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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.

Online community around 'audioboos' - short audio snippets. Interesting.

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.

platform for games, not computer games, but offline games, like card games.

The Game Crafter is an interesting tool. There is a part that you can bye games and this part is of no interest at all. Also there is a part that a "very skilled trainer" may "create a game" with a lot of pedagogical possibilities. In order to do so it needs a nice idea about a pedagogical game. I think it can also be a tool for common creation by trainers and learners.

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

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.

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

Interesting information about memory, learning and funny games to train your brain !! Have you ever played to Simon or Memory,..Try them! Pedagogical uses: learners can use these games just to train their brains playing.

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.

LeMill is primary a tool for trainers. You have to register for free, that you can use it. It is a tool for finding, authoring and sharing open educational resources. 18759 teachers from 67 countries share 29838 learning resources in 49 languages. Only the Greek lanuage is missing. Pedagogical uses: find, develop educational learning materials, and work on them with other trainers tag: trainer, learning materials

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

visualization website..

The most comprehensive people search on the web. It uses available metadata and search engines to aggregate a kind of profile.

Pedagogical use: interesting tool to demonstrate what happens with the personal information on the web, how the different pieces of information can be combined and used

very nice tool for clipping websites, like Clipmark

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

"It's all about people-powered products: We are a community of people passionate about well designed everyday products. By sharing our loves, hates and ideas, we can challenge the one-size-fits-all approach to assistive equipment through the use of clever modern design. "

Get inspired by different small creative projects that are shown on this website. Also interesting: Instructables.com

"22tracks.com is a jukebox consisting of 22 playlists of different genres, each playlist filled with 22 tracks, selected by specialized DJs from Amsterdam. 22tracks provides a quick overview of the latest music, promotes new artists and lets you discover new genres. No registration, no hassle. New music, the easy way."

It could be interesting to let the students themselves make a 22 Tracks playlist in for example Grooveshark, Jambox, or another web tool and share it. See other possibilities on Alternativeto.net and Makeuseof.com Pedagogical uses: creativity

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

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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, ,...

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

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.