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Tools

Aggregators

Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com

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

Archive

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

Blogs

Blogger: http://blogspot.com

Edublogs: http://edublogs.org

Kidblog: http://kidblog.org

Posterous: https://posterous.com/

Wordpress: http://www.wordpress.com

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

Chat embeddable tools

Cbox: http://www.cbox.ws

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

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

Xat: http://xat.com

Get your own Chat Box! Go Large!

an example

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)

Comic Creators

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

DVolver 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

Exercise Creators

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

Directory of Testing, Quizzing & Other Interactivity Tools: http://c4lpt.co.uk/directory-of-learning-performance-tools/instructional-tools-testing-quizzing-other-interactivity-tools/

Educaplay: http://en.educaplay.com/index.php

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

Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher: http://www.cpr4esl.com/gerrys_vocab_teacher/index.html

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

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

Lingt Classroom http://lingtlanguage.com/

ProProfs: http://proprofs.com/

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

Quizlet: http://quizlet.com/

Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning: http://clear.msu.edu/teaching/online/ria/

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

SMILE: http://clear.msu.edu/teaching/online/mimea/smile/v2/index.php

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

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

File conversion

VidToMP3 : http://www.vidtomp3.com/

Zamzar : http://www.zamzar.com

Free Images

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

Classroom clipart http://classroomclipart.com/

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

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

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

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

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

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

Games and Game Creators

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

Crossword Puzzle Games: http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/create.html

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

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

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

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

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/

Game Makers: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/games/index.htm

Content Generator: http://www.contentgenerator.net/

Graphic creators

Gliffy: http://www.gliffy.com

Toonlet: http://toonlet.com

Heavy online delivery

TransferBigFiles: http://www.transferbigfiles.com

YouSendIt: http://www.yousendit.com

Ge.tt: http://ge.tt/

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)

Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Moodle: http://www.moodle.org

Nicenet: http://www.nicenet.org

Ninehub: http://ninehub.com/

Maps

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

Clustrmaps: http://clustrmaps.com

Google: http://google.maps.com

Microblogging

Edmodo: http://www.edmodo.com/

Plurk: http://plurk.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com

Miscellaneous resources

The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators (Richard Byrne, Dec. 2010): http://issuu.com/richardbyrne/docs/super_book_of_web_tools_for_educators

Online Tools for Language Teaching: http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume15/ej57/ej57int/

Authoring Tools for language teachers: http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/Links/authoring_tools.htm

Online Storage (and embed)

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

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

DocStoc: http://www.docstoc.com

Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/

Livedrive: http://www.livedrive.com/

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

Online Virtual Offices

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

ThinkFree: http://www.thinkfree.com

Zoho: http://www.zoho.com/

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

Photo albums

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com

Mixbook (for Education): http://www.mixbook.com/edu/

Photopeach: http://photopeach.com/

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

Picturetrail: http://www.picturetrail.com

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

Tinypic: http://tinypic.com/

Photo Stories

DVolver 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

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

Recording

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

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

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

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

Rubric Creators

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

Rubistar: http://rubistar.com/

Screencasts - Slidecasts - Videos

Animoto: http://www.animoto.com/

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

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

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

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

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

VoiceThread: http://www.voicethread.com

Screen captures

Irfanview: http://www.irfanview.com/

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

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

Screenr: http://screenr.com/

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

Social Bookmarking

Blinklist: http://www.blinklist.com

Delicious: http://www.delicious.com/

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

Social Networks

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

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

FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com

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

Google+: https://plus.google.com

Shortening URLs

Bit.ly : http://bit.ly/

Google URL Shortener: http://goo.gl/

Tinyurl: http://www.tinyurl.com

Start Pages

Netvibes: http://www.netvibes.com

PageFlakes: http://www.pageflakes.com

Protopage: http://www.protopage.com

Digg: http://digg.com/

Survey Creators

Polldaddy: http://polldaddy.com/

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

Zoomerang: http://www.zoomerang.com/

Text creators

Cool Text: http://cooltext.com/

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

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

Tutorials

Second Life tutorials:

10 building tips: http://www.shiny-life.com/2007/10/21/top10-second-life-building-tips/
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

Teacher Training videos: http://teachertrainingvideos.com/ (Russel Stannard)

Voice/Audio tools

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/

Video tools

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

Videos with captions/subtitles

dotSub.com: http://dotsub.com

Video capture

Jing: http://jingproject.com

KeepVid: http://keepvid.com/

Vixy: http://vixy.net/

Video lessons

Real English: http://www.real-english.com/ (Mike Marzio)

Video: Live streaming

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

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

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

Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) or vClassrooms

BigMarker: http://www.bigmarker.com/

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

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

Scribblar: http://scribblar.com/

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

Twiddla: http://www.twiddla.com/

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

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

WiZiQ: http://www.wiziq.com (no longer free)

VoIP tools

Skype: http://www.skype.com

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

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

Widgets

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

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

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

Wikis

PBworks: http://www.pbworks.com

Wetpaint: http://www.wetpaint.com

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

Wikispaces: http://wikispaces.com

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/

Last revised and updated by Teresa Almeida d'Eça: 1Dec2011

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