Student Resources
Creative
Commons
CREATIVE COMMONS IMAGES​
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Find Icons - Choose the license you want for free icons to use on your website.
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Iconfinder - Choose the license you want for free icons to use on your website.
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CREATIVE COMMONS SOUNDS
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Sound Bible - Free sound effects
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Soundtrap - Create your own sounds and music
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Ujam Studio - Create your own sounds and music
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Incompetech - Creative Commons music
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Audacity Download - Create your own sounds and music
Visual
Organizers
VISUAL ORGANIZERS
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Bubbl.us – Create a mind map
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Xmind – Create a mind map
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TimeToast – Create a timelines that you can add to your blog or website
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Create a Graph - Step by Step Graph Creator
Presentation Tools
PRESENTATION TOOLS
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Voice Thread – Add collections of media like images, videos, documents to a presentation.
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SlideShare – Create a slideshow or upload PowerPoint presentations
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Animoto – Online video maker turns your photos, video clips and music into video (30 sec free)
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Glogster – Graphic blog - create a web mix by adding images, text, music and video
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Prezi – Create a different kind of slideshow
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Slide.ly - Create an online slideshow
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Vialogues – Meaningful discussion around a video (alternative to voicethread but only has 1 page)
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Kizoa - Video Editor, slideshow creator, movie maker
Story
Telling
STORY TELLING TOOLS
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Inklewriter - Write and publish interactive stories
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Powtoons - Animated stories and presentations.
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Toondoo - Comic Creator
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Storyjumper - Create and publish a story
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My Story Maker - Create and publish a story at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Screen
Capture
SCREEN CAPTURE TOOLS
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Windows Snipping Tool - Directions for using the tool to capture images.
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Screencast-o-matic - Free online screen capture. Must download launcher first.
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Apowersoft - Free online screen capture. Must download launcher first. Tools for mobile apps too.
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Screen Castify - Google plugin to capture screen
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Jing - Free download from Techsmith - Capture images and 3 min of video. Save as .swf file.
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Snagit - Download free trial from Techsmith - Capture video and images.
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Camtasia - Download free trial from Techsmith - Create a video or record screen.
Photo Editing
& Creation
PHOTO EDITING, CREATION & MULTIMEDIA TOOLS
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Pixlr - Free online program for photo editing and painting
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Getpaint.net - Download free program for photo editing and painting. Only available on PC
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Fotoflexer - Free online photo editor
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ArtRage Demo 4 - Free download. Use realistic painting tools to create or trace an image
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Graffiti Creator - Create a graffiti banner or sign
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Befunky - Add a frame to an image or edit a photo
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Photovisi - Create a photo collage
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PhotoPeach - Create a photo slideshow
Avatar
Creators
AVATAR CREATORS
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Build Your Wild Self - Add various animal, bird, reptile, amphibian parts to create a wild avatar
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DoppelMe - Avatar creator
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Mini-mizer - Lego like charaters
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Harry Potter Creator - Become a Harry Potter Character (Saves as GIF)
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Digibody - Caracature creator
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Block Head – Lego head
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Iconmaker - Portrait icon maker
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Illustrationmaker - Portrait icon maker
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Moeruavatar - Otaku avatar creator
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Doll Devine Prince - Princess/Prince maker
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Photoshare - Portrait icon maker
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Voki - Create interactive avatar or talking presentation
Coding
CODING * PROGRAMMING
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Code.org - Hour of Code, 20 Hours of Code
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MIT App Inventor - Create your own app for phone
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Codecademy - Online course to learn coding
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Scratch - Online coding program
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Alice - Download 3D coding program
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Gamestar Mechanic - Learn the process of creating your own video game
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Tynker - Online course to learn coding for kids
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Minecraft Edu - Link to Minecraft Edu Login
Coding
CODING * PROGRAMMING
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Code.org - Hour of Code, 20 Hours of Code
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MIT App Inventor - Create your own app for phone
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Codecademy - Online course to learn coding
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Scratch - Online coding program
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Alice - Download 3D coding program
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Gamestar Mechanic - Learn the process of creating your own video game
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Tynker - Online course to learn coding for kids
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Minecraft Edu - Link to Minecraft Edu Login
3D
Drawing
3D DRAWING / 3D PRINTING
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​SketchUp - Download 3D design program used by Google
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Tinkercad - Design 3D objects then print on 3D printer
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Thingverse - Design 3D objects then print on 3D printer
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Lego Builder - Online Lego builder
MISC
Online Tools
ADD OBJECTS TO YOUR WEBSITE TO MAKE IT UNIQUE + MISC ONLINE TOOLS
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Wordle - Create a word cloud​
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Tagxedo - Create a word cloud
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Blabberize - Animate an image to make it talk
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QR Stuff - Create a QR code
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Aurasma - Create an interactive code
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A Bowman Gadgets - Add a gaget to your website
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Flickr Letters - Create a banner with Flickr Letters
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Paper Rater - Free online grammar check, proofreading & spell
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Paper Rater Plagerism Check - Free plagerism check
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ColRD - Find out the digital number for a color
Link to
Resources
LINK TO RESOURCES
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21 Things for Students - Online resource to improve technology proficiency
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Cool Tools for Schools - Web 2.0 resources
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Watch Know Learn - Free educational videos
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BrainPop - Animated Educational Sites
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E-Themes - Content safe websites for kids by grade level
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Bouncy A - Connect to muliple website and activities sorted by subject
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National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - Interactive math activites
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Symbaloo - Free visual bookmarking tool