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screen sharing tool.

pedagogical use: collaborative work on e.g. a presentation, the viewers can comment on it and the presenter can change the document, image, ... immediately

This is a very popular Q&A forum, with a high standard on questions and answers. Pedagogical uses: finding answers online Pros: good quality answers and questions Cons: only in English

The Zooniverse is home to the internet's largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects. Our current projects are here but plenty more are on the way. If you're new to the Zooniverse, we suggest picking a project and diving in - the same account will get you into all of our projects, and you can keep track of what you've contributed by watching 'My Zooniverse'. The Zooniverse and the suite of projects it contains is produced, maintained and developed by the Citizen Science Alliance. The member institutions of the CSA work with many academic and other partners around the world to produce projects that use the efforts and ability of volunteers to help scientists and researchers deal with the flood of data that confronts them.

Learn about science in a visual and interesting way through educational resources provided for exceptional science projects . Pedagogical uses: provide an excellent resource for inquiry-based learning within the classroom or for home-school groups

some sites that allow you to make playlists

Splicd.com allows you to isolate an interesting tidbit from a YouTube video and provides you with a link to share it with your family, friends, and colleagues. Pedagogical uses; creativity, presentations

storify lets you select social media snippets from all different social media sources to create stories.  RECOMMENDED! really intuitive.

Tool for interactive presentations based in one slide that can be animated with texts, links, videos, images,  focusing on different parts Pedagogical uses: Project presentations, students presentations related to the subject.

I have used Prezi, though I find it useful, I went back to ppt in the end.

Building the world of your interests. A pearltree represents a given interest. A pearltree is made of pearls and each pearls represents a web content. Pedagogical uses: to organize and bookmark information. To share resources

Get more of what you love by searching across numerous Google products with one click. Try with "education" for example. You'll get a Google search environment, another way to improve your search. Very practical. Pedagogical uses: research and organization

Create and view beautifully informative animated maps, for free. Very interesting tool to transform the way learners discover maps and the globe. A funny way to tell stories. I recommend to first look at the Show Case. The tutorial helps as well. Pedagogical uses: research and organization; story telling

Voki enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. You can customize your Voki to look like you or take on the identity of lots of other types of characters… Your Voki can speak with your own voice.

free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages. Pedagogical uses: Profiling activities related to students personal interests, promote the oral expresion, develop the students creativity.

cool flash app to  make drawings

you draw, then the application turns it into an animated drawing that you can save and embed, all for free. Interesting if you like drawings and animation. Very simple and intuitive. No need for instructions. Pedagogical uses: storytelling in a different style; icebreaker; illustrator

Does it work with tablets? Would be a great drawing tool if you do not have to use your mouse for it.

Light sugar is an online plattforme for posting and sharing photos. It is an innovative tool which offers you the possibility to improve your digital photography. That means you can edit your photos with a special software. Before you can start to work you have to register for free. Pedagogical uses: Develop students creativity, poste and share photos, edit on photos, use software Tag: Photo, edition of photo, photo book, 3D, art

largest video search engine..

Boinx Software is used by educators, professional and amateur film makers all over the world to create astonishing work, iStopMotion 2 is the tool of choice for Stop Motion Animation (aka. Claymation) and Time Lapse Recording. It is complecated. But it is available in German and English. Pedagogical uses: developement creativity, creation of digital movies, video presentations, Tag: English skills requierd, video

Online tool that makes it easy to create, share, and collaborate on a wide range of diagrams.

Tool to create charts, diagrams, technical drawings, floor plans, etc. with templates very easy to use. Pedagogical uses: Develop student creativity, sharing graphic information, visualizing concepts, hierarchy relationships.

A mix of web apps that can help you make presentations that are fun, eye catching, and engaging (great for students too)! Pedagogical use: presentation tools; applying concepts and creating ideas and sharing with others