New+Literacies+Tools

[|Easel] Create and share visual ideas online. Vhemes are visual themes. Drag and drop a vheme onto your canvas for easy creation of your visual idea!

[|Socrative] A smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

[|Powtoon] PowToon is the brand new Do-It-Yourself animated presentation tool that supercharges your presentations and videos! Save massive amounts of time and money by creating Presentoons that bring the WOW!-factor to product demos, business presentations, social media clips, and much more.

Tagul A word "cloud" generator... create custom word clouds - and be able to connect each word to specific URLs

Screencast-o-matic Easy way to make a screen capture video recording with audio (aka screencast with picture in picture options). Download file (mp4, etc.) or upload it for free hosting all from your browser with no install.

Story Bird An interactive and customized storybook maker.

Diigo Collection of hotlist bookmarks and tags that you can share or keep private. PLUS the ability to highlight and/or leave notes on websites.

Wix An easy website building tool. GREAT for WebQuests.

GoAnimate Make your own video with animated characters.

EdModo Students can use like FaceBook, but also allows for digital assignments and postings within class groups.

Evernote Online / offline note taking software. Can take audio or video notes, clip web pages. Really useful!

Penzu Online journaling application that stores all entries in a "book". Entries can be shared or kept anonymous.

Tiki-toki Great timeline tool! Note that this is a freemium service; there is a limited volume on the timelines you can create before paying. The premium cost is minimal.

[|Weebly] Weebly gives everyone a surprisingly easy way to create a unique site.

[|Symbaloo]

Access your bookmarks anywhere with Symbaloo, a free social service now available in the US.

[|Tagxedo] Turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, is individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.

[|Popcorn Maker] Popcorn Maker makes it easy to enhance, remix and share web video. Use your web browser to combine video and audio with content from the rest of the web — from text, links and maps to pictures and live feeds.

[|Storify] Create stories using social media. Turn what people post on social media into compelling stories. Collect the best photos, video, tweets and more to publish.