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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.

interesting description of open source learning. roles. responsibilities. tasks. etc.

This open source product allow teachers and students to personalize their personal learning environment with easy access to many different tools in a friendly way. Pedagogical uses: the students can install and manage their own personal environment where find favorite tools for communicating, sharing, creating, ...

Teachers and students have access to the software, they can learn about the programming, tailor it to their requirements. By discussing the problems and suggested solutions with a greater group all the members can learn from each other. Pedagogical uses: collaborative work on these issues, even in transnational projects

Voki enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. You can customize your Voki to look like you or take on the identity of lots of other types of characters… Your Voki can speak with your own voice.

free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages. Pedagogical uses: Profiling activities related to students personal interests, promote the oral expresion, develop the students creativity.

Learning is Personal - Goalbook helps teams of educators, students, and parents collaborate around personal learning plans.

TiddlyWiki is a reusable non-linear personal web notebook. It's a unique wiki that people around the world love using to keep ideas and information organised. With a nearly endless feature list tthe possibilities for TiddlyWiki are boundless. Getting started, though, is simple. You can download it for free and install it on your computer, even when offline. Pedagogical uses:mindmapping, project management, organise tag: familiarization, English skills requiered

personal project management software.

Tom's planner is online free software for project planning simple enough in use. Pedagogical uses can be both for learners and trainers. Learners can plan their educational and personal activities. Trainers can plan their different classes. As it is online tool enables collaboration in planning.

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.

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

Through LiveCastr people can broadcast live video directly from their mobile phones to the web, allowing their online friends to follow them from any event, anytime, anywhere. The live video can be viewed on the LiveCastr website or on a LiveCastr player that users can place on their personalized profile page on their favorite online social network.

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.

InterLoc realises Dialogue Games for learning and thinking through combining synchronous group interaction and personal activities. The games promote critical and creative discussion, reasoned dialogue and collective inquiry within the digital landscape.

The story is all inside your head She said to me The answer is easy if you Go on the web and see I'd like to help you in your struggle To be free There must be fifty web 2.0 ways To tell a story

Guidelines how you can tell a story with a range of tools to illustrate your story. Ways to tell your personal story or the collaborate on a common story. Pedagogical use: storytelling as one possibility to present oneself in the familiarisation phase way to develop and present a (transnational) project

http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools#The Fifty Tools Go to this link and you will find all the following tools to create stories!! They ar more than 50... SLIDESHOW TOOLS: 2. ImageLoop 3. One True Media 4. RockYou 5. Slide 6. SlideFlickr 8. Slideoo 9. pictobrowser 11. Slideroll 12. Picasa 13. PhotoPeach 14. Tikatok 15. Tar Heel Reader TIMELINE TOOLS: 17. OurStory 18. xtimeline MIXER TOOLS: 19. Voice Thread 21. VUVOX COMIC/SKETCH TOOLS: 23. gnomz 24. ComicsSketch 25. Toondoo 26. Kerpoof 27. Bubblr 28. Comiqs 29. PikiStrips 30. Pixton COLLAGE TOOLS: 31. Tabblo 32. Scrapblog 33. Glogster MAP TOOLS: 34. Mapwing 35. Google My Maps 36. Wayfaring Flickr TOOLS / IDEAS: 37. Flickr Tell a Story in 5 Frames 38. Flickr Six Word Story 39. Flicktion 40. Linking Flickr Notes 41. Pictures with Stories Flickr Group AUDIO TOOLS: 42. Podcast People 43. Blabberize 44. yodio VIDEO TOOLS: 45. BubblePLY 47. Animoto 48. JayCut 49. xtranormal 50. shwup PRESENTATION TOOLS: 51. Empressr 52. Spresent 53. Slideshare / Slidecasts 54. Zentation 55. Zoho Show 56. Vcasmo 57. MyPlick 58. Google Presenter 59. WebSlides 60. Slideboom 61. SlideRocket 62. 280 slides 63. Prezi 64. Ahead 65. Zooburst

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

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

MindMeister is an online mind mapping tool offering several functions in order to collect, organise an comment ideas: graphical connections between ideas history view with playback facility Wikimaps (everybody can edit) task feeds, search in maps, ,... pedagogical use: creating mind maps for e.g. personal or group todo lists, project plans, meeting minutes, presentations of project ideas (e.g. in order to find project partners)