Top:/Miscellaneous/On-Line Tools

ABC : Magnetic Letters on our Fridge - ...drag the letters around and have some fun
backflip - It’s the easiest way to save and share important things you see on the Web. With Backflip’s organization and powerful search, you’ll never lose anything interesting again. You can use it from any computer. And it’s totally free.

Big Huge Labs...provides an array of tools for showcasing your digital images in the form of a magazine cover, a poster, a puzzle, and many other forms. Using Big Huge Labs does not require any registration and you can download copies of your creations without creating an account. That said, they do offer you the option to create an account in which you can save your work.
calculator.com - calculate anything anywhere...
CITATION WIZARD - Enter bibliographic information and create formatted citations
CiteULike - a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts
Coollist - a web-based system for anyone to easily create FREE mailing lists. Mailing lists will enhance the power of your email allowing your user group or community to communicate and share ideas quickly via email. The Coollist system is easy to use...
DISTANCE CALCULATOR BETWEEN CITIES - ...and DISTANCE CALCULATOR BETWEEN COUNTRIES

Erudix is a collaborative website for students and professors where they can easily create wikis for working groups, sharing documents, etc.   Privacy settings can be set to limit access to only a subset of people

eyejot.com...Not only can you create and leave voice and video messages on your pages, but you can post messages on OTHER pages, too, via a little frame at the top.Teachers, check this out. What a cool way to introduce pages, or even to introduce yourself on your own webpage. Check out demogirl’s revised demo of it here: http://flash.screeniac.com/eyejot2-dg/eyejot2-dg.html?TB_iframe=true&height=590&width=1050
EVALUATION WIZARD: - Enter your responses to the questions to evaluate a resource on the Web.

faxZERO, a free* faxing service that lets you send up to three pages of text, a Word document, or a PDF as a fax to anybody in the U.S. or Canada. Just enter your text/upload your file, enter the fax number, and you’re done.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets ...Much ink has been spilled by tech journos talking up Google Docs and how it will affect productivity software ("Microsoft is doomed!" and so on). But whether or not it ever supplants Microsoft Office, Google's online office software is handy, collaborative, and free.

Google SketchUp 6 is a 3D modeling software tool that’s easy to learn, simple to use, and lets you place your models in Google Earth. Are you remodeling a kitchen, landscaping your back yard or adding a deck to your home? Google SketchUp makes it faster, easier and a lot more fun. From simple to complex, from conceptual to realistic, Google SketchUp helps you see your vision before you build it. ( SketchUp users in K12 Education can choose between Google
SketchUp (the free version) or SketchUp Pro (which is free for educators and extremely affordable for students and schools).
Imagination3 - online marker pen
IMSA Search Wizard - Learn how advanced queries improve search results. Use this tool to develop skills with your Search Box Strategy. Enter keywords and watch the magic as your query is built below. Then do the search. See the results. Revise the query, and try again!

New Photovisi makes creating collages of digital photos quick and easy. Simply select a collage template, upload images from your computer or Flickr account, sequence the images, and the collage is created.
Plagiarism Sleuth - the use of this tool in conjunction with proactive teaching of responsible resource use and the research and writing processes, will serve you well in creating and maintaining an environment that discourages inappropriate resource use. Identifies text that has been plagiarized!

ReadPlease, a free program that reads text on your computer to you in a (somewhat) realistic human voice... Struggling readers can follow along as ReadPlease highlights words as it speaks. Use ReadPlease as a proofreading tool–writing mistakes are never so glaring as when you hear them out loud

Screenpresso is a new screen capture program for Windows. Screenpresso has all of the features such as image resizing, annotation options, and format variety that you would expect from a screen capture program. Screenpresso also features like Twitter integration which are not always found in screen capture programs. The most unique option in Screenpresso is the ability to stitch together multiple screen captures. Stitching allows you to include scrolling in your screen captures. The scrolling option could be very useful for showing people how to work through a large page that doesn't fit into a typical screen capture.

Scriblink is essentially a whiteboard with an integrated instant messaging system. Scriblink users can draw, type, or edit images on a whiteboard. Users have the option of sharing their whiteboard with others and allowing other users to collaborate on the whiteboard. Scriblink does not require you to set up an account or register in order to use the whiteboard. Simply enter the email address of the person you want to collaborate with and they can join in on the fun. Every whiteboard created on Scriblink is assigned a url which you can use to share your whiteboard...an easy way to share notes, outlines, and drawings with students. Invite students to collaborate on an online whiteboard to work through difficult math problems or brainstorm on the completion of a graphic organizer.

SpokenText - Free online text to audio converter

Sprint: Plug into Now....Widget crazy...captures current stats on a wide variety of global activities...click on different sections to display current stats.

VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world...(Free Pro Account for teachers)

Webinaria...free tool to record, publish and share screencasts.

webnode system is a free tool that completely manages your entire web project. Anyone, without any technical know-how, can create and manage advanced web presentations, easily.

Zoho Suite...Web-based office suite...While Google Docs seems to be the first product people think of when online office suites come up, the lesser-known Zoho Suite offers more apps and features.