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Wordle

Wordle

Wordle is a web tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.  You can place them on your blog, social networking site, website, the possibilities are endless!

Image Chef - Word Clouds - Customize Items



Image Chef

Make Word Mosaic Write a comment or poem in the shape of hearts or other symbols.  Send a greeting or post to MySpace or your blog.  You can also change the background color and create your initials! 


You can also write a Short Message in Flowers and send it as an e-card or post in on your website or social  networking site! The writing may be in flash or still format.


Add your text or photo to various items.  There are various categories to explore.  Have FUN!!!!


 

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ClassMarker

ClassMarker allows you to create simple tests/quizzes for free. The ClassMarker online testing website is a professional, easy-to-use, online quiz maker that marks your tests and quizzes for you. Instructors are able to modify score reports to provide feedback.

Symbaloo

Create and share bookmarks with others, and access your bookmarks from anywhere. Symbaloo has a graphically appealing interface and lets you create "webmixes" of resources.

Flower Power

The educational value of this tool is debatable, but it sure is pretty! Click anywhere and draw flowers. Adjust the settings of each flower with the slide bars at the top, then save your work as an image file.

Twisty Noodle

Twisty Noodle has thousands of free coloring pages and handwriting practice worksheets that you can customize and print. They work with top illustrators, artists, and licensed image libraries to offer the most unique selection of coloring pages and handwriting practice worksheets on the internet.

Rockyou

This is a slideshow utility that allows you to upload photos and organize them into cool slideshows, then embed the slideshow into a blog, wiki or web site of your choice. They also offer other services like glitter text that allows you to add additional bling to your web site.

Stiqr

This is a tool that allows you to add real creativity to your wiki, blog or web site. Drag and drop anything you want on your display and just add a little snippet of code on your site to embed it.

Game Creator

This free program allows you to create simple games to quite complex multi-level games. Great for students to use as a thinking and problem solving tool.

Wix

Wix lets you create your own Flash-based web sites. The interface can be a little labyrinthine to get through, but perseverance pays off. The power of the site is the customization potential, and as a result its complexity. Despite this, the site is a great widget-making site.

Kizoa

Create beautiful slide shows with Kizoa. Add a a variety of music, effects, and transitions to your finished product.

Soundation Studio

Soundation Studio is an audio mixer. Use Soundation Studio's libraries to create awesome sound clips for your podcasts, music, or just for fun. Many different audio filters and options are available for advanced users (check the Help file for more information). Export and download your sound clip, or embed it on your blog or web site.

Flash Cards

This flashcard/study tool lets you create flashcards on virtually any subject, using text, graphics, video, audio, or scientific markup. And it tracks your study sessions and progress so you can see how you're doing. Anki supports virtually every OS available, and you can access the online version from your smartphone.

Bingo Card Creator

Need a fun way to teach students new vocabulary words? This Java-based app lets you create Bingo cards easily using your bank of images.

Virtual Zoo

Play animal games and make new animals at this virtual zoo!

Noteflight

Noteflight is a great way to create, store, listen to, print, search and share notated music online. If you are a composer, you can use Noteflight to author and manage your compositions. If you are a performer, you can use Noteflight to create and share sheet music that you like to play. For all the teachers and students, you can use Noteflight to communicate and collaborate in learning music.

Photo Peach

Automatically make your own free slide show in seconds. Upload photos, pick music, add captions in the show, and more!

Word Mosaic

This is a great tool to make word clouds that fit a shape like a circle, exclamation mark, or heart. Word clouds created with Word Mosaic are embeddable.

Tagul

Tagul is a word cloud generator that lets you provide a link for each of the words in the cloud. You can also provide the word clouds in specific shapes such as hearts, stars, rectangles, or regular clouds. If a student has written a research paper, this may be a fun way to have them provide the links of several web sites they discovered that lead to more information on a topic. You can also use this as a tag cloud for your blog, and link each word to a post.

Jjot

Jjot is a web-based service that you can use to take notes, access them from anywhere and share them. You can create as many notes as you want, format the text, add links, drag and drop notes to arrange them, and also print them. Plus, you can share them with everyone via email, and grant people the ability to edit them for you.

Mindomo

Mindomo is a mind mapping tool for visual brainstorming. An entire class or inquiry group can use Mindomo to jot down everything they know about a problem and reveal gaps in their knowledge when starting a new inquiry.

Gliffy

Gliffy is a diagramming tool with a robust symbol library supporting the creation of flowcharts, floor plans, technical drawings, user interface wireframes, and network diagrams. Multiple users can collaborate on the same diagram. Teachers can use this to create taxonomic maps with blanks for students to fill-in, or students could develop their own diagrams based on important concepts extract from texts.

Tagxedo

Tagxedo turns words into visually stunning tag clouds, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.

Studyblue

Search, view, share and compare notes and flashcards on StudyBlue. Create, study, and print your own notes and flashcards. Search and view every note online. Automatically generate flashcards from class notes. Just upload your notes, and StudyBlue does the rest.

Pageflakes

PageFlakes is a social personalized homepage that you can customize Internet using flakes which are small, movable of all your web favourites. You can add Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, photos, music, videos, calendar, to-do list, message board, RSS feed.

Word it Out

Enter any text, and WordItOut will automatically transform it into a word cloud. This is useful for summarizing documents, displaying word art, or identifying overused words in writing.

DoingText

DoingText is a web based text editor for collaborative writing. You tell others the URL and they write comments, make changes without signing up. It lets you track changes and comments by RSS feed, export text by embedding in other pages. You can go back to the previous version of every line or you can see an overview of the discussion history.

Stixy

Stixy lets you create online bulletin board to collaborate with family, friends, colleagues. You can share pictures, files, reminders, notes using different widgets that you can change size and colors. It's fun, free, easy and colorful.

Wallwisher

Wallwisher is an online notice board maker. You can use this tool to make announcements, keep notes. You can use links, pictures, music, video and pages. You don't have to register. You can have a look at Nik Peachey's Wallwisher as a great example:

Mitto

Mitto is a safe and secure online password manager. This free Internet password storage service lets you add the passwords to all of your favorite sites in one place then logs you in to each one of them by simply clicking a button. Now you don't need to remember or retype your passwords anymore. You can access your passwords securely from any computer, organize them with tags, securely share them with trusted friends and more.

Photovisi

Create a wallpaper collage and more from your photos!

iSketch

This Pictionary-style game puts you against other players. One player sketches an object, while the other players try to guess what it is. Everyone who makes a correct guess in the allotted time scores points.

FluxTime Studio

Create your own animations you can share with others.

Sketchcast

Have your students draw, add text, and use voice with Sketchcast! This is great for all students and English language learners. Students can draw in several different colors, add text, narrate the drawing, and embed it into a wiki or blog! One way to use Sketchcast is to have students create a sketch and use adjectives to help another student guess what the object is.

Myna

Use Myna to remix music tracks and audio clips. Apply sound effects and record your own voice or instruments!

AudioPal

AudioPal lets you add audio to your blog or web site. You can either record your own voice, or use text-to-speech and select a voice.

Word Search Maker

This tool makes it easy to create word search puzzles. Just enter the words, and the puzzle is automatically generated. You can let your students complete the word searches from your blog or web site by just copying and pasting the embed code.

Story Creator

This is a cute cartoonish utility for creating simple stories. Select a character, dress him how you want, then create your setting.

Resize Your Image

Resize Your Image is a web site with a simple purpose in mind: the ability to resize your images easily. Upload your image, set the parameters, and Resize Your Image will do the rest.

JotForm

This is an easy tool for creating forms online, and it is completely free to use. Select a blank form and add your choice of fields or select a predefined form and customize it according to your needs. You can also use the form wizard to customize many fields and to add your URLs into the form.

Shape Collage

Create picture collages in less than a minute with just a few mouse clicks. Photos are automatically and intelligently placed using a very fast patent pending method. Use photos on your computer or from the web to make collages. Free for personal use with no trial periods. See the shapes gallery for some shapes that you can download and load into the 'Custom Shape' window. If you want a more powerful drawing program than Shape Collage's built in drawing tool, you can create your own shape using any drawing program, such as Microsoft PaintBrush or Adobe Photoshop. Just save the black and white shape as a PNG file and load it in the 'Custom Shape' window. To create your own shape, draw the shape in Shape Collage, Photoshop, GIMP, MSPaint, Illustrator, Inkscape, etc. and save it as a PNG image file. You can also take clipart or a photograph and adapt it to be a shape.

EdHelper Crossword Puzzle Maker

Create and print your own crossword puzzle! Just type the clues and words, and a crossword is created in HTML.

Cooltext

Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own custom image created on the fly.

Bookgoo

Bookgoo allows you to upload, annotate, and collaborate with your offline documents in an online way. Putting your documents on this site is only part of the story. Your documents can be highlighted and annotated in the same way you would mark up a piece of paper with a highlighter and pen. Moreover, you can then share your annotated documents with others. In turn, the people you share your documents with can highlight and annotate your document as well and provide comments on your annotations. Bookgoo facilitates the conversation on the docum

Scrapblog

Scrapblog is an online scrapbook creator. Turn your treasured moments into personalized creations with Scrapblog! Use the eye-catching themes Scrapblog provides with your photos to make scrapbooks, slideshows, greeting cards, and everything in-between. Then share or print the results.