blows
Powerpoint
out of the
water
Has
movement
and lots of
cool visual
effects
Creates
dynamic and 
unusual
presentations
that get
noticed

 Free website
stores online
journal
entries for
portfolio
assessment
 Makes online
diaries that
look like
notebook
Can be hard
to learn:
needs time
to practice
on the
website
before
needing to
turn
something
in. Better
with
experience
Must be able
to have an
account to
login
Blocked at
some
schools
 Must create
an account
 Membership
/paid
accounts
give a lot
more
features
 Must have a
fairly fast
1. ELA: I require Prezis
when my students do
expository speeches as
their visual aid. Very
useful and Common
Core-oriented
2. SCIENCE: Shows linear
projections of imagery
easily, so it can be
manipulated to show
scientific processes
easily by a teacher or
student
3. SOCIAL STUDIES:
Culminating projects can
be create for government
with Prezi. For Project
Citizen, my students
made one about the
need for more
technology in schools
4. MATH: Brings a visual
element to teaching an
abstract concept. I could
see how this could be
useful in geometry
especially
1. ELA: This would be
amazing to use for Anne
Frank as a response
diary or character diary
or even for personal
writing.
2. SCIENCE: Keep lab
notes easily for a group
of students to add to it
3. SOCIAL STUDIES:
paper you
can type on
internet
connection
4.
Make a variety of
different posters or
signs using your
digital images or
free on the web with
this very cool
resource. Great
website to go to
when you are
needing digital
content for
presentations on the
fly.
 Makes a lot
of different
digital
content, like
posters,
mosaics,
movie
posters,
motivator
posters, and
more
 Can order
prints from
their site
 Can post to
Social Media
 Needs to
register, but
free
 To get
printed
copies, you
have to pay
for them
 Shipping is
expensive,
so copy the
file and print
elsewhere
1.
2.
3.
4.
Make an online diary that
is fictional of any
historical period or
person
MATH: Explain how to
do a concept or use it to
take digital notes in class
on how to complete math
problems.Would be
excellent or PARCC
Assessments.
ELA: Make a movie
poster for the latest book
students are reading.
Include a rubric for
important items to put in
there. We did Catching
Fire posters tis way.
VISUAL ARTS: Make
pop art posters similar to
Warhol’s work, which
would be an interesting
art history lesson and
application
SOCIAL STUDIES:
Make a poster about a
particular movement in
history, like 1920’s
Women’s Suffrage on
the 19th Amendment
MATH: Make a poster to
depict a motivational
theme to understanding
a concept (Make a
motivation poster)
Tagxedo makes
word clouds like
Wordle does, but
this one makes you
able to make word
clouds into specific
shapes, which is
something Wordle
does not do. Create
your text into
whatever shape you
want in the list they
have available. Very
manipulative and
easy for all students
to use as an
assessment.
 Easy to Use
 Free
 Makes word
clouds into
shapes th
little effort
 Copy and
paste text
into the
word cloud
maker and
manipulate
as you wish
 Can change
parameters
of the cloud
easily
 Menu can
be a bit
confusing
the first
time
 Hard to
print –
usually
have to use
screenshot
s
 Better
printed in
color
Txt2Pic.com is one
of several create
your own pictures
and text on
billboards or signs.
It imports the text
you add to the
 Fun to use
 Basic
looking
website with
a lot of links
to options
 Many
 Website
has an
unprofessio
nal look, as
many of
these do
 Some
1. ELA: WE made word
Clouds on here for “The
Raven” by Edgar Allan
Poe, where the kds took
the words of the poem
and made them into a
raven-shaped cloud for
their notebooks. They
loved it!
2. SCIENCE: It would be
interesting to use
science vocabulary as a
word cloud to study from.
Compiling information
from many sources and
make a cloud out of it.
3. SOCIAL STUDIES:
Make a famous speech
into a ord cloud, like the
Martin Luther King ones
on there
4. MATH: Use word clouds
also for vocabulary term
instruction. Would
definitely make geometry
more interesting to see
the usable language in
the shape of the
geometrical feature you
are working on.
1. ELA: Use this website to
make placards for
vocabulary words
2. SCIENCE: Create ads
for saving a species or
for promoting a scientific
theory on a billboard
signage of your
choice. A lot of
people use these for
Facebook and
classroom websites
to customize
content to their
specific needs.
This website is used
to make free
infographics (which
have charts and
graphs embedded
inside of them.
It makes
professional looking
flyers and posters in
color. Make an
account to save,
free for use, but
some templates
cost $
Website also
offering free
infographics in a
similar way as
Piktochart. Similar
and has slightly
more appealing
graphics.
templates to
choose from
 No need to
register
 Fast and fun
 Good for
small kids
too
popup ads,
but not too
bad
 Limited in
pixel quality
Easy to
use
Free
account
s, but
some
template
s are
paid
Beautiful
graphics
Save in
many
formats
Easy to
use
Free
account
s
Save
your
work for
later
Easy to
print
Paid
account
needed
for
really
cool
content
Takes a
bit of
time if
you do
not use
templat
es




Kahoot is an online

Make a



Paid
account
s have
better
material
s
Cheape
r than
piktoch
art for
subscri
ptions
Takes
3. SOCIAL STUDIES: Use
this t create campaign
posters and buttons for
elections
4. MATH: Easy to use for a
teacher’s website to
make math a bit more
interesting to students.
Usable for any subject or making
infographics for others. It is
versatile and can be used or any
purposes.
Can be used in any subject
matter
GREAT Game building app and
testing or quizzing
visual media game.
This is for the
purpose of quizzing
or testing others.
You build a trivia
game that others
can access online or
on their phone to
play. Amazing and
uses great higher
order thinking. Very
fun if used in the
right environment.





free
account
for
teachers
to use at
getkaho
ot.com
and
build the
test
Students
go to
kahoot.it
or on
their app
Free
and fast
Shared
quizzes
with
others
Great for
clubs,
classroo
ms,or
games
with
friends.
Whole
class
needs to
logon
together

some
time to
set up
Embed
ding
video
and
sound
takes
some
comput
er
knowle
dge
website. #1 suggested for the
correct purposes.