Tech Tools

Note: This page is under construction! We'll be adding tips and tutorials throughout the year. If you have a great tech tool to contribute, let us know.

Presentation and Media Sharing Tools

  • Animoto

    • "Animoto turns your photos and video clips into professional video slideshows in minutes. Fast, free and shockingly simple - we make awesome easy."

  • Creative Commons

    • Search for images, sound, and video licensed for you to share, use, and remix.

  • Google Sites

    • "Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages."

  • Jing

    • Jing captures anything on you see on your computer screen, as an image or short video, and lets you share it instantly. Note: Jing is a free download.

  • Prezi

    • “Prezi is the zooming presentation editor ... bring your ideas into one space and see how they relate, helping you and your audience connect.”

  • SlideShare

    • Upload and share PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, and PDFs online. Great tool "for embedding content into websites.

  • Tagxedo

    • Create word clouds in the shapes of things.

  • VoiceThread

    • “Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.”

  • Wordle

    • Create word clouds from text that you provide. Words that appear more frequently in the text show up larger in the resulting image. Read our tips to get started.

Social Networking and Collaboration Tools

  • Blogger

    • "Free weblog publishing tool from Google, for sharing text, photos and video."

  • Google Docs

    • "Create and share your work online and access your documents from anywhere."

  • Google Sites

    • "Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages."

  • Wikispaces

    • "Wikis are simple web pages that groups, friends, and families can edit together."