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Three tools Thimble, X-ray Goggles and Popcorn Maker allow students to explore HTML and CSS and author web pages simply. Fantastic examples of online web applications.

PresentationTube Recorder is a simple tool designed to help instructors, students and business professionals record their PowerPoint presentations from the comfort of home or office, and without the need to have Internet connection while recording. The Recorder synchronizes presenter's video, PowerPoint slides, drawing board, and whiteboard and generate videos ready for uploading to PresentationTube network. With visual aids, like the drawing board, presenters can draw lines, curves, graphs, and shapes on the screen to emphasize or clarify their ideas, so the demonstration can be clearer. The whiteboard also allows the presenter to type text while presenting using the keyboard making it an ideal tool to add more details, or explain equations using words, numbers, and symbols. Just follow the instructions below to download and install PresentationTube Recorder. Recorder in your computer. Load your PowerPoint presentation, record your show, upload your video file, and share real video presentation with others.

Richard Byrne shares six ways students can create and publish videos. These include slideshow voiceover ideas. Teachers will like using these creation tools as well to engage learners and demonstrate how students can share their learning.

Site lets users create interactive maps of any location. Users add pins, then share stories or information, images, etc. Could be a good tool for students learning about historical places, local communities, etc. Also a good tool for writing short expository texts.

"321 Free Tools for Teachers separated in 18 educational technology categories." */2013

For windows.  May be an alternative to QuickTime Player for Mac.  Want to use this for screen casting.

Desktop video capture tool the best free tool to explain a web concept in a little clip that is related to a matter in a cursus.

Twitter Tools

Great resource for web 2.0 tools

Help your students make their own Android apps with this useful tool from MIT. The site comes with some good tutorials and guides with example projects. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

Do we need to change laws so the Under 13s can access more Web 2.0 tools? Are we teaching responsible digital citizenship through prohibition

Today I got a message from my students (who have a midterm with me tomorrow) that they were implementing one of my tools to help them collaboratively study!

what a wonderful tool... making interactivity in presentations much easier... no gadgets, just a phone for students to tweet with... very cool

Knowledge base article on building tools in SecondLife. Generally, the same principles apply in OpenSim implementations.

SecondLife provides a fairly straightforward way to develop 3D learning spaces at a minimal cost.

Lots of Web 2.0 tools - more being added all the time

Check out this new and growing blog - all kinds of tools for K12; list of grant opportunities

Great list of presentation tools along with descriptions: authorstream, BrinkPad, Empressr, Google Docs Presentation, Imageloop, myPlick, PreZentit, SlideRocket, Spresent, VCASMO, & Zoho Show.

List of Top 100 Tools for Learning from Centre Fore Learning & Performance Technologies; decent summary of technology in education trends, shared by Sue Van Den Acre, via Magi Koch

Learning Suite by Microsoft - Over 20 of our most popular education tools and teacher resources, all in one place

title says it all- distraction free writing tools