28 Free Web Tools For Classroom Use

Think Quest (www.thinkquest.org). This site allows members to use websites and interactive tools to publish their ideas, collaborate on projects, and build knowledge together. Capzles (http://capzles.com This site allows members to create engaging timelines rich in multimedia. Your students can upload images/music/video to create great looking presentations Ahead (www.ahead.com ). This site allows members to create unique non-linear presentations that allow students to upload their own images/files etc to create an interactive zooming and moving presentation.

Bitstrips (www.bitstrips.com/). This site allows members to

create comic strips, story or cells and then share it with the world. Shelfari (www.shelfari.com) This site allows your students to create a virtual bookshelf. Shelfari is a brilliant way of showing off the books you have read and recommend. Weebly (http://education.weebly.com) This site allows you and your students to create interactive websites and blogs both quickly and easily. Using a drag and drop interface your class website can be created in minutes allowing you to share important news with your class. Museum Box (http://museumbox.e2bn.org/) You can create your very own Museum Box collecting virtual items to display to the rest of your school or to your class on any topic. AnswerGarden (http://www.answergarden.ch) This site 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. Weblist (http://weblist.me) This site allows you to save into one handy easy to navigate weblist. Weblist is a visual website making ideal for the primary classroom. Each website in the weblist has a thumbnail with the website name and description under it. Wiggio (http://wiggio.com) This site is a place to share and manage files, Wiggio can be used to create class groups and keep your students familes upto date with your class news. Students can collaborate on a project with all the resources and commucation housed in one location.

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SumoPaint (http://www.sumopaint.com) This site is web based paint tool think Photoshop but free! You can save your pictures to your computer and share them with the world. Wall Wisher (http://wallwisher.com/) This site is an interactive corkboard that allows teachers and students alike to post reminders about upcoming events. You can either choose to keep your wall private or share it with everyone. Storybird (http://storybird.com/) This site is fun collaborative story telling website that makes it easy to create stories together with artwork. Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print. Read them like books, play them like games, and send them like greeting cards. Theyre curiously fun. Stixy (http://stixy.com) This site is a virtual bulletin board space. Notes, photos, to-do lists and documents can be added to the stixy bulletin board by users. Glogster (http://glogster.com) This site allows you create interactive posters loaded with text, graphics, music, videos, and more. Creaza (http://creaza.com) This site offers you an integrated, web-based toolbox for creative work, both at school and in your free time. You use the toolbox along with various fully developed thematic universes: historical periods, fairy-tales, fantasy worlds, and current challenges, such as climate/environment. Khan Academy (http://khanacademy.org) This site offers over 3000 videos ranging from arithmetic to physics. You can take tests, play games and earn rewards. YouTube (http://youtube.com) YouTube allows billions of people to discover, watch and share originally created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original-content creators and advertisers, large and small. History Pin (http://historypin.com) is a way for millions of people to come together, from across different generations, cultures and places, to share small glimpses of the past and to build up the huge story of human history. Kerpoof (http://kerpoof.com) This site that provides free multimedia software that can be used on any computer. You can create all sorts of original artwork and movies.

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Lino (http://en.linoit.com/) this site allows you to create digital bulletin boards. View Pure (http://viewpure.com) This site allows you to watch YouTube videos without any of the comments or on page adverts. Ideal for when you want to show the videos without the distractions. MorgueFile (http://www.morguefile.com/) Free images for your inspiration, reference and use in your creative work, be it commercial or not! Bubbl.us (http://bubbl.us) This site allows you to create, manage and share flow charts. Prezi (http://prezi.com) Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them. The result: visually captivating presentations that lead your audience down a path of discovery. TitanPad (http://titanpad.com/) This site allows multiple people in multiple locations work on the same document at the same time in real time. Ideal for your students involved in collaborative projects Primary Pad (http://primarypad.com) PrimaryPad is a web-based word processor designed for schools that allows pupils and teachers to work together in real-time. Edmodo (http://www.edmodo.com) provides teachers and students a secure place to connect and collaborate, share content and educational applications, and access homework, grades, class discussions and notifications. Our goal is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize the classroom for each and every learner.

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