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
- Meez http://www.meez.com/
- 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