easy and accessible tool for students, allows us work together to create biographies and timelines like a wiki through collaborative work to create results in a multimedia timeline. To get a richer content, we can include texts, images and video.
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.
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.
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
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.
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)
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
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.
Relaytor is a simple tool to send mass messages attaching files but especially adding polls of up to 10 options. It can be useful in ReAct project in communication in National and International level. Pedagogical uses: The trainer can create a poll in order to find out priorities. Learners can create their own polls regarding their education or in social subjects.
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.
pedagogical use: collaborative work on e.g. a presentation, the viewers can comment on it and the presenter can change the document, image, ... immediately
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
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.