100 Web Tools + Resources

  • Adobe Stopmotion Workshop, ISTE 2010

    Adobe Stopmotion Workshop, ISTE 2010

  • Voicethread Project at Ryan Elementary in Denton, Texas

    Voicethread Project at Ryan Elementary in Denton, Texas

  • Exhibitors' Area, ISTE 2010

    Exhibitors' Area, ISTE 2010

  • Stopmotion Table at the Digital Playground, ISTE 2010

    Stopmotion Table at the Digital Playground, ISTE 2010

Art Education Communities

1. Art Education 2.0 – Connect with art educators around the globe.

2. Art Snacks – Help for aspiring young artists

3. Arteducators.org – National Art Education Association

4. Asia Region Art Educators – Art educators living, working or interested in Asia

Audio Tools

5. Audacity – Sound editor and recorder

Blogging Tools

6. Blogger – Create a personal or group blog

7. Edublogs – Education blogs only

8. WordPress – Popular blogging software

9. Technorati – Blog-search tool

10. Google Blog Search – Another way to search for blogs

Brainstorming Tools

11. Bubbl.us – Brainstorm with mind maps online

12. Mind42.com – A collaborative browser-based online mind mapping tool

13. Wallwisher – Generate ideas and gather responses

Writing Tools

14. Evernote - A suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving.

15. Google Apps for Education -  Suite of communication & collaboration tools

16. Google Docs – Create and edit documents online w/others

17. WetPaint Wikis – Different plans available

18. Wikispaces – Different plans available

Chat, Instant Messaging & Conferencing

19. Blackboard Collaborate – Supports collaborative, interactive, and mobile learning.

20. Chatzy – Free & Plus Versions

21. Edmodo – Secure education platform for micro-blogging, online classes, and more.

22. Skype – Free video calls

23. Twitter – IM/Micro-Blogging/Networking tool

24. Tweetdeck – Popular desktop Twitter clien

Create a Personal Start-up Page

25. iGoogle- Collect RSS Feeds & widgets on one page

26. Netvibes – Collect RSS Feeds & widgets on one page

27. Pageflakes – Collect RSS Feeds & widgets on one page

28. Protopage – Place RSS Feeds & widgets on one page

29. GlogsterEDU – Secure educational platform for classroom use of Glogster.

Create a Website

30. Google Sites – Create a free website or wiki

31. Weebly – Create a website or blog

32. Webnode – Free website builder

33. Wix – Free flash-based website builder

Creative Commons (CC) Sites

34. Creative Commons – Find works you can share, remix, or reuse

35. A Shared Culture Video – Explains Creative Commons licensing

36. Spectrumofrights Comic – Explains different Creative Commons licenses

37. Compfight – Search Flickr for CC images

38. Flickr: Creative Commons – Millions of images available for reuse

39. A Flickr CC Search Toy – Another way to search Flickr for CC images

40. Wikimedia Commons – A database of over 4 million freely usable media files

41. Sharing Creative Works – Comic about Creative Commons.

Multi-media tools

42. Scratch – Create and share games, digital stories, artwork, etc.,

43. ScratchEd – Online community for educators

Photo-Editing Tools

44. Adobe Photoshop Express – Image-editing and photo-sharing site

45. Aviary – Image-editing browser-based tools

46. Splashup – Edit and upload photos to other sites

Photo-sharing sites

47. Flickr – The oldest photo-sharing site

48. Photobucket – Free & pro accounts

49. Shutterfly – Free & unlimited storage space

Polls and Surveys

50. AnswerGarden – Minimalistic Feedback Tool

51. PollDaddy – Create polls and place them on your website or blog

52. Quibblo – Create polls, surveys or quizzes for your website or blog

Presentation Tools

53. Jing – Online screen recorder

54. Prezi - Powerpoint on steriods.

55. SlideShare – Host & share your PowerPoints

Publication Tool

56. Issuu – digital publishing platform

RSS Readers

57. Bloglines – RSS Feed Reader

58. Google Reader – RSS Feed Reader

59. Alltop (ed) – RSS feeds from the top education blogs & sites.

60. Alltop (art) – RSS feeds from the top Art blogs.

Search Tools

61. SweetSearch4me – K-8 web search tool.

62. Google Art Project – Access to art museum  collections around the world.

Student Art Exhibitions

63. Artsonia – Online children’s art museum

64. Ed.Voicethread – Create multimedia albums

Bookmarking Sites

65. BlinkList – One-click saving of web pages

66. Delicious – Tag, save, manage and share web pages

67. Diigo for Educators – Annotate and highlight web pages

68. LiveBinders – Collect and store web links in a virtual 3-ring binder.

69. Pinterest – Popular visual bookmarking tool and community

70. Scoop It – Curate web links and present them in a magazine format.

71. StumbleUpon – Rate sites, videos and photos

Storage Places

72. Box.net – Free “Lite” plan – 1 GB of storage plus 25MB file uploads

73. Dropbox – Easily share files across devices.

URL Shortening Sites

74. TinyURL – Probably the most popular

75. SnipURL – I use this site just as often as TinyURL

Video Tools

76. Animoto for Education – Create video slideshows in minutes

77. TubeChop – Chop a section from any YouTube video and share it.

78. Ustream – Live video-streaming

Video-Sharing Sites

79. Art Babble – Art videos

80. TeacherTube.com – Educational videos

81. Vimeo – Popular alternative to YouTube

82. YouTube – Mainstream videos

Technology Learning Resources

83. Commoncraft – Great videos on Web 2.0 tools & practices

84. Digital Generation Project – Portraits of young students using digital media

85. Teaching Copyright – Materials for the classroom

86. Google Reader for Beginners – Tips on setting up and managing RSS Feeds

87. Google Apps for Education – Introductory video

88. Make Internet TV – How to record and publish video on the Web.

89. 7 Things You Should Know About – Guides to Web 2.0 tools & practices

90. Ten Ways to Use Web 2.0 to Change the World (or further your goals)

91. Social Media Tools 101 – Covers various tools from blogs to wikis

92. Tim Davies’ One-Page Guides – Guides to Web 2.0 tools & practices

93. Tweetable Art: 10 Twitter Tips for Artists – by Natasha Wescoat

94. A Newbie’s Guide to Twitter - Introduction to Twitter by Rafe Needleman

95. 90+ Videos on Technology & Media Literacy – Compiled by Alec Couros

96. Shift Happens- Home of the famed Did You Know 4.0 video

97. Multimedia ABC Video – Introduction to multimedia tools

98. Pew Internet & American Life Project – Research on the Internet

99. 12 Most Constructive Uses of Dropbox – Learn how to make the most of this tool

100.  Twitter Cheat Sheet for Educators – Everything you need to know to get the most our of Twitter.