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"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."

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.

Pedagogical uses: Develop students creativity, visualizing concepts, sharing graphic information, transform pictures into collages, assemblies, personalized images, presentations ... Designing logos and covers for presentations.

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web site focussed on education web 2.0 with links to teachers web 2.0 sites and interesting web 2.0tools to be used in class related to virtual office, Word processing, spreadsheet, image creation, maps, blogs, audio/podcasting, blogs, … Pedagogical uses: creating , presenting, create podcasts, ,...

Pretty cool 3D modeling tool - free - can be used to create and tinker with 3D models, export them to 3D printing, etc. "Features & Benefits Solid modelling Designing physical models either for manufacturing or visualization requires solid modeling. All operations in Tinkercad are guaranteed to generate proper solids. Cloud storage The 3D designs created with Tinkercad are stored in the cloud for easy access from anywhere. We always use SSL encryption (same as online banks). Laser Cutting The SVG export in Tinkercad is specifically tailored for laser cutters. The standard workplane will cut a slice through your model which can then be laser cutted. Shapes Shapes are the basic building block of Tinkercad. Any shape can add or remove material and in addition to pre-existing shapes you can also import your own. Share models As Tinkercad is a web app you can easily share your models just by copying the link. Tinkercad also lets you fork someone elses model and develop it further. Import 2D With 2D import you can create vector shapes in your favorite vector editing tool and import them into Tinkercad and extrude them into solids. Great for adding logos or images. Grouping By grouping together a set of shapes you can create a new shape to work with. By building more and more intricate shapes you can create extremely detailed models. 3D printing Tinkercad supports all 3D printers on the market that accept the industry standard STL file format. You can also download VRML files for color printing. Import 3D Tinkercad features revolutionary 3D import that lets you turn an external file into a editable Tinkercad shape. There is a growing number of supported formats. Web based Tinkercad runs in any web browser that supports HTML5/WebGL be it on Windows, Mac or Linux. Suggested browsers are Google Chrome and Mozille FireFox. 3D printing services With direct integration with 3rd party printing services you can print a design from Tinkercad with just a few clicks of the mouse. F

TECHNICAL USE: Add your own text, images, video, music and narration and use all content to tell a whole story. PEDAGOGICAL USE: http://www.redjumper.net/blog/2013/11/faraway-friends-connecting-curious-students-chicago-iceland/

This is a visual social bookmarking tool. Students and teachers can use this to collect interesting websites in a visually attractive way.

Design collaborative activities with students to learn about geography, geology, environmental sciences

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.

xtimeline is a place for you to create, share and discuss interesting timelines

easy and accessible tool for students, allows us work together to create biographies and timelines like a wiki through collaborative work to create results in a multimedia timeline. To get a richer content, we can include texts, images and video.

With pixer.us you can edit photos online using only your browser.

Pedagogical uses: Develop students creativity, visualizing concepts, sharing graphic information, transform pictures into collages, personalized images, ilustrate presentations ... Designing logos and covers for presentations.

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

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.

It is not free at all...

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

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

creativity and activism

It is about placing on top of ads on the streets of the cities bubble stickers.They are left blank, inviting passersby to fill them in. This project instantly transforms the intrusive and dull corporate monologues into a public dialogue where everybody can say what he thinks.. It is not an instrument that can be used for our project even becasue it is not legal!

Pedagogical uses: students can use old publicity images to be used in personal projects (this is legal) and add bubbles with personalized text, to express their personal ideas.

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.

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.