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The following sites and programs are not accessible from school due to security reasons. It is recommended that limited, or no personal information be given to any site on the Internet. If you decide to join any of the sites listed below, please read their terms of service before you sign up for the site.
The purpose of offering links to the sites is to show the true possibilities of the Internet in education. Most of the sites are free or have a free component. It is recommended that you do not pay for any of these sites, unless you feel that you would use it often.
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Speed Reader SpeedRead is a tool for increasing your ability to read and retain information. SpeedRead can read an text file and display the words sequentially. The user can adjust rate words are displayed, the number of words displayed at a time, and the minimum number of letters to qualify a word. A performance counter clocks the actual number of words displayed, the total time and time between word groups.
Gyrfalcon Gyrfalcon is a note taking/management system. It allows you to take your notes and other bits of information and: * Put them in hierarchical trees * Tag them * Search within your workspace of notes by tag or text * Setup hyperlinks between them, and more.
Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work.
PC owners can now find programs equal to Mac. As Web developers, we never stop hearing about the Mac. A lot of people love to talk about their Macs, but despite the “elite” status of the Apple computer, is there any need for a Web developer to splash money on one? A few weeks ago, Mark Nutter wrote here on Smashing Magazine in favor of swapping your PC for a Mac, and while some of his reasons are good, there are plenty of reasons to stick with (or switch back to!) Windows.
Apple - Mac:
Schoolhouse 2 With the ability to sort and organize your assignments, exams, and projects quickly and easily Schoolhouse is a must have for any student on-the-go. The power of smart notebooks allow you to interact with your work as simply as your iTunes library.
iGTD Synchronize your tasks with your mobile or PDA! Search your tasks. Quickly! Organize your life by projects. Organize your life by contexts.
imedia Browser View all your photos at once
Celtx Media pre-production Movies, photos, etc. Movies, photos, etc. Celtx is the world's first all-in-one media pre-production software. It has everything you need to take your story from concept to production. Celtx replaces 'paper, pen & binder' pre-production with a digital approach that's more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share.
LiveQuartz Photo retouching is a nice and easy-to-use image editor. It is based on layers and CoreImage filters. You have the layers at the left and the filters at the right of the window. To edit an image, you can open it with LiveQuartz or drag and drop it into the central view of the window and it will be added as a new layer.
MindNode Mind-mapping MindNode is a free and very easy to use mindmapping application. It was created with the user in mind and features a very clean interface for quickly creating visually appealing mind maps
Jing Video capture and creation
Draw Anywhere DrawAnywhere is an online diagramming website, where you can draw, modify and share flowcharts and other diagrams, with the look & feel of a desktop application. It runs on any browser with Flash 9 installed. There is no need to download and install any custom software. It runs entirely on the web, and thus it is an always-on-access-anywhere solution. It meets all your diagramming needs without installing, maintaining and purchasing expensive software.
Skitch Skitch.com is a webservice that works hand in hand with our application Skitch to give you 1-clickuploading of images for fast and fun image sharing.
Glasswriter ebook on the Mac
Highlight is a nice supplement to Spotlight. With Highlight, you can import files and folders to the Spotlight index by dragging and dropping. This is an easy way to be sure that your files are indexed and can be found when you need them.
Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X and Windows. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.
FontDoc shows a list of all your fonts in one window, with each font listed in that font, making it easy to compare typefaces. You can choose from the Font groups that come with your Mac or show all fonts. You can also save the fonts as an RTF document
Sandvox is fast becoming the website creation tool for people who want to spend time developing their lives, not their websites. Creating a website can be easy and elegant. Drag and drop content, watch your site take shape as you create it, and make it available to others with Sandvox's publishing assistant. Sandvox is that simple—and that powerful.
Trail Runner With TrailRunner you can plan workout routes on a geographical map, export the route directions as small NanoMaps onto an iPod and import workout data from the Nike + iPod sports kit back into the workout diary. Other features are an exercise plan, .Mac weblog publishing, a GPS, GPX, and KML Import/Export and an integrated map and elevation data download from global mapping services like USGS topo maps. FREE
TipKalc for iPod 2.0 There’s no math for you to do. Just spin the Click Wheel to automatically calculate your tip amount and grand total. FREE
Webbla Bookmarking software program $21.95. An excellent program. All updates are free
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Mapwing Photos into tours Mapwing makes it easy to build, share, and explore virtual tours. Use Mapwing to turn your digital photos into virtual tours that include interactive maps, images, and comments. Then, share your virtual tours with friends, clients, or the entire world. Begin creating your own virtual tours for Free - Just Sign Up or Learn More.
Onetruemedia Create slide show Somebody’s going to look like a creative genius in a few minutes (hint: it’s you). It’s just so simple to mix your video and photos with our fresh, stylish effects to create wow-worthy Video Montages.
Dandelife Create a timeline Dandelife is a place for you to record the events of your life, past and present, public and private. Have you photos and videos online in different places? No worries. Like you, your Dandelife is ultimate mash-up. Live well - we're listening!
OurStory Create story timeline OurStory is here to help you build and enrich your relationships and connections by guiding you (and others in your circle) to recall, write about, and illustrate life’s most important memories.
Xtimeline Free timeline When we developed the timeline tool, our friends thought of many ways to creatively use the timeline. Some of them thought the timeline could become a great public service, a resource for history education and for debate over current issues. Others wanted to create biographical timelines for celebrities and their scandalous relationships.
Voicethread Voice/Video Story A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or phone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
Vuvox Media creation Media creation, made easy
Tabblo Content creation tools A community of people passionate about rich content-creation tools for both online and print.
Google Apps Google Applications Google Sites is the easiest way to make information accessible to people who need quick, up-to-date access. People can work together on a Site to add file attachments, information from other Google applications (like Google Docs, Google Calendar, YouTube and Picasa),
Microsoft Office Online FREE Save 1000+ Microsoft Office documents in one place. Share files—you control who can view and edit. Works with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Google Office FREE Create and share your work online. Upload from and save to your desktop. Edit anytime, from anywhere. Pick who can access your documents. Share changes in real time. Files are stored securely online. It's FREE!
Free Tutorials Baycon Group provides tutorials on a growing list of computer-related topics. All tutorials are in depth, comprehensive, online, and -- best of all -- absolutely free.
Yaca Paca! eportfolios etc. FREE Create quizzes, surveys, tests, eportfolios and more
Thinkature Connecting ideas The workspace above is the real deal. Try creating, moving, editing, drawing, and connecting ideas
Zotero Firefox ext. for Research Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself.
PipeBytes File transfer Instantly send music, movies, presentations or any other files with anyone!
Center for Learning At the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT) we keep abreast of learning trends, technologies and tools in order to help learning professionals understand them and implement them successfully in their organisations for both formal and informal learning purposes as well as to support productivity and performance improvement.
WiziQ - Virtual Classroom FREE WiZiQ is a place where you can teach and learn using an easy-to-use Virtual Classroom. You are welcome to give private and public live online sessions, teach for free or earn money teaching. As a learner you can attend public sessions on various topics from academics to anything under the sun.
Many Eyes IBM visual learning
Graspr Create instructional video Recipes4us Our mission is to be the UK’s number one independent online culinary site, and with well over half a million page views per month, and over 7000 visitors per day, we are on our way.
DreamSpark Microsoft Tools Free Professional Developer and Designer tools for students at no charge
ICT Tech Lessons in technology This site is dedicated to teaching ICT at all levels. Students will find revision notes to learn your ICT subject along with plenty of quizzes, competitions, polls to keep things interesting. Teachers will find starters and plenaries along with Schemes of Work ( SoW) , lesson ideas and tons of free material. Revision resources for every level are available. New server
Class Tools Tools, games, etc. Create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash!
Host them on your own blog, website or intranet!
Twiddla Free online whteboard Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever. No plug-ins, downloads, or firewall voodoo - it's all here, ready to go when you are. Browser-agnostic, user-friendly
Edublogs Teachers & Students ---Blogging for teachers and students, made easy
ShowMeDo Video Learning Kyran observed that learning-by-watching was a very powerful technique and one that the Internet hadn't exploited. Create a site where knowledgeable people could share their knowledge via video and things have kept on growing since then.
Ript Scrapbook/todo Organize your thoughts, tasks, inspirations, ambitions and so much more.If you’ve ever made a list, torn a page from a magazine or bookmarked a Web page “for future reference,” Ript is the tool for you. It puts the “fun” back in functionality, so you can get more done, in less time… with less stress.
Scrapblog We created Scrapblog because we wanted to go beyond sharing our photos and videos online. We made Scrapblog drag-and-drop-easy so that everyone can tell their stories and create beautiful multimedia scrapbooks.
AuthorStream is a powerful online presentation sharing engine that not only allows you to upload your PowerPoint presentations online for free,
Calliflower A conference calling service designed to meet the growing conferencing needs of your business. It's free! That's right, no monthly fee or minutes, not even for the SMS. All Calliflower costs is the standard price of dialing to the U.S. or France, or an internet connection with one-click calling.
Lets Call Me This is a free service that makes it easy and safe for people to call you. Use with online services such as Craigslist, or any other situation you want to talk, but don't want to reveal your phone number.
MiMia MiaMia® is the ultimate interface for mobile and internet users allowing to speak or type a query in natural language, and receive, within seconds or a few minutes only, the most relevant and exact and compact answer, on their mobile phones and/or in their email boxes. Call Numbers: Call FAQ
Live Audience Polling On the surface, Poll Everywhere is a simple text message voting application that works well for live audiences. People vote by sending text messages to options displayed on-screen. The poll that is embedded within the presentation or web page will update in real time. Advanced uses include txt2screen, texting questions to a presenter, web voting, and SMS interactivity in print, radio, and TV.
lifemetric is similar to Moodstats, although it sort of has a social component to it too.
Use Traineo to track what you eat, how you exercise, calories lost, and all that good stuff.
Fit Day Get your free online diet journal and start tracking your foods, exercises, weight loss, and goals. Join over 2 Million FitDay members using our site to take control of their diet and lose weight.
Mint downloads, categorizes, and graphs all of your finances automatically every day— so you don’t have to. Know where you’re spending, without spending any effort.
My Mile Maker I know there are a lot of people who write down their mileage and money spent after each gas fillup. My Mile Marker takes that data and helps you make sense of it.
Dipity Projects can be create a timeline, list, Flipbook, and or map. See what others have done. Site can be very educational, but I do not know about accurate.
KerPoof Create movies, pictures and avatars. Free for teacher's classes.
OOsah 1TB of storage for free! Music, photos, etc.
Lingoes Lingoes is a dictionary and multi-language translation software providing results in over 80 languages. It offers full text translation, cursor translation, zoned word translation and pronouncing text, and abundant free dictionaries as a new gerenation dictionary and translation software. Lingoes offers users the instantest way to look up dictionaries and translation among English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Greek, Polish, Arabic, Hebrew and more over 80 languages.
Free Medical Dictionary This medical dictionary is a private project that endeavors to offer high quality and free of any charge medical information to whose individuals involved in learning and practicing human medicine. The database of medical terms is updated twice a month and the software features a function to easily download and add these updates.
Pro Photo Tools 2 Geo Tagging Pro Photo Tools provides a set of tools photographers can use to perform various tasks with their images—including RAW captures. With Pro Photo Tools, you can quickly geotag your digital photos and determine location name automatically. You can also view your images on a map, edit and view metadata, and much more using the power of Windows and Microsoft Live Local.
Teach 2000 A private teacher to help you memorize a foreign language, topography or even the history of Italy by date. Improve your school results with this free trainer.
Thinking Rock Thinking Rock is a free software application for collecting and processing your thoughts following the GTD methodology. It is simple and easy to use - see our demos and our Getting Started document.
* Teach2000 is 100% free.
* Print flash cards, tests and crib notes.
* Teach2000 is stable, fast and easy to use.
Untangle - Open source Videos Re-Router Technology enables small businesses to block spam, spyware, and inappropriate websites for their whole networks, right from an existing Windows desktop.
Picasa 3 (beta) Together, Picasa & Picasa Web Albums make it easy to organize, edit and share your photos. When you launch Picasa, you can immediately organize and edit the photos on your hard drive. Picasa can also help import pictures from your camera. Next, try sharing pictures online with Picasa Web Albums. To get started, simply select photos that you'd like to share, and press the 'Upload' button.
Qipit - Copy documents, whiteboards and handwritten notes with your camera phone or digital camera to store, fax, email or publish!
Clipmarks - Bookmark clips of text, images or video about all sorts of topics that other people find while surfing the web.
KallOut - Instead of copying text and then pasting it into a browser whenever you want more information, you just select text and KallOut does the rest.
Get Satisfaction- Get Satisfaction is a place where people can get the most from the products they use, and where companies are encouraged to get real with their customers.
Microsoft eclipse4SL Microsoft Silverlight is a cross platform, cross browser and cross device plug-in that enables designers and developers to build rich media experiences and RIAs for the web. It significantly reduces development and deployment costs and provides enhanced Web audio and video streaming and playback using industry-leading Technologies.
Free Online Screen Recorder Stream the recorded video in Flash. Record your screen activity. Publish the video on the Internet!
Tip of My Tongue Find that word that you've been thinking about all day but just can't seem to remember.
Shoeboxed Shoeboxed does the grunt work for you: scanning your receipts so you have all the data you need for taxes, bookkeeping, and expense reports, and now scanning business cards for easy contact management. So step away from your scanner; mail your receipts and business cards to Shoeboxed and we'll do the rest.
PipeBytes Instantly send a file to one other person. No size limit.
P2P Project Pier Every installation of ProjectPier has one owner. This is usually a company, but it can be a single person as well (eg. a freelance web designer). If it is a company, you can add employees of this company as users to ProjectPier. Users of the owner company are either administrators or standard users; depending on the context we refer to them as members.
TextFlow Text Collaboration (Beta)
CoSketch (Beta) CoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share your ideas as images.
CastBlaster Podcasting Live.
Levelator The Levelator adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next, for example. It's not a compressor, normalizer or limiter although it contains all three. It's much more than those tools, and it's much simpler to use. The UI is dirt-simple: Drag-and-drop any WAV or AIFF file onto The Leveler's application window, and a few moments later you'll find a new version which just sounds better.
Talkster Getting FREE local Talkster numbers for you and your friends around the world is simple!
Use Snipping Tool to capture screen shots You can use Snipping Tool to capture a screen shot, or snip, of any object on your screen, and then annotate, save, or share the image. Simply use a mouse or tablet pen to capture any of the following types of snips:
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