My favourite tools for projects

1. MY FAVOURITE
TOOLS FOR
PROJECTS
Małgorzata Garkowska

2. Prezi helps to create maps of
texts, images, videos, PDFs,
drawings and present in a
nonlinear way. Move beyond
the slide.
VuVox is a fast layout and
customisation of photos,
video, text and music.
Add media hotspots, narrate
interactivity. Publish to any
webpage

3. iSpring Converter
This PowerPoint add-in, which
is available as a free download,
converts PowerPoint to web
friendly Flash movies
Slideshare
The Slideshare website
provides a place to view,
download and share
PowerPoint presentations.
If you contribute a
presentation, you can choose
to share it publicly or
privately.

4. Glogster is an online poster
application.
Combine images, video,
music, photos and audio to
create mulitimedia pages.
Embed into any webpage or
blog.
Voki is a free service that
lets you:
 Create customized avatars.
 Add voice to your Voki
avatars.
 Post your Voki to any blog,
website, or profile.
 Take advantage of Voki's
learning resources

5. Picasa
Download to your computer.
Organise and share photos.
Picnik makes your photos
fabulous with easy to use yet
powerful editing tools.
Fix your photos in just one
click. Use advanced controls
to fine-tune your results.
Crop, resize, and rotate in
real-time. Tons of special
effects, from artsy to fun.
Awesome fonts and top-
quality type tool.

6. Smilebox
Choose your design. Add
photos, videos, words, music.
Email, blog or print it.
Photobucket
Upload all your photos,
videos, and images for free.
Make photo slide shows to
share pictures with friends.
www.photobucket.com

7. Blogger is a blog publishing
tool, free edition of Google for
the easy sharing your thoughts
with the world. Blogger makes
it easy to post text, photos
and video on your blog,
personalized with many
templates, add gadgets
PBworks Classroom Edition
is a way for a single teacher of
a single classroom to have a
much more customized and
functional environment to
work in.

8. Upload your files, edit
anytime from
anywhere, choose who can
access your documents share
and collaborate online.
Create notes in your own
workspace wall. You can save
your workspace at any time
and return to them from the
same computer or any other
computer. You can also share
your notes with others by
providing the workspace name
(or url) to a friend. Great for
collaborative ideas and
brainstorming.

9. Web Poster Wizard
This tool allows educators to
create a lesson, worksheet, or
class page and immediately
publish it online. Teachers can
also set up classes and assign
projects to students. Students
complete the assignments by
creating their own online
projects or reports. Teachers
and students can even add
images and links to their
pages.

10. AnswerGarden is a new
minimalistic feedback tool.
Use it as a tool for online
brainstorming or embed it on
your website or blog as a poll
or guestbook.
Voicethread
Create a slideshow of images
or video and you and others
can comment on each
photo by text, audio or video.
Embed into any webpage.

11. Smart-Survey is an Online
Survey Software designed to
help users create and publish
custom surveys within
minutes, then view results
graphically in realtime.
GoAnimate
Create your very own
animated stories online. Share
them with all your friends.

12. Generate “word clouds” from
text that you provide. The
clouds give greater
prominence to words that
Wordle appear more frequently in the
source text. You can tweak
your clouds with different
fonts, layouts, and color
schemes
Storybirds are short, art-
inspired stories you make to
share, read, and print.

13. Flashmeeting
An easy to use online meeting
application. A meeting is pre-
booked by a registered user
and a url, containing a unique
password for the meeting
which is passed on to the
participants, who simply click
on the link to enter into the
meeting at the arranged time
Audacity
Free, open source software for
recording and editing sounds.

14. Jamendo
Music uploaded by artists
who artists allow anyone
to download and share
their music.
Jimdo
Create your own free website.
Integrate pictures, videos and
texts in seconds, change the
design with a click, add as
many pages as you want,
share with your friends.

15. Doodle
Create a poll, forward the link
to participants, follow online
what the participants vote for.
Schedule an event.
HotPotatoes
Six applications, enabling you
to create interactive multiple-
choice, short-answer,
jumbled-sentence, crossword,
matching/ordering and gap-
fill exercises.

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