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Try to create nice visual books with text. have a look to some examples.

The magazine tool used by (among others) The Next Web for their montly magazine (100k + readers). Publishing on iOs, Android, en Amazon. 

Very easy website creator

very nice website that contains lots of good tutorials about design.

Teachers can ask students who are interested in design, to follow one of the beginner tutorials and create a design, model or drawing of a car, building, or something else they like.

"What is ThingLink? ThingLink helps you create and discover touching images. Be creative! Make your images come alive with music, video, text, images, shops and more! Every image contains a story and ThingLink helps you tell your stories. Follow image channels from your favorite bands, bloggers and friends. Your ThingLink interactive images form a channel that other users can follow. Share your channel with friends on Facebook and Twitter, and follow your friends. Touch and discover."

Google Hangout apps to be used within G+ Hangout.

Technical uses: Create your account in Google +, make your circles of contacts and start a videoconference. Talk up to 10 people simultaneously, for free. Pedagogical uses: Communication between peers, collaborative work, teamwork between teachers.

Say hello to a little conversation. Mootly is where ongoing conversations take the main stage. In a moot the discussion can go as deep or as frivolous as you like. Sign up now by creating your first moot!

Very easy signup: add name, email, participants, and welcome message. It is like a very simple Facebook group and free to use. Can't be more simple and straightforward than this. Students can use this to setup a simple and temporary chat/collaboration platform if they do not want to use Facebook.

very cool magazine tool - easy to make online magazine. just tried it out, quite easy to use.

Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print.

Storybird is a service that uses collaborative storytelling to connect kids, families and teachers. Two (or more) people author a Storybird-one with words, one with pictures-and then share it with their network. The final product can be printed, watched on screen, played with like a toy, or shared through a worldwide library. For the teachers is possible to create thematic assignments within seconds to support their lesson plans. Assign privacy settings, turn Spellcheck on or off, and issue due dates. All using an intuitive interface. Pedagogical uses: developement creativity, language skills, foreign languages skills, creative writing, storytelling. Intermediate level Tags: free, storytelling

MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your digital music collections or use other software.

making your own font based on your hand-writing

My First Font is a tool that allows creating fonts based in someone's handwriting. Pedagogical uses: It can be used with low skilled learners to introduce them in the use of devises like scanner, printer and software packs. It's a kind of learning game. It can be used also as an international game.

The Internet is loaded with free software, making it hard to know which one's you really need. This article will act as your guide to the top 20 free applications (Web and Windows) for increased productivity.

This web site colects web 2.0 tools. We suggest some of them for Pedagogical uses:: Skype and Gmail for communicating Google Calendar and 7.Zip for planifying Cam Studio and Audacity for creating videos and audio (they are bookmarked in this Diigo list aswell)

a tool similar to mindmapping...

An online mindmapping tool which enables you to create an online collection of files, links, notes and any other digital file about a certain topic. It is accessible from any online PC. Pedagogical uses: creation of digital archive, collection of material from students related to the subject, .

Survey gizmo: very handy survey tool. Enough options in the free version.

visualization website..

The story is all inside your head She said to me The answer is easy if you Go on the web and see I'd like to help you in your struggle To be free There must be fifty web 2.0 ways To tell a story

Guidelines how you can tell a story with a range of tools to illustrate your story. Ways to tell your personal story or the collaborate on a common story. Pedagogical use: storytelling as one possibility to present oneself in the familiarisation phase way to develop and present a (transnational) project

http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools#The Fifty Tools Go to this link and you will find all the following tools to create stories!! They ar more than 50... SLIDESHOW TOOLS: 2. ImageLoop 3. One True Media 4. RockYou 5. Slide 6. SlideFlickr 8. Slideoo 9. pictobrowser 11. Slideroll 12. Picasa 13. PhotoPeach 14. Tikatok 15. Tar Heel Reader TIMELINE TOOLS: 17. OurStory 18. xtimeline MIXER TOOLS: 19. Voice Thread 21. VUVOX COMIC/SKETCH TOOLS: 23. gnomz 24. ComicsSketch 25. Toondoo 26. Kerpoof 27. Bubblr 28. Comiqs 29. PikiStrips 30. Pixton COLLAGE TOOLS: 31. Tabblo 32. Scrapblog 33. Glogster MAP TOOLS: 34. Mapwing 35. Google My Maps 36. Wayfaring Flickr TOOLS / IDEAS: 37. Flickr Tell a Story in 5 Frames 38. Flickr Six Word Story 39. Flicktion 40. Linking Flickr Notes 41. Pictures with Stories Flickr Group AUDIO TOOLS: 42. Podcast People 43. Blabberize 44. yodio VIDEO TOOLS: 45. BubblePLY 47. Animoto 48. JayCut 49. xtranormal 50. shwup PRESENTATION TOOLS: 51. Empressr 52. Spresent 53. Slideshare / Slidecasts 54. Zentation 55. Zoho Show 56. Vcasmo 57. MyPlick 58. Google Presenter 59. WebSlides 60. Slideboom 61. SlideRocket 62. 280 slides 63. Prezi 64. Ahead 65. Zooburst

Collaborative environment for your school to connect with people of common interests all around the world. Share your library, chats, webconference, etc. Pedagogical uses: Collaborative projects with people from other cities or countries related to a common subject. Create a space of your classroom and find other students from other schools to share interests.

best mockup tool I've seen so far. design an interactive website in minutes.

create mockups of websites. Easy, intuitive interface. Easy to use. Pedagogical uses: creativity, web-design.

Seems that this application currently do not support Internet Explorer. It works with Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome.

MindMeister is an online mind mapping tool offering several functions in order to collect, organise an comment ideas: graphical connections between ideas history view with playback facility Wikimaps (everybody can edit) task feeds, search in maps, ,... pedagogical use: creating mind maps for e.g. personal or group todo lists, project plans, meeting minutes, presentations of project ideas (e.g. in order to find project partners)

Digital storytelling is simply using computer-based tools to tell stories. There are many different ways to do this - from making movies, recording voices, creating animations or electronic books. In schools they can help to take a task that might be seen as mundane - write a report, write a story, explain a process, describe an experiment - and turn it into something a whole lot more interesting.There are a great many tools out there that could be used for digital storytelling. Here are a few mentioned.