multimediatoolsbycategory

(click HERE to see all tools listed in one alphabetical list)
 * Multimedia Project Tools (Organized by Category) **

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 * Animation Tools**
 * [|Blabberize]: Animate pictures to make the people, animals, or objects appear as if they are talking
 * [|DomoAnimate]: Create an animated cartoon - complete with music and dialogue bubbles
 * [|Fuzzwich]: Create your own animated masterpiece in moments.
 * [|Go Animate]: Create unique computer animated stories or cartoons
 * [|Pivot Stickfigure Animator] Create stick figure animations easily and save as an animated .gif file. WINDOWS ONLY
 * [|Shidonni]: Draw virtual pets and then play with them
 * [|Voki]: Create customized avatars with your own voice
 * Annotation and Bookmarking Tools**
 * [|Diigo]: Visit webpages, highlight text, add stickynotes and annotate your thinking
 * [|Delicious]: Social bookmarking tool
 * [|Evernote]: **Capture** information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient and then make this information **accessible** and **searchable** at any time, from anywhere.
 * [|iBreadcrumbs]: Recording toolbar for your web browser keeps a bibliographic log of where you've been
 * [|Pageflakes]: Create a personalized homepage with all of your electronic tools and social networks
 * [|ReadItLater]: Save online pages and access them offline to read from anywhere
 * [|Sqworl]: Visually bookmark your websites in categories and share only one URL with friends/work partners
 * [|Symbaloo]: Create your own image-based bookmarking system that's published on one page (Example: [|Grade 2 literacy centers])
 * [|TopicMarks]: Electronically summarize any text document in seconds
 * [|Trailfire]: Create your own educational trails on the Internet
 * Assessment Tools**
 * [|Easy Notecards]: Create and study notecards for your textbooks
 * [|Mystudiyo]: Create interactive quizzes in minutes
 * [|SideVibe]: create your own webquests very easily!
 * Comic Strip Makers**
 * [|Bitstrips for Schools:] Simple way to create comics for your classroom (there is a fee involved, but there's a free trial)
 * [|ToonDoo]: The Cartoon Strip Creator
 * Content Resources**
 * [|iCUE]: Collaborative and online interactive learning center with games, callenges, videos, and discussions
 * [|Google Lit Trips]: Follow or create virtual road trips to align with great literature
 * [|KidZui]: Download a free and safe Internet browser for kids
 * [|National Geographic Young Explorer]: Listen and Read Stories about science and animals
 * [|Off the Charts Web Karaoke]: Listen to or create your own songs
 * Discussion and Response Tools**
 * [|Chatterous]: Get your students actively involved in real-time group chats during a lecture
 * [|ClassChats.com]: Free way to connect classrooms around the world
 * [|Co-Sketch]: Multi-user online whiteboard to quickly visualize and collaborate without even registering.
 * [|DebateGraph:] Use this browser based, wiki-style site to synthesize, evaluate, expand, collaborate, contribute and substantiate your group's thoughts and ideas to both sides of the issues.
 * [|Edmodo]: A private micro-blogging and social platform for teachers and students to share ideas, files, events and assignments.
 * [|Eyejot]: Record a video and then send easily via email.
 * [|ePals]: Connect with students around the world in a project based learning environment
 * [|Googlios]: Make your own e-portfolio to share with the world - great for highlighting your teaching skills!
 * [|Google Moderator]: Enable your audience (students, etc) to actively post or prioritize questions or surveys that are viewable by all ([|example])
 * [|Google Wave]: Communicate and collaborate in real time
 * [|Gr.oups]: Free online social networking tool to set up your own community, with blogs, wikis, chatrooms, discussions, calendars, and more.
 * [|MeBeam]: Create your own chatroom - just type in a title and invite people to join
 * [|Palbee]: Set up free web video conferences or video chat rooms and record your presentations to share with others
 * [|Piclit]: Create your own combination of words and pictures to capture the essence of the picture
 * [|Poll Everywhere]: Instant audience feedback from mobile devises that's displayed live on Powerpoint, Keynote, or the web
 * [|Skype]: Free audio or video conference calls
 * [|Tagxedo]: Make word clouds in real-time and publish in a range of ways
 * [|Vialogues]: upload a video and create an online dialogue about it to share with the world
 * Drawing Tools**
 * [|CoolText Graphics Generator] - Create text banners for printable student work, PowerPoint presentations, websites, videos, or any digital student product.
 * [|Creatly]: Create professional looking online diagrams with up to 3 collaborators for free
 * [|Dabbleboard]: Visualize, draw, explore, and collaborate with an online whiteboard
 * [|Imagination Cubed]: Multi-user drawing tool with a pen, stamp, line, or typing tool - can replay your drawings too in action
 * File Sharing Tools**
 * [|Dropbox]: Sync files online and across computers
 * [|Drop.io:] Share large files with others - up to 100MB free per drop
 * Image Collections**
 * [|Flickr]: Organize, annotate, and share your photos with the world
 * [|Jing]: Snap a picture or record a short video and share instantly on the web
 * Image and Video Editors**
 * [|Embed Plus]: Embed annotations and reactions into YouTube videos to personalize for your own needs
 * [|Lunapic Online Photo Editor]: Lots of cool ways to quickly edit photos for online use - see the [|short tutorial] for directions
 * [|Picasa 3]: Edit your photos and store/display them online (for Macs only)
 * [|PIXresizer] is a free photo resizing program to easily create web and e-mail friendly versions of your images with reduced file sizes.
 * [|Skitch.com and Skitch]: Take screenshots, edit them, and then upload to share with others
 * [|Sumo Paint]: Online image editor
 * [|Thinglink]: Turn any image into a multimedia launcher ([|Examples and Teaching Ideas])
 * Mapping Tools**
 * [|Google Maps]: Create and personalize your own maps
 * Online Forms and Surveys**
 * [|WooFoo]: Build powerful online forms

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 * Organizers/Mind Mapping Tools**
 * [|Bubble.us]: Brainstorm ideas into an automatic idea web
 * [|Doodle]: Schedule meetings quickly and see when everyone is available - all in one place
 * [|Exploratree]: Use one of five categories of thinking maps to map your ideas, solve problems, explore new ideas, and analyse different perspectives
 * [|Freemind]: Online mind-mapping software
 * [|EverNote]: Make notes and organize them online
 * [|LiveBinders.com]: Collect, organize, and display your digital creations in an online binder
 * [|MentorMob]: Organize your best content resources into your customized play list - [|example]
 * [|Notefish]: Track your web inquiries with automatically bibliography generator and annotate/organize your reflections
 * [|Outliners and Mind Mapping Tools] include: [|Quicklyst] (notes and outlines), [|Knowcase] (record and organize ideas), [|Spider Scribe] (mind map creation with images and notes), [|Folder Boy] (organize in folders), [|WiseMapping] (collaborative notes), [|Exploratree](templates and thinking guides), and[| Slatebox] (collaborative mind maps and organizational charts)
 * [|Stixy]: Online bulletin board to share notes, photos, documents, and to do lists
 * [|Text 2 Mind Map]: The text-to-mind-map converter
 * Publishing Tools**
 * [|Creaza]: Use this suite of tools to create/edit audio and movies, cartoons, mindmaps, and many others.
 * [|Letterpop]: Create eye popping newsletters (free plan to publish up to 10 newsletters)
 * [|Issue: You Publish]: Create and share professional looking publications
 * [|Mixbook]: Create your own annotated photo books or scrapbooks to share with others - an [|example >]
 * [|MuseumBox]: This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.
 * [|Podcast Generator]: Create, upload, and publish podcasts in a web format
 * [|RealeBooks.com]: Read or create striking picture books to share with the world
 * [|Scratch]: Digital storytelling tool that uses a puzzle piece drag and drop system.
 * [|Scrapblog]: Create and share digital scrapbooks
 * [|Themeefy]: Discover, create, curate, and publish knowledge from the web to share with others
 * [|SimpleBooklet]: Create product guides, promotions, and brochures you can post to your website and across the web.
 * [|ZooBurst]: Create your own interactive 3D Books (free for first one, but then a fee involved)
 * Slideshow Makers**
 * [|Animoto]: Create video slideshows (see [|Animoto for Education]) - [|example] of 2010 Webby Awards
 * [|Brainshark]: Transform static content into voice-enriched video presentations that can be accessed anytime, on-demand
 * [|Diigo WebSlides]: Convert bookmarks, RSS feeds, and blogs to slideshows in minutes.
 * [|PhotoPeach]: Create high quality slideshows with images, text, and music and share with classrooms around the world
 * [|Prezi]: Online presentation tool like Powerpoint - [|a great example]
 * [|Slideshare]: Upload and share powerpoint presentations loaded with audio podcasts
 * Timeline Makers**
 * [|Dipity]: Find, create, and embed interactive timelines
 * [|Preceden]: Build simple, powerful timelines
 * [|When in Time]: Create, view, explore and contribute to interactive digital timelines on the topic of their choice
 * [|TimeToast:] Create interactive timelines and share them on the web
 * Video Collections**
 * [|KeepVid]: Download streaming videos
 * [|Kideos]: Online kids video network with safe videos for young children to view and use in their projects
 * Video Recording, Audio Editing, and Screencasting Tools**
 * [|Audacity]: Downloadable, free open source sound editor/recorder.
 * [|One True Media]: create your own videos with sound, animation, imagery, amazing backgrounds, and much more
 * [|Screenr]: Instate screencasting tool that plays everywhere on the web
 * [|Screentoaster]: Online screen recorder to share and stream videos online in Flash
 * [|Screencast-o-matic]: Record screencapture video for up to 15 minutes for free ([|Law of Sines] example)
 * [|MP3 Cutter and Editor]: Windows software for editing MP3 files
 * Visualization Tools**
 * [|ABCYa! Word Clouds for Kids]
 * [|Infographics] Free Online Creators including [|StatPlanet], [|Hohli Charts], [|Creately], [|NYTimes Visualizations Lab], [|Many Eyes], [|Google Public Data], and [|Wordle]
 * [|Photostory 3 for Windows]: Teachers can download and use for free ([|example]) - [|Digital Storytelling Guide] to get started with examples
 * [|Stratalogica]: Actively engage in a multilayered world while you collaborate and share content
 * Webinar Tools**
 * [|Elluminate]: Create live e-learning webinars and web collaboration (free for up to 3 participants)
 * Website Makers or Compiling Resources**
 * [|My Fake Wall]: Create a fake Facebook page with friends, dialogue, etc. for a famous person's profile
 * [|Jog the Web]: A web-based tool that allows anyone to create a synchronous guide to a series of web sites.
 * [|Pinterest]: Create an online pinboard to organize the things you love.
 * [|Scoop It!]: Be the curator of your own topic-centered media and then publish on a favorite social media site.
 * [|Sharendipity]: Build and employ interactive games, widgits, and other educational learning tools - browse the [|Education collection] for ideas
 * Writing Tools**
 * [|DoingText]: Web-based collaborative writing and editing without signing up
 * [|Glogster]: Make an interactive poster with text, images, music, and video
 * [|Google Docs]: Collaboratively create, store, and share documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and online forms
 * [|Penzu]: Easy journal-writing tool
 * [|Remix America]: Remix the great words, speeches, and images of American History
 * [|Storybird]: Collaborative storytelling with families, friends, and real artists art - take the [|tour] to learn more
 * [|TypeWithMe]: Create an immediate live-text document to collaborative write
 * Miscellaneous Tools**
 * [|SearchEngine MegaList]: Explore the many types of search engines to find just what you need on the Internet.