Multimedia+Tools


 * Explore these FREE multimedia tools for ideas to use in your own classroom.**

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 * A-E**
 * [|Animoto]: Create video slideshows (see [|Animoto for Education])
 * [|Bitstrips for Schools:] Simple way to create comics for your classroom (there is a fee involved, but there's a free trial)
 * [|Blabberize]: Animate pictures to make the people, animals, or objects appear as if they are talking
 * [|Bubble.us]: Brainstorm ideas into an automatic idea web
 * [|Chatterous]: Get your students actively involved in real-time group chats during a lecture
 * [|ClassChats.com]: Free way to connect classrooms around the world
 * [|CoolText Graphics Generator] - Create text banners for printable student work, PowerPoint presentations, websites, videos, or any digital student product.
 * [|Co-Sketch]: Multi-user online whiteboard to quickly visualize and collaborate without even registering.
 * [|Creatly]: Create professional looking online diagrams with up to 3 collaborators for free
 * [|Dabbleboard]: Visualize, draw, explore, and collaborate with an online whiteboard
 * [|Delicious]: Social bookmarking tool
 * [|Diigo]: Visit webpages, highlight text, add stickynotes and annotate your thinking
 * [|Diigo WebSlides]: Convert bookmarks, RSS feeds, and blogs to slideshows in minutes.
 * [|DomoAnimate]: Create an animated cartoon - complete with music and dialogue bubbles
 * [|DoingText]: Web-based collaborative writing and editing without signing up
 * [|Doodle]: Schedule meetings quickly and see when everyone is available - all in one place
 * [|Dropbox]: Sync files online and across computers
 * [|Drop.io:] Share large files with others - up to 100MB free per drop
 * [|Edmodo]: A private micro-blogging and social platform for teachers and students to share ideas, files, events and assignments.
 * [|Elluminate]: Create live e-learning webinars and web collaboration (free for up to 3 participants)
 * [|Evernote]: **Capture** information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient and then make this information **accessible** and **searchable** at any time, from anywhere.
 * [|ePals]: Connect with students around the world in a project based learning environment

**F-I**
 * [|Flickr]: Organize, annotate, and share your photos with the world
 * [|Freemind]: Online mind-mapping software
 * [|iCUE]: Collaborative and online interactive learning center with games, callenges, videos, and discussions
 * [|EverNote]: Make notes and organize them online
 * [|Glogster]: Make an interactive poster with text, images, music, and video
 * [|Go Animate]: Create unique computer animated stories or cartoons
 * [|Google Docs]: Collaboratively create, store, and share documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and online forms
 * [|Google Lit Trips]: Follow or create virtual road trips to align with great literature
 * [|Google Maps]: Create and personalize your own maps
 * [|Google Moderator]: Enable your audience (students, etc) to actively post or prioritize questions or surveys that are viewable by all ([|example])
 * [|Google Wave]: Communicate and collaborate in real time
 * [|Gr.oups]: Free online social networking tool to set up your own community, with blogs, wikis, chatrooms, discussions, calendars, and more.
 * [|iBreadcrumbs]: Recording toolbar for your web browser keeps a bibliographic log of where you've been
 * [|Imagination Cubed]: Multi-user drawing tool with a pen, stamp, line, or typing tool - can replay your drawings too in action
 * [|Issue: You Publish]: Create and share professional looking publications
 * [|KeepVid]: Download streaming videos

**J-N**
 * [|Jing]: Snap a picture or record a short video and share instantly on the web
 * [|Kideos]: Online kids video network with safe videos for young children to view and use in their projects
 * [|KidZui]: Download a free and safe Internet browser for kids
 * [|Letterpop]: Create eye popping newsletters (free plan to publish up to 10 newsletters)
 * [|LiveBinders.com]: Collect, organize, and display your digital creations in an online binder
 * [|MeBeam]: Create your own chatroom - just type in a title and invite people to join
 * [|National Geographic Young Explorer]: Listen and Read Stories about science and animals
 * [|Notefish]: Track your web inquiries with automatically bibliography generator and annotate/organize your reflections

**O-Q**
 * [|Off the Charts Web Karaoke]: Listen to or create your own songs
 * [|Pageflakes]: Create a personalized homepage with all of your electronic tools and social networks
 * [|Palbee]: Set up free web video conferences or video chat rooms and record your presentations to share with others
 * [|Penzu]: Easy journal-writing tool
 * [|Picasa 3]: Edit your photos and store/display them online (for Macs only)
 * [|PIXresizer] is a free photo resizing program to easily create web and e-mail friendly versions of your images with reduced file sizes.
 * [|Photostory 3 for Windows]: Teachers can download and use for free ([|example]) - [|Digital Storytelling Guide] to get started with examples
 * [|Pivot Stickfigure Animator] Create stick figure animations easily and save as an animated .gif file. WINDOWS ONLY
 * [|Poll Everywhere]: Instant audience feedback from mobile devises that's displayed live on Powerpoint, Keynote, or the web
 * [|Podcast Generator]: Create, upload, and publish podcasts in a web format
 * [|Prezi]: Online presentation tool like Powerpoint

**R-T**
 * [|ReadItLater]: Save online pages and access them offline to read from anywhere
 * [|RealeBooks.com]: Read or create striking picture books to share with the world
 * [|Remix America]: Remix the great words, speeches, and images of American History
 * [|Scrapblog]: Create and share digital scrapbooks
 * [|Screenr]: Instate screencasting tool that plays everywhere on the web
 * [|Screentoaster]: Online screen recorder to share and stream videos online in Flash
 * [|Screencast-o-matic]: Record screencapture video for up to 15 minutes for free
 * [|Sharendipity]: Build and employ interactive games, widgits, and other educational learning tools - browse the [|Education collection] for ideas
 * [|Skitch.com and Skitch]: Take screenshots, edit them, and then upload to share with others
 * [|Shidonni]: Draw virtual pets and then play with them
 * [|Slideshare]: Upload and share powerpoint presentations loaded with audio podcasts
 * [|Skype]: Free audio or video conference calls
 * [|Storybird]: Collaborative storytelling with families, friends, and real artists art - take the [|tour] to learn more!
 * [|Stixy]: Online bulletin board to share notes, photos, documents, and to do lists
 * [|Sumo Paint]: Online image editor
 * [|Text 2 Mind Map]: The text-to-mind-map converter
 * [|TimeToast:] Create interactive timelines and share them on the web
 * [|Trailfire]: Create your own educational trails on the Internet
 * [|ToonDoo]: The Cartoon Strip Creator
 * [|TypeWithMe]: Create an immediate live-text document to collaborative write

**U-W**
 * [|udutu]: build and publish your own online course for free!
 * [|Vimeo]: Free video sharing environment
 * [|Vixeynet]: Download and convert video files (including YouTube Flash videos) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP)
 * [|VoiceThread]: Group conversations around images, documents, and video (see Education examples)
 * [|Voki]: Create personalized speaking avatars
 * [|Wallwisher]: Online notice board maker
 * [|Webspiration]: Online visual thinking tool
 * [|WebNote]: A very simple online notetaking tool - puts all your notes on the page.
 * [|WebTreats]: Locate and use images from this collection of icons, textures, and Photoshop resource files
 * [|Weebly]: Create a free website and blog
 * [|Wetoku]: Online interview tool that automatically records, saves, and prepares for embedding and sharing with others.
 * [|WetPaint]: Another free wiki creator with a different look - mix all the best features of wikis, blogs, forums, and more
 * [|Wiggio]: A social networking online toolkit to send emails, surveys, set up video conferences, & keep track of group tasks
 * [|Wikidot in Education]: Create your own wikispace for classroom use
 * [|Wikispaces for Educators]: Create your own wikispace for your personal or classroom use
 * [|WordSift:] Visualize text and improve your vocabulary
 * [|Worldometers] - World wide statistics updated in real time. See the world statistics for populations, births, deaths - numbers of tonnes of food eaten, water drunk etc etc etc. This is an amazing site which will keep you and your class occupied for a long time!
 * [|Wordle]: Beautiful Word Clouds

**X-Z**
 * [|YouTube Grabber]: Download YouTube videos to use in your classroom
 * [|YouSendIt]: Send and track large digital files too big for an email box
 * [|XtraNormal]: Type something and it turns into a movie (you write the script and direct the action!)
 * [|Zamzar]: Download YouTube videos (and other files) and save in any format
 * __zinepal__ Students can create pdf and ebooks for sharing
 * [|Zotero]: Collect, cite, manage, and share your research sources

For many more: [|A quick vocabulary test for you]...
 * 100 Top Online Learning Tools 2008, 2009, and [|2010]
 * [|100 Web Tools (and Examples) to Enhance Collaboration] (from Technology & Learning Magazine)
 * [|Collaboration Software]: Top 3-5 tools identified for each collaboration category