Tools

 

 

Aggregators Archive Blogs Bots Chat embeddable tools Clocks and world times Comic Creators Exercise Creators File conversion Free Images Games and Game Creators Graphic creators Heavy online file delivery Image Editors Learning Management Systems (LMS) Maps Microblogging Miscellaneous resources Online Storage (and embed) Online Virtual Offices Painting tools Photo albums Photo Stories Podcasting blogs Recording Rubric Creators Screencasts - Slidecasts - Videos Screen captures Social Bookmarking Social Networks Shortening URLs Start Pages Survey Creators Text creators Text-to-Speech Tutorials Voice/Audio tools Video tools Videos with captions/subtitles Video capture Video lessons Video: Live streaming Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) or vClassrooms VoIP tools (chat) Widgets Wikis Worksheet creators

 

 

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

Kidblog: http://kidblog.org

Posterous: https://posterous.com/

Wordpress: http://www.wordpress.com

 

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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/

Xat: http://xat.com

 

 

 

Get your own Chat Box! Go Large!

an example

 

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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 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

 

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/

DJordan's Self-Correcting Quizzes: http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/resources/quizzes/quizzes.html

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/makers.php
JClic: http://clic.xtec.cat/en/index.htm

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/ (Click on Close at the bottom to get an access to the applications)

Script-O!: http://www.scriptopro.com/ (no longer free, 30-day free trial)

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

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

 

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/

 

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Games and Game Creators

 

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

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

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

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/

 

 

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Graphic creators

 

Gliffy: http://www.gliffy.com

Toonlet: http://toonlet.com

 

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Heavy online file delivery

 

TransferBigFiles: http://www.transferbigfiles.com

YouSendIt: http://www.yousendit.com

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

 

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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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Microblogging

 

Edmodo: http://www.edmodo.com/ 

Plurk: http://plurk.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com

 

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Miscellaneous resources

 

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

Directory of Learning and Performance Tools: http://c4lpt.co.uk/directory-of-learning-performance-tools/

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

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

 

 

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Online Storage (and embed)

 

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

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

DocStoc: http://www.docstoc.com

Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/

Embedit.in: http://embedit.in/ (embedding docs in wikis/blogs)

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 (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/

 

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Photo Stories

 

DVolver moviemaker: http://www.dfilm.com/live/home.html

PhotoPeach: http://photopeach.com/

PhotoStories3: http://microsoft-photo-story.en.softonic.com/
ZimmerTwins: http://www.zimmertwins.com

 

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Podcasting blogs

 

Odeo: http://odeo.com (Coming soon)

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 (click on create and select "presentation")

Slide.com: http://www.slide.com/ (Slide.com will be shutting down on March 6th 2012).

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

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

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

VoiceThread: http://www.voicethread.com

 

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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

 

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Social Bookmarking

 

Blinklist: http://www.blinklist.com

Delicious: http://www.delicious.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

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

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

 

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Shortening URLs

 

Bit.ly : http://bit.ly/ 

Google URL Shortener: http://goo.gl/ 

Tinyurl: http://www.tinyurl.com

 

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Start Pages

 

Netvibes: http://www.netvibes.com

Protopage: http://www.protopage.com 

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Survey Creators

 

Polldaddy: http://polldaddy.com/

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

Zoomerang: http://www.zoomerang.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

 

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

 

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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)

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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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

 

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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 lessons

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

 

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Video: Live streaming

 

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

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

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

 

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Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) or vClassrooms

 

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

Elluminate: http://www.elluminate.com/Services/Training/Elluminate_Live!/?id=418
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)

 

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VoIP tools (chat)

 

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

 

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

 

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Wikis

 

PBworks: http://pbworks.com

Wetpaint: http://www.wetpaint.com

Wikidot: http://www.wikidot.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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