Answer garden – allows you to post a question and students can post back what they think, generates a tag cloud of the answers – embeddable Flisti – create an online poll for quick feedback multiple answers and responses permissable – embedabble Groups – create your own social network – can be private or open. Your existing Ning resources can be migrated
Synchtube – enables multiple users from different locations to view the same youtube video – participants can feedback in a chat space in application
Titan pad – document collaboration tool, that hightlights individuals contributions in different colours with key to identify who is who
Synfig – open source high end 2D animation program. Create key frames and computer tweens – reducing produciton time. In the same way that Flash does tweening
Audio tool – Music making programme with graphic interface of electronic instruments, mixing desk, cables and sound effects boxes, very cool tool allows user to create own music or re-mix existing work in their library. Canorus – open source Sibelius Free Play Music – Royalty free music source for non-commercial use- need to apply for a licence, but thousands of tracks to choose from Listen music – vast repostiory of music organised by genre – great for Musicovery – organise music by genre, mood/tempo and era to create a playlist
Cacoo – flowchart and diagram creator tool onine – lots of professional icons and templates to choose from Cloud canvas – cloud based vector graphics programme
Mugtug – online photo editing tool, similar in look and feel to iPhoto – html5 based so should run on iPad Photovisi – photo collage creator. Plenty of templates to choose from and each is editable, download as a pdf or pay to print and be posted to you. Pixlr – online photo image manipulation tool – very similar to Photoshop, not as many filters, but for most uses a great tool and quick online
Apture – a great tool for keeping your viewers on your site – snippet of code opens all content linked to in your site on your page. Never loose a browser again Dvolver – Flash based animation tool. Build stories and scenes from a range of characters, background and props. Add call outs to tell the story and embedd into website
Paper Rater – online checker of grammar, spelling and style of your written work, and of your students also has a plagiarism engine in it too Photopeach – Slideshow creator. Add comments, music to your images and make your slideshows more engaging – embeddable Read Please – Great tool for reading anything on screen, great support for special needs students Windows only
Rock you – slide show creator also has other features like scenario games Scribus – open source DTP program – Publisher for free Trail Meme – enables you to create mindmap trails across the internet, great for keeping track of how you have progressed from one site to another, great for students to demonstrate how they have built up their knowledge and from where Time toast – time line creator. Insertimages and text into timelines and even future time lines, no limit in amout of timelines but no video Viper – Plagiarism detector for student work. Zamzar – online file converter – practically anything to anything
Science Net – Huge range of lessons, resources and links related to science curricula k-12
Creaza – Suite of tools that enable to create mindmaps, cartoons and edit movies online – BETT award winning application – some of the applications are free most features cost