- Prezi offers a way to create non-linear presentations. Students and teachers can get a license to use the tool for free at the level that normally costs $59 a year.
- Dropbox offers 2GB's free space for storage. After you download its software, you can sync your files across your computers and the Dropbox server.
- KompoZer offers free software for you to download for web page creation. Gone are the needs to know HTML codes and web design theories.
- MorgueFile is a wonderful source for free images.
- Resizr is a free image tool for your basic graphic editing needs such as cropping, rotating, resizing, and re-saving to another file format. The quality of the edited image is very good.
- Wordle generates word art for your web page as well as for print. The story we are reading today in my summer school class is "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros. So I tested this wordle by typing in the first paragraph of the story and generated this graphic. Pretty cool.
- Animoto allows you to piece your pictures and video clips together as a movie-like slide show. Look for the education application at their site.
- Vocaroo is a free web-based recording tool. They say you can use it for sending audio emails.
- Jing is free software for screen capture.
- Wikispaces offers a free version with 2GB of space and a 10MB per file limit. They say wikis encourage student-centred learning.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Free Online Tools Galore
Isn't it an innovative teacher's dream to be able to fall back on a ton of free online tools in lean times like this? At the OTC 2010 Conference at San Diego City College last week, I learned many such freebies.
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