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Google Docs for visual people The easiest way for creative teams to think, imagine and discuss their ideas.

visualization website..

visualization tool

nice interactive tool to learn more about the concepts around words, their connection to other words without subscription only a limited amound of checks allowed a 14 day risk-free trial is available languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish pedagogical use: illustrate the connection between several terms

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

Pretty cool 3D modeling tool - free - can be used to create and tinker with 3D models, export them to 3D printing, etc. "Features & Benefits Solid modelling Designing physical models either for manufacturing or visualization requires solid modeling. All operations in Tinkercad are guaranteed to generate proper solids. Cloud storage The 3D designs created with Tinkercad are stored in the cloud for easy access from anywhere. We always use SSL encryption (same as online banks). Laser Cutting The SVG export in Tinkercad is specifically tailored for laser cutters. The standard workplane will cut a slice through your model which can then be laser cutted. Shapes Shapes are the basic building block of Tinkercad. Any shape can add or remove material and in addition to pre-existing shapes you can also import your own. Share models As Tinkercad is a web app you can easily share your models just by copying the link. Tinkercad also lets you fork someone elses model and develop it further. Import 2D With 2D import you can create vector shapes in your favorite vector editing tool and import them into Tinkercad and extrude them into solids. Great for adding logos or images. Grouping By grouping together a set of shapes you can create a new shape to work with. By building more and more intricate shapes you can create extremely detailed models. 3D printing Tinkercad supports all 3D printers on the market that accept the industry standard STL file format. You can also download VRML files for color printing. Import 3D Tinkercad features revolutionary 3D import that lets you turn an external file into a editable Tinkercad shape. There is a growing number of supported formats. Web based Tinkercad runs in any web browser that supports HTML5/WebGL be it on Windows, Mac or Linux. Suggested browsers are Google Chrome and Mozille FireFox. 3D printing services With direct integration with 3rd party printing services you can print a design from Tinkercad with just a few clicks of the mouse. F

Try to create nice visual books with text. have a look to some examples.

Very nice tool to make infographics. 

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.

quite nice drawing tool that allows you to draw and write on your screen on top of the application of desktop. sort of overlay drawing tool

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.

IBM tool to create nice graphical representations of datasets etc.

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.

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

nice timeline software.. making timelines

Pedagogical uses: visualizing concepts, develop students metacognitive thinking, sharing graphic information, develop sinthesis capability.

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

Tool for interactive presentations based in one slide that can be animated with texts, links, videos, images,  focusing on different parts Pedagogical uses: Project presentations, students presentations related to the subject.

I have used Prezi, though I find it useful, I went back to ppt in the end.

App online to create a fully-functional timeline that you can share and be edited by your colleagues. TECHNICAL USE:The only app that allows create a 3D timeline. It provides integration with Youtube and Vimeo. Each timeline has a unique url to be shared. PEDAGOGICAL USE: create presentations where you can show dates, a helpful tool to organize information and help to visualize dates.

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.

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.