A – Z Internet Resources for Education A
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A – Z Internet Resources for Education A o Acapela.tv is a fun site to create text-to-speech animations. o Alice is a 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience. o Animoto.com is a web application that produces professional quality videos from your pictures and music. o Audacity is a programme that allows you to record sounds straight to your computer (you do need a microphone) and edit them afterwards. Very popular with languages teachers and podcasters. o Audioboo is an audio-blogging site, you can send in updates through the web, phone or its own iPhone app. Perfect for blogging on the move, like on a school-trip, or sharing your class’s opinion about a topic. o authorSTREAM allows you to publish and share your PowerPoint presentations. It also allows you to download published presentations as videos. o Aviary is a suite of web applications which allow you to create, edit and manipulate images. They have also recently launched an audio editing tool called Myna (see below). B o BeFunky is a website that allows you to apply a variety of fun effects to your own photos or from photo sharing sites. o Big Huge Labs is a collection of utilities and toys that allow you to edit and alter digital pictures. You can create puzzles, movie posters, magazine covers, mosaics, calendars, badges, billboards and many more besides. o Bitstrips is a website that allows you to create comics and cartoons. There is a premium school version. o Blabberize.com allows you to animate pictures to make the people, animals or objects in them appear as if they are talking. It only takes three simple steps. o Block Posters is a web application that allows you to make full size posters from pictures in your computer. Perfect for classroom displays. o Blogger is a free blogging platform by Google. o Box.net is an online file storage and collaboration solution. Share content with your colleagues or students. o Bubbl.us is a web application for creating mind-maps either on your own or collaborating with others. o Build your Wild Self is a website by the New York Zoos that allows children to create human / animal hybrids. It can be used to practise personal descriptions. o Bundlr is a free tool for online curation: it allows you to clip, aggregaten and share web content easily. o Buzzword is an online word processor by Adobe, and is perfect for writing reports, proposals, and anything else you need to access online or work on with others. It looks and behaves like your normal desktop word processor, but it operates inside a web browser, so there’s no installation required. C o Camstudio is a free desktop application that allows you to record your computer screen. o Capzles is a free web application that allows you to combine your photos, videos, blog posts and mp3s into rich multimedia storylines. o Cartoonster is a website aimed at children with tutorials on how to create animations. Perfect to introduce the concept and possibilities of animation to youngsters. o Cellsea is ideal to quickly add effects to your pictures. o Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! The games can then be hosted on your own blog, website or intranet. o Comicbrush allows you to create and share a comic using any combination of your own drawings, photos and ready-to-use artwork. o Commoncraft is a useful website which explains web products and services in plain English using short, unique and understandable videos in a format they call Paperworks. o ContentGenerator.net provides free flash game makers. Premium content also available. o Create a Graph allows pupils to do just that. o Creative Commons Search allows you to sieve through massive repositories of media and resources which you are legally free to use and share. o Custom Sign Generator is an image creator that allows you to create free logos, avatars, comics and many other bits and bobs that you might need for your blog or presentations. D o Dabbleboard is an online whiteboard that will help you visualize, explore and communicate ideas o Delicious is a social book-marking site which allows you to access your book-marks from any computer. It also allows your colleagues and students to share your bookmarks. o Diigo also allows you to access and share your bookmarks from anywhere. With Diigo you can also annotate and highlight websites, which is perfect if you want to share resources with your students after having added your own notes to it. o Diipo connects teachers with students by making it easy to communicate with your class. Diipo also connects you with other educators and your class with other classes. Similar to Facebook and Twitter, Diipo is social networking for the classroom. See also Edmodo, below. o Dipity is a web application that allows you to create embedable media-rich timelines. Great for research and history projects. o DivShare is a service that allows you to upload, store, manage and then embed any file -including video files- into websites. Perfect for the teacher-blogger or a classroom blog. o Doink.com is a website that allows you to create and share animations. o Domo is a school friendly version of Go!Animate (below) in which all inappropriate content is filtered out. Domo allows you and your students to create animations that can be embedded onto blogs, wikis, etc. o DotSUb is a website that allows you to upload videos and put subtitles on them. Perfect to share foreign language resources or to set translation projects to your students. o Dropbox is software that enables file storage, back up, sharing and synchronisation online and across different computers. Premium service with a basic free account. o Dropmocks allows you to create photo galleries really easily by dragging photos form your desktop or any folder in your computer and drop them into your browser to create and share photo galleries. E o Edmodo is a micro-blogging service (like Twitter) for teachers and students. Use it with your students to share information, set and collect assignments and much more. o Edublogs.org based on WordPress.com, Edublogs is a hosted blogging platform designed for education. o Embedit.in is a service that allows you to upload and embed documents into blogs or other websites quickly and easily. Perfect for a classroom blog or a teacher-blogger. o eThink.org.uk is an online community supporting education by supplying free blog space. o Evernote is a cross-platform note taking tool that allows you and/or your students to take notes. Text, pictures, voice memos and more are automatically synced across all your devices: save once, save everywhere. F o Facebook can be used to set up pages and provide your students with updates about your subject or department. Students don’t have to be your friends to enjoy the benefits of this facility. Your students are all on Facebook anyway, might as well make the most of it! o Filezilla is a very useful desktop application that allows you upload content to your web pages or blogs using FTP (File Transfer protocol). o Flickr is a web service for storing and sharing your digital photographs. It also contains a massive collection of Creative Commons photographs and pictures which can be used to illustrate presentations or for other creative tasks. o Fotobabble enables you to create talking photos in a few clicks by adding a voice to customisable slide- shows. o Freemind is a desktop application for creating mind-maps. Available for Linux, OSX and Windows. G o Gimp is an Open Source image manipulation program. A bit like Photoshop, only free! It tackles tasks such as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. o GlassGiant is a website that allows you to make fun, custom pictures. o Gliffy is an online application with which you can easily create professional-looking flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans and technical drawings. o Glogster is a web application tha allows you to create online posters or glogs. Not strictly blogging, glogging is making media rich online posters that can be shared online or embeded onto wikis. o Go!Animate is a web application with which you can create animated comic strips and cartoons. o Google, as well as the search engine, provides a comprehensive suite of web-based and desktop applications like Gogle Docs, Google Earth, Blogger, Google Mail and much, much more… o Greenfoot allows you to make graphical representation of objects and simulations. H o Hot Potatoes is an application that allows you to create interactive exercises, such as quizzes, multiple choice questions and crosswords, which can be added to websites. Free for schools. I o ImageChef is a website that allows you to create custom images by combining text, symbols and photos. Great for classroom displays, starter activities or homework. o Instapaper allows you to easily save web pages for reading later, when you have time, so you don’t just forget about them or skim through them. Very good research tool. o iPadio allows you to broadcast from any phone to the Internet live, creating phlogs – live voice-blogs o iSendr is an on demand file sharing and transfer system, facilitating the sending of large files between people.