Web 2.0 Resources


My amazing coworker Erin Davis found all of these valuable Web 2.0 resources so I'm sharing them with you!

The following Web 2.0 Tools were collected from:

Animation
  • Doink - create fun animations with this incredible free animation / drawing tool
  • Pencil Animation - -Download Only
  • Blender - create amazing 3D renderings and gaming platforms as well
  • Dfilm - easily create fun films
  • Fluxtime -more animation fun
  • Goanimate -animate easily Domo - more from Goanimate - easy to create original animations
  • Flipbook -create fun flipbooks with this tools
  • Xtranormal -create movies with real characters
  • Canvastic - create simple animations on this free canvas
  • Zimmer Twins - creating animations for elementary kids
  • Anim8tor - create 3D animations while using algebraic and calculus function

Assessment & Evaluation

Avatar Maker
  • Doppel Me   Create a cool graphical likeness of yourself, your friends, family or any group of people for use as an avatar in forums, instant messenger, blogs and almost anywhere else on the web.
  • Gizmoz   Express yourself with a lifelike 3D talking head, created from your own picture!
  • FaceYourManga   Create your Avatar. Express yourself through your image and share it whoever you want.
  • Build Your WILD Self  Design your human self and then add your animal parts.
  • Kiwee   Free character and avatar maker. Also winks, backgrounds and emoticons.
  • TizMe   Create virtual images of yourself, your family, and your friends. Integrated support for community sites, instant messengers, and compatible mobile phones.
  • ReasonablyClever   Make yourself into a Lego avatar
  • Gravatar  A globally recognized avatar. An image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name

Collaboration
  • Google Docs share and collaborate
  • Writeboard- create collaborative docs in your browser
  • Zoho share and collaborate
  • Scriblink - create instant collaborative workspace areas save, print and more
  • AWW - an instant shared whiteboard that can be saved
  • Dabbleboard - instant collaboration online - create great graphic organizers and flow charts
  • Etherpad now also Titanpad - online text editing no registration instant collaborative whiteboard
  • Editstorm - brainstorm easily with this real time collaboration tool
  • Showdocument - create a document together, edit, discuss hold a web meeting for free
  • Sync.in - online text editor
  • Skrbl - instant notes and collaboration
  • Doing Text- online collaborative work spaces
  • Crocdoc
  • Nota create interactive note pages that allow you to post docs, video, audio, maps and comments. edit together.
  • Notesake take notes together share and collaborate
  • Browzmi - browse the internet together. Great for collaboration and research!!! What a great tool!!
  • Weblin - download and install this simple app to create an avatar and search the web with others
  • Yoowalk - browse the internet with others, fun and interactive.
  • Kaltura - collaborate with this video tool. Create a video together.
  • A.nnotate- publish files and annotate them online.
  • Lefora- create a public or private discussion forum network
  • Collaborizeclassroom - a great networking resource for teachers to create a safe learning env. for kids
  • Twiddla- instant canvas for sharing, creating, chatting and more. Get started instantly!
  • Show Document - instantly collaborate on any document. Original doc is not altered just annotated.
  • Collanos - keep all of your files in one desktop area
  • Mixedink - create collaborative arguments or with your opinions and facts
  • flockdraw - draw and create together -invite and share on twitter
  • Thumbscribes - create collaborative poems, haiku, stories songs and more with this simple tool
  • Justbeamit - beam anything over the web simple drag and drop.
Collage Tools

  • vuvox      Create a collage with pictures, video, audio and text. Customize backgrounds, colors, textures. 
  • scrapblog       Create an online scrapbook.
Communication
  • Skype in Education - download and install for quick video conf. purchase a webcam for about $35. Kids love showing off when doing reports, labs plays, demonstrations. http://education.skype.com/
  • Wetoku - create online interviews with people from anywhere in the world, share and publish
  • Anymeeting - create free online meetings or webinars for up to 200 participants. They say it's always free.
  • dimdim - online synchronized meetings
  • Anymeeting - create free online meetings or webinars for up to 200 participants. They say it's always free.
  • Palbe embeddable virtual conf. room free 3 people
  • Presentonlinenow - a free webinar based room for anything
  • Geesee - embeddable chat gadget
  • Yaplet embeddable chat gadget
  • ooVoo - download and video chat with anyone around the world.
  • MeBeam- instant chat rooms
  • Meeboo- create free chat rooms
  • VoxOx - free download for all of you online collaborations and communications
  • ChatMaker - Free instant Chat rooms
  • Backnoise - back channel chats that you can embed
  • Tinychat - create a free room, embed into a website, save chats
  • Babelwithme - create collaborative chats that translate while you type
  • Talki - Embeddable forums for any site
  • Nurph - Chat anywhere on any website using your twitter account
  • Voxopop - discuss topics with your real voice... create discussion groups


Drawing Tools


  • Google Sketchup   A 3D software tool that combines a tool-set with an intelligent drawing system. Enables to place models using real-world coordinates. Create, modify and share 3D models.
  • Tagxedo   Turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
  • Floor planner   Create and share interactive floorplans
  • Comic Sketch   Draw your own comics. Embed them into any webpage.
  • Comicbrush   Mix stock artwork from our fun collection of comic backgrounds, characters and props with photos of your friends, neighborhood or college.You can add speech balloons, text, your own artwork and more, before publishing.
  • Comic Master  Create your own comics, add captions, dialogue, backgrounds, characters and props.
  • Sketchfu   Create a drawing, save and play back as a movie of the drawing being created. Embed into any webpage.
  • Sketchcast   Record a sketch with or without voice audio. Embed sketch player into any webpage or point people to your sketch channel.
  • Mugtug   Sketch or draw.
  • Textorizor    Make pictures from words. Select the image url from flickr and type in the key words. Change the settings to suit image size and strokes.
  • Artpad    Drawing pad with paint and text. Choose a frame, save and play back as a movie of the drawing being created. I cannot find any way of embedding.
  • LiveBrush   Free download. Easy-to-use brush tool that reacts to your gesture by combining simple motion controls with brush styles. Toss graphics around the screen or elegantly swing the brush around your cursor.
  • Cacoo   A user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts.
  • GoAnimate   Create your very own animated stories online. Share them with all your friends
  • Doink  Create and share custom animations. Collaborate with others by using and sharing props.
  • Chogger   Create your own cartoon strip or comic. Use your own drawings from scratch or upload your own photos or drawings.
  • SculptyPaint   A low polygon 3D creation tool original written for creating sculpts; 3D low polygon models for SecondLife. But currently it can also export to .obj files that can be read in Blender, wings3D etc.
  • Kerpoof   Make a picture, movie, drawing, card or story. Not a free site for public users, but Teacher accounts are free and can add class as users for free.
  • Pixlr   Free online image and drawing editor, jump in and start edit, adjust, filter.
  • Pictaps   Draw your person, let it come to life with preset animation.
  • Scribbler   Create spectacular line sketches from a simple drawing.
  • SimpleDiagrams   A small desktop application with enough functionality to describe a thought or capture a process. Drag, drop and size symbols from libraries. Add photos and post-notes. Save diagrams on your computer or export to PNG.
  • Digital Drawn   Design and draw your own e-card
  • Pencil   An animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics

File Converter Tools
  • youconvertit      Convert files.
  • Zamzar      Convert files without downloading software

Free Storage
  • Box   Upload files to share with others 
  • Fileden   Hotlinking allowed for all allowed file extensions, including videos and music files.  1GB of personal storage space. Need to log in once a month.  A 50mb maximum file size limit 5GB of monthly bandwidth
  • Divshare   Store and share videos, photos, music and documents. Upload and share up to 5g. Hotlinking allowed.
  • Kadoo   Upload your files once and use them from mobile and web applications to web sites and services, without sacrificing your right to privacy or file ownership. Work in conjunction with divshare.
  • RapidShare   Store large files online and access them wherever you are and whenever you want to. Share your data with just one click.
  • MegaUpload   Provider of online storage and web hosting services.
  • Sigmirror   Free file and image hosting. Upload and share up to 2.5g. Hotlinking allowed.
  • InternetArchive  Contribute and upload books, audio, and video files that you have the right to share.  The Internet Archive, a non-profit library, will provide free storage and access to them.
  • 4Shared   Free online storage. Upload, access, share your music, video, photos. Upload and share single file or entire folder. Need to log in once a month.
  • PictureTrail   Biggest slideshow selection on the web. Post them to any webpage. Also photo sharing and image hosting.
  • Dropbox   Easy way to store, sync, and, share files online. Available for Windows, OS X, and Linux. Download onto your computer. Store, sync and share your files online.
  • DROPitTO.me   Together with Dropbox you can setup an unique upload address with password protection.
  • Filedropper   Upload bigger files - up to 5g.
Organizing and Graphing Tools

  • bubbl.us       Tool to help people organize their ideas.
  • Classtools       Several tools to diagram and chart information including Venn, fishbone, and a priority chart.
  • ChartTool      Tool to design and share graphs online including bar charts, pie charts, line charts, bubble charts and radar plots. 
  • exploratree     Tool for creating thinking guides by uploading photos
  • gliffy      Tool to create, share, & collaborate using diagrams.
  • mind42       Tool to create and share mind-maps.
  • Mindomo       Tool to create and share mind-maps.

Photo/Image Tools
  • alegri photos       Free stock photos and public domain images.
  • aviary       Online photo editing.
  • kitzu        Downloadable collections of "kits" by California standards to assist teaching, learning, and multimedia projects.
  • phixr       Online photo editing.
Image and Photography Tools
  • Flickr  Upload, organise and share your photos.
  • Picasa  Download to your computer. Organise and share photos.
  • Yogile  Online photo album for sharing with friends. Password protected albums. Download photos to your own computer.Photobucket  Upload all your photos, videos, and images for free. Make photo slide shows to share pics with friends.
  • Tinypic  Upload your photos. Use them to link to your webpages.
  • Gickr  Create animations online, free. Upload pictures or pull them from Flickr. Create funny flashy slideshows with you and your friends, cartoons, previews, banners, etc. Post them anywhere.
  • Snapfish  Store and share your photos for free.
  • Afelo   Allows to select images on your local computer, to resize and compress them and to send them onto your site or save locally on your computer.
  • Gigapan  Allows users to upload, share, and explore brilliant gigapixel+ panoramas from around the globe. Upload your own brilliant panoramas for others to explore and comment. Also, allowing other web sites to embed examples.
  • Skitch   Free download for mac only.  Use any image and annotate with circles and arrows, add text, scribble and jot.  Resize and crop.  Drag the file to wherever you like, no need to save
  • Be Funky   Upload a photo and turn it into a sketch, avatar or cartoon with a few simple clicks.  Embed into any webpage.
  • Cartoonize  Cartoon yourself in one click. Directly online & free
  • Spotjots  Upload your photos, add a map to show location.
  • ImageCodr   No need to manually link and attribute flickr photos. Just enter in the URL of the picture page and ImageCodr will generate the ready to use HTML code. It will also display a brief and easy license summary, so you don't get in legal trouble because you missed something.
  • Dosize   Upload and resize images, send to friends.
  • Webinpaint    Remove one or more objects or persons from your composition.
  • iZoom   Allows you to easily resize and crop your photos for optimized display on your iPod photo, on the web, or in email messages to friends. Useful for creating web photo galleries, forum-user avatars, and image thumbnails, or resizing your photos for perfect viewing on your iPod photo screen.
  • BlockPosters   Upload an image from your computer and choose how many sheets wide you would like your poster to be once printed
  • Cosketch   A multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share your ideas as images. Other users share the room in real time. Save a sketch as an image for embedding.. Use google maps as the background to show directions or share trips. 
  • Greenshot   A screenshot tool optimized for productivity. Save a screenshot or a part of the screen to a file within a second. Apply text and shapes to the screenshot. Offers capture of window, region or full screenshot. Supports several image formats.
  • Cameroid   Take photographs online and download pictures to your computer. Similar to Photo Booth.  Some great backgrounds and frames, and cool effects.
  • Photosynth  Imagine being able to share the places and things you love using the cinematic quality of a movie, the control of a video game, and the mind-blowing detail of the real world. Reconstruct the scene or object from a bunch of flat photographs, and bring that experience to virtually anyone over the Internet. PC only.
  • Dumpr   Create marvellous photo effects, upload your own photo, save, email, print or embed.
  • Tabblo   Creation tools for both online and print.
  • Pixenate   Make photo-centric websites more useful by embedding simple photo-editing directly in your website.
  • Photovisi   Turn your photos into collages and wallpaper.
  • Mosiackr   Create beautiful mosaics from your flickr pictures, and even print them on posters!
  • Picture2LIfe   A powerful, but simple and easy-to-use online image editor which also allows you to create collages and animated gif's (or animations). It works great with your pictures that you already have online!
  • Photofunia   Create your own images by inserting your photo into various images and scenes.
  • Speechable   A free photo service that lets you easily upload and add speech bubbles to your photos and share them with friends
  • Says-It   Allows you to make your own funny photos and graphics. Simply type in some text and choose from a few simple options. You can create your own signs and more.
  • Blingeasy   The photo editor lets you easily add Glitter, Animated Images, Backgrounds, Text and many other amazing effects to your photos or images.
  • Big Huge Labs   Generator using photos. Make cool things with your digital photos.
  • Tuxpi   A collection of easy to use photo effects. Browser based imaging tools and toys, that let you very easily apply a special look to your pictures.
  • Image Generator   Image, sign, text generator. Lots of quirky widgets and generators to make frame, text in pics, insert images, and loads more.
  • Sign Generator   An online widget that allows you to change the letters in various photos of signs (road signs, people holding signs, product parodies) to make personalized images/graphics and ecards. 
  • Add Letters   Generate your own funny pictures based on the text you enter. The generated picture looks real and can be downloaded for your own enjoyment! Create your own newspaper headline, make your own diploma, or even make a custom restaurant sign!
  • Trading Card Maker   Make your own collectible trading card! Or make a whole deck and create a card game.
  • FunPhotoBox   Create funny pictures from your photos. Allows you to add special effects to your photos. Select an effect from a list of templates. Upload your photo and select any area of your image to be cropped. Email, embed or hotlink your image.
  • Bubblesnaps   Add speech bubbles to any photo. Embed into a webpage or send to your friends.
  • Imagechef   Add photo frames, or use sketchpad or poetry blender tools.
  • FaceinHole   Put your face on another body - celebrities to superheroes.
  • SpaceYourFace  Put your face in the astronaut and do the astronaut dance.
  • WordMosiac   Turn your words into a shape image.
  • Spell With Flickr   Type in any word. Searches flickr images to generate the word.
  • Mutapic   Create visual brainstorms with an online picture generator. Proposes ideas, makes sketches and allows you to refine your sketches until you get a final render. Uses 2 images to create logos, patterns, decorative elements.
Colour Tools:
  • Genopal  A demo that lets you get a colour palette from a photo - the actual product is not free, but the demo is. 
  • ColorJack  Colour scheme generator, DHTML color picker. Gives you the hexadecimal number of every colour.
Photo Manipulation Tools:
  • Online Image Editor  Edit images ONLINE. Resize or crop your images, add text, add borders, or overlay your images, put your image in a picture frame or add a mask, convert, sharpen, reduce size of your animated gif... and much, much, more....
  • Fotoflexer  Online image editor. Create dazzling effects. Can remove blemishes, change skin/hair color, morph photos.
  • Picnik  Fix your photos in just one click. Use advanced controls to fine-tune your results. Crop, resize, and rotate in real-time. Tons of special effects, from artsy to fun. Awesome fonts and top-quality type tool. Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux. No download required, nothing to install.
  • Photoshop  Online version of Photoshop.
  • Splashup   A powerful editing tool and photo manager. Allows you to edit many images at once. Runs in all browsers, integrates seamlessly with top photosharing sites, and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress.
  • Pixlr   Free online image editor, jump in and start edit, adjust, filter.
  • Lunapic  Free Online Photo Editor. Photo and paint effects. Image manipulation. animated Gif creator.
  • Pixer.us  Upload your photo, fix your photo using the tools, save to download it using your preferred file format.
  • Clevr  Stitch your photos to make panoramas. Share your panorama on the web in the interactive viewer. Embed it into your blog or website. You can add interactive hotspots to your panoramas. These let viewers click areas in the panorama for more information. They can display notes, photos or video.
  • Faststone   A suite of tools (freeware or shareware) including image browser, converter and editor, image converter/resizer, image viewer and screen capture tool.
  • Pizap  Fun photo editor, image editing tool, free photo creator, make slideshow, digital imaging tool.
  • Piclens  Download add-on for Firefox.  Transform your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for online photos and videos. Fly through 1000s of YouTube videos faster than you've imagined possible. 
  • Pics4Learning  A copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. Unlike many Internet sites, permission has been granted for teachers and students to use all of the images donated to the collection.
  • Ginipic  Image search engine download. Find what you're looking for and use it instantly in your own creation - document, presentation, art work
  • Behold  Find free to use images by tag name
  • Pdphoto  A repository for free public domain photos.
Screen Recording
  • screencast o matic   Screencast-O-Matic is an online screen recorder for one-click recording from your browser on Windows, Mac, or Linux with no install for FREE!
Text Tools
  • Cool Text  Free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own custom image created on the fly
  • Typogenerator   Turns a piece of text into a piece of art 
  • Glitter Text Live  Glitter text generator to embed into any webpage
  • Fontstruct   Build, share and download your own fonts.
  • Textanim   Generate an animated text picture (gif) with texture in 10 seconds.
  • 3D Animated Text   1,000 pages of free, high-quality animated text to make your web site or blog more interesting. And you'll find links to thousands of pages of free animations.
  • Wondersay   Generate stylish animations from plain text. Take the original text (quotes, tweets, custom sentences) and make it more fun by adding style and transforming it. Sharing is easy, and you can embed them on your site.
  • Glowtxt   Glowing text generator
  • FlashVortex  Create menus, buttons, banners for free. No sign up, no software to install, no design skill required.

Video, Text-to-Speech, & Animation Tools
  • viddler      Create and edit video online.
  • veoh     Search for video clip of movies, TV shows, anime, and more.
  • voki      Create an online avatar using text to speech

Websites
  • Weebly   Create a free website.  Drag and drop interface 
  • Weebly for Education   Easily create a classroom website & blog. Manage your students' accounts. Accept homework assignments online. Keep your parents up to date
  • Fileave   Host 50 MB of your video's, music, and images for use anywhere. Get 50MB of storage for any file type, direct link URL's to share the files on other sites, and all the HTML codes you need to embed your files. Includes a free subdomain!
  • Squidoo  Make a page online.
  • Wix  Import favourite pictures and movies from your own computer or from the web. Create stunning pages using creative elements.  Embed into any webpage or share directly.
  • Yauthor   On-line service with authoring tools allowing authors to create professionally looking interactive content easily. You can create tests and interactive lessons with plenty of configurable activities and feedback.
lino it     Online stickies and reminders with customizable layouts

wallwisher       Online notice board









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