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We built Noteflight because we looked at where software is today, and saw that applications for writing music were stuck in the past. We wanted to accomplish a few important goals: Make it easy to create and share written music online. People who make music -- amateurs and professionals, students and teachers -- want to share that music with others, sooner or later. But most software for working with notated music treats the Internet as an afterthought: it's geared to saving your music on your own computer's hard disk, not to sharing your music with other people. It's painful to share musical scores online today, and as software inventors, we knew how much better it could be. People expect to be able to do their creative work wherever they go, and a crop of new browser-based applications make it incredibly easy to create and publish word-processing documents or spreadsheets online. We feel musical documents should be just as accessible. Empower developers to build a new world of musical and educational applications. Applications today should be not only powerful tools, but building blocks that can be combined in ways that their creators have never foreseen. A truly powerful musical application should be extensible without having to open it up and change the code. Adding new instruments and symbols, or embedding in a page and building new kinds of connections with other content -- all of these things should be possible. A great tool lets creative people not only use its built-in capabilities, but extend them and freely reorganize them in new ways. As Bertrand Meyer, a pioneer of software thinking, once put it: "Real systems have no top". Encourage a vibrant community of users by keeping the basics free. Music notation software vendors continue to charge high prices for boxed software, CD and DVD distribution media, and printed manuals. Then once you buy something, you're basically stuck with it until the next major upgrade cycle comes around, at which point you pa

via Martin Burrett

Picozu Editor is a drawing and photo retouching application built on Javascript, HTML 5 and CSS3. Make sure you use a modern browser (Firefox 5, Safari 5, Chrome, Opera 10, Internet Explorer 9) if you want to play with it. The aim of Picozu is to support brushes, filters, dynamic windows, HSL, CYMK, layers, actions history, batch processing, primitives, curves (quadratic and bezier), complex polygons, texture rendering, cropping and many more.

Plan Board Organize your day and lesson plans using this tool. Flip snack Publish pdf documents into flipping books. Tikatok Create ebooks, upload images, add author biography and save them.

Good bye Picnik, hello Ipiccy!! You will love it!

Your words. Your voice. Your view.

Make picture collages in less than a minute with just a few mouse clicks

Many older digital natives make it possible to have a more enjoyable and realistic adventure based on their dreams of the future.

history of visualization from analog to digital and trends for the future in interview with Marc Canter, "The master of multimedia...".

It is fun to use Flickr to find pictures that people post for others to use. Or use FlickR to post your own albums. Here's a site (Spell with Flickr - http://metaatem.net/words/) where you can have any word spelled with different pictures that have each letter in the word. Erik Kastner used the letters from the One Letter group with the Flickr API and is making the Source Code available for free.

A very nice Flickr photo exploration tool.

Use Flickr Storm with your students for locating imagery for digital storytelling projects. It locates multiple photos for you that relate to the keyword and annotates with a Creative Commons license, providing the user name you need for attribution. There is a great tutorial on using Flickr Storm at http://www.jakesonline.org/using_flickrstorm.pdf

similar to irfanview - haven't tried yet

This might be an interesting way to facilitate conversation in classes and professional development.

create a poster and then embed your blog, images and sounds. Create a visually apealing frontage for your blogs and sites.

ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image.

Gigapan product to take megapixel pictures that can be explored and uploaded to gigapan.org or used with free software. Amazingly detailed pictures that can be "explored".

The product to produce images for the gigapan.org site. Works with any digital camera.