Tools+to+Try


 * Here are a number of tools that you may like to use to showcase your work. You are often required to register and confirm your e-mail address before you can use the tools. Make sure you CAREFULLY READ what you are registering for. **

Images: [|Flickr] - Upload, organise and share your photos. [|Picture Trail] - Online photo storage. Biggest slideshow selection on the web. [|Snapfish] - Store and share your photos for free. [|Be Funky] Turn your photos into digital artwork with just one click. [|Big Huge Labs:Pop Art] - Create 9 false colour creations as one poster of your image. [|Big Huge Labs: Mosaic Maker] - Make a mosiac of your images. [|Big Huge Labs: Jigsaw] - Turn your favourite image into a jigsaw. [|Big Huge Labs: Captions] - Add comic book captions to your photos. [|Big Huge Labs: Bead Art] - Turn your photos into super cool bead art. [|Blabberize] Animate your photos with a mouth, add audio or sound clips. [|Bubble snaps] - Add speech bubbles to any photo. Embed into a webpage or send to your friends. [|Phixr] - Edit your photos in lots of ways, add speech bubbles and text then e-mail or upload them to your wiki. [|Fun Photo Box]- Create funny pictures from your photos. Add special effects. Upload and crop your photos. Email, embed or hotlink your image. [|FotoFlexer] - Change or mainpulate your photos online. [|Vuvox] Create photo slideshows to embed in your wiki/blog. Longer load times but much more creative.

Presentations: [|Slide]- Upload pictures, create effects and transitions [|Slideshare]- Upload powerpoints to share with others [|Slideboom] - Share powerpoint presentations online. Play as movie with audio and links. [|Sliderocket] - Upload your slides, keynote or powerpoint and video. Publish to any webpage. [|Smilebox]- Choose your design. Add photos, videos, words, music. Email, blog or print it.

[|Photobucket] - Upload all your photos, videos, and images for free. Make photo slide shows to share pics with friends. [|Photoshop] - Upload photos and choose music. Takes a little time to load... [|Photopeach]- Make a slideshow with moving photos like a video with your choice of background music, captions on each photo, fun effects.

[|Voicethread] - Create a slideshow of images or video and you and others can comment on each photo by text, audio or video.

Video: [|Animoto] - Upload a video. Animoto analyses the video, feels the music, customises the video. Publish to any webpage. [|Viddix]  - Upload your video and support notes, images, etc. View on double presentation screens. Publish to any webpage.

Text: [|Wordle] - Make and embed your own word clouds. [|Word Mosiac] - Turn your words into a shape image. [|Big Huge Labs] - Make your own collectible trading card! Or make a whole deck and create a card game. [|Add Letters] - Generate your own funny pictures based on the text you enter. The generated picture looks real and can be downloaded.

Multimedia: [|Scrapblog] - Combine your photos, audio, video and text to create multimedia pages and mix things up with a bunch of creative elements. [|Glogster] - Combine images, video, music, photos and audio to create mulitmedia pages. Embed into any webpage. [|Wix] - Import favourite pictures and movies. Create stunning pages using creative elements. Embed into any webpage or share directly. [|Go Animate] - Make animated stories.

Misc: [|Voki] Everyone's favourite animated people [|Cluster Maps] Find out whos looking from where [|Rockyou] Fancy up your headings [|Shelfari] Make your own bookcase of favourite novels. Amazing site for those who like to read, share what they read and talk about what they read. [|ToonDoo] Making cartoons, fun easy and lots of options.

2010:  [|DabbleBoard] is a whiteboard that enables you to visualize, explore and collaborate. You draw as you are drawing on a whiteboard and you can easily share your ideas. It also lets you conduct presentation and chat though you can not share files. You can read [|10 reasons why to use Dabbleboard]. [|CoSketch] is another whiteboard that you can collaborate to visualize your ideas and share them as images. The good thing is that, you don't have to register or install anything. It works in all browsers, it's real time and you can get an embed code for your drawing after you finish. [|Stixy] lets you create online bulletin board to collaborate with family, friends, colleagues. You can share pictures, files, reminders, notes using different widgets that you can change size and colours. It's fun, free,easy and colourful. Stixy deserves a try!! [|Grou.ps] lets you create your own social network. There are different modules to be used as many as you want. You can create your forum, mailing list, share documents,files and your agenda to organize events, have your own YouTube, share links, bookmarks, photos. You can have real time chat and you can let the users have subgroups and it's free. I'm sure many of us are a member of a Ning group and [|Ning]is the one of the best sites to create and join new social networks that interest us. You can upload pictures,photos, feeds, bookmarks and many more. [|ImaginationCubed] is a multi user drawing tool. You can use a pen, stamp,shapes, line or you can type. You can also change the color of the background. I loved this one, it's cool! If you are using Twitter, you may want to try [|GroupTweet]. It lets you create your Twitter account into a group communication tool where everyone in the group uses direct messages. When a member gets a DM, GroupTweet turns it into a new tweet that all followers in the group can see. [|Wallwisher] is an online notice board maker. You can use this tool to make announcements, keep notes. You can use links, pictures, music, video and pages. You don't have to register. You can have a look at [|Nik Peachey's Wallwisher] as a great example. [|PageFlakes] is a social personalized homepage that you can customize Internet using flakes which are small, movable of all your web favourites. You can add Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, photos, music, videos, calendar, to-do list, message board, RSS feed. [|WriteBoard] is a-web based text documents that you can track every edit and change that are made by other users. You can role back to any version and compare different versions. [|Wiggio] is an online toolkit that lets you work in groups easily. You can send emails, text messages,voice mails. It makes it easy to share files and polls. You can set video conferences and also keep shared calendar, keep track of group’s tasks and resources. [|WeToku] is an interview tool that automatically records it to play it back. You can embed it and share it with others. You can watch [|my WeToku interview] with [|Ana Maria Menesez]. [| Webnote] is a tool for taking notes on your computer and you can share your notes with others giving the workspace name or the URL. [|PalBee] is a free online service that allows you to set up online video meetings with your friends or colleagues. You also have a whiteboard and it lets you draw, write texts, highlight or erase using different tools. [|Phuser] is a tool for groups to discuss or work together and privately. You can share photos, files, choose who joins, create and track discussions. [|WikiDot] is wiki builder to share content, documents and collaborate with your students, colleagues, friends. You can create pages, forums,separate wikis for groups or students, discuss topics, upload files, documents,notes, images and share them with others. [|Creately] lets you create professional looking online diagrams with your colleagues. [|DoingText] is a web based text editor for collaborative writing. You tell others the URL and they write comments, make changes without signing up. It lets you track changes and comments by RSS feed, export text by embedding in other pages. You can go back to the previous version of every line or you can see an overview of the discussion history. [| SpringNote] is an online notebook for collaboration. You can write down your ideas, create to-do lists, do scheduling and work together for projects. It also has an [|iphone application]. [|MeBeam] is a place where you can create your chat room. You just type the name of the room and tell the people to meet you there.