Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting. PERFECT for ePortfolios!
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Perfect for Podcasting. You can use Audacity to: * Record live audio.
Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
Fun with photos. Make jigsaw puzzles, CD covers, add captions, create posters, pop art and many more. Screen Capture
of your screen.
of onscreen action.
over the web, IM, email.
Wikis are increasingly useful, if not mandatory, in an educational setting. I recommend Wikispaces because of the 250,000 free educational wikis made available (Means no advertising side bar). PB Wiki is also excellent! WETPAINT is also great. Any of the above will be an excellent choice.
Online Mind Mapping Software. Freely accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime!
Blogger is a free blog publishing tool from Google for easily sharing your thoughts with the world.
Sketch-Up is a 3D modeling software tool that’s easy to learn, simple to use, and lets you place your models in Google Earth. Good for CAD. Scribd is the place where you publish, discover and discuss original writings and documents.50 million readers, 50,000 new writings & documents uploaded daily!!
.THE GIMP is an Image Manipulation Program, similar to Photoshop
It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. An amazingly powerful app
Inkscape
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X. Very simple interface, great for artists of all ages. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative graphic viewer for WINDOWS only. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MAKE 3D ANIMATED MOVIES ONLINE FOR FREE! (BETA VERSION).
Upload and share your PowerPoint presentations and Word documents on SlideShare. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to make a webinar
XMIND is a free brainstorming, mindmapping and organizational tool. Very cool. Great for collaboration!
It needs to be downloaded.
Video tutorials available from the web site. ---- Clay Animator is an open source stop frame animation app. The site is packed with useful info about creating stop frame animations. Windows Only.
FrameByFrame lets you create stop-motion animation videos using any webcam/video camera connected to your Mac, including iSight. Just take some pictures and in a matter of seconds you‘ve got your very own stop-motion QuickTime movie!
Allows multiple users to created, edit, and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations from any web browser.(Word processing, spreadsheets, presentations and sites) Create your own online comic strip!
Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.
Upload, store and share your photos and video.
One of the best, if not the best, photo sharing site on the web. Great for hosting your photos and for finding copy write free images.
Feature packed graphics app with a very intuitive interface. The best Open Source illustration package around I think.. Windows only tho...
Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.
VideoLAN .VLC Media Player
I love this little media player! Plays just about every media file ever created.
Allows users to send, receive, and track large digital files (up to 2GB) through convenient email attachment solution or file transfer. Email large files....
FTP file transfer. Send large files to anyone.
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos. Windows only.
Bubbl.us is an online mind-mapping and brainstorming app. Requires no download. Fun and easy to use.
Animoto: Very cool slide show maker. Saves as a movie file. Great transitions, effects and music.
Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.
Complete Office Suite of apps to rival MS Office. Amazing considering t completely free.
This is what Open Source is all about!
CREATE ONLINE, INTERACTIVE POSTERS WITH EMBEDDED MUSIC.
VERY VERY COOL AND FUN!
Stupeflix is a REST web service that turns your pictures, videos, and text into professional videos.
Email, Word precessing, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Wikis, Planing, Storage, Collaboration, Chat....etc etc.
Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting. PERFECT for ePortfolios!
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Perfect for Podcasting. You can use Audacity to:* Record live audio.
model • shade • animate • render • composite • interactive 3d
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite. Very powerful 3D modeling app. If you are serious about 3D content, then you must check this out.
Sketch-Up is a 3D modeling software tool that’s easy to learn, simple to use, and lets you place your models in Google Earth. Good for CAD.
50,000 new writings & documents uploaded daily!!
It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. An amazingly powerful app
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X. Very simple interface, great for artists of all ages.
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MAKE 3D ANIMATED MOVIES ONLINE FOR FREE! (BETA VERSION).
Upload and share your PowerPoint presentations and Word documents on SlideShare. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to make a webinar
XMIND is a free brainstorming, mindmapping and organizational tool. Very cool. Great for collaboration!
It needs to be downloaded.
Video tutorials available from the web site.
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I love this little media player! Plays just about every media file ever created.
Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.
Free website - Wix.com