Puzzlemaker

You can make cool puzzles (like mazes, crossword puzzles, etc.) at this website.

Google Docs and Microsoft online

Google Docs is a great tool that is simmaler to Microsoft Office, except that it's free and online. You can also share your documents with other people--then those people can make changes to your documents and you will see the changes right away. It's way faster than emailing a file back and forth! With Google docs you can create spreadsheets (like on Excel), presentations (like on PowerPoint), documents (like on Word) and online surveys.

I heard that Microsoft is planning to make a simmaler online tool to compete with Google Docs. I'll let you know as soon as I find out more!

SurveyMonkey

SurveyMonkey is a website where you can create survyes. You can send your surveys to other people via email and then see their answers.

Build-a-bear-ville

Build-a-bear-ville is a fun virtual world by Build A Bear Workshop.

You don't have to have a Build A Bear stuffed animal to sign up, but you can't play some of the games or get a house until you have adopted your Build A Bear online. You can only adopt newer Build A Bears on this site.

Sign the Declaration of Independance

Sign the declaration of independance at: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_join_the_signers.html

Room Designer

At this website you can design a room online. It's really fun to play around with.

Wordle

At wordle.net you can create really interesting 'word clouds.'

All you have to do is paste in a bunch of text (a chapter from a book, a bunch of random words, etc.) or type in the address of a blog. Then wordle will mix up all of the words you typed (or words from the blog) and turn them into a 'word cloud' (you'll see what I mean if you try Worlde out). Then you can change the color, font and arrangement of the words.

Toondoo

You can create your own cartoons at toondoo.com. The cartoons are very customizable and you can create your own characters, upload photos, and more!

Scratch

Scratch is a really awesome program you can download at scratch.mit.edu.

Scratch teaches you the basics of programming in a fun and easy way. I would reccomend checking out the help section on the website before you start with Scratch-- it's very helpful when you're first starting out. And Scratch also comes with several example projects that have scripts you can play around with.

PhotoPeach

You can make awesome photo slideshows at photopeach.com

New Name

Hi! I decided to change this blog-- now I'm just going to be posting cool websites :)