Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Web Tools and Tech Resources

Please try out any of these tools and comment on them.  Also please feel free to offer new tools and/or suggestions of your own.

Audacity is a free, open-source program that makes it easy to edit and mix your audio files.  Find it at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Animoto:  create unique videos from your photos, video clips, and music with a free account at http://animoto.com/

Blogger lets you create your own blogs for free at http://www.blogger.com/

CCMixter:  find some free-use music thatq's legal to add to your projects at http://www.ccmixter.org/

Delicious is a social bookmarking site that lets you bookmark your favorite sites and take them with you to any computer.  Find it at http://www.delicious.com/

Flickr can be used in many ways to find or use photos.  Start finding resources at http://www.flickr.com/

Glogster is a great tool which can be used to create a free virtual poster at http://edu.glogster.com/

Jing Project is a free download which can be used for screencasting.  Find it at http://www.jingproject.com/

Magazine Cover:  be a superstar with your own free magazine cover at http://bighugelabs.com/magazine.php

Photo Peach:  create your own fresh slideshow to go at http://photopeach.com/

Picnik for photo editing made fun at http://www.picnik.com/

Poll Everywhere can be used for instant audience feedback at http://www.polleverywhere.com/

Prezi:  create astonishing presentations live and on the web at http://prezi.com/

Superpoke Pets can be used to create your own fun slide show with photos at http://www.slide.com/arrange

Wikispaces can be used to create your own free wiki sites at http://www.wikispaces.com/

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide.  Try it at http://www.wordle.net/