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.