Web 2.0 Tools
Sep 3rd, 2009 by angelaharridge
There is SO much you could do ‘out there’ in Web 2.0 land that it’s overwhelming … especially when it comes to picking and choosing applications for Primary age students. This is where I’ll keep links to the ones I like.
Avatars
Voki A Voki is a personalized speaking avatar (that’s my Welcome top right).
My Avatar Editor Create and edit personalized avatar characters compatible with Mii™ characters found on the Nintendo® Wii™.
Build Your Wild Self New York Zoo’s avatar ‘maker’ – where you can build your’self’ with fantastic animal ‘parts’.
Portrait Avatar Maker Great combination of ‘parts’.
Gravatar Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site.
Big Huge Labs Manipulate photos.
Mess Dudes Avatar builder.
Mini-Mizer Picture yourself in plastic.
Pimp The Face The perfect tool for creating faces that anyone will recognize.
Create My Picture Produce a cartoon look-alike.
Icon Archive A professional tag based icon search engine.
Clay Yourself Create a clay version of yourself.
Prezi
Prezi is the ‘zooming presentation editor’. It’s a Flash-based presentation system that allows you to create really interesting presentations where you can zoom around/’within’ a single ‘page’ space.
Andrea Mosaic
Andrea Mosaic is a free project to create digital art using images and computer software. With AndreaMosaic you can create your own photographic mosaics made with your own pictures.
A photo mosaic is an image composed of many tiled photos … best viewed sitting back a bit from the screen!
Wordle
Wordle generates ‘word clouds’ from your text. 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.
Word Cloud
Word Clouds are very much like Wordles EXCEPT you can save it to your computer or print it out. It’s not quite as versatile as Wordle (colour changes etc), but it’s still a pretty good alternative.
ClustrMaps
ClustrMaps is a free thumbnail hit counter map that shows the locations of all visitors to your site, even when the numbers are enormous!
SurveyMonkey
SurveyMonkey enables you to create online surveys quickly and easily.
Animoto
Animoto automatically produces orchestrated, unique video pieces from your media.
Check out My Furry Friends … a few photos of my ‘babies’ + some music = done! Easy!
Shape Collage
Shape Collage is a free application that allows you to easily create picture collages.
You pick your photos from the web or your computer, choose any shape you want, and Shape Collage automatically places the photos into the shape.
Tuxpi
Tuxpi offers 29 photo effects and tools for blogs, presentations and personal pictures. You can make your pictures more lively, apply fancy effects and create real eye-catchers with this collection of easy to use photo effects. All photo tools on this site are browser based, very simple to use and can be combined with each other.
Toolkit A-Z
Looking for a tool to use?
Wondering what to try next?
Thinking about possibilities?
Go to
Toolkit A-Z
and take your a pick!
Smilebox
Smilebox allows you to transform your photos into a slideshow. You can choose from hundreds of free slideshow designs for all occasions, add captions, music and up to hundreds of photos. You can then share your slideshow via email or post it to your blog.
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