Easy-to-use sound mixer, lots of rhythms, instruments, click-and-drag interface.
"Noteflight® is an online music writing application that lets you create, view, print and hear music notation with professional quality, right in your web browser. Work on a score from any computer on the Internet, share it with other users, and embed it in your own pages. Noteflight is free for individual use. "
Really handy and simple photo editor. Edit photos in the browser, save to the computer. Includes lots of cool effects.
Powerful online music creation tool for students with knowledge of notes, scales, chords, etc. Create, share, save original musical compositions.
Create, save, and share music using the qwerty keyboard.
Outstanding drawing, painting, image editing tool. Resembles Photoshop. Perfect free option for more advanced users.
Site transforms simple sketch drawings into hard to describe creations that look a bit like the drawing done as a spider web. Printing is done via right-click, but saving is, again, not built-in. Still, scores high on the interestingness scale.
Easy-to-use drawing/painting tool. Works can be sent to email address for saving.
Create photo mosaics using images on computer or in Facebook
Create custom fonts using your handwriting and an iPad.
Create and playback drawings and paintings. Also features contests, community groups, more. Powerful, Illustrator-like interface.
Useful site that gives overview of digital storytelling process, including some powerful examples. The site is generative in that it prompts the reader to apply the learning with some quality story prompts. It breaks the process into 10 basic steps, and it includes storyboard samples, needed hardware/software, publishing tips, and more.
Great ideas for using Voicethread in the curriculum. This is a very large wiki that covers using VoiceThread in the curriculum. It is a the essential processing level, although the examples given likely prompt visitors to envision VoiceThread at the generative level. The site is particularly helpful due to the abundance of lesson plans and examples, divided conveniently by grade level. There is a best practices page with useful how-to tips and a discussion about how to prompt students to comment. Great resource!
This site is at the generative cognitive level, as it requires users to construct their own criteria for assessing a multimedia product. It is an effective tool for creating a simple checklist, or rubric, that provides an assessment tool and a criteria document for students. The site features tools for different subjects, and there are links to multimedia checklist tools at 3 different age ranges.
Create Picasso-style drawings using a click-and-drag interface. Drawings can be saved or emailed.
Decision making tool: It uses a decision matrix technique to capture the individual decision context and calculates a list of favorable decision alternatives. Decision results can be downloaded as Excel file and further be modified offline. The Decico decision helper is completely free of charge.