The new letter is M today. MoshiMonsters is a virtual world for children where children can create their own cute monster avatars, play games and practice English with them. MultiURL is a tool to combine links into one short link and share it with others. MyStoryMaker allows you to create a story using different characters, settings and items to move  around on the story. MythsandLegends is a tool to create your own digital stories. MakeBeliefComics is a simple tool to create comics by adding different characters, back grounds and text in speech bubbles. Mixbook is a collaborative tool to create customizable photo books, cards and calendars online. MailFreezer is a site where you can freeze an email up to 100 years and send it any time you want in 100 years of time. Magnato is a tool to create an online page with text, pictures, videos and stickers.  Meetifyr is a site that helps you to find the best time to meet with your friends. Memidex is an online dicitionary and a thesarus. MindMeister is an online collaborative mind mapping tool that you can brainstorm with others real-time. Mailvu is a simple tool to record yourself and send it as a video. MeetingWords is a collaborative text editor. Enjoy!

It’s an exciting time of the year for me again! The book that I have co-authored with Jennifer Verschoor has arrived in labs finally! It’s my first digital journey … The e-book is a part of theround that is founded by Lindsay Clandfield and Luke Meddings. The e-book includes 20 web tools that every teacher of young learners should have in the bag with easy to implement activities in and outside the classroom. While we are  doing the last changes on the book, please fell free to explore the sample pages. I will be giving my thanks to Lindsay Clandfield and Luke Meddings for this amazing opportunity and the invaluable experience and making our dreams come true in my TED talk next week … Open publication - Free publishing - More digital

I am super excited and proud to say that "Bubble and Pebble" project has been shortlisted for ELTons Award 2012 in the "digital innovation" category. Thank you very much to everyone who has made more than 200 children a nominee for this award! A little bit about the project … Our children in kindergarten have been drawing and coloring pictures for their own digital games. They are also recording their voices for the characters. These games are the first and the only ones in the world that are created by children. Please click this link to play the games. Fingers crossed and good luck to everyone!

Here are the tools with the new letter: N Noterr tool to create online sticky notes instantly. You can change the colour of your notes, add links and send them to your friends. Notaland lets you create a whiteboard wiki with your friends by gathering different kinds of media together. You can use pictures, videos and you can even chat with more than 50 friends. NotePub is a tool to take notes including text, images, links and files to share information. Novlet is a tool that supports collaborative non linear stories in different languages. Notefight  lets you create, view, print and hear music notation in your browser. NoRedInk is a tool to help students to improve their grammar and writing skills. NowDoThis is a one at a time to-do list. NextUp lets you schedule meetings with topics and dates. Notes.io allows you to writes notes and easily share them around the web. Neotake is an e-book search engine that lets you search a book in different languages. NotForest is a tool that strips away all the distractions and filler on a web page and leaves only the text to read. NumberGossip is a tool that tells you everything about numbers. Enjoy! This blog or the author are not responsible for any inappropriate images/text/ads of the external links. Please double check before you use it with your students.

YouTube has been in the classroom for a long time now and ever since they became popular; we, educators have started using them for a wide range of purposes. On the heels of understanding the educational value, we are all aware that there are a huge number of inappropriate videos, ads, comments and external links available.  Here are some tools that you can use to clean up YouTube videos from the clutter of ads and comments and other extra stuff  if you are using it in and out of the classroom with your students: SafeShareTV is a service that can be used to watch YouTube videos without viewing the ads, links, comments and the related videos around it. What you need to do is to go to SafeShareTV and copy & paste your link. It gives you a new link to view your video on a separate screen. You can view the videos full screen by right clicking on it. This tool also allows us to crop Youtube videos. It can be a good tool if we crop the beginning of the videos and ask children to guess what happens next or ask them to put the cropped videos into order. ViewPure is another tool to watch safe videos on another screen. Just copy and paste your link and watch it in a separate screen. If you are giving YouTube homework, you can give the video link from Viewpure, it works very well. YouTube XL is another service by YouTube itself for watching videos in a large screen without ads and comments. You can search videos using this service though it shows you the spotlight videos in the first screen but you can filter your videos using the settings. You can also create a list of videos to watch them in order. Another way to get rid of all the extra stuff is to write "quiet" in front of the youtube video address. It takes you to a safe page where you can watch the YouTube videos. CleanVideoSearch helps you to search YouTube videos without viewing the comments, ads and the sidebar. It also allows to choose how many videos you would like to see on each page. Clea.nr deletes all the distractive features around the videos and it also allows to search Youtube without seeing any other extra stuff and search results. Now, with these tips, it’s very easy to remove all the hassles that surround the clips and it’s good to welcome the world in our classes.

BuildYourWildSafe is a cool tool to create avatars using different animal parts and attaching them in a human body. Children can easily create a wild creature  following simple steps. The best part about this tool is that you don’t need to sign up. Start with choosing the human body and browse through the different parts that you can add such as nose, hair, legs, arms etc.Then add some animals ears, bottoms, tails, backsides, arms , face and headgear. As you choose the body parts, you can also hear the sounds of the animals. When it is over, choose a background and click I’m done. Congrats! You have created your first wild self. It gives you all the information about your new wild self. Print it out or mail it to others. and, here are some ideas for you how to use this tool with your students: Ask children to create their wild selves and write about what they can and what they can’t do. Children can create a story about their new wild selves. Show different wild selves and children can try to guess which animal parts you have used. Print out some wild selves, as children describe their animals, the rest of the class try to create the same one as it is in the picture. Children can describe their animals. Children create a zoo photo album with their wild selves and their descriptions. They can even create their own "wild self zoo" on the bulletin board. Children can write more about the animals that they have used on their wild selves. Each child shows their wild selves, imitate their animals and rest of the class asks  some questions about them. Show them a wild self picture, give them the beginning of the story and ask them to write or tell the rest of it. This tool will be great fun for primary as it colorful, fun to play with and engaging. Enjoy!

Here is the next tool on the list: O Our Story is a tool to make your timeline by writing your stories and adding pictures, videos and text. Odiogo lets you give a voice to your text or your blog into speech. Oddcast is a tool to create online talking avatars using text-to-speech application. Ookaboo is a website to find free to use pictures. OneLook is a dictionary to find the meaning or the translation of a word or to search all other dictionaries from one site. OneTrueMedia lets you mix your photos and pictures together with effects, captions and music to create your unique slideshow. OnlineStopWatch is an online timer to count down. Enjoy! This blog or the author are not responsible for any inappropriate images/text/ads of the external links. Please double check before you use it with your students.

StoryBird is a collaborative digital storytelling tool. You can search from professional artists’ artwork to start building up your story and you can set up a class account, work and moderate your students’ works easily. Start choosing one of the illustrators work  and simply drag&drop the images on the pages of your online book. Add your text and add more pages if you like. You can add other collaborators to your story and start building a story together. The best thing about this tool is that every story is being moderated when they are published. When you finish, you can navigate the finished product by turning the pages virtually. You can share your Storybird with a link, embedding the story or mailing it. Storybird is a great tool to support writing activities. The possibilities to use this tools in our classes are endless and here are a few of them: Give the beginning of a story and ask children to complete the rest of the story. Children can keep a diary of one of the character’s in one of the illustrations. Children can create introductions for different topics. It can be good to ask children to create an introduction about themselves using this tool. Give text to the children and ask them to find pictures that go along with it. Storybird can replace book reports, dialogues, letters and essays. Children can rewrite and reillustrate a traditional story that we all know. Children can choose the same topic with a theme, but they can come up with different stories. Children can read a Storybird and they can answer questions about it. Each class can create a class story in which each child contributes to the story. They can read a Storybird and write an ending for it. Storybirds can be a great way to illustrate poems. Children can compare tow differents stories about the same topic. Regardless the ages of the users, Storybird encourages creativity and collaborating. It’s an interesting and a fun tool to promote writing and reading activities.

The new letter is: P Penzu is a web tool to keep an online diary and share it with others if you like. PhotoPeach is a tool that lets you make slide show quizzes  using your pictures, adding captions and music. Pixton is a tool to build comics online using a freestyle comic layout. Picfont lets you add text, comment on a picture,  a canvas or on a shape. Planetaki is a tool that lets you read all your favorite websites on a single page. PDFmyUrl is a web tool to turn a web page into a PDF file. Packtari is a bookmarking service that bookmarks your tweets that contain URL for your delicious account. Prezi is a unique way to create presentations without any slides but zooming sketches on a blank canvas. PrintWhatYouLike is a free online editor that lets you format any web page to print. Prezentit is a tool where you can create and share your presentations online. PrimaryPad is another collaborative tool for schools. It’s a web based processor to collaborate with students in real time. Phrasr lets you find Flickr images that will go with the words that you have written. PicsViewer is a tool to turn your photos into visual presentations. PaperRater is a tool for grammar & spelling check and proof reading. PDFtoWord is an online tool to turn your PDFs into a word document. PearlTrees is a place to collect, organize and share everything you like on the web. Phras.in  is a tool to learn how to decide how to say a word if there are two alternatives of it. PhotoFunia  helps you to add photo effects to your pictures online. Pinterest  is an online board where you can pin images, videos and other online content. PollDaddy is a tool to create online and easy-to-use surveys and polls. Popplet is an online board to create galleries, mind maps and diagrams collaboratively. This blog or the author are not responsible for any inappropriate images/text/ads of the external links. Please double check before you use it with your students.