Cool Tools, shared

On the New Literacies Ning, Ian asked folks to add their own cool tools they have used or that they recommend for others to consider using, and I thought I might compile those recommendations here. It’s great to gather collective resources together.

Here is what was on the list:

• Scribd (document hosting and sharing)
• Wallwisher (online bulletin board)
• Storyjumper (for digital storytelling)
• Making Avatars:
  • Meez http://www.meez.com/
    Yahoo Avatar http://avatars.yahoo.com/
    South Park Creator http://www.southparkstudios.com/avatar/
    DoppelMe http://doppelme.com/
    Simpsons Avatar http://www.simpsonsmovie.com/main.html
• Diigo (bookmarking, sharing resources)
• Prezi (visual presentation)
• 280slides (presentation slideshow tool)
• Weebly (website builder)
• Delicious (link sharing)
• Google Search Story (search digital story tool)
• Storybird (online picture book creator)
• Aviary (suite of online applications for media)
• Wikispaces (space for wikis)
• GoAnimate (comic movies)

In the week, during the various sessions, we also used:

• Glogster (online multimedia posters)
• Voicethread (digital story tool)
• Zotero (tool for collecting web resources)
• Word Sift (word cloud generator)
• Google Lit Trips (connecting literature to geography)
• Chatterous (backchannel chatting)
• Jing (screen capture/screencasting)
• Xtranormal (make a movie)
• Apple Remote Desktop (for managing 1-1 computing)

Peace (in the sharing),
Kevin