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Free software lets students design games in Flash or iOS modes. Games can be tested in iDevices or in Stencyl Lite software (Mac only for testing software; all platforms for design). Subscription allows submission to iTunes store.

Flash-based, online drawing/painting tool. Very easy!

Very cool flash-based abstract art creator.

Free Flash-based slideshow creation site, including some very impressive animations, special image effects, more.

Flash-based site lets younger students create stories using click-and-drag to choose characters, objects, settings. Characters can be animated, as well.

Site with fascinating and beautiful statistical visualizations. "Gapminder Foundation now fills the Trendalyzer with statistical content and use the resulting animations to fulfill our aim by: * Making time series freely available in Gapminder World and Gapminder Countries. * Producing videos, Flash presentations and PDF charts showing major global development trends with animated statistics and colorful graphics. All with the intention of being a "fact tank" that promotes a fact based world view."

A SmartBoard mini-movie is a simple (most involve only a click of the mouse), interactive animation that teachers can download and add to their galleries. From there, the movies can be inserted into their SMART Notebook presentations. Each mini-movie is a dynamic Flash file, similar to the same files that are already included in SMART Notebook's resources.

Create online slideshows that are iDevice compatible!

Site that allows YouTube vids to be downloaded in either .flv or .mpg4 formats

Simple, collaborative drawing tool.

Site transforms simple sketch drawings into hard to describe creations that look a bit like the drawing done as a spider web. Printing is done via right-click, but saving is, again, not built-in. Still, scores high on the interestingness scale.

Easy-to-use drawing/painting tool. Works can be sent to email address for saving.

Simple visualization tool for Twitter networks.

Another good alternative to PowerPoint

Vocabulary video site. Includes lesson and implementation ideas for teachers plus tips on creating/submitting student videos to the site.

Nice, simple, free drawing and painting tool. Variety of brushes and textures. No registration needed.