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PB Wiki has created a "summer camp" experience for people wanting to learn how to use pbwiki to its full extent. The educational tools that they've developed are openly accessible, at least right now, to anyone. There are wonderful resources there for making a complex, interactive and highly interesting wiki. Go to Kristine's Wiki

I've also pasted the page of her wiki on interactive tools below so you can link directly from here to these amazing FREE resources.

Video

• Jing
• Camtasia
• CamStudio (Screencasts,like Camtasia, but free)
• ScreenCast-O-Matic (Screencasts,like Camtasia, but free)
• Video Hosting: Youtube / Teacher Tube / Vimeo
• Live Streaming: ustream, justin TV, yahoo.live
• Voice Thread  or check out what one of your peers wrote @ voice thread
• Animoto
• Wink
• Bubble Comment

  • Sample-- It takes a moment to pop up.  Or click try again or replay.  I recorded it for this resource page, but it won't work on https  pages such as this.  So click below to see a sample -- it will look like a "Server not found page" because it can't link to this secure page.

     

    http://www.bubblecomment.com/comment.php?id=77278004

• Sketchcast

• Skype

Great Classroom Buys:

• Flip camera - $125, pricelessly easy and FUN!

Audio

• Audacity
• Skype
• Read the Words
• Pod-o-matic
• Voki - create your own talking avatar, any language
• YackPack - group voice messaging

Brainstorming

• Mindmeister - conceptual mapping
• Bubblus - online mind mapping

Pictures

• Photo hosting: Flickr, Picasa
• Slide
• Bubbleshare
• PhotoStory

Polling / Surveys / Quizzes

• Zoho polls
• Polldaddy
• Mystudiyo
• Quizlet
• Quia - learning activities as well as quizzes and surveys - Great resource the subscriptions are cheap and the activities are easy to set up and link to a site.
• Survey Monkey
• Poll Everywhere

Google

• Gadgets: Directions, World time and date, Virtual Aquariums, etc..
• Google Calendar
• Google maps

Chat

• Gabbly (Beware of the ads)
• Meebo
• Campfire

Et cetera

• Dipity
• Twitter
• XTimline
• Shelfari
• Evernote
• Glogster - create interactive posters (images, video, links, music) Check out the "School Section"
• Go Animate - Free video animation

Copyright Free / Open Source Media

Creative Commons licensing allows artists to choose to offer their media for free or with some restrictions (eg. a credit line). When browsing for material at Creative Commons sites, check what individual contributor requirements. Even if media is free to use, students should still cite them unless otherwise indicated.

Images

• Wikimedia Commons
• Excellent collection of resources from Springfield Township High School's Library
• Copyright-Free Photo Archive (off GIMP)
• Free Images
• Torley's Flickr collection of textures
• Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students

Music

• Jamendo
• DMusic
• Opsound
• SoundClick

More Web 2.0 Resources

• http://www.go2web20.net/ - The Complete Web 2.0 Directory
• http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100.html - Top 100 tools for teaching
• Alma's free resources