Creativity Tools

We Video - Online video editing

Web 2.0 Scientific Calcualtor - Online calcualator

Vocaroo - Unedited voice recordings. Could be used to remind students about homework and school events etc. A quick and easy way to communicate with students at home. Gives you an embed code to put on your site or blog.

UtellStory - Tell stories with audio, image, video and words. Collaborate on topics

Twisted Wave - Online audio recording

Trello - Collaborative project planning

ToonDoo - Create cartoon strips telling your stories

ThingLink - Use any image from the web and add interactive links to it that will lead students off on an adventure of their choosing. Provides an embed code for your site as well.

Tagxedo - Word cloud creator

Study Ladder - Mixed ability platform

Study Blue - Flash cards and study notes

Sound Cloud - Store audio recordings and embed them onto your site or blog.

Screenr - Make videos of what you are doing on your screen as how to's

Scratch - Create stories, games, and animations

Scoop It - You can collect and collate videos and articles, and write a description for each one.

Scientific Calculator - A chrome app for a calculator with much more complex operations

RealTimeBoard - Collaborative whiteboard using resources from a wide variety of sources

Quizlet - Online flashcards! And not only that, you can create classes, get students to log in and then keep track of the high scores for two games at the end of the quizlet. Students need to learn the words and definitions to get a really good score. The leaderboard is public within your class, so students can see what their friends are scoring.

Quicknote - Good for taking notes which are then stored on a Diigo account

PuzzleMaker.com - Mae your own puzzles

Prezi - Create interesting presentations

Pixplor - Explore the world via images

Pixlr - Work with images in layers for a more photoshop feel

Pixiclip - Pixiclip is an interactive whiteboard. Upload images, draw sketches, and share replays with friends!

Pintrest - Pinterest is a visual discovery tool that people use to collect ideas for their different projects and interests.

Piktochart - It's very intuitive to use and has a whole lot of different templates (infographic, report, chart and presentation), and if you scroll down there are so many themes within them to chose from. After that, just double click to alter or delete any of the text or images, and drag and drop new ones. Great for student creations.

Piknik - Get the colour codes of any colour you like

Pic Monkey - Basic image manipulation

Photo Bucket - Great for storing images and moving GIFS ready to put on your site

Pearltrees - Collect, organise and share content

PDF Zen - Annotating PDF documents online in the browser

PDF Escape - Editing PDF documents online

Padlet - Collaborate on pin boards as a class

Narrable - Narrable uses storytelling through images and narrations to engage students and to draw out important higher order thinking skills.

Movenote - Presentations using all sorts of sources for the content

Kahoot - Create multiple choice quizzes

iPad Apps in Education - Blog - One of the hardest things with using the iPad in the classroom is finding the time to go through all of the apps in the iTunes Store listed under the education banner. We have started to list some of the apps we've found under each of the Key Learning Areas.

InstaGrok - good for gathering information. Type in a question and it displays information as an interactive spiderweb. Hover mouse over it to see information expanded.

Graphing Calculator - A chrome app for a calculator to draw graphs

Graffiti Creator - Graffiti style lettering creator

Google maps projects - Great things you can do with Google maps

Google Maps - Online access to maps

Google Icons - Good quality Google icons to download and use

Google Earth - Explore the earth

Google Art Project

Go Animate - Make animated videos

Glogster - Present images, moving images, video and text

GifMaker - Create animated gif files with your own images

FlipSnack - Create online interactive books from PDF files

Flash Cards - Make your own study and revision cards

Evernote - Save all of your ideas and experiences in Evernote, then access them from every computer and phone you use.

Doctopus - Doctopus gives teachers the ability to mass-copy (from a starter template), share, and manage grading and feedback for student projects in Google Drive.

Diigo Web - Online service for annotating, bookmarking, archiving and sharing webpages.

Digital Starter Kit - A list of various online tools from Richland School District

Crossword Puzzle Games - Create your own crossword puzzles

Cool Text - Lettering and buttons

Colour Scheme Designer - See what colours go with each other

Colour Lovers - Get great background patterns

Code Avengers - Learn to make games, websites and apps

Code Academy - Learn to code interactively

Code.Org

Chrome Apps for Education

Chogger - Create cartoon with your own images

Calculator - A chrome app for a simple calculator

Book Track - Add backing music and sound effects to books to listen to as you read along

Blabberize - Make the mouth move on an image and talk in your voice

Answer Garden - Brainstorm as a class

Adobe Voice - iPad app - Voice helps you create stunning animated videos in minutes. No filming — just talk to tell your story.