Edit your photos online with comic-style captions. Explanation of choice: Creates free, professional-looking photo-shop products which can be saved, printed, and uploaded to other sites. Works in your browser with no downloads required.

Create your own free motivational poster on topic of your choice from an image you upload. Great for generative learning in introducing a topic or inspiring students to engage in an activity. Explanation of choice: Produces free, professional-looking photo-shop products which can be saved, printed, and used in other sites. Works in your browser with no downloads required.

Interactive online custom rubric generator. Ideal for assessing essential learning. Explanation of choice: Free, and chosen because it is part of the course management system, rcampus, which is ideal for use with presentations and online learning.

Online quiz making tool. Well-suited to assessing essential learning. Explanation of choice: Free and, unlike others I found, was selected for ISTEs 101 Best web sites 2005-2006.

Free online screencast tool. Excellent for facilitating essential learning, especially in hands-on demonstrations. Explanation of choice: Recommended because allows for creation of free screencasts of up to 15 minutes in length in your browser, and unlike others, requires no downloads.

High quality audio and video screencast product. Great for presenting essential learning concepts. Explanation of choice: Free online screencast tool and unlike other, no download is required.

Online mindmap generator. Great for generative learning processes of making connections to prior knowledge. Explanation of choice: Recommended because it only requires you to type in an outline of text and in one-click transforms it to a free mindmap, which, unlike others, can be saved as a jpg.

Online graphic organizer creation tool. Great for generative learning processes helping students make connections to prior learning. Explanation of choice: Recommended because it is online, free, and unlike other tools, no signup is required.

please visit my wiki to see the components of my 8847 project

Please visit my ning for my 8847 project on Using Comics to Engage Students in Reading and Writing

Interactive black and white comic creator with prompts for students to fill in characters, bubbles, backgrounds, props

Interactive comic site explains copyright policies

Site contains tools for free and easy comic creation with three styles--quickie, regular, large format