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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

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

Create and view beautifully informative animated maps, for free. Very interesting tool to transform the way learners discover maps and the globe. A funny way to tell stories. I recommend to first look at the Show Case. The tutorial helps as well. Pedagogical uses: research and organization; story telling

a bit dated (not all links work anymore) but still very rich resource on using technology in education. 

Very nice tool to make infographics. 

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

very effective and intuitive collaboration tool: project based notes, todo items, social sharing, mobile and all in sync and collaborative.

could be very useful for the International project! It's free and anyone can join. You can also download a client to your computer (if you have a Mac) or mobile phone/tablet, but it can also be used online.

online voting

The Vote Monkey tool can be used for on line voting. Pedagogical uses: Common or democratic decisions about several topics like dates, subjects on didactic material etc.

Zap survey is an online Tool where you can create all kind of different surveys. It is very easy to use and divided into three steps: Create an Online-survey, send them to students via Mailing list and inteprate the reusults fast and easyl via online-tool. You have to login bevore using it. It is rather a tool for trainers and teachers than for students. It can also be used as an tool to spread Evaluation surveys and exams. Pedagogical uses: survey, to spread examinations, project management, evaluation tag: trainer, examination, evaluation

I have used different survey tools, and I like Google Forms (part of Google Docs) because it has no restrictions and a very intuitive interface. My Diigo account has an overview of survey tools if you search for the tag "survey" (on my account)

very nice form creator tool. nice css tweaking and export options. not too expensive.

At Google, we support teachers in their efforts to empower students and expand the frontiers of human knowledge. That's why we've assembled the information and tools you'll find on this site. # Tools # Activities # Posters # Teacher Community

This is a first approach for teachers to research about all tools that GOOGLE offers to education. There are many and very useful, try it! Pedagogical uses: collaborating, presenting, comunicating, planning, sharing.

Survey gizmo: very handy survey tool. Enough options in the free version.

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

overview of tools used for learning

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, ,...

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

discuss and rate ideas - similar to uservoice or get satisfaction. including a popup to be placed on a website. Options include: "Add idea", "Report a problem", "Ask a question", but this can be customized. Some alternatives are shown here: http://alternativeto.net/software/uservoice-custumer-feedback-system/?profile=online&platform=online

Teachers could use this to ask students to share their ideas, and people can comment on it. It seems only text-based.

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

Typeform allows users to easily build, design and publish 'typeforms'. Really beautiful and easy tool to use for small questionnaires or forms. Very nice interface.