1. 280 Slides

Create beautiful presentations, access them from anywhere, and share them with the world.

With 280 Slides, there's no software to download and nothing to pay for - and when you're done building your presentation you can share it any way you like.

2. Animoto - the end of slideshows

Animoto videos - music videos for your images and pictures. With high production value motion graphics synchronized to every beat of your music, Animoto videos blow the doors off traditional slideshows; it is time to move past the slideshow and embrace Animoto - free, easy, beautiful.

Fast. Free. Shockingly easy. Animoto turns your images and soundtrack into stunning music videos in minutes. Get Started Free to sign up, it's fast and dead easy to make your first vid. If you’ve got pics, you’re ready to go!

The founders of Animoto Productions include former producers of MTV, ABC and Comedy Central. They developed Animoto Productions and the website, Animoto.com, so that you can turn your photos into MTV-style music videos.

Animoto is an alternative to Microsoft Photostory 3. A simple online process that allows you to create slideshows with a punch.

3. BitStrips

BitStrips is YouTube for comics. It's where you and your friends star in your own easy-to-make, great-looking comic strips, which you can edit, email, post, print, or blog.

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4. Cacoo

Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts.

Cacoo can be used free of charge.

5. Casper - live aircraft tracking

Casper is an innovative live aircraft tracking software on Google Maps, now available for flight movements around Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

It is easily configured for any airport and provides lots of cool features and information about specific flights such as altitude, speed, aircraft type, callsign and departure or destintation.

6. Compendium Institute

The Compendium Institute is an open forum for the ongoing development and dissemination of the Compendium methodology and software tools. Compendium is about sharing ideas, creating artifacts, making things together, and breaking down the boundaries between dialogue, artifact, knowledge, and data. Please visit the resources on this site to learn more.

The Compendium Institute is a collaborative mind map project created by Open University. Register and get the free download.

7. Creative Commons Search

Just type in a search term and you'll find a plethora of great Creative Commons content, with the option to filter for various levels of commercial or personal use.

8. CU3ER

CU3ER is a flash 3D image slider, it's free, easy to set-up, customizable via XML, tailored to provide a unique look & feel, inspiring and fun to use!

CU3ER, an image slider initially conceived to create 3D transitions between slides, turned out to be a convenient and multifunction solution that can be applied in a range of website building areas, from content slider to feature slider and image and banner rotator. Consider using it when you want to grab the user’s attention, and you’ll be delighted by the results!

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9. Debut Video Capture Software

Debut Video Capture Software is a free video recorder program to capture video files directly on your PC using a webcam (video camera) or capture device (from video).

Can also record almost anything that can be played or displayed on the computer screen.

10. DocVerse

DocVerse is a plug-in for Microsoft Office 2007 that is designed to supplement the software product with new online editing/viewing/sharing capabilities.

DocVerse is a stealth startup formed by Shan Sinha, a former Microsoft SharePoint and SQL Server strategist, and Alex DeNeui, also formerly involved with SQL strategy at Microsoft.

The two former Microsoft employees have started DocVerse aimed at making Microsoft Office more like Google Docs - at least on the online-collaboration front.

11. Doodle

The world’s leading online scheduling service, Doodle takes the pain out of finding the right date and time for a group of people to meet and makes scheduling virtually effortless. The basic service is a free online coordination tool which requires neither registration nor software installation.

Doodle offers a basic free service, a free account to connect your personal calendar,

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12. Editor One



Editor One is a full-featured, timeline-based video editor can be used for online or floor exhibits, video contests, mashups or for experiential websites.

Editor One makes video editing easy while it engages online visitors. It is available to museums, nonprofits, and educational groups.

13. Flowgram - Welcome to the Talking Web

Create interactive guided multimedia presentations by combining a video from YouTube, an article from Wikipedia, information from Facebook or other web pages, a photo from Flickr, a presentation from Slideshare, a podcast from Odeo, and more with your voice, notes and highlights.

Users can control the pages, scroll, click on links, view videos and more.

Users can embed the flowgram into their web page, blog or VLE course.

Flowgram is free and no downloads or installs are required.

14. Gliffy Online Diagram Software

Gliffy is free web based diagram software.

Create and share flowcharts, network diagrams, floorplans, user interface designs and other drawings online with the Gliffy diagram editor.

15. GLO Maker Generative Learning Object Maker

Authoring tool for learning objects

GLO Maker is an authoring tool for creating rich, interactive learning resources. It builds on the extensive experience of the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) in Reusable Learning Objects.

This authoring tool focuses on good learning design. It provides powerful features in an easy-to-use interface.

It is open source and free for educational use.

16. GoAnimate

GoAnimate is a way to easily create your own cartoons and animations and share with others.

All the tools are free and you don't need to learn Flash.

17. MAPfrappe

MAPfrappe is a Google Maps mashup that lets you draw an outline around one part of the world, and see how the outline looks translated to another part of the world.

A great resource for geography and interactive whiteboards. Users can operate this programme with Google Maps to compare features of different countries. For instance mountain ranges, lakes or other significant landmarks.

18. MyStudiyo

Using MyStudiyo you can create quizzes and embed them easily in any website or blog.

Create interactive quizzes in minutes and then easily embed them on your page using 1 line of simple HTML (an IFRAME).

The quiz templates are really popular with viewers too! What's more, no programming is required, just use the simple quiz wizards to make a quiz and get up and running today!

Perfect for any website or blog for fun competitions, organization promotions, education, business advertising, training tools, and interactive media.

Transform your content into fun, challenging and educationally interactive activities which other people love to use and share.

It is now easy for anyone to create a great-looking quiz online.

19. One True Media

One True Media helps you turn your photos and video into awesome slideshows and video montages for free.

Embed your slideshow or video montage onto MySpace or any website, share via email or links.

Get it on a customised DVD or share to your own personal TiVo channel.

With amazingly easy tools you can edit your video and photos, add in cool effects and transitions all without a software download.

One True Media supports dozens of social networking and blog platforms, including MySpace, MySpace Blogs, Bebo, Blogger, eBay, Facebook, Friendster, Hi5, livedoor, LiveJournal, Piczo, Sina.com, Sohu.com, Tagged, Typepad, Windows Live Spaces, Yahoo! 360 and Xanga.

20. Prezi

Prezi is an excellent online zooming presentation editor for stunning presentations.

With Prezi you can create stunning presentations. Instead of slides, you create a large map, and zoom around to show your ideas.

The editor uses Flash and is entirely online, and you can upload pictures, videos and other flash animations to it.

Prezi has a very innovative and neat interface! This promises to be a popular online resource for both teachers and students.

Prezi is similar to pptPlex for Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 in concept but you do not need any special plug-ins (pptPlex) or certain versions of Microsoft Office (Microsoft Office 2007) installed on your desktop.

Prezi Demo 1

Prezi Demo 2

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21. Photo Peach

Photo Peach allows you to automatically make your own free slide show in seconds. Upload photos, pick music, add captions in the show, and more!

22. Scriblink

Scriblink is a free online whiteboard that allows users to collaborate in real-time. No registration required. Built-in chat, image uploading, file sharing and more.

23. Showbeyond

Showbeyond is an online photo slideshow story creator and sharing community.

Tell Stories, Your Stories (slidecast creator, multimedia, podcast, digital storytelling, storytelling, audio, photo essay, audio essay, photo blog, audio blog).

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24. Smilebox

Smilebox allows you to create amazing greeting cards, ecards, scrapbooks, slideshows, birthday cards, and more using your photos, videos and music.

Email, blog or print. It's fast, fun and free!

25. Stupeflix - Video production made easy

Got images? Create videos! Stupeflix is a REST web service that turns your pictures, videos, and text into professional videos.

26. Tagul

Tagul is a web service that enables you to create beautiful looking tag clouds and embed it on your web page.

Tags: Mashups

27. Tagxedo, tag cloud with styles

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

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28. Voki

Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalised speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, vle and in email messages.

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29. Xobni

Outlook Plugin to Search People, Email, and Attachments Instantly.

Xobni is an Outlook plugin that helps you search and organize your inbox. Download Xobni's Outlook plugin instantly.

30. PSP Media Manager -

31. Sun JavaFX

Looking for rich Internet applications and web application development?

Check out Sun JavaFX for developing rich Internet experiences for all the screens of your life.

Java's rich web content / rich internet applications rival to Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft Silverlight, Sun JavaFX, was finally released on Thursday 4th December 2008.

32. QR Code

33. Snappr.net - The future of 2D Barcodes

With Snappr.net you can discover and shape the world around you - With the help of 2D Codes

The Snappr.net iPhone Application - Scanning 1D and 2D Barcodes with the camera of the iPhone.

34. Storybird - Collaborative storytelling

Storybirds are short, visual stories that you make with students to share and (soon) print.

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35. Triptico

Triptico, allows practitioners to keep learners engaged; they can input up to 32 names and make a random selection at the push of a button.

I like the way that this selector adds a little extra tension - the selector will choose five names - then four - then three… until only one name remains.

Another simple Interactive White Board tool from triptico and one which, I'm sure will be of use to many practitioners.

36. Visual Understanding Environment

The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University.

The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information.

37. XMind

XMind is an open source brainstorming and mind mapping software tool developed by XMind Ltd. It helps people to capture ideas, organize to various charts and share them for collaboration.

It supports mind maps, fishbone diagrams, tree diagrams, org-charts, logic charts, and spreadsheets.

It is often used for knowledge management and sharing, meeting minutes, task management and GTD.

XMind is compatible with FreeMind/Mindmanager.

38. Yugma

Yugma is a free web conferencing, online meeting and web collaboration service that allows anyone, anywhere to instantly share their desktop and ideas online with others.

Yugma works with Mac, Windows and Linux. It is easy, interactive and secure. It has everything you need. Ideal for businesses, education and online communities.

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