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Martin Burrett 10 Sep 11 02:10:59A great site full of free fonts for commercial use. Great for publishing children's work. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

"Use this free Internet tutorial to learn to discern the good, the bad and the ugly for your online research."

We might be able to use this for web evaluation work.

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"stor·i·fy|stôrəfī| verb [trans.] 1. To form or tell stories of; to narrate or describe in a story. 2. To make stories using social media."

" How to use VLC Player to convert .wmv to .mp4?"

"Feel like something's missing from your YouTube viewing experience -- like some good 'ol multiple-choice questions? The chronic learners among us will be happy to hear that the site is testing an interactive -- and potentially educational -- feature that lets users add quizzes to their clips. A new page on the YouTube site describes a "Video Questions Editor Beta," which lets channel owners display multiple-choice questions on top of their videos as they play. The page is pretty blank at the moment, but the beta is up and running for those who opt in. Don't get too excited, though: YouTube's disclaimer states the feature "represents work in progress," and "there is no plan for long-term support of the feature." TechCrunch 29 Leave A Comment "

This great online collaborative tool enables students to have instant, shared web-meetings where documents can be shared and pored over together no matter where participants are, as long as they each have a computer and a web connection. The programme offers a host of useful tools to make collaboration easier, quicker and more effective, including brainstorming with interactive whiteboards and image and video sharing.

"Bamboo DiRT is a tool, service, and collection registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. Developed by Project Bamboo, Bamboo DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software."

"Groupboard is a free online whiteboard that you can place on your web page by simply copying a few lines of HTML code. You can also run Groupboard on your own web server. It can be used for tutoring, distance learning, training, or simply for fun! With the whiteboard you can upload background images and draw on top of them, and all users connected to the whiteboard will see the changes in real-time. Works on any web browser including iPad, iPhone and Android with no plugins or downloads required. Free for 5 users. Product details Live demo Free Trial"

" Mentimeter allows you to use mobile phones or tablets to vote on any question you specify. Our vision is to improve the meeting between a presenter and an audience. "

It is free It is easy and simple to use It has a user friendly interface It supports several languages including English, French, German, Italian, Portugues and  Latin It provides pre drawn characters and dialogue boxes Users  have a huge flexibility when editing their strips They can change the size of each character or dialogue bubble, bring elements forward within each box or even change the sequence of each box It offers some writing prompts

Infographic, mapping, mind mapping, ideas,

"While you can choose from numerous online PDF to Word converters, sometimes you'll actually want your own readily available software. Firstly, offline conversion tools are by and large much faster than their online counterparts, and secondly, your online conversion will remain online. Anything other than the odd document shouldn't be converted using an online tool, e.g. anything sensitive, business documents, and information you'd like to keep private."

Search over 10,000 downloadable sound clips to use in your presentations, animations or podcasts.

"A text smiley face -- often called a smiley or emoticon -- is used in text message and online chat communications to convey an emotion. Learn how to make text smiley faces in this Webopedia.com text message and online chat guide."

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Phrasr is an interactive web-based application that uses Flickr images to illustrate the phrases that users submit. She can choose every image and then publish the entire phrase, which is shown as a personal slide show.

It's a place to put thumbnails of sites. Very useful to construct if you want students to go to certain places only. It can also cut down on random search

This is one of the most popular tools to create infographics and many infographics I have been sharing with you here were designed using Visually. It has a gallery where you can select an infographic to customize.

This is another awesome infographic creation tool that is very easy to use. Just drag-and-drop shapes from an extensive library and point-and-click your way to format. No expertise needed.