Cool+Tools


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KerPoof
Kerpoof is a site that provides a variety of creative tools for animation, drawing, and movie creation. Users can choose from a range of preset characters and environmental options, or they can create their own. ||

Voki
Voki, a text to speech generator that, according to Lovely, has a lot of very interesting applications. "This is more than just something cute that can be embedded in a Web site," she said, referring to the animated figure being projected on the screen. "What if the Voki was reading a list of spelling words? What if it was speaking another language? What if I had a Web site that had a Voki embedded to tell my kids what was going on so that the one's that couldn't read could hear it? What if kids used Voki to say something important?" ||

Kids Zone
It's not quite as collaborative as some of these other tools.if you want to cut to the chase and teach kids about creating graphs and reading data, this is a great tool ||
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Glogster
While referred to as an "interactive poster," Glogster is a personal Web page complete with embedded media links, sound, and video capabilities. Students can work with Glogster individually or as a group to create presentations, share information, and interact with their peers. Lovely stressed the importance of signing up for the "EDU" version, which prevents other users from viewing class-specific "Glogs." ||

Bubblus
Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online. Using Bubble.us you can create colorful mind maps online, share and work with friends, embed your mind map in your blog or website, email and print your mind map and save your mind map as an image ||

Wordle
Wordle is a toy 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. || The Cartoon strip creator, create, publish and share. || === Dipity === Dipity lets you create timelines that you can share and embed. || === Fotobabble === Fotobabble is a super-easy application that lets you upload a photo, provide a minute audio recording to go along with it, and then you get a link and an embed code that can be used for sharing. || Turn your photos & videos into pure amazing. Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips and music. **Fast**, **free** and **shockingly easy** ​ || === Bibme === The fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It's the easiest way to build a works cited pa || Great site for FREE fonts. There are over 10,000 of them on there to sift through, but there are some real gems. Jazz up your classroom displays etc with some crazy cool fonts. This site may be blocked if you're accessing it at school.
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 * [[image:animoto.JPG width="221" height="154" link="@http://www.wordle.net/"]] === Animoto ===

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