Tools

 

 

Aggregators

 

Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com

Google Reader: http://reader.google.com

 

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Archive

 

Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/

 

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Blogs

 

Blogger: http://blogspot.com

Edublogs: http://edublogs.org

Splinder: http://www.us.splinder.com  (used to be Motime)

Wordpress: http://www.wordpress.com

Kidblog: http://kidblog.org

 

 

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Bots

 

ALICE Bot: http://alice.pandorabots.com/

Eliza Bot: http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza/eliza.html

MyBot: http://www.a-i.com/

Oddcast Bot: http://demo.vhost.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk-oddcast?botid=e10677c3ee36f742

Santa Bot: http://www.santabot.com/ 

Turing Hub: http://www.robitron.com/TuringHub/ 

Virsona Bot: http://www.virsona.com/

Nik Peachey explains how we can create a chat bot and how to use it in ESL classes: http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2008/09/artificial-intelligence-chat-bots-and.html 

Web Hal: http://www.zabaware.com/webhal/index.html

 

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Chat embeddable tools

 

Cbox: http://www.cbox.ws 

Gabbly: http://www.gabbly.com/

Yackpack: http://www.yackpack.com/

 

 

 

Get your own Chat Box! Go Large!

 

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Clocks and world times

 

24TimesZones.com: http://24timezones.com/map.htm (find the time in "your" neck of the woods)

Clock Link: http://www.clocklink.com (free online clocks for your site)

Qlock: http://www.qlock.com/time/ (find the time in "your" neck of the woods)

The World Clock: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/full.html (find the time in "your" neck of the woods)

 

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Comic Creators

 

Comic Creator: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/comic-creator-30021.html

DVolver (former DFilm) moviemaker: http://www.dfilm.com/live/home.html

GoAnimate: http://goanimate.com/

MakeBeliefsComix: http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

Pixton: http://pixton.com/

ToonDoo: http://www.toondoo.com/

WriteComics: http://writecomics.com  (example: http://writecomics.com/gen/4160.html)

ZimmerTwins: http://www.zimmertwins.com

 

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Exercise Creators 

 

Lingt Classroom  http://lingtlanguage.com/

ClassMarker: http://www.classmarker.com/

ESLvideo: http://www.eslvideo.com/index.php

Hot Potatoes: http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

Interactive Exercise Makers: http://languagecenter.cla.umn.edu/index.php?page=makers

MyStudiyo: http://www.mystudiyo.com/

ProProfs: http://proprofs.com/

Quiz Faber: http://www.lucagalli.net/eng/download.htm

Script-O!: http://www.scriptopro.com/ (no longer free)

WordChamp: http://www.wordchamp.com/

WordLearner: http://www.wordlearner.com/

 

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File conversion

 

Vidtomp3 : http://www.vidtomp3.com/

Zamzar : http://www.zamzar.com

 

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Free Images

 

ESL Flash Cards: http://www.eslflash cards.com/

UVIC Clipart: http://hcmc.uvic.ca/clipart/

Kizclub:  http://www.kizclub.com/flashcards.htm

Openclip:  http://www.openclipart.org/

Classroom clipart  http://classroomclipart.com/

School Clip-art: http://www.school-clip-art.com/

Clipart Pictures: http://www.free-clipart-pictures.net/

A big list: http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/

 

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Games and Game Creators

 

Crossword Compiler: http://www.crossword-compiler.com/

Discovery Channel: http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/teachingtools.html

Hangman: http://www.manythings.org/hmf/

Jigzone: Online jigsaw puzzle creator: http://www.jigzone.com

Hangman Script: http://javascript.about.com/library/blhang1.htm

Novel Games: http://www.novelgames.com/

Online Crossword puzzle maker: http://www.puzzle-maker.com/CW/

TeAch-nology.com's Crossword Puzzle Maker: http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/crossword/

The Hangman Game: http://www.hangman.learningtogether.net/

 

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Graphic creators

 

Gliffy: http://www.gliffy.com

Toonlet: http://toonlet.com

 

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Heavy online delivery

 

TransferBigFiles: http://www.transferbigfiles.com

YouSendIt: http://www.yousendit.com

 

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Image Editors

 

Offline 

Easy Thumbnails: http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/ (resize images)

Quick Screen Capture: http://www.etrusoft.com/ (capture and edit images)

 

Online

Image Editor: http://www.imageeditor.net/

My Imager: http://www.myimager.com/

Pixrl: http://www.pixlr.com/ (edit pics)

 

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Learning Management Systems (LMS)

 

Moodle: http://www.moodle.org

Nicenet: http://www.nicenet.org

Ninehub: http://ninehub.com/

 

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Maps

 

Bravenet: http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/guestmap/ 

Clustrmaps: http://clustrmaps.com

Google: http://google.maps.com

 

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Miniblogging (microblogging)

 

Edmodo: http://www.edmodo.com/ 

Plurk: http://plurk.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com

 

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Online Storage (and embed)

 

Box.net: http://box.net/

DivShare: http://www.divshare.com/

DocStoc: http://www.docstoc.com

Livedrive: http://www.livedrive.com/ 

Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/

 

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Online Virtual Offices

 

Google Documents: http://docs.google.com

ThinkFree: http://www.thinkfree.com

Zoho: http://www.zoho.com/

 

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Painting tools

 

Artrage: http://www.ambientdesign.com/artragedown.html

Aviary: http://aviary.com/home

Flash Paint: http://www.flashpaint.com

Inkscape : http://inkscape.org/

Paint Online: http://www.sherwin-williams.com/do_it_yourself/paint_colors/paint_color_palette

Painter: http://www.valspar.com/painter.html 

WebSketch: http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/flash/flash_interfaces/776707_websketch_online_drawing_tool.php?id=776707&refnum=texasmary

 

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Photo albums

 

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com

Mixbook: http://www.mixbook.com/

Photopeach: http://photopeach.com/

Picasa: http://picasa.google.com/

Picturetrail: http://www.picturetrail.com

Slideroll: http://www.slideroll.com/

Tinypic: http://tinypic.com/

 

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Photo Stories

 

DVolver (former DFilm) moviemaker: http://www.dfilm.com/live/home.html

PhotoPeach: http://photopeach.com/

PhotoStories3: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx

ZimmerTwins: http://www.zimmertwins.com

 

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Podcasting blogs

 

Odeo: http://odeo.com

Podbean: http://www.podbean.com

Podomatic: http://www.podomatic.com

Posterous: http://www.posterous.com/

Listen to Joao Alves talk about Posterous: http://web2class.posterous.com/posterous-640

 

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Recording

 

Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Callburner: http://www.callburner.com/

MP3 Skype Recorder: http://voipcallrecording.com/

Powergramo: http://www.powergramo.com/

 

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Rubric Creators

 

iRubrics: http://www.rcampus.com/help/about/rubrics.cfm?

Rubistar: http://rubistar.com/

 

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Screencasts - Slidecasts - Videos

 

Animoto: http://www.animoto.com/ 

Google pres: http://docs.google.com (under the new select "presentation")

Mixbook: http://www.mixbook.com/

Screentoaster (video capture - embeddable videos): http://www.screentoaster.com/

Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/

Slide.com: http://www.slide.com/

Stupeflix: http://www.stupeflix.com/

Toufee: www.toufee.com  (no longer free)

VoiceThread: http://www.voicethread.com

 

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Screen captures

 

Screenr  http://screenr.com/

Jing: http://jingproject. com (and video)

MWSnap: http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html

SnapIt: http://www.sharewareconnection.com/snapit.htm

 

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Social bookmarks

 

Blinklist: http://www.blinklist.com

Del.icio.us: http://www.delicious.com/

Digg: http://digg.com/

Diigo: http://www.diigo.com/

 

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Social Networks

 

Cloudworks: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/

FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com

Google Wave: http://wave.google.com/

Ning: http://www.ning.com/ (no longer free)

 

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Shortening URLs

 

Bit.ly : http://bit.ly/ 

Tinyurl: http://www.tinyurl.com

 

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Start Pages

 

Netvibes: http://www.netvibes.com

PageFlakes: http://www.pageflakes.com

Protopage: http://www.protopage.com

 

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Survey Creators

 

Doodle: http://www.doodle.com/

Polldaddy: http://polldaddy.com/

SurveyMonkey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/

 

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Text creators

 

Cool Text: http://cooltext.com/

Myspace glitter text generator: http://glitter-graphics.com/myspace/text_generator.php

 

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Text-to-Speech

 

iSpeech: http://www.ispeech.org/free.text.to.speech.tts.software

ReadtheWords: http://www.readthewords.com/

Text to Speech: http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/

VozMe: http://vozme.com

 

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Tutorials

 

Second Life tutorials:

• CTER Portal: http://cterport.ed.uiuc.edu/technologies_folder/SL/
• Nichola Scher: http://nicolaescher.com/tutorials.php
• Robin Wood: http://www.robinwood.com/Catalog/Technical/SL-Tuts/SLTutSet.html
• Torley´s channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Torley
• 10 building tips: http://www.shiny-life.com/2007/10/21/top10-second-life-building-tips/

 

Teacher Training videos: http://teachertrainingvideos.com/

 

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Voice tools

 

Archive.org:  http://archive.org

Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net (recorder - MP3 converter)

AudioPal: http://www.audiopal.com/ 

Aviary: http://aviary.com/

Chirbit: http://www.chirbit.com/

EVOCA: http://www.evoca.com

HandyBits: http://www.handybits.com (to be downloaded)

MyBloop: http://www.mybloop.com/

Vaestro: http://www.vaestro.com

Viewpoint: http://clear.msu.edu/viewpoint/index.php

Vocaroo: http://vocaroo.com/

VoiceThread: http://voicethread.com/

Voxopop: http://www.voxopop.com/

 

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Videos

 

Archive.org:  http://archive.org

Blip.TV: http://blip.tv/ 

Google videos: http://video.google.com

Ourmedia: http://www.ourmedia.org

TeacherTube: http://www.teachertube.com/

Vimeo: http://vimeo. com

Yahoo videos: http://video.yahoo.com

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com

 

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Videos with captions/subtitles

 

dotSub.com: http://dotsub.com

 

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Video capture

 

Jing: http://jingproject.com 

KeepVid: http://keepvid.com/

Vixy: http://vixy.net/

 

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Video - Live streaming

 

Justin.tv: http://en.justin.tv/

Ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/

LiveStream: http://www.livestream.com/

 

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Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) or vClassrooms

 

Alado: http://www.alado.net/webheads

Elluminate: http://www.elluminate.com/

Learning Times: http://www.learningtimes.org

Scribblar: http://scribblar.com/

Tapped In: http://tappedin.org/tappedin

Vyew: http://vyew. com/site/

Webhuddle: https://www.webhuddle.com/

WiZiQ: http://www.wiziq.com

 

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VoIP tools

 

Skype: http://www.skype.com

Oovoo: http://www.oovoo.com/  (free for 2-way video )

Yahoo Messenger: http://messenger.yahoo.com

 

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Widgets

 

Widgetbox: http://www.widgetbox.com/widgets/gallery/

Neoworks: http://www.neoworx.net/blue/gallery/home.php

Widgets for your wiki: http://www.scribd.com/doc/4965117/Widgets-for-Your-Wiki

 

 

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Wikis

 

PBworks: http://www.pbworks.com

Wikidot: http://www.wikidot.com/

Wetpaint: http://www.wetpaint.com

Wikispaces: http://wikispaces.com

 

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Worksheet creators

 

Tools for Educators: http://www.toolsforeducators.com/ (FREE worksheets, worksheet creators, printables wizard and on-line teaching materials makers with images) 

Worksheet Wizard: http://wizard.4teachers.org/

 

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Last revised and updated by Teresa Almeida d'Eça: 26Dec2010