This document provides a list of online tools for creating mind maps, drawings, presentations, slideshows, audio editing, posters, timelines, animations, word clouds, communication and collaboration, and conducting research. Some of the tools highlighted include Bubblus and Popplet for mind mapping, TuxPaint and Drawing for Children for drawings, Prezi and Weebly for presentations, Animoto and Picture Trail for slideshows, Audacity for audio editing, and Google Drive and Wikispaces for collaboration.

1. Danielle Carter
Education Officer ICLT
Edition One End of 2012

2. Creating
Mindmapping
Bubblus
Create colourful brainstorms and mind
maps online. Embed your mind map in your
blog or website. Save your mind map as an
image.
https://bubbl.us/
Popplet
Popplet allows users to visualize connections
between ideas and bits of information by
organizing them into a graphic map.
http://popplet.com/
Gliffy
Online diagramming software, to easily
create professional-looking flowcharts,
diagrams, floorplans, technical drawings,
and more.
www.gliffy.com/
ExploraTree
Free online library of thinking guides and
graphic organisers.
Print them out or fill in on the Exploratree
website.
Build up a personal portfolio of useful
thinking guides. Change or customise them
using images, text and shapes.
www.exploratree.org.uk/

3. ClassTools
Templates for source analyser, priority chart,
jigsaw diagram, learning cycle, living graph,
hamburger, target, lightsout, venn diagram,
fishbone, diamond , postit, dustbin game,
random name picker, random timer, flash
card generator. Embed into any webpage.
www.classtools.net/
SpiderScribe.Net
Online mind mapping and brainstorming
tool. It lets you organize your ideas by
connecting notes, files, calendar events,
etc. in free-form maps. Collaborate and
share maps online.
spiderscribe.net/
Text2Mindmap
Converts text lists into mind maps. Online
graphic creator.
www.text2mindmap.com/
Drawing
TuxPaint
Tux Paint drawing program for children ages
3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). It
has an easy-to-use interface, fun sound
effects, and an encouraging cartoon
mascot who guides children as they use the
program. It is MAC and PC compatible and
is a free download.
tuxpaint.org/

4. Drawing for
Children
Drawing for Children is a free drawing
program for children. Draw with many
different pens, you can put stamps on your
drawings, create all sort of text effects, and
much more.
http://drawing.gamemaker.nl/
Livebrush
Livebrush is a drawing application. It
employs an easy-to-use brush tool that
reacts to your gesture. By combining simple
motion controls with brush styles, Livebrush
offers a fun and unique way to create
graphics.
www.livebrush.com
Art Rage
Easy to use drawing and painting program.
Lots of tools for effects and editing.
www.artrage.com/

5. Photo Editing
BeFunky
BeFunky simplifies photo editing and effects
for everyday people. Lots of photo effects to
turn your ordinary photos into extraordinary
art with virtually no effort. Fix your common
photo problems like bad lighting, digital
noise, fuzzy colours and details with one click.
www.befunky.com/
Pixlr
Pixlr is a free online photo editor. Edit, adjust
and filter your images. No registration
pixlr.com/
FotoFlexer
Web-based picture editor. It includes simple
browser-based image editing—and
FotoFlexer adds a few of its own advanced
tools such as layering and animations.
fotoflexer.com/
Aviary
Photo editor has many tools to create
effects and editing.
www.aviary.com/

6. Flickr
Popular photo-sharing site - lets you
annotate, edit and comment on.
www.flickr.com/
Book Creation
StoryBird
Read, create and comment on stories. Use
artists work to form a story. Simple drag and
drop art work into a range of story page
scaffolds interface.
storybird.com/
Storyjumper
Easy way to create your own. A range on
stories to read as well.
www.storyjumper.com/
TIKATOK
Write, illustrate and publish your own books.
Add your own pictures to suit your story.
www.tikatok.com/
Zooburst
Allows opportunity to create interactive pop
up books.
www.zooburst.com/

7. Presentations
Prezi
Prezi bring your ideas into one space and see
how they relate, helping you and your
audience connect. Zoom out to see the big
picture and zoom in to see details.
prezi.com/
Museum Box
This site provides the tools for you to build up
an argument or description of an event,
person or historical period by placing items in
a virtual box.
museumbox.e2bn.org
Weebly
Very simple web creation site. All drag and
drop elements.
www.weebly.com
ePubBud
Browse, create or convert a book to an epub
format.
www.epubbud.com/
Info.gram
Create infographics or charts. There are also
many visual data representation you can
discover that others have made.
infogr.am/

8. ThingLink
ThingLink helps you create and discover rich
images. Images come alive with music,
video, text, images.
www.thinglink.com/
Easl.Ley
Create and share visual ideas online
vhemes are visual themes. Drag and drop a
vheme onto your canvas for easy creation of
your visual idea.
http://www.easel.ly/
Slideshows/ Movies
Animoto
Create simple video slide shows. Simple add
pictures, text, select music and create.
animoto.com
Picture Trail
Biggest slideshow selection on the web. Post
them to any webpage. Also photo sharing
and image hosting.
www.picturetrail.com

9. PhotoPeach
Automatically make your own free slide show
in seconds. Upload photos, pick music, add
captions in the show.
photopeach.com
Jing
Snap a picture of anything on your desktop,
or record video of what you do or what you
see. Upload and share online.
www.techsmith.com/jing.html
TubeChop
TubeChop allows you to easily chop
a funny or interesting section from any
YouTube video and share it.
http://www.tubechop.com /
Loopster
FREE online video editor. Just Shoot->Edit-
>Share!
http://www.loopster.com/
Vuvox
VUVOX is an easy to use production and
instant sharing service that allows you to mix,
create and blend your personal media –
video, photos and music into rich personal
expressions.
www.vuvox.com

10. Audio
Audacity
Free, open source software for recording
and editing sounds. It is available for Mac
OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and
other operating systems.
audacity.sourceforge.net/
Vocaroo
Simple audio recorder, no uploading
required. Can embed into any webpage.
vocaroo.com/
Fotobabble
Add a voice to your photos in three easy
clicks.
www.fotobabble.com/
Voki
An avatar to speak your text.
www.voki.com/
Blabberize
Choose a photo or upload from your
webcam. Record or upload your audio.
Your mouth will move in time to the speech.
blabberize.com/

11. Posters/Newsletters
Glogster
A collaborative learning platform for
teachers, educators & schools! Glogster EDU
Premium is a collaborative online learning
platform to express creativity, knowledge,
ideas and skills .
edu.glogster.com
Smore
Design beautiful online flyers and publish
instantly
www.smore.com
LetterPop
Create newsletters, actionable
presentations, invitations, product features,
event summaries, informative updates,
lovely picture collages.
letterpop.com
Timelines
Dipity
Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Users
can create, share, embed and collaborate
on interactive, visually engaging timelines
that integrate video, audio, images, text,
links, social media, location and
timestamps.
www.dipity.com

12. TimeToast
Create interactive online timelines.
TimeToast allows images, links and text to
elaborate on each event.
www.timetoast.com/
Animation/ Comics
Toondoo
Toondoo is a platform for creating and
sharing cartoons. Choose a single, double,
or triple panel. Import images, but Toondoo
offers a wide range of characters, text
bubbles, backgrounds, etc
www.toondoo.com/
Scratch
Scratch is a programming language that
makes it easy to create your own
interactive stories, animations, games,
music, and art Learn important
mathematical and computational ideas,
while also learning to think creatively,
reason systematically, and work
collaboratively.
scratch.mit.edu/
DoInk
DoInk has created a virtual space for
creative minds to come and share their
drawings and animations.
www.doink.com/

13. Go Animate
GoAnimate is an animation web tools.
Create student
account.http://goanimate4schools.com/pu
blic_index
ABCYA Animate
AnimateStar kids can learn the basics of
animation using a 40 frame easy to use
interface. Animations can be as short as 2
frames or as long as 40 frames.
http://www.abcya.com/animate.htm
Word Clouds
Wordsift
Enter or paste any text into WordSift and
you can engage in a verbal quick-
capture! The program helps to quickly
identify important words that appear in
the text.
www.wordsift.com/
Wordle
Wordle is a toy for generating “word
clouds” from text that you provide. The
clouds give greater prominence to words

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text. You can tweak your clouds with
different fonts, layouts, and color
schemes.
www.wordle.net/
Tagedo
Tagxedo turns words into a visually
stunning word cloud, words individually
sized appropriately to highlight the
frequencies of occurrence within the
body of text.
With Tagxedo, you can:
 make word clouds in real-time
 customize font, theme, colour,
orientation, and shape
 save as images for printing and sharing
 choose from many standard fonts
 use custom fonts (e.g. downloaded
from Font Squirrel, DaFont, FontSpace,
or your own hand-drawn fonts)
 constrain the word cloud to selected
shapes (heart, star, animals, etc)
 use images as custom shapes (e.g. a
portrait, an animal silhouette)
http://www.tagxedo.com/

15. Communication and
Collaboration
Voicethread
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia
slide show that holds images, documents, and
videos and allows people to navigate slides
and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice
(with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or
video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread
with friends, students, and colleagues for them
to record comments too. Users
can doodle while commenting, use
multiple identities, and pick which comments
are shown through moderation.
voicethread.com/
Wix
Wix allows anyone to create a very modern,
interactive website using drag and drop
features.
www.wix.com/
Wallwisher
Wallwisher gets the user creating a web-
based bulletin board or wishing wall and
posting notes, photos and videos in minutes.
wallwisher.com/

16. LinoIt
Lino is an online web sticky note service that
can be used to post memos, to-do lists, ideas,
and photos anywhere on an online web
canvas.
en.linoit.com
Stixy
Stixy as your online bulletin board. Post notes,
photos and videos in minutes.
http://www.stixy.com/
JoinMe
Free, simple, fast online meetings. Share your
screen instantly with anyone.
https://join.me
PollEverywhere
Audience response system that uses mobile
phones, twitter, and the web. Responses are
displayed in real-time on gorgeous charts.
www.polleverywhere.com/
Todays Meet
Create a room for communication.
http://todaysmeet.com/

17. Twitter
Twitter is 140 characters micro blogging
social media site. Social Media is content
that has been created by its audience. To
use social media successfully you create
conversations, conversations create
communities.
www.twitter.com
Google Drive
Google Drive - online documents with real-
time collaboration. Web-based documents,
spreadsheets, drawings and presentations
that let users edit the same file at the same
time so you always have the latest version.
Wikispaces
Wikis are simple web pages that groups can
edit together. It is a type of free on-line
writing space that allows users to add,
modify and update its pages.
www.wikispaces.com
Poll Daddy
.
Create stunning surveys, polls, and quizzes in
minutes.
polldaddy.com/

18. Survey Monkey
Create simple surveys and polls online.
www.surveymonkey.com/
Issuu
Collect, share and publish in a format
designed to make your documents.
issuu.com/
Inquiry
Livebinder
Collect your resources, organize them
neatly and easily. Add the livebinder button
your browser toolbar. Find a link you want to
save then click on the button to
automatically add the link to a new
livebinder.
www.livebinders.com/
Symbaloo
Bookmark and share online favourites.
Organise your teaching resources in one
place.
www.symbaloo.com/
Evernote
Capture information in any environment
using whatever device or platform you find

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information accessible and searchable at
any time, from anywhere.
www.evernote.com
Scoopit
Collect your resources, organize them
neatly and easily
www.scoop.it/
Gapminder
Gapminder World shows the World’s most
important trends.
www.gapminder.org
HowBigReally
Dimensions takes important places, events
and things, and overlays them onto a map
of where you are.
howbigreally.com/
Google Earth
View anywhere in the world anytime
Google SketchUp
Find and share models with the world.

20. Open Heat Map
Turn your spreadsheet into a map
1 - Upload your spreadsheet
2 - Get an interactive online map in
seconds
www.openheatmap.com/
Visuwords
Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary —
Look up words to find their meanings and
associations with other words and
concepts.
www.visuwords.com
Many Eyes
Examples of Data visualisation. Key tool for
releasing data to the web in visualised
formats.
www-958.ibm.com/
Pinterest
An online pinboard. Organize and share
your favourite web pages and items.
pinterest.com/