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Mozilla's Thimble tool makes making websites and learning HTML and CSS easy. You can pick a project, edit its CSS and HTML, and directly see the results in your browser. MOZILLA THIMBLE Thimble makes it ridiculously simple to create your own web pages. Write and edit HTML and CSS right in your browser. Instantly preview your work. Then host and share your finished pages with a single click. Easy, huh?"

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.

south african artist famous for animations

Fantastic way to be creative. Try to make a stop-motion video using a normal camera or even camera-phone. Either make the stop-motion (many pictures quickly put behind each other makes a stop-motion film) on the computer or directly on the iPhone: there are many apps out there for that. Let them share their videos (even across the different European pilots) Pedagogical uses: creativity, photography, storytelling.

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.

very cool community making cool designs

Quirky offers three different areas: You can help to develop new products of and product ideas of all different kinds. You can buy products. You can promote products via facebook and twitter. Last you can be a part of the community. Pedagogical uses:languages skills, creative designing, tag: Intermediate level, English languag skills requierd, art

Mozilla's popcorn is an easy-to-use web tool that allows you to easily edit and remix online content into a video. Video beyond the box Popcorn Maker makes it easy to enhance, remix and share web video. Use your web browser to combine video and audio with content from the rest of the web - from text, links and maps to pictures and live feeds."

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!

"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.

very nice explanation about the difficulty (and value) of making timelines in a learning context.

Very nice tool to make infographics. 

This is a very nice strategy for using the FUTUREME.org tool in class. Students will get an email in the future in which they can describe their goals or make predictions. Similar to 43things.com

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

tool to make a page with sticky notes - can be used for brainstorming. I do not really like it, because it does not seem collaborative. It has been used in the first pilot by Greek teachers however, and they were happy with it.

The Stikis tool is a useful tool for our project. It can be used in the following pedagogical ways. In training when the trainer is going to use "brainstorming" as pedagogical method; in the method of "sub grouping"; in voting about a subject; in questioning and answers when the trainer wants all participants give their ideas and more.

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

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.

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)

nice timeline software.. making timelines

Pedagogical uses: visualizing concepts, develop students metacognitive thinking, sharing graphic information, develop sinthesis capability.

"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