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 * Online Tools 2011 **

**YouTube**
Here are many ways to download YouTube videos to your computer. Why would you want to download YouTube videos? YouTube may be blocked at your school or your school may not have the available bandwidth to steam the videos without constant buffering of the video. Whether you use a Mac or a PC, here are 1[|2 ways to download and convert YouTube videos for your classroom.]
 * 12 Great Ways to Download and Convert YouTube Videos for Your Classroom**

Here are three websites that enable you to have fun with digital images, such making it possible to create a greeting card, make photo collages, design new images for a Web site and tweak personal photographs without doing much more than clicking a button. [|Photofunia] [|Photo505] [|Bighugelabs]
 * Photo Editing Tools**

**Online Collaboration**
[|Entri]: Entri is a free collaborative tool for writing and sharing documents. Entri could be a convenient tool for students to quickly take notes as a group, record brainstorming sessions, and create outlines. [|CorkboardMe]: an online brainstorming/sticky notes tool, like [|WallWisher] and [|LinoIt.] Results can be embedded in blogs/wikis. [|Scrumblr] From [] "Scrumblr is another "noticeboard " tool, like Wallwisher, Linoit and Stixy.  How is it different from the other similar sites? 1. It's incredibly simple, just click on the +, double click to edit and drag your note to the board. 2. Two people can edit the same note. 3. You can't write much on each note. 4. You write a note only. No photos, videos or links. 5. No embedding option. HOW CAN WE USE THE SITE WITH STUDENTS? • Great site for leaving simple messages, e.g. birthday messages. • Useful for brainstorming topics. • You can post the beginning of the sentence and ask students to finish that using their imagination. Ex: If I were a millionaire .... • You can ask all students to use the same structure to make a sentence. Ex: I'm looking forward to ..... • Build a story together asking students to add their notes linearly." [|PrimaryWall is a web-based sticky note tool]designed for schools that allows pupils and teachers to work together in real-time. What is Primary Wall useful for? Getting ideas, collaborating, sharing and quickly posting pieces of information when working in a group or collaborative environment. Why is PrimaryWall better than any other web based sticky note platform? PrimaryWall was conceived by a teacher and is built for schools so we kept things simple, fast and user friendly. media type="youtube" key="HkTfs3nbEmU" height="390" width="640" Organize meetings effortlessly over organizational boundaries.Organize meetings easily without the need for participants to remember passwords or fill out registration forms. "Pegby is a neat online organizational tool that has fantastic customization features. With Pegby, students (and teachers) can share boards enabling them to collaborate with friends, family, coworkers and classmates." More information. "Pinterest is a great way to organize yourself as a teacher. Gather up all those ideas you see online and then share them with other teachers (who may or may not be Pinterest users…it really doesn’t matter). Because you can share Pinterest boards with non-Pinterest users, this is a great way to share things with students. The resource could be anything- pictures, a website, a video. Create a board for every unit that you do and share those boards with students so that they can continue exploring and learning." Description from this site. Nota is a unique, cutting-edge collaborative web platform that allows users to create, share and collaborate on presentations and virtually any other form of online material. Using Nota’s proprietary toolset, users can instantly integrate text, video, maps, clip art, photos from web album or on the local computer, or license-free images from Flickr, and material from an ever-expanding array of sources. Users can then instantly embed their work in Facebook or blogs, and can share and collaborate with friends. " Linoit is a digital online tool that can serve educators and students in multiple ways. Imagine an electronic classroom display board." Read the rest of this blog for a very extensive review.
 * Primary Wall**
 * Meetin.gs**
 * Pegby**
 * Pinterest**
 * Nota: Casual Collaboration.**
 * Linoit**

**Timelines**
[|Welcome to TikiToki,] a web app that makes it dead easy to make stunning, animated timelines that work in your browser. Our basic account is completely free. How would you like to create beautiful, interactive timelines that include videos and image galleries? Well, now you can thanks to a great new web service brought to you by ChronoFlo and Webalon. TikiToki makes creating online timelines as easy as possible. Sign up for our free, basic account and within almost no time, you could be creating a timeline of your life, of a historical event that interests you or of the life of a great musician or artist... the possibilities are endless.

**Presentation**
Prezi is a great tool for presentations (like Powerpoint but much better). [|This site will help you learn how to use Prezi.] [|Rookie to Pro in 20 Minutes] Lesson starts, clock is ticking, after 20 minutes you will know how to make excellent Prezi presentations.
 * Ten Tips to Help Master Prezi**
 * Prezi For Dummies:**Use Prezi to add drama and sophistication to all your presentations. Prezi is an online application that takes the place of tired slideshows. You get to use your creativity and work with a variety of different media formats. But first, discover Prezi shortcuts, set up paths, and how to navigate its main menu. [|This Cheat Sheet shows you how.]
 * How to make a Prezi**

**Publishing**
"[|FlipSnack] is a simple web-based tool that allows users to turn a PDF file into a magazine style document. Signing up for an account is required and it does require authentication within 15 days, but you don't have to do that to upload and create a Flip Book. To add a file you can upload it, drag and drop, or add it through a URL. Each document is limited to 500 pages. If students are working on a project, this would be a great way to prepare it and share it with teachers and students. It can easily be embedded to a blog or website as well. When you create your flip book you have the option of four different styles. You can choose the size, background color, etc" Sourced from:[|The Pursuit of Technology Integrated Happiness]

**Mindmapping**
"Fresh from the oven and piping hot, SpicyNodes is limited only by your imagination. Entice visitors to explore and savor the experience of visiting your web site, add visualizations to your blog, create a mindmap or organizational chart, or encourage students to delve deeper."
 * Spicynodes**

**Online Data Storage**
Dropbox is one of our favorite and most useful apps available right now. The file-sharing service acts as a virtual folder on your desktop or mobile device, allowing you to "drop" files in an online storage locker and download them again later from anywhere. Here is a list of tips and tricks for getting the most out of Dropbox. You'll find everything you need to know from signing up to keeping your files private.
 * What is Dropbox?**

A Livebinder with a wide range of resources.
 * Using Dropbox in the Classroom**

**Surveys**
This is a tool that I have used on many of occasions to reflect on students and teachers thoughts about a given subject. While this can be done on paper, a more convenient way is to do it online. Here's ten useful online survey websites.
 * Top 10 Sites for Creating Surveys/Polls.**