Online Applications
A powerful, online, Flash-based image editing program
An online photo editing site from Adobe
A collaboration tool with video, audio, screen-sharing and much more!
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
ReadTheWords.com is a free, web based service that assists people with written material. We do this by using TTS Technology, or Text To Speech Technology. Users can generate a clear sounding audio file from almost any written material. The site generates a voice that reads the words out loud, that you request us to read.
Presentation Tools
Animoto provides an array of tools for creating videos in your classroom.
An animation program for younger children. A fun to use cartoon tools with stock shapes and character bubbles. No import of media, no audio, no ability to create links or embed code.\n
A neat, clean interface and a site that allows private journaling.
Easy to create a slide show. Upload photos, select the music score, and decide to make it public or keep it private, email the show or the URL, send it to a friend on Facebook, or embed it in a blog. Photo Peach provides a quick and easy way for students to make an audio slideshow video. Many of the music options for Photo Peach are classical selections which could make a nice accompaniment to slideshow of art work.
Create online multimedia scrapbooks with this easy-to-use tool! Scrapblog takes the idea of scrap-booking or collage making and puts it online in an easy to use format. Scrapblog allows users to incorporate pictures and videos as a part of a scrapblog. Scrapblog works with Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, and other image hosting services.
Powerful slide show creator; imports PowerPoint, uses themes, can add builds, transitions, timer slide advances, include video, attach audio for entire presentation or per slide, flash in slides, publish as public or with password access.
An online timeliner application that easily creates a great-looking timeline. The no-cost version can import links, RSS, images, and much more. No collaborative sharing of timelines at this point.
Meaningful discussion of images and concepts - through voice or through writing. Weave uploaded or flickr imported images into a media presentation with multiple voices. Record audio, video, or add text or drawn annotations. Others can add video, audio, and text comments as well.
Collaboration Tools
Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.
You can: Create colorful mind maps online, Share and work with friends, Embed your mind map in your blog or website, Email and print your mind map, Save your mind map as an image.
Mind Meister could be used by students to record and organize their ideas and resources for research papers. The ability to add active links to websites helps students keep track of their resources and how those resources will be used in their paper. Mind Meister is a collaborative tool so it's very useful for students who are working on a group project or presentation. The embedding codes provided by Mind Meister make it possible for users to include their mind maps as a part of a wiki, blog, or website.
Utilities
A browser pug-in that gives you the coolest interface for viewing photos and videos on the Web.
Cover an event with live blogging as it happens and invite others to "participate" and comment!
Jing is free software that adds visuals to your online conversations. Jing is a very useful tool to have installed on your computer. Jing makes it easy for teachers to create short screencasts and screenshots to explain to students how to use a new piece of software or a new website. Screencast can be particularly useful if you're students are going to be doing work online away from your classroom. Post your screencasts online and your students can watch them when you're not available to answer their "how-to" questions.