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LyricsTraining is an easy and fun method to learn and improve your foreign languages skills through the music videos and lyrics of your favorite songs. You are ask to fill in the missing letters / words in the text below the video. Pedagogical use: fun language training, fostering the listening comprehension by using favorite songs

BadgeStack is a social learning tool that encourages people to master new skills and get involved in your community. Plus it's fun.

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.

MAKE Magazine brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. We celebrate your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will. Published as a quarterly since February 2005, MAKE is a hybrid magazine/book (known as a mook in Japan). MAKE comes from O'Reilly, the Publisher of Record for geeks and tech enthusiasts everywhere. It follows in line with the Hacks books and Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks, but it takes a highly visual and personal approach.

one of my favourite publishing tools

serendipitous tool to find interesting content online and share your own interesting content.

It is an easy way to discover interesting photos, videos, web pages and more, recommended by people sharing your Interests. Pedagogical uses: Searching information and resources in the Web.

huge collection of free and paid tools.

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.

online voting

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.

The idea of Climarks is that through each other, we can learn, understand and enjoy more than we could alone. On Clipmarks.com, you can see clips of text, images or video about all sorts of topics that people find while surfing the web.As you find people who post clips that interest you, make them a Guide Pedagogical uses: creativity, general knowledge, languge learning

Stripcreator is a website that allows users to create and save their own comic strips. Pedagogical uses: creativity developement, icebreaking Novice level Tags: free, illustrations, creativity

In this project, you can make your plants send messages to Twitter, for example when they are thirsty. Pedagogical uses: learn about electronics, programming, media, sensor technology, collaboration Pros: creative, useful knowledge, innovation Cons: difficult, high learning curve, some equipment needed (to be purchased online)

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.

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

Upload pictures, add word balloons, speech bubbles, and thought balloons, then export it. Once you've got a balloon photo done, you can email it to a friend or save to your hard drive as a JPEG. You never have to login or subscribe to anything. It's completely free.

We are a Mobile Storytelling platform that makes it easy to create, share and play GPS games and tours. Mission We link your media to places so you can create engaging city experiences for anyone with a mobile phone. Guide, tour, game? That's up to you... Connect your story to the city!

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.

Create a photo contest and share it on facebook