www.voki.com Voki lets teachers and students create custom talking avatars. Choose and customize your head, clothes, and accessories. Choose a background. Give your Voki a voice by recording some audio, or typing some text. The text option allows you to select from a number of voices and accents. Share your Voki with a direct link, embed… Read more
PicMonkey.com Looking for a way to turn your latest photos into a masterpiece? Want to turn some text into a visual statement? PicMonkey can help you out, and best of all it’s free, online, doesn’t require an account. In addition to editing and touching up photos, you can add effects, create a Facebook Cover,… Read more
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Face Your Manga www.FaceYourManga.com Avatars have proven handy for a variety of uses in the classroom. Teachers can create one for each of their students, or allow students to create their own likeness. Face Your Manga is easy to use and offers a wide variety of ways to customize your avatar. With a little work,… Read more
emaze www.emaze.com Death by PowerPoint is one of the greatest fears of today’s students. While so many of my instructional materials were made in PowerPoint, I am making every effort to move completely away from it. I’m a big fan of Prezi and will continue to use it, but I recently came across something… Read more
Recite.comI received a lot of positive feedback about my post on Quozio, so today I’m sharing another resource for students and teachers to share quotes in a creative, visually appealing way. Recite.com offers a very straight-forward interface. Just enter your quote, select your style and click create. You can enter your quote by typing, copy/paste,… Read more
Note: RefME is now Cite This For ME – Check it out here. RefME RefME.com RefME is a free online citation / bibliography maker. It features many of the ways to cite references that you would expect – including URL, ISBN, ISSN, or search by article title. What got my attention was the ability… Read more
Quozio www.quozio.com Quozio is a fast and easy way to turn quotes into visually appealing images that can be printed or shared online. It’s a great way for teachers and students to share content-related quotes. Made in seconds with Quozio Simply type the quote and choose from one of several themes offered. A free… Read more
Snaggy www.Snag.gy Snaggy is the easiest way to crop and annotate screenshots without downloading software. Software options like Skitch and Jing offer a lot more features, but not everyone can download software at school. Students sometimes need screenshots, but maybe not often enough to justify downloading software. Basic screen capture is a… Read more
ZooBurst ZooBurst.com ZooBurst provides students with a quick and easy way to create interactive 3D Pop-Up Books that can be shared online. This is a great resource for creative digital storytelling assignments. Free accounts allow users to create up to 10 books with 10 pages each, while paid accounts offer many more features including… Read more
