Webtools used in Education

 

 

 

 

 

Webtools used in Education Aggregators: Archive Blogs Bots Chat embeddable tools Clocks and world time Comic Creators Content Creators Exercise Creators   File conversion 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 Shortening URLs Start Pages Survey Creators Text creators Text-to-Speech Tutorials Voice tools Videos Videos with captions Video capture (YouTube) Video - Live streaming Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs)  Wikis Worksheet creators

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Aggregators:

 

Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.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.splinder.com/  (used to be Motime)

Wordpress: http://www.wordpress.com

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Bots

 

MyBot: http://www.a-i.com/

ALICE Bot: http://alice.pandorabots.com/

Web Hal: http://www.zabaware.com/webhal/index.html

Eliza Bot: http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza/eliza.html

Turing Hub: http://www.robitron.com/TuringHub/

Santa Bot: http://www.santabot.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

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  

 

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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 time

 

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)

24TimesZones.com: http://24timezones.com/map.htm (find the time in "your" neck of the woods)

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Comic Creators

 

Comic Creator: http://www.readwritethink.org/MATERIALS/comic/

GoAnimate: http://goanimate.com/

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

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

Pixton: http://pixton.com/

Powtoom: https://www.powtoon.com/home/g/us/ 

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 

 

Discovery Channel

QuizFaber

Hot Potatoes

Interactive Exercise Makers

Script-O!

ProProfs

ClassMarker

WordLearner

MyStudiyo

Quizzlet

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

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 File conversion

 

Vidtomp3 : http://www.vidtomp3.com/

Zamzar : http://www.zamzar.com

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Games and Game Creators

 

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

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

 

Easy Thumbnails: http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/

Image Editor: http://www.imageeditor.net/

My Imager: http://www.myimager.com/

Pixrl: http://www.pixlr.com/ (edit pics online)

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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

 

Frappr: http://www.frappr.com

Clustrmaps: http://clustrmaps.com

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Miniblogging (microblogging)

 

Edmodo: http://www.edmodo.com/ 

Twitter: http://twitter.com

Plurk: http://plurk.com

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Online Storage (and embed)

 

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

DocStoc: http://www.docstoc.com

DivShare: http://www.divshare.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/

Picturetrail: http://www.picturetrail.com

Picasa: http://picasa.google.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

Fotobabble: http://www.fotobabble.com/

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

Podomatic: http://www.podomatic.com

Podbean: http://www.podbean.com

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Recording

 

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

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

Callburner: http://www.callburner.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")

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

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

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

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

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

VoiceThread: http://www.voicethread.com

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Screen captures

 

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

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

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

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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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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

 

Tinyurl: http://www.tinyurl.com

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Start Pages

 

Netvibes: http://www.netvibes.com

Protopage: http://www.protopage.com

PageFlakes: http://www.pageflakes.com

 

 

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Survey Creators

 

Doodle

MyStudiyo

Polldaddy: http://polldaddy.com/

SurveyMonkey

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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/

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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)

Aviary: http://aviary.com/

EVOCA: http://www.evoca.com

Gabmail: http://www.freegabmail.com

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

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

Springdoo: http://www.bedroomtv.com/(now called bedroomtv)

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

Biteable: https://biteable.com/ 

Blip.TV: http://blip.tv/ 

Google videos: http://video.google.com

Ourmedia: http://www.ourmedia.org

TeacherTube: http://www.teachertube.com/

Yahoo videos: http://video.yahoo.com

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com

Vimeo: http://vimeo. com

Archive.org:  http://archive. org 

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Videos with captions

 

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)

 

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 

 

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