ALPHABETIMALS
Animoto
You can apply for an educator account and receive it for free for 6 months, then reapply. Tremendous tool to add video, text, music, images and embde into a site. create a
Audacity
Free resource to create a podcast. You will need to download the LAME Encoder so you can save as mp3.
Bembo's Zoo
This site takes the alphabet and creates a picture. Totally cool!
Big Huge Labs
Do some fun stuff with your digital photos!
BrainPop
BrainPOP® creates animated, curricular content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement.
Calibre
Allows you to create an ebook to place on your device, and vice versa.
Certificate Street
Create certificates, hence the name.
Citebite
Cite Bite is a simple to use webtool that allows you to paste in a chunk on text and the URL (web address) that it comes from and it will create a link to that selection of text on the webpage that is highlighted
Classtools.net
Insert your questions and answers into this site, which will create games for your students. Embed this into your site
Create a picture logo for your site, or place into documents.
Copy/Paste Character
Ever have a hard time looking for that symbol? Go here, quick and easy!
Cute PDF
Convert to PDF (this is a download).
Dipity
Create a multimedia timeline
Edmodo
Social network for the classroom. Has a Facebook-style and look to it.
Edutecher
My Favorite website, and it is a free app for the Ipad/Itouch. This site lists new tools for the classroom. A must for the 21st century teacher.
Flipsnack
SnackTools is a suite of web applications designed to simplify the way you create and publish rich media widgets and generally content for the web.
Glogster
Interactive poster. It allows you to place graphics, audio, video, images, and more. You can receive 50 accounts as a teacher for free.
Greenshot
Open source. Screenshot tool.
Jamstudio
Online music factory, create your own music, educators can apply for classroom grant
KidBlog
With Kidblog, your students can write anywhere: from the computer lab, at home, and on their iPad or smartphone.
KWIK Surveys
Kwik Surveys is an easy to create and fast way to create a survey for students or teachers. The site offers several question types and even lets users add images to their surveys.
Livebinders
LiveBinders not only replaces the old 3-ring binder, but also opens up new opportunities for collaborating, organizing, and sharing that were never possible before.
Mii Creator
Mii Creator / Editor where you can make or edit your own mii characters and export them in a variety of ways.
Newspaper Clipping Generator! Great tool!
Odosketch
Online sketching tool, great art tool.
Open Office
Can't afford Microsoft Office? Download this suite and it will open Microsoft files, save your files as Office files, etc..
Poll Everywhere
It is the best way to create stylish real-time experiences for events using mobile devices
Quizlet
Create flashcards for your students
Read Write Think
The printing press
Rubistar
RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics.
Schooltown
Another learning platform, like Moodle. This allows you to have two classes for free. Great for high school and perhaps middle school.
Screencast-o-matic
One-click screen capture recording on Windows or Mac computers with no install for FREE!
Storyjumper
toryJumper is a place to create and discover stories for kids.
StoryMaker
my Storymaker was named one of the
Best Websites for Teaching and Learning
by the American Association of School Librarians,
a division of the American Library Association.
Tagul
Word cloud generator
Tagxedo
turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud
Visuwords- online graphical dictionary
Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts.
Vozme
Text to speech editor, creates an .mp3
Vocaroo
Online voice recording service, embed into website, save as .mp3, email to a colleague/friend
Where's My Cell Phone?
What? That's right! Type in a number and it will cause the phone to ring! Can be fun, helpful, annoying.
Word It Out
Transform your text into word clouds!
Wordle
Great visual tool. Place words and it creates a variety of designs.
Wordnik
Wordnik is a new way to discover meaning.
Worksheet Works
Worksheets of all kinds for all ages.
Zamzar
Free online file conversion. Up to 100MB.