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This site allows you to create trading cards for any purpose. you could create cards filled with historical facts about a person (fictional or real). You could fill the card with information about a landmark or location. you could even use this site to create cards for a game. To sum it up, this website could be used to study or play a nice card game that you just created.

This is a great tool for brainstorming and creating infographics.

Flashcardmachine.com is a free online tool that allows students, teachers, and professionals to create web-based study flash cards that can be shared with others. You can study your flashcards online or access them on other devices, such as your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Android, available on the App Store and Android market. You can also view flashcards that others have created as well, which makes this online tool very interactive and collaborative.

3DTin is a free online tool for creating 3D models. There is a gallery of models from which you can find inspiration as well as templates for users who aren't starting from scratch. The model you create can be exported and used on other 3D modeling software. 3DTin can be used to create images that go beyond the usual two dimensions. Using original 3D models for projects and presentations is sure to boost the visual appeal of a student's work and therefore their grade. The tool can also be used to spice up engineering class, in the place of or in conjunction with drawing on graph paper.

Wideo is a site that allows students to easily create animated videos, using either uploaded content (images) or stock content found on the website. It can be used by students to create illustrations of stories, concepts, or historical events, and can be also used as a teaching tool to help visually learning students.

A website to create and voice over animations.

JeopardyLabs allows teachers to create Jeopardy type games, containing content-based questions for review. This site provides an easy alternative to power-point for teachers to create jeopardy games to use as an easy and fun way to review information.

This site allows students in 7th to 12th grade to create multiple study lists of vocabulary words that they need to know. Either you can put your own words into the study list, or the site can generate words for you. You can also download the study list in mp3 format so that you can listen to the words, create crossword puzzles, make video flashcards, or create fill in the blank questions to help you further understand the vocabulary.

Timetoast is a place to create timelines that you can share on the internet.

This website allows you to create timelines for any topic you want.

Aris is an open source platform for creating and playing mobile games, developing tours and telling interactive stories. " Using GPS and QR Codes, ARIS players experience  a hybrid world of virtual interactive characters, items, and media placed in physical space."

An online tool that can be used for making flow charts or other presentations.

With Lucidchart, anyone can create charts needed for education. Lucidchart is easy and appropriate for school and all ages.

This program, which is now compatible with Google Drive, allows for the easy creation of charts, flow charts and wireframes. This would be put to good use from middle school through high school in order to organize study material, make charts for a class, or create rough sketches of drawings or websites.

Create a digital magazine pulling images, text, and the like from all over the internet or from your own hard drive.

Stixy is a website that can be used to collaborate, create, organize, and share content on Stixyboards, a flexible Web-based bulletin board. You can customize and design an unlimited number of digital bulletin boards by uploading files, photos, documents,etc. Tip: Use this site to help students organize information in a way that make sense to them to collaboratively create and share projects.

On Wiggio, you can create an online group that you can share documents with. You can also host virtual meetings and conference calls, manage events and project deadlines with a shared calendar, create to-do lists and assign tasks, and send email, text, and voice messages with your group members. This site makes collaborating with others very easy.

Pathbrite provides a free and simple way to create an academic portfolio. It provides a template where you can include transcripts, letters of recommendation, pieces of your work, etc. and showcase it in an exquisite portfolio. Pathbrite also maps out and individual's achievements against those of their peers in a Knowledge Graph. According to Pathbrite, "School admissions officers and employers rely on our Pathbrite Portfolio Platform to get a holistic view of candidates, and to better evaluate their readiness for and organizational fit to the opportunity at hand." Pathbrite can be used by high school students to create portfolios in applying to programs and colleges.

Whatfolio is a free service for creating online displays of your digital works. Templates include showcases for photographers, designers, personal websites, business websites, student work samples, and more. It is customizeable for your purpose and style. Use to create a portfolio and showcase your work for college or internship admissions.

Dudamobile is a free online tool for creating the mobile version of your website. Any changes that you make on your website will automatically update on the mobile version, preventing you from having to maintaining two websites. Dudamobile shows how the mobile experience will look on iPhone, Android, Windows phones and Blackberry devices. Dudamobile can be used by professors to make their website more appealing to their 21st-century, phone-oriented students.

ThingLink lets users add interactive links to any photo and turn them into fun web experiences that drive engagement. Using ThinkLink, anyone can make interactive images. Adding text, video, sound, and other media to the picture, ThinkLink can be used as a unique learning device. Classes can also interact and collaborate on images. Teachers and students can add their own input and links to the image to create an educational masterpiece. Teachers can create images for their students to explore and contribute to. Students can do the same and can also use ThinkLink as a unique means for presenting information for any kind of project.

Using Kaltura is similar to creating a google doc or making a wiki. Students can collaborate on one project from multiple computers simultaneously. However, unlike google docs or a wiki, Kaltura allows students to upload videos, audio files, and pictures and collaborate on their uploaded media to create a video presentation.

For big projects, instead of doing a poster board or presentation, teachers can opt for their students to create blogs with this tool. Weebly is a simple and easy blogging site and with Weebly for education, teachers can quickly create accounts for all their students. Weebly becomes more than just a blogging site with Weebly for education; teachers can accept homework and keep parents up to date on their child's work.