LEGO offers a free digital designer download where by children can design and create their own virtual LEGO creations. It is available for Mac and PC and could be a great, creative design tool.

Ozge Karaoglu's blog has two great posts on digital storytelling. 100 Digital Storytelling tools for your Digital Selves Part 1 and Part 2 has an exhaustive list of tools you can use for digital storytelling. I won't profess to having tried them all out, but I surely will when I get the time to go through this great looking list.

Richard Byrne has an online guide entitled Beyond Google - 15+ Tools and Strategies for Better Search Results. This useful guide includes alternatives to Google and tips and tricks on how to maximize your search results with Google.

PicLits is an interesting creative tool for your inner poet. It gives you a picture as inspiration and you can create an emotional response to the picture by dragging some keywords and punctuation onto the picture, or by typing directly on to it. Good for a short, creative activity for Language. There is a gallery of pictures to choose from, so your creations can go on and on.

If you have not yet tried out Spelling City, especially in an Elementary classroom, you definitely should. They have made a number of improvements recently to try and make the site more user friendly, so even if you have been before, you should go back and see what is new. The students in my class love it. Can you think of a more fun way to practice your assigned spelling words?

Create your own motivational posters, magazine covers, trading cards and movie posters at BigHugeLabs. Upload a picture and you can choose from a variety of fun ways to customize it into a project of your liking. It is easy to do, and could be used in any number of ways in the classroom.