Super Awesome Massive List of Websites You'll Love!
Thanks, edjudo, for compiling the original list that I enhanced.
4Shared - An online storage site allowing you
to upload and share music, photos, video and documents (free 10GB)
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Life Videopedia – Short instructional videos
for every practical questions and DIY project (free)
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Chats – Allows teachers to create
customisable chat rooms that can be added to a class website or blog (free)
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Polls – Create customized surveys and
polls for your website, blog and social network profiles (free)
Ahead -
A web based non-linear presentation tool very similar to Prezi (free 300MB)
Animoto – Creates a quality slideshow from
your uploaded photos and videos (free education license available)
Audacity – Excellent audio software to record or install sounds to your
computer (microphone needed) and edit them afterwards. Also great for editing
or mixing songs (free)
Audio Expert
- A free and simple online audio editor, file converter and sound recorder.
Audioboo – An audio-blogging site where you
can send updates through the web, phone or its own iPhone app. (free)
AuthorSTREAM
– Allows you to publish and share your PowerPoint presentations as video
Aviary – A suite of powerful online creation
tools which allow you to create, edit and manipulate images (free)
Babbel
- Interactive online language courses
to improve your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation skills
BeFunky
– Get creative with your photos using many fun and simple photo editing and
effects (free)
Big Huge Labs - Create puzzles, movie
posters, magazine covers, calendars, badges and more from your photos.
Blabberize
– Animate pictures to make people, animals or objects talk (free) [edjudo review ]
Blender -
Excellent open source 3D content creation suite (free, must install)
Block Posters
– Make full size posters from pictures in your computer (free)
Blogger
– Web 2.0 blog writing tool (Free)
Blogpoll
- Simple polling tool that can be embedded into any school website or
classroom blog (free)
Box.net
– Online file storage where you can manage and share content with your
colleagues or students (free 5GB)
Bubbl.us – Create mind-maps either on your own or collaborating with
others (free)
Build your Wild Self
– Crate human / animal hybrids. Good for descriptions. (free)
Camstudio
– A desktop application that allows you to record your computer screen
(free)
Capzles
– Create rich multimedia storylines by combining your photos, videos, blogs
and audio (free)
Cartoonster
– Tutorials aimed at children explaining how to create animations (free)
Comic master - A free web
application that allows you to easily create comics (graphic novels) online.
(free) [edjudo review ]
Commoncraft
– Simple three-minute videos to help educators introduce complex subjects
(free to view)
Convore
– Convore is a quick way to instant message with groups of friends in
real-time (free)
Creative Commons Search -
Find media and resources which you are legally free to use and share (free)
Delicious – Access your book-marks from any
computer and share them with colleagues, students or friends (free)
Diigo
– Collect, organise and share with diego. Bookmark, highlight text and images,
add sticky notes to webpages
DivShare
- A tool on the web for storing and sharing your media and documents (free
5GB)
DoInk
– Allows you to create and share animations (free with paid extras)
Domo
– Create animations which can be embedded into blogs, wikis and other
websites. Primary aged. (free)
DotSUb
– Upload a video and create your own subtitles. Good for language learners.
(free)
Dropbox
– The easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online. Highly
recommended. (free 2GB basic account) [edjudo review ]
Dropmocks
– Create and share image galleries online by dragging photos into your browser
Edjudo–
Supporting web 2.0 tools, teaching, learning and technology in high school
Edmodo– A social learning network for teachers, students, schools and districts
(free)
Edublogs –
A hosted blogging platform designed for education (free with advertising)
Embedit.in
– Upload and embed documents into blogs or other websites
EmbedPlus
– This website allows you to add extra controls to Youtube embedded videos such
as slow motion, zooming, chapters and annotations [edjudo review ]
Evernote
– Collect all of your ideas, experiences, thoughts and memories into an always-accessible
place (free)
Facebook
– Call me if you aren't sure what this one is!
Flickr –
Very popular online photo management and sharing application (free)
Flipsnack
– Flipsnack will quickly convert uploaded PDF documents into a cool virtual
magazine with flipping pages.
Fotobabble
– Add your voice to photos and customised slide-shows
Freemind
– A desktop application for creating mind-maps written in Java. Must be
downloaded and installed (free)
Gimp
– An excellent open source, image manipulation tool. A good and free
alternative to Photoshop.
Gliffy
– Online diagram software. Create professional-looking flowcharts, diagrams,
floor plans and technical drawings (free)
Glogster
- Create unique, media rich, interactive posters which can be shared online
or embeded into wikis (free)
Gnowledge - an
education platform where everyone can create, publish, share and take tests,
exercises and assignments (free)
Go!Animate
– Make your own animated characters and create animated comic strips and
cartoons (free)
Hot Potatoes
– Six applications that allows you to create interactive multiple-choice,
short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill
exercises for the World Wide Web (free)
ImageChef
– Allow you to create custom images by combining text, symbols and photos using
a variety of online templates (free)
iPadio – Broadcast
from any phone to the Internet live. Create phone blogs and let others know
what your thinking (free)
iSendr
- An easy to use file transfer system allowing people to share files with a
few clicks (free)
Issuu
– Issuu is another tool where students can upload almost any document format
and create a virtual flipping book.
Jamendo
- A community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative
Commons licenses. Share your music or download other artists (free)
Jaycut
- A free online video editor (free)
JClic – A desktop
application that creates interactive exercises and multimedia educational
activities using Java (free)
Jing -Take a picture or make a short
video of what you see on your computer monitor. Excellent for creating video
tutorials. (free or $14.95 per year for a pro account)
Kerpoof
- Owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company, kerpoof allows children to
draw, tell stories, create cartoons and animations and much more (free)
KickYoutube
-Allows you to download and save youtube videos in a variety of formats (free)
Languages Online
-Resources for language teachers and students. Ready made interactive language
activities and programs for making your own interactive tasks (free)
Lingro
– A unique website that helps language learners read foreign web pages or
documents and build their vocabulary at the same time. (free)
Mahara -
Open source software that allows you to create electronic portfolios, weblogs,
resumes and social networking systems. It provides you with the tools to set up
and share an online personal learning environment (free)
mailVU
- mailVU provides the ability to record a video email at any time, and send
it to recipients where they can open it at any time (free)
Make Beliefs
Comix - Create comic strips online (free)
Masher
- An online video editor that allows users to create by mixing together
video clips, music tracks, and photos from their own uploads or from their
large resource library (free)
Mindmeister
- Another web application that allows you to create mind-maps (free basic
account)
Mindomo
– Mind mapping software tool (basic is free, $3 a month for educational pro
account)
Minus –
Drag files from your desktop and folders directly to your browser to start
sharing (free – for now)
Museum Box
- Tools to build up an argument or description of an event, person or
historical period by placing items in a virtual box (free)
My Award Maker
- Create your own awards to hand out to your students (free)
Myplick
- Allows you to upload, embed and share presentations online with the
option of adding audio narration (free)
Ning
- A platform for creating your own social network. Use it to communicate
and share resources with your colleagues, students or friends. (from $2.95 a
month)
OneTrueMedia
- Make creative slide shows from templates with your own photos and music
(free – 30 sec.)
Open
Office - The
leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets,
presentations, graphics and databases (free)
Paint
– Free image and photo editing software for computers that run windows. Support
for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and
powerful tools (free)
PDFCreator -
Open source desktop application that creates PDFs from any Windows program
(free)
Photo Story 3
– A windows desktop application that makes slideshows using your digital photos
(free)
PhotoPeach
- Easy to use slideshows creator. Supports background music, captions and
comments (free)
PhotoSynth
- A Microsoft web application that takes your photos, mashes them together
and recreates a 3D scene out of them that anyone can view and move around in.
Windows only. (free)
Photovisi
- Online tool to create photo collages using templates (free +paid extras)
Picasa
- Free photo editing software from Google. Download and install (free)
Picasa Web
Albums - Create online albums to share photos (free)
Picnik
- Powerful and easy to use photo editing application online (free +paid
extras)
Picture2Life
- Online image editor which also allows you to edit photos, create collages
and animated gif’s (free)
Pinterest
– An online pin board. Organise and share things you love
Piratepad
- Work collaborately online via a simple text editor updated and shared in
real time
Pixer
– Edit your photos online using your browser (free)
Pixorial
– Upload, edit, convert and organise video files (free for a basic account
only)
Pixton - An
online drop and drag comic creator with a paid education section for teachers
and students to work in a secure environment. (14 day free trial)
Podomatic - A podcast community
and publication tool (Free – first 500MB)
Polldaddy
- Create online surveys and polls (limited free account)
Posterous
- Easy to use blogging platforms which lets you post media online fast
using email, your mobile or the web (free)
Prealoadr
- Online tools to upload and optimize photos (free)
Prezi -
A web2.0 application that allows you to create stunning visual presentations by
zooming in, out and around a large, flat canvas or workspace (free)
Quiz Revolution
– Easy way to make a multimedia quiz for your website or blog (free)
Quizlet
- Create and share flaschcards with your own terms and definitions.
Excellent for language learners or to help students revise material (free)
Sclipo
- A set of eLearning tools to teach and collaborate with students (free
basic account)
Scratch
– Create and share your own interactive stories, games, music and art
Screenr
- An online tool that allows you to record what’s happening on your screen
and share it with others via twitter, blogs or embed it on your website. Great
for online tutorials (free)
Screentoaster - Another online
screen recorder that allows you to capture and share what is happening on your
computer screen (free)
Scribblar –
Designed for creative, real-time collaboration. Users can collaborate on the
creation and editing of images, drawings or even mathematical equations (free)
Scribd
- A document sharing service that allows you to upload, store and share
almost any document format for easy viewing online. You can also download
millions of books, manuals and articles based on various topics. (free)
Scribus
– An open source desktop publishing application that lets you to create
professional documents and page lay-outs and then exports them into PDF format
(free)
Sharendipity
- A web based creativity suite where anyone can build and deploy engaging
and interactive games and other web applications (free)
SketchUp
– A desktop application from Google that allows teachers or students to create
and share stunning 3D models from coffee pots to skyscrapers (free)
Slatebox
– A Tool for collaboratively creating mind maps and organizational charts (free
for teachers)
Slideshare
– Upload and share your PowerPoint presentations (free)
SmashMash.tv
- Animates pictures and photographs by making them move or add speech
bubble, audio or video. However you will need to download and install a plug-in
(free)
Smilebox
– Create e-cards, scrapbooks, slideshows, invitations, collages and photo
albums from your photographs. More than 1000 customizable templates to choose
from (free premium subscription for teachers)
Spicynodes
- Allows you to create mindmaps or organizational charts with bits of
information — such as text, links, photos, and other media — placed into
“nodes,” which are then linked together. You can then embed them into websites,
blogs and wikis (free)
Spider Scribe - An
online mind map creation service where you can add Word documents, images, maps
and more
Stixy
- Create your own online bulletin boards by sticking notes, appointments,
files, photos on the screen for yourself or for others to see (free)

Stripgenerator -
A web 2.0 cartoon strip generator (free)
Stupeflix
- Use templates to make creative online videos by combining your images,
videos and audio (free basic account)
Sugarsync
- Online storage and sharing of files via computer and mobile phones (free
5GB)
Sumo Paint
- A professional image editor and painting software in your browser (free
to use, paid features available)
Survey Monkey
- Create online surveys and polls with ease (free basic account)
Sync.in
- A web 2.0 based word processor for people to collaborate in real-time
TagGalaxy
– A simple, yet amazing web application that searches Flickr tags and displays the results in a creative
way. Good for starting a topic and brainstorming on an electronic whiteboard
(free)
Tagul - A follow on from Wordle, create customisable word or tag clouds
which can be embedded into blogs and wikis (free – still in beta version)
Tagxedo
– Following Wordle’s idea of creating
visually stunning, customisable word clouds. Tagxedo, however, allows for
greater customisation of the final cloud including its shape and file format
output (free)
TeacherTube – YouTube but for educational purposes. This site
is moderated so content is suitable for students. (free)
Timeglider – Allows you to create timelines which you can zoom in and out
from and span from hours to centuries. Great for history or discussing your
family tree (free)
Timetoast
– Create interactive time lines in minutes and share them on the web (free)
Tinychat
- Allows you to video chat online with up to twelve people in a room with
HQ video at once. Protected by passwords and moderators, you can even share
your desktop or record the conference and embed it onto your website or wiki
(free)
Titanpad
– Lets people work on one document simultaneously. Good for collaborative
teaching and learning tasks (free) [edjudo review ]
Toondoo
– Create your own comic characters and comic strips. (free for basic features
only)
Tricider –
Team decision making, brainstorming and collaborative solution web 2.0 tool
(free)
Tumblr
– A simplified blogging platform that allows you to share anything online. Post
text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, desktop,
email, or phone (free)
Tutpup
– Compete in fun, educational games against other kids from all over the World
(free)
Twiducate
- Based on the idea of Twitter, Twiducate is a micro-blogging service for
schools. You can post resources for students, rhare readings, reflect and
encourage discussion (free)
Twitter
- Twitter is a real-time micro-blogging service that connects millions of
people. It’s a great way for educators to share information, ideas and
experiences. Why not sign up and follow me (@edjudo2011) to get started and then see
who I follow or serach for topics that interest you (free) [edjudo review ]
TypeIt-
Allows you type in text requiring foreign accented characters in a variety of
languages using your keyboard and online accent keys. You can then email it to
yourself or copy paste it into another document. Unfortuantely Asian languages
are not yet supported (free)
TypeWith.me
- Web 2.0 tool that allows users to collaborate on a single document
[edjudo review ]
Udemy
– Lets you to create online courses, upload presentations, videos, host live
classroom sessions and write blog posts (free)
UJAM-
UJAM is a cloud-based platform that empowers everybody to easily create new
music and share it with friends (free)
Vimeo
- A simple yet effective video sharing site (free)
Vocaroo
- Still under development, this simple website allows you to record your
voice and email it or post it online for others to listen (free)
Voicethread -
A collaborative, multimedia slide show where many people can add comments
online. Store images, documents, videos and audio files (limited free educators
account)
Voki
- Allows you to create personalised speaking avatars and use them on your
blog, profile and in email messages. Great for teaching languages. (free)
Voxopop
– A bit like a message board but using voice rather than text. You can
set up a private talk group and help students develop their speaking skills.
Great for language activities (free)
Vuvox
- Web application allowing you to turn their digital photos, videos, text
and audio clips into interactive stories (free)
Wallwisher
- An online notice board maker where anyone can place messages or other
media on the screen. Good for group discussion and collaboration (free)
Wikispaces
– Educators are given a free 2 GB to develop wikis for their classes. Members
can create, edit or contribute to pages making it a great collaborative tool.
(free for teachers)
WiZiQ
– A web-based platform for anyone who wants to teach and learn live, online. A
virtual classroom, to create and share online educational content and tests,
and to connect with people sharing subject interests (free)
Wordle
– The original and still one of the best tag cloud creators. Allows users to
create customisable word clouds from any text with the most prominent words
highlighted via size (free) [edjudo review ]
WordPress
– A blogging platform and content management system. You can set up your
own blog using a variety of templates and choose from hundreds of features as
you need them. (free)
Writing Fun
– Explains the types of text commonly written in schools with printable
organizers and examples showing text structures, grammatical features and
publishing ideas (free)
Xmind
- A mind mapping desktop application (free)
Xtranormal
– A simplistic but versatile moviemaking system that uses virtual characters
and a text to speech facility (free)
Yammer
- Allows you to create your own, private social network. Users can then
communicate and share easily and securely (free)
Youconvertit
– Converts most file formats to any other file format including videos,
documents, audio and images. (free up to 100MB file, pay for extra features)
Youtube/edu
- The world most popular online video sharing website sorted to show only
videos from education institutions like universities and colleges.
Yudu -
A digital publishing library allowing anyone to share content with a wide
audience
Zamzar
– Online file conversions sent to your email (limited free account)
Zimmer Twins
- A website devoted to children and creative storytelling. Children can
create and share their own animated stories (free)
Zoho -
A comprehensive suite of online web applications that includes a word
processor, spreadsheets, a presentation tool, a wiki editor, an e-mail client,
online storage, quiz maker and too many other features to mention (all free for
personal use)
