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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

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)

"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

Jott to Self - Send emails to yourself Jott Reminders - Get text message and email reminders Jott to List - Add items to your to-do list Jott to Someone Else - Send emails and texts to your contacts Jott to Group - Email and text a group of contacts Jott to Link - Send messages to web services Messagingon the go -- Reminders at work -- Lists at home -- Web services at play

speech recognition software that allows obtaining written documents. Not free, but educational licenses. Pedagogical uses: Improve core skills for students * Provide greater independence for students with physical disabilities * Level the playing field for students with learning disabilities * Improve writing fluency for students learning English * Increase productity in students

successful productivity tool for teams. great interface and management features. used by BIG tech companies like Foursquare, Twitter, AirBnB, LinkedIn, etc.

pretty solid wiki. productivity tool. collaboration

Pedagogical uses: Aula de conocimiento. colaboración salón de clases, eventos / calendario de planificación, notas personales.

An easy to use, web-based to-do list. Get organized, stay motivated, and be more productive. Looks very good. Maybe even better than Remember the Milk, if you have to believe the comparison chart.

Toodledo is an organizer a "to do" list. Pedagogical uses: The learner can create his/her "to do" list about his/her learning process and is compatible with mobile phone. It also can be used to create group "to do lists" by sub groups of learners or the hole group. Useful tool.

cool 2do tool

It was renamed: http://stayuseful.com It focuses only on the things you actually need to do today. It gives you simple tools and friendly encouragement so you can feel more productive and less forgetful. It can be used with the most common Smart Phones: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android Phones Pedagogical uses: timetalbe, project management, workflow management, deadlines tag: free, 30 day trial

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

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.

cool open source video recording and editing software

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) Pedagogical uses: creation of video-based information products, video presentations, video tutorials intermediate level Tags: free, video, creativity

good todo tool. GTD

It's a kind of electronic on line agenda that allows you to plan your work, projects, things to do, giving a priority. It's a collaborative tool. Pedagogical uses: project management, deadlines, workflow management, etc... Tags: free, project management, communication, project Intermediate level

a tool similar to mindmapping...

An online mindmapping tool which enables you to create an online collection of files, links, notes and any other digital file about a certain topic. It is accessible from any online PC. Pedagogical uses: creation of digital archive, collection of material from students related to the subject, .

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.

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

Get more of what you love by searching across numerous Google products with one click. Try with "education" for example. You'll get a Google search environment, another way to improve your search. Very practical. Pedagogical uses: research and organization

Extremely cool product: a kind of paint/pencil that can be used (and erased from) any kind of surface.