Tools

 

 

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

 

 

Aggregators

 

Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com

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

Grazr: http://grazr.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

 

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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

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

 

 

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Chat embeddable tools

 

Cbox: http://www.cbox.ws 

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

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

 

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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/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

 

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Content Creators

 

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

 

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

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/

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/

 

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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

 

Clustrmaps: http://clustrmaps.com

Frappr: http://www.frappr.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/virtual-office

 

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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

 

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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

 

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

 

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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/

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.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

 

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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

 

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Social bookmarks

 

Blinklist: http://www.blinklist.com

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

Digg: http://digg.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/

 

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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/

MyStudiyo: http://www.mystudiyo.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

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/

 

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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 (YouTube)

 

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

 

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

 

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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

 

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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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