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EDSITEment is a partnership among the National Endowment for the Humanities, Verizon Foundation, and the National Trust for the Humanities and is a proud member of the Thinkfinity Consortium of premier educational websites.

A comic builder with lots of features that allow for flexibility of characters, poses, backgrounds, objects, etc.

A comic creator from Boy's Life magazine.

A comic strip creator that uses Aurthur and his friends as the characters.

Help George and Harold create a cool new episode in the Adventures of Captain Underpants, then e-mail it to a friend!

The internet is teeming with free resources waiting to be used to enhance the classroom experience. Singling out the best ones, however, can be overwhelming and time consuming. At SimpleK12, we have meticulously scavenged the internet in search for the best free classroom tech tools. We're thrilled to present to you this list, HIDDEN WEBTOOLS: 11 Tools for 2011, and we hope it engages you and proves itself useful for all of your educational technology needs.

Doodle eliminates the chaos that comes from scheduling and saves you a lot of time and energy when you're trying to find a time to bring a number of people together. Instead of using just one option, you can propose several dates and times and the participants can indicate their availability online. With one look, you'll be able to see what the best time is for the meeting, and this works with any calendar system that is being used.

"Wolfram|Alpha is a free online computational knowledge engine that generates answers to questions in real time by doing computations on its own vast internal knowledge base. Our long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. This can be valuable to educators in many ways. "

So what is the purpose of this site? It's simple. We want to share how technology with people quickly. Each video on the site will be under ten minutes. This is about the same length as my attention span and perfect for showing at the end of a staff meeting. Of course there are some sites like this out there already and we will link to similar sites on the homepage.We may end up having a few different videos on a topic e.g. Beginner's guide to Twitter and Advanced use of Twitter, but generally it will be short and simple.

Photo editing made fun Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart's content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. It's fast, easy, and fun.

"Collaborize Classroom is designed to complement classroom instruction and engage students in online activities, assignments and discussions that allow for deeper participation inside and outside the classroom."

Diving into a rich and overwhelming social network like Twitter can be difficult. I know of many teachers and academic-minded people who are still unsure about the merits of the tool or are simply unsure where to start. The following 10 (+1 bonus!) beginner's guides to Twitter each do a tremendous job at informing without confusing."

Engrade, based in Los Angeles, California, was founded in 2003 by a great team of successful internet entrepreneurs who wanted to use their talents to help the world. Over the years, Engrade has grown by leaps and bounds, being adopted by teachers and schools in all 50 states and in countries across the world. Today Engrade has more than 1,500,000 members. We're very proud to do our part to help educators improve the lives of students around the world. Our service is truly free and will remain free. We are able to offer Engrade free of charge because we have been fortunate in past businesses, allowing us to volunteer our talents and to pay for expenses out of our own pockets. In the future we may add optional premium services (for example, a service to send student transcripts to colleges) to help pay for costs, but we'll always keep the main features free. Many teachers ask us if their information will stay private and secure on our service, and we can assure you that it will. We take our users privacy very seriously. Take a look at our privacy and security help pages below.

Use any phone, Skype, or computer mic to capture your voice, interviews, conference calls, or comments. Publish digital recordings on websites, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and smartphones.

"Simple, effective online collaboration Multi-user whiteboard, live audio, image collaboration, text-chat and more"

Edmodo is a free and secure social learning network for teachers, students and schools. Edmodo provides classrooms a safe and easy way to connect and collaborate, offering a real-time platform to exchange ideas, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices.