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.
The Vote Monkey tool can be used for on line voting. Pedagogical uses: Common or democratic decisions about several topics like dates, subjects on didactic material etc.
Jott to Self - Send emails to yourself
Jott Reminders - Get text message and email reminders
Jott to List - Add items to your to-do list
Jott to Someone Else - Send emails and texts to your contacts
Jott to Group - Email and text a group of contacts
Jott to Link - Send messages to web services
Messagingon the go -- Reminders at work -- Lists at home -- Web services at play
speech recognition software that allows obtaining written documents. Not free, but educational licenses.
Pedagogical uses: Improve core skills for students
* Provide greater independence for students with physical disabilities
* Level the playing field for students with learning disabilities
* Improve writing fluency for students learning English
* Increase productity in students
At Google, we support teachers in their efforts to empower students and expand the frontiers of human knowledge. That's why we've assembled the information and tools you'll find on this site.
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This is a first approach for teachers to research about all tools that GOOGLE offers to education. There are many and very useful, try it!
Pedagogical uses: collaborating, presenting, comunicating, planning, sharing.
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.
Tool for audio recording and creation of audio files which can be made available to others; The tool allows to edit also different audio files.
Pedagogical uses:
creation of podcasts, project presentations, students presentations related to the subject.
TiddlyWiki is a reusable non-linear personal web notebook. It's a unique wiki that people around the world love using to keep ideas and information organised. With a nearly endless feature list tthe possibilities for TiddlyWiki are boundless. Getting started, though, is simple. You can download it for free and install it on your computer, even when offline.
Pedagogical uses:mindmapping, project management, organise
tag: familiarization, English skills requiered
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
It is an simple, intuitive content management, where the online file sharing is secured and a lot of features for collaboration are offered.Box lets you store documents, media and all of your content online, so you can access, manage and share them from anywhere. Integrate Box with Google Apps and Salesforce. Access Box on mobile devices. Free trial version only.
Pedagogoical uses: project amangement, deadlines, timetable, share media and files
Collaborative web conferencing environment enabling synchronous communication using video and audio or through text chat, and to share presentations, documents and images on an interactive whiteboard.
Clipclip is an online version of a scrapbook. When you find something on the web, you can cut out only the most interesting part preserving the look and feel rather than bookmarking bunch of links.
Pedagogical uses:
online research tool. It's possible to cut out articles or pictures from online resources and collect them
Intermediate level
Tags: free, social-bookmarking, clasify-informations
nice interactive tool to learn more about the concepts around words, their connection to other words
without subscription only a limited amound of checks allowed
a 14 day risk-free trial is available
languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish
pedagogical use: illustrate the connection between several terms
lists of annotated tools including
public learning sites
instructional tools
social and collaborative spaces
collaboration and sharing tools
social learning tools
image, audio and video tools
presentation tools
video conferencing, sreensharing tools ...
information whether the tool is for free or to purchase
pedagogical uses: variety of tools to integrate in one's personal learning environment or to facilitate (transnational) projects
It was renamed: http://stayuseful.com
It focuses only on the things you actually need to do today. It gives you simple tools and friendly encouragement so you can feel more productive and less forgetful. It can be used with the most common Smart Phones: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android Phones
Pedagogical uses: timetalbe, project management, workflow management, deadlines
tag: free, 30 day trial