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p2p networked learning platform

Skillshare is a community marketplace to learn anything from anyone. It is a community of peers centered around learning. The platform helps make the exchange of knowledge easy, enriching and collaborative. Pedagogical uses: information sharing, creation of a class advanced level Tags: not free, e-learning, sharing informations

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)

Google aplication that includes Google Translate. Now you can read in your own language from any place! - See search results as you type with Google Instant. - Translate web pages instantly with automatic language detection. - Share with just the right people Pedagogical uses: Students can find useful information web sites written in 40 languages​​, making all kinds of activities related to discovery learning, comprehesion reading, storytelling, etc.

some sites that allow you to make playlists

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.

This is a free tool (by Google) to make mobile websites. Very easy to use. 

There are useful and useless things in Google Sites. It is free but it is more a business tool than an educational one. But it can start as a business game and then someone can use the social mobile template to start socializing.

FANTASTIC Tool to make your own newspaper (obviously including social web content). RECOMMENDED.

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.

Automatically make your own free slide show in seconds. Upload photos, pick music, add captions in the show, and more Very nice tool. Very friendly and intuitive. Perfect for presentations... :)

technical uses: Knovio is an easy-to-use web-based tool that allows you to make an exisiting powerpoint presentation much more dynamic using a web cam or micro. You simply upload your presentation, and then you can narrate each slide with audio or video, and then share your video presentation either via email or across your social networks. It is a particularly great tool for someone who is already proficient in powerpoint. Their program is completely free, and since it is web-based, you can access your creations wherever you have internet access. Pedagogical uses: Project presentations, students presentations related to their projects.

Online tool that makes it easy to create, share, and collaborate on a wide range of diagrams.

Tool to create charts, diagrams, technical drawings, floor plans, etc. with templates very easy to use. Pedagogical uses: Develop student creativity, sharing graphic information, visualizing concepts, hierarchy relationships.

A mix of web apps that can help you make presentations that are fun, eye catching, and engaging (great for students too)! Pedagogical use: presentation tools; applying concepts and creating ideas and sharing with others

Cool Dutch maker-education initiative and organisation.