Presentation and Sharing Tools:
Create Comics & Graphic Novels

Comic Life lets you create astounding comics, beautiful picture albums, how-tos... and more! This easy-to-use program allows you to use your own photo collection. A fun and easy program to use.
Create Comics

Unleash your creativity! Fun, quick and easy to use. Tell your story your way.
Voicethread

A VoiceThread is a collaborative, interactive, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos. It allows you to navigate through the slides and leave comments by recording your voice, writing text or doodling while commenting. VoiceThreads can be shared easily making them an excellent collaborative tool!
Videos

"Turn your photos and music into stunning video slideshows. You provide the photos, you pick the song, and we'll add the magic. Give it a try — it's fast, free and shockingly easy. " Create professional quality videos with Animoto!
To have access to unlimited length videos and the ability to download, please see the librarian for the Username and Password for our school account.
To have access to unlimited length videos and the ability to download, please see the librarian for the Username and Password for our school account.
Posters

This free online tool creates interactive posters loaded with text, graphics, music, videos, and more. Glogster’s goal was to provide an outlet for unlimited creative expression online and this program certainly fits the bill! Is is easy and fun to use.
Presentations

Tired of using Powerpoint? Prezi is a communication tool that helps you organize, present, and share your ideas.Prezi makes sharing ideas more fun and engaging. Using this free online tool, you can create a free dynamic presentation and help with the visualization of information.
Collaboration and Communication Tools:
Social Networking

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, share photos, plan events and club activities.
Microblogging

Instantly connect to what's most important to you. Follow your friends, experts, favorite celebrities, and breaking news.
Wiki

This online collaborative tool allows a community of users to develop a web sites, allowing any user to add and edit content.
Wiki

This online collaborative tool allows a community of users to develop a web sites, allowing any user to add and edit content.
Mind Mapping

Popplet is a tool that allows users to visualize ideas. Teachers and students can create graphic organizers, timelines, and many other forms of visual "bulletin boards".
Audio Visual Tools:
Audio Editing

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac and other operating systems.
Image Sharing

Picasa's a free photo organization and editing tool from Google that allows you to store, organize and share your photos online.
Image Sharing

Flickr is an excellent way to store, sort, organize, search and share your photos online.
Creative Commons

For many more copyright friendly sources of images and music please visit the Creative Commons page on this website!
Organization and Productivity Tools:
Social Bookmarking

Delicious is a way to collect your bookmarks of things that you find interesting on the web. You can save all the videos, pictures, tweets, blog posts, or articles you like, share them easily and search through others’ collections of links to discover cool stuff!
Social Bookmarking

The name "Diigo" is an acronym from "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff". It is a social bookmarking website which allows users to bookmark and tag web pages as well as write annotations on them.
Online File Storage

This is an online service that allows students to upload their papers for teachers to access and mark later on.
Other Tools:
Word Clouds

Wordle is a free online tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Website Creation

Named one of TIME's 50 Best Websites, Weebly gives everyone a surprisingly easy way to create a unique site.
Math Fun!

Try the next generation of the graphing calculator—beautiful, powerful, and free.
iPad Apps

IPads are a fantastic learning resource. There are many apps and tools that can be used to help students and teachers reach specific learning goals that promote critical-thinking, creativity, and collaboration.
The edtechteacher website shares a list of Apps you can use for all aspects of the inquiry process.
The edtechteacher website shares a list of Apps you can use for all aspects of the inquiry process.