Gadwin PrintScreen Allows
much more flexibility with the Print Screen button at the top of your
keyboard. You can
choose to save the screen directly to a specific folder. You can also
choose to save just a window, or a specific area of the screen. You can also select the type of image you want to save.
ScreenToaster is a completely web based application that allows you to record what is happening on your computer screen at any given time. ScreenToaster allows you to record audio to accompany your screencasts. You can also enable your webcam to record through ScreenToaster. With ScreenToaster you can choose to record all of your screen or just a portion of your screen. When your recording is complete you can save your screencast to your computer, upload it to ScreenToaster, or upload it to YouTube.
Screen-o-matic Online screen recorder (similar to Screentoaster)for one-click recording on Windows, Mac, or Linux for free.
Jing is a free screen capture/casting program that will capture up to 5
minutes of screen activity. It stores the files on their server for your
access. Jing is free, easy and quite useful for those times that you
want to show someone how to do something instead of creating written
directions.
- Create a 3 to 5 slide screen capture to teach a short lesson to your classroom. tutorial
GoView Screen capture program to create screencasts. Includes editing options.
DuckLink
Free screen capture tool -- allows
you to screen capture a whole website no matter the length...no more cutting
and pasting.
DesmDesmososDesmos includes support for graphics, photos, math tools, and interactive lessons. You can create math lesson using the math tools, including graphing and equations. You can also the graphics program to create interactive diagrams where students can move the labels themselves.
Download Videos and more: Online-ConvertDownload Videos and more: Online-Convert This free online file converter lets you convert media easy and fast from one format to another. For example, if you want to download a Youtube video, change docs to pdf, create e-books and more. Be aware that the actual conversion program for each option is at the bottom of the screen once you upload the url or file. At the top are the for payment downloads.- Kick YouTube - Easy way to view YouTube videos being blocked by a filter.
- SaveVideo.Me - Great way to save any number of different video formats.
- SaveYouTube - Excellent way to save YouTube videos.
If you're already a Slideshare user, you'll notice that when you're logged-in and looking at one of your presentations there is now a "Zipcast"link at the top of your presentation. Click the Zipcast link to begin giving an online presentation. Using the free version of Zipcast your presentation can be private or public (a small ad is inserted at the bottom of your presentation). The premium version of Zipcast removes ads and allows you to password protect your presentation.
Knovio is a new service for delivering presentations online. To use Knovio you upload your slides to the site then use your webcam to record a video of yourself talking about the slides. When you're finished your video and slides will be synchronized and displayed side-by-side. Knovio presentations can be embedded into your blog or website. Knovio is currently in a private beta stage so you do have to register and wait for an invitation to the service.
Dropbox will end up being one of the most useful sites you will use. Dropbox is an
online file storage site. You can get up to 2 GB of storage for free. You can pay
for more, but when you think about the average Flash Drive that we carry around,
2 GB is plenty of space for saving Word, Excel, and Power Point Documents.
You can access your Dropbox account from any computer that has Internet
access, therefore always having access to important files. You can even get the
Dropbox iPhone App as well, so that you can have your files on the go.
WeTransfer Send big files online
Deposit Files DepositFiles service options * We store your files on our servers FREE for unlimited time. * Download you files from slow servers to our servers and store them for any period of time, * The largest possible size of stored file is 2GB, * Unlimited total size of stored files, * Send free emails with downloading link to your file to all your recipients, * Password protection for your files download, * Let us know when to delete your files. * Downloading files at any time.
Wetoku. is an interview tool that automatically records it to play it back. You can embed it and share it with others. It allows you to almost instantly record and embed video in blog posts such as this one. Although the sound and video quality are not yet stellar, we're very impressed with the concept. This is the kind of thing that would make remote, instant video journalism possible. Click a link, speak your peace with another webcam user, end the recording, and you are presented with an embed code the second the recording is over. Read, watch, and get registration code info at the end of the post!
Cacoo - Nice site for creating online charts and graphs with a built-in chat feature for collaboration
Clue is a fun and an interesting way to test people (or you) about what they remember on your site. You just enter the link of the site that you want to test, share the test with people via Twitter, Facebook or other social networking services. People who take the test , look at the web page for a few seconds and write what they remember.
Kwik Surveys
gives you the option to mix and match eleven different types of
questions. You can administer your survey by posting it on a blog,
website, or discussion forum. You can also email your survey to the
people you want to take it. If you choose the email option, you can
track who has taken your survey and restrict respondents to taking the
survey only once.
Survey Monkey Online Survey creator. Ten questions for free version extra tutorial
Strutta - Create
not just polls, but online contests as well. Strutta allows teachers to
moderate all student content before being posted online.
Pollograph This survey tool has a lot of the same easy survey features that other have BUT you can embed pictures and video!
Evernote- Create text, photo and audio notes that auto-synchronize your notes to your Mac or PC. Makes text within snapshots searchable. Add, sync, access, and share files (PDF, Word, Excel, PPT, and more) among the different versions of Evernote. Free version available on iPhone, iPod, Android, and Blackberry. **For preparing your next presentation! Try sketching out your presentation and gathering research with this app!
Embedit - The document sharing and embedding application, Embedit.in, makes uploading a document and embedding it on a classroom blog or web site exceedingly easy. Can create thumbnails to click on to access documents.
VideoANT - Fun way to watch a YouTube video and then annotate it as it plays along.
Dynamic Paper
Need
a pentagonal pyramid that's six inches tall? Or a number line that goes
from 18 to 32 by 5's Or a set of pattern blocks where all shapes have
one-inch sides? You can create all those things and more with the
Dynamic Paper tool. Place the images you want, then export it as a PDF
activity sheet for your students or as a JPEG image for use in other
applications or on the web.
DocsPal is a free online file converter that supports all kind of documents, audios, videos, images, e-books. You can also view your documents directly on your browser.
NewsCred
Create a free online newspaper.
mailinator.com and tempinbox temporary inboxes
FruitNotes. This online notebook offers a great way to keep and organize notes, store photos, and share with others. You can even send notes via your phone.
Kablink. File sharing and real-time meetings are two of the biggest highlights of this tool.
Uploader Box (File Dropper is a similar option) is a free service for sharing large files with your friends and colleagues. To use the service just upload a file from your computer, enter your email address, and enter the email addresses of your intended recipients. Once your file is uploaded, Uploader Box will provide you with two urls. One of the urls is for sharing your file and the other is for deleting your file if you decide you no longer want to share it. Handy for sharing files that are too large for attaching to emails. The next time your students complete a large multimedia project they could use Uploader Box to send that file instead of using up the storage in your email inbox.
drop.io. Students can share images, documents, audio and video files, and more with this tool.
Free downloadbale Powerpoints Many subject areas including foreign languages, science topics, social studies, and language arts
QuizRevolution Make
multimedia quizes. You can include video, images and audio files. There
are two options for answer format, multiple choice and open ended
response. If students register for an account , you can monitor their
results.
Audio Editing
Audacity - free download software
Answer Garden
A
minimalistic feedback tool. Teachers and students can use it as a tool
for online brainstorming or embed it on their classroom blog or personal
website as a poll or guestbook. It is an easy way to brainstorm with a
class all at the same time and creates interesting word clouds from
these brainstorming sessions.
Feedback
Answer Garden
A
minimalistic feedback tool. Teachers and students can use it as a tool
for online brainstorming or embed it on their classroom blog or personal
website as a poll or guestbook. It is an easy way to brainstorm with a
class all at the same time and creates interesting word clouds from
these brainstorming sessions.
MiniLesson - Feedback on Student Writing
Web Page Tools
Joliprint is a free service that converts online articles into a printer-friendly, reader-friendly format. The easiest way to use Joliprint is to add their bookmarklet to your browser's toolbar. Once installed click the Joliprint bookmarklet whenever you're reading an article that you want to print and Joliprint will generate a PDF of that article without the sidebar content from that blog or website. If you don't want to install the Joliprint bookmarklet you can simply copy a url and paste it into the conversion box on Joliprint.
Markup lets you draw on any webpage with a variety of tools to express your thoughts, make a point or just simply edit. Try Markup now by choosing a shape below. Then grab and drop on your bookmarks bar to use any time. Yes, no downloading needed.
News 360 A free news aggregation
service that you can customize for your interests. You can read your
personalized news feed on your phone, tablet, or computer. Select the types of stories that you're interested in reading. News 360
will use that information to serve up the stories that are most likely
to appeal to you. You can create multiple interest channels.
Demofuse.com - Users can create
interactive website tours in minutes with Demofuse. The tour includes
cursor movements and other activities related with a website visit.
FlyInside.com – Instantly create, preview, edit, and publish your tours to the web from anywhere there’s a web connection.
JogtheWeb - A site that allows you to create your own guide for Web sites with your comments.
Calameo is a web publishing tool that will allow teachers and students to upload any type of document (PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and then see it as a page-turning Web page that they can share via Email, embedding on their school or student site, or even Tweet it out or add it to an RSS. Easy to use and very useful.
Mapbiquity – Mapbiquity is a simple and free to use website that lets you add maps to your Website in a few easy steps.
Alefo is a website that allows the user to take "snapshots" of any other website and add them to their own personal homepage. It lets you create widgets from anywhere which is a huge plus for classroom teachers. You can take the best parts of websites and build a personal hub of these clips for your colleagues or students.
Nuke Anything is a Firefox add-on that could be handy the next time you choose to print a webpage. With Nuke Anything
installed in your browser you can right-click on any element of a
webpage and remove it before printing that page. When you right click on
an element a red outline will appear so that you can be certain you're
not removing something that you didn't intend to remove.
10 Ways to build free Websites
Print what you like - Lets users edit the content from Web pages to isolate athe information they want to print. Get rid of ads, comments and other junk.