Amanda Stone provides a list of various Web 2.0 tools that can be included in a teacher's digital "backpack" for instructional use. These include blogs, wikis, presentations tools, virtual worlds, animation and movie creators, photo editors, audio recording and editing apps, and Amanda's own teaching resources and social media profiles. The list covers options for writing, presenting, creating avatars, virtual learning, multimedia, photos, audio, and connecting with Amanda herself.

1. Amanda Stone, NBCTHoover City SchoolsInstructional Technology What is in your WEB 2.0 Backpack?

2. Writing Blogs (Wordpress, Edublog, Blogger) Wikis (wikispaces) *Wix *Glogs Kidblogs – classroom blog site Google Docs – Forms, Slides, Docs etc… Mixbooks – Online book Scrapblog Wordle

3. Presentations Voicethread Animoto One True Media Slide Slideshare Scribd Museum Box

4. Avatars Voki Blabberize Gizmozs Doppel Me Yahoo Avatars **You can create avatars from just about any photo editing site or cartoon site.

5. Virtual Worlds MoshiMonster Secret Builder Woogie World

6. Animations and Movies Go Animate Xtranormal ToonDoo Wiki

7. Photo Fun Picnik Big Huge Labs Be Funky List

8. Audio Audacity Vocaroo Utterli

9. Teacherstone http://www.teacherstone.com http://teacherstoneblog.blogger.com Facebook/teacherstone Fan of Teachertone Technology http://webtools.wiki.hoover.k12.al.us/ Twitter/Teacherstone Ning/Teacherstone Google Wave/Teacherstone Diigo/Teacherstone