Web Tools
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General |
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- Calendar Labs Print out a variety of calendars from here.
- Online Stopwatch Contains a varieties of timers, stopwatches, and countdowns.
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Graphic Organizers/Mapping |
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Create flow charts, diagrams, mind maps, and more to organize your ideas for a project.
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- Draw.io Can create free diagrams and flow charts which can be saved as a PDF on your computer or Google Drive.
- Gliffy Design diagrams, flowcharts, organization charts, and sitemaps.
- Mind42 Allows users to create mind maps or graphic organizers.
- Popplet Web tool for constructing mind maps.
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Organizers |
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Use these tools to take notes and organize online research for papers.
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- Evernote A digital post-it note that can by synced with your phone, laptop, iPad, etc.
- Flipboard Create your own online magazine with images, websites, online articles and more.
- Joplin This open source app allows the user to take notes from any device.
- Livebinders Think of this tool as a digital three-ringed binder to organize websites, PDF documents, Word documents, and more.
- Padlet Can put documents, text, images, videos, websites, and more onto this online bulletin board.
- Pearltrees Organize articles, photographs, and websites with this free web tool.
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Production Tools |
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These tools can be used to make videos, collages, timelines, word art, and more.
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- Animoto Create stunning videos using video clips, photos and music with this program.
- Chartblocks Build a variety of charts wtih this app.
- Collage Maker Clip online photos to create a collage.
- Drawpile A drawing program that allows multiple users to work on the same file.
- Easelly Design infographics for reports and presentations.
- Figment Publish your writings here.
- Inklewriter Create your own choose-your-own-adventure story.
- Motivator Big Huge Labs provides this tool where you can design and customize your own motivational posters.
- Musescore Write music with this free app.
- Preceden Make a timeline. The free version only allows a maximum of 5 events, however.
- Scratch Construct your own interactive stories, games, and animations.
- Slidely Allows users to create a slide show using images, videos, music, and captions.
- Tagxedo This web tool creates word clouds from texts, websites, blogs, etc.
- Time Toast Create time lines with this web tool.
- Timeline JS Create interactive timelines with this tool from Northwestern University's Knight Lab.
- Word Art Design a variety of word art.
- Word Cloud Generator Builds word clouds with this simple to use generator.
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Icons, Images, and Clip Art |
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Most of these websites collect media files that can be downloaded for free. Check their license to see if there are any requirements (attribution) before you download any files. Some sites may require you to set up a free account and offer more for paid subscriptions.
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- All the Free Stock This Australian website collects free photos, videos, sound effects, templates, fonts, and icons.
- CC Search This search engine looks for images under Creative Commons or public domain.
- Clip Art Etc From Florida's Educational Technology Clearinghouse, this collection of clip art on a variety of topics for students and teachers.
- The Noun Project Contains over 3 million free Creative Commons icons organized by topic.
- Pexels Assembles photos and videos that can be freely used.
- Pics 4 Learning A collection of images students and teachers may use without copyright issues.
- Pixabay Provides over 2.2 million stock images, videos and music.
- Remove.bg This tool removes the background of a picture so the main subject can be used as clip art.
- Unsplash Collects over 2 million freely usable images.
- Vecteezy Millions of free photos are available here.
- Wikimedia Commons Over 71 million media files that can be used freely are on this site.
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Other |
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- Crash Course John and Hank Green produce 10-15 minute long videos on a variety of topics for teachers and students in the areas of history, literature, civics, economics, sciences, and more.
- Quizlet Design your own flashcards.
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