FREE ONLINE RESOURCES:

There are many fantastic resources on the web and we will be adding to this list. The reason we have selected the resources below is that we have used them with teachers and students with great results.

The trick is finding the right resource to support your desired learning outcomes. We can help with that. Just contact us using the email link.

 

GOOGLE

• Google Reader www.google.com/reader
• Google Maps www.maps.google.co.uk/
• Google Earth http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html
• Google Docs - Office collaboration suite https://docs.google.com
• iGoogle -  Personalised start page http://www.google.com/ig
• Google Chrome/Firefox + addons http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/make/download-mac.html?brand=CHKZ

  http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/

• Google Sketchup - 3D modeling tool - http://sketchup.google.com/download.html
• Google Body - is a detailed 3D model of the human body. http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/body.html
• Google lesson plans http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/lesson_plans.html
• Google Labs http://www.googlelabs.com/

VIDEO

• Youtube/Vimeo - Video sharing site http://www.youtube.com/ http://vimeo.com/
• VLC – multimedi video player http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
• Ustream - Broadcast yourself http://ustream.tv/
• xtranormal - Movie-making software – if you can type you can make movies! www.xtranormal.com
• Quietube – Fed up with the stupid comments on Youtube? Want to watch video without all the distractions? http://quietube.com/
• ListtoYoutube - convert YouTube to MP3. You can convert unlimited YouTube videos to MP3 for FREE. www.listentoyoutube.com

MICROBLOGGING

• Twitter - Microblogging tool
• Edmodo is best described as Twitter for students and teachers. In reality though, it’s basically a private micro-blogging service for schools with built-in security features that give teachers privacy controls over their virtual classrooms. http://www.edmodo.com
• Yammer - Private micro-blogging platform https://www.yammer.com/
• Paper.li Daily digest of tweets http://paper.li/
• Back chat http://todaysmeet.com/

PRESENTATION TOOLS

• Prezi – the zooming presentation editir - http://prezi.com/
• Photostory - Create slideshows using your digital photos. add sound, narration & personalise them with titles and captions. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=92755126-a008-49b3-b3f4-6f33852af9c1
• Animoto is a free video program that allows you to create a 30-second music video using your favorite photos or other images. After uploading your files, Animoto provides the music to match the images and then renders a music video that can be shared or linked to Web sites. http://animoto.com/education http://animoto.com/education/casestudies
• Voicethread - A collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). http://voicethread.com

• Slideshare - Hosting presentations www.slideshare.net
• Pikistrips- a neat way to create comic strips http://www.pikistrips.com/
• Aviary - is a suite of powerful creative applications that you can use right in your web browser. From graphic design to audio editing.  http://www.aviary.com/tools
• Zoho is an online office suite that includes the main word processing, spreadsheet and presentation tools: Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet and Zoho Show, but also other tools like Zoho Meeting, Zoho Planner,Zoho Creator and Zoho Wiki. There is also a plugin for MS Office to edit docs both offline and online, and quick read plugin for both IE and Firefox to view files online. www.zoho.com

SOCIAL NETWORKING

• Facebook - Social networking site https://www.facebook.com
• Linkedin - Professional social network www.linkedin.com/
• SecondLife - is a free 3D virtual world where users can socialize, connect and create using free voice and text chat. www.secondlife.com/
• Grou.ps - Create your own social network. http://grou.ps

PHOTOSHARING & EDITING/SCREENCAPTURE

• Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/
• Splashr -  is a simple tool for presenting Flickr photos in attractive viewers. http://splashr.com/
• Picnik http://www.picnik.com An online photo editor with easy to use but powerful editing tools. Crop, color-adjust and resize your photos, all from a user-friendly interface in your web browser.
• http://bighugelabs.com/ make posters, Warholiser, photo cubes etc
• Jing -   Take a picture or make a short video of what you see on your computer monitor.  Share it instantly via web, email, IM, Twitter or your blog. http://www.techsmith.com/jing/
• Skitch – Mac only Screen capture tool. Fast screen capture, image editing and sharing! http://skitch.com/
• Picasa -  is a software download from Google that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos http://picasa.google.com/
• Screenr - Instant screencasts: Just click record. and share your screencasts around the web. http://www.screenr.com/

AUDIO

• iTunes - Music/podcast player and site www.apple.com/uk/itunes
• iTunesU – iTunes U gives you free access to some of the world's best thinking—lectures from MIT, labs from Stanford, films from the MOMA, and more http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/

• Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Free, cross-platform sound editor Audacity (available for download at audacity.sourceforge.net) has become a mainstay for those involved in podcasting. The software allows you to record and edit programs quickly without the need for prior experience in sound editing. For those who want more information about using this software, there's an online tutorial/user's manual. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html Tech-savvy librarians who are more experienced with the program might check out Audacity Portable program, http://audacity-portable.en.softonic.com/ which you can download to your USB drive and take with you for impromptu podcast editing even while on the road.
• Ipadio - ipadio allows you to broadcast from any phone to the Internet live.  Phone blog, collect audio data, record and update the world www.ipadio.com

CURRICULUM AREAS

·   Meez http://www.meez.com/home.dm - avatar creator

·   Tux Paint http://tuxpaint.org/ primary drawing/paint programme

·   Geogebra –A geometry package providing for both graphical and algebraic input www.geogebra.org/

·   Storybird – Collaborative story telling & book creation www.storybird.com

·   John Davitt’s Learning Event Generators - create assignments that make students think, design and create an end product. http://www.newtools.org/showtxt.php?docid=737 and more here http://legwork.pbworks.com

·      Wikipaedia – Collaborative encyclopaedia www.wikipedia.org

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TIMELINES

• Timeglider - an online timeliner application that easily creates a great-looking timeline. The no-cost version can import links, RSS, images, and much more.  http://timeglider.com
• Historypin – pin your history to the worlkd using photos & timelines http://www.historypin.com/
• Capzles – social storytelling through timelines http://www.capzles.com/

WEBSITE CREATION

·   Weebly http://www.weebly.com Let’s you easily create a website with drag and drop features.

·   Wix - make stunning Flash websites with an easy drag and drop online platform www.wix.com/

·   Glogster/eduglogster - Make an interactive poster/web page - mix Images, Text, Music and Video www.glogster.com www. edu.glogster.com

·   Wallwisher - Online noticeboard www.wallwisher .com

QUIZ MAKERS

·   WizIQ  http://www.wiziq.com/

·   Hot Potatoes - Free lesson construction software to build a teaching website; includes crosswords, gap-fills, cloze tests, matching, multiple choice and more. http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

·   Quizlet is a lightning fast way to memorize vocabulary lists. It's like flashcards, but much more fun and interactive. http://quizlet.com

BOOKMARKING

• Diigo www.diigo.com Delicious http://delicious.com/ a popular social bookmarking service, allows users to tag, save, manage, and share Web pages from a centralized source. For educators, librarians, and students, this tool provides immediate access to its bookmarks, regardless of their physical location. The power of Delicious lies not only in making your bookmarks accessible to you, but in making everyone else's bookmarks available also. By tagging your Web pages with brief one- to two-word descriptors, you enable a search to be conducted across the entire site for bookmarks with similar labels.

DOCUMENT CREATION/SHARING

• Box.net - Online file sharing, content management, collaboration www.box.net/
• Dropbox - Sync files online and across computers - Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Never email yourself a file again! www.dropbox.com/
• Evernote - Note taking tool www.evernote.com/ Save your ideas, things you like, things you hear & things you see.
• Scribd - is a site where you can store your documents - doc, ppt, pdf, xls, etc and share them with others.  You can also embed a document in your blog or web page. www.scribd.com
• TitanPad lets people work on one document simultaneously. http://titanpad.com

RESOURCE MAKERS

·   Wordle - generates “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently www.wordle.net

·      Tagxedo - Like Wordle but better! http://www.tagxedo.com/

·   Livebinders - 3-ring binder for the web http://livebinders.com

MINDMAPPING TOOLS

·   Freemind Mind mapping tool  http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

·   Linoit – Online stickies http://en.linoit.com

·   Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online. https://bubbl.us

SURVEY AND QUESTIONNAIRE TOOL

·      Survey Monkey creates professional online surveys quickly and easily. http://www.surveymonkey.com

·      twtpoll :: a simple survey & poll creator. http://twtpoll.com/

COMMUNICATION

·      Skype - Instant messaging/VoIP www.skype.com/

·   Voki - is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages. www.voki.com

·   Vocaroo  http://vocaroo.com/ send a quick voicemail message

UTILITIES

• Media Convert – a super media converter Web-based tool. www.mediaconverter.org
• Online Convert - Nice interface for an online file converter www.online-convert.com
• Zamzar – a useful online file conversion tool covering a wide range of different image, document, music, video and compression formats. www.zamzar.com

QR CODE GENERATORS

·   Kaywa http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

·   Delivr - http://delivr.com/qr-code-generator

·      BeeTag Multicode Generator for QR-Code, BeeTagg Code and Datamatrix

·   i-nigma www.i-nigma.com