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"Realtime teamwork on thoughts and documents Share and discuss your content in seconds with colleagues, customers & friends."

"Holy Bodacious Barcodes: Using QR Codes to Extend Learning and Promote a Love of Reading Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz "

"Pivot Stickfigure Animator is a unique software, that allows you to create stick figure animations easily and without any artistic skills. You can move the sections of the sick figure and easily create a chain of animation frames that can be previewed as you go. You can use more than one stick-figure in the animation, and even create your own stick figures using an easy to use visual editor that lets you assemble objects out of lines and circles. In addition, you can optionally set animation size, speed and more. The result can be saved as animated GIF file. Fun and easy to use, surprisingly well featured."

"Sketchcasting is a new way to communicate something online by recording a sketch, optionally with your voice speaking. Any sketch can then be embedded on your blog/ homepage for people to play-back, and you can also point people to your sketchcast channel here (or let them subscribe to your sketchcast RSS feed). Sketchcasting is new but it's based on an old principle: the whiteboard (or the napkin in a bar) on which you sketch something to get a concept across... or to just have some fun. "

"With a clear and user friendly interface, you go straight to the point: write your own tutorial. More than that, you will be able to add maps, images and even videos to any step in a tutorial. One click and it's done ! It's not required to create an account on Tildee to start writing. Easy to share: every tutorial has its unique short URL. "

I made a nice story using this. It is very easy to use, has different options for page set up depending on the picture orientation, but when I signed up, they sent me an email and it still hasn't come through to my school email, no spam either...this has happened with Prezi emails too.

"Storybird reverses the process of visual storytelling by starting with the image and "unlocking" the story inside. Choose an artist or a theme, get inspired, and start writing. "

"The easiest and most entertaining way to collect feedback from your audience: Project polls or message boards on a large screen, have everyone send their input via their cell phones and see results instantly! "

"This is a nice list of sites brought together by Richard Byrne with royalty-free sounds which students may use on projects of all types. "

"embedit.in is the easiest way to embed any document or any webpage in your blog, profile, or website. It works with PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and many other formats. It's totally free of charge. "

Tell Stories, Your Stories (slidecast creator, multimedia slidecast, digital storytelling, storytelling, audio, photo essay, audio essay, photo blog, audio blog)

"My Fake Wall is a web app where students can create a facsimile of a Facebook page for a fictitious or historical character. "

make video from stills - free

A great site that encourages students to think about their digital footprint

A great animation site which makes cartoons from your virtual drawings. It has very few options and buttons which makes it easy to use by younger children. But don't think that it isn't sophisticated. It uses HTML5 and your cartoons will look great. sign up required to save your creations.

Pivot animation is a simple but widely used program to make stick figure cartoons. Download it from the snapfiles site

Tons of resources are provided and clipart should be wonderful resource for students.

A image editor that makes photos look old. Choose from many different settings to get your image just right. A great tool for history projects.

My file converter of choice when I'm working online. Convert audio, video, images, documents and even ebooks files to a wide range of formats. The tool is easy to use and has some diverse options for advanced users