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Page history last edited by Mbarek Akaddar 14 years, 7 months ago

 

Tools

 

 

    1. Aggregators
    2. Archive
    3. Blogs
    4. Bots
    5. Chat embeddable tools
    6. Clocks and world times
    7. Comic Creators
    8. Content Creators
    9. Exercise Creators 
    10. File conversion
    11. Free Images
    12. Games and Game Creators
    13. Graphic creators
    14. Heavy online delivery
    15. Image Editors
    16. Learning Management Systems (LMS)
    17. Maps
    18. Miniblogging (microblogging)
    19. Online Storage (and embed)
    20. Online Virtual Offices
    21. Painting tools
    22. Photo albums
    23. Photo Stories
    24. Podcasting blogs
    25. Recording
    26. Rubric Creators
    27. Screencasts - Slidecasts - Videos
    28. Screen captures
    29. Social bookmarks
    30. Social Networks
    31. Shortening URLs
    32. Start Pages
    33. Survey Creators
    34. Text creators
    35. Text-to-Speech
    36. Tutorials
    37. Voice tools
    38. Videos
    39. Videos with captions/subtitles
    40. Video capture (YouTube)
    41. Video - Live streaming
    42. Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) or vClassrooms
    43. VoIP tools
    44. Wikis
    45. Worksheet creators

 

 

Aggregators

 

Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com

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

Grazr: http://grazr.com

 

 

Archive

 

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

 

 

 

Blogs

 

Blogger: http://blogspot.com

Edublogs: http://edublogs.org

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

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

Pandora Bot (text only): http://demo.vhost.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?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/

 

 

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/MATERIALS/comic/

DFilm moviemaker: http://www.dfilm.com/index_moviemaker.html

GoAnimate: http://goanimate.com/

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

Pixton: http://pixton.com/

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

ZimmerTwins: http://www.zimmertwins.com

 

 

Content Creators

 

Scavenger Hunts: http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/Scavenger.html

 

 

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.readingmatrix.com/quizmaker/index.php?PHPSESSID=3c2ae34e4070857c4aeba84afbbadb66

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

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

 

 

File conversion

 

Vidtomp3 : http://www.vidtomp3.com/

Zamzar : http://www.zamzar.com

 

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/ 

 

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/

Hangman Creator: https://games.ucf.edu/gameserv/gs-doc/doku.php?id=hangman_creator

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.teacg-nology.com/web_tools/crossword/

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

 

 

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

 

Clustrmaps: http://clustrmaps.com

Frappr: http://www.frappr.com

 

 

Miniblogging (microblogging)

 

Edmodo: http://www.edmodo.com/ 

Plurk: http://plurk.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com

 

 

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/

 

 

Online Virtual Offices

 

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

ThinkFree: http://www.thinkfree.com

Zoho: http://www.zoho.com/virtual-office

 

 

Painting tools

 

Artpad: http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/

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

Aviary: http://aviary.com/home

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

Imagination: http://imagination3.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: 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/

 

 

Photo Stories

 

DFilm moviemaker: http://www.dfilm.com/index_moviemaker.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/

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")

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

Screentoaster (video capture - embeddable videos): http://www.screento aster.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

 

 

Screen captures

 

Screenr  http://screenr.com/

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

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

Snap It: http://www.sharewareconnection.com/snapit.htm

 

 

Social bookmarks

 

Blinklist: http://www.blinklist.com

Del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us

Digg: http://digg.com/

 

 

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/

 

 

Shortening URLs

 

Bit.ly : http://bit.ly/ 

Tinyurl: http://www.tinyurl.com

 

 

Start Pages

 

Netvibes: http://www.netvibes.com

PageFlakes: http://www.pageflakes.com

Protopage: http://www.protopage.com

 

 

Survey Creators

 

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

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

 

Polldaddy: http://polldaddy.com/

SurveyMonkey: http://www.surveymonkey.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:

 

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

 

 

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

Gabmail: http://www.freegabmail.com

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

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

Snapvine: http://www.snapvine.com

Utterli: http://www.utterli.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/

 

 

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

 

Videos with captions/subtitles

 

dotSub.com: http://dotsub.com

 

 

Video capture (YouTube)

 

Jing: http://jingproject. com 

KeepVid: http://keepvid.com/

Vixy: http://vixy.net/

 

 

Video - Live streaming

 

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

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

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

 

 

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

 

 

VoIP tools

 

Gizmo5: http://gizmo5.com/  

Skype: http://www.skype.com

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

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

 

 

Wikis

 

JotSpot: http://www.jot.com

Pbwiki: http://www.pbwiki.com

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

Wetpaint: http://www.wetpaint.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/

 

 

  

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