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is a site to make animations by using pictures from the gallery or you can use your own pictures too. You can add music, some sound effects, text or record your own voice for your animation. You can get a link or publish your video on the site.
is a similar site to Prezi. It’s a way to create a presentation that transforms your layout into a zooming experience. You can add images, audios, documents, links and videos. You can also embed your presentations. The site itself is also created with Ahead. This experience is sure to be a great impression on your audience.
is a site where you can find ready flash animations to reuse by customizing them. You can use text-to-speech feature to make the characters talk. You also have different language selections. It’s an interesting and a fun site to play with,and a good practice for writing and listening.
is the easiest way to highlight texts on web pages. When you finish highlighting, you get a link to share it with others.
is a great and a fun way to display your live debates on a very simple visual format. You can use it to review a book or a story you read.
is a great site to create video pieces from your photos, clips or music less than a minute. You just add your photos, choose music and add your text. Animoto does the rest. You can get a link or an embed code for your website.
With Animata
, you can create animations and interactive backgrounds.
is a site where you can create a quiz, interact and challenge each other.
is a free,online spell checker. To check your text, just copy paste your content and you can get the results online instantly.
is a site to put any list in alphabetical order. When you finish, you can print it. There are also different options that you can use such as reversing a list, removing duplicates, capitalizing first words or ignoring definite/indefinite articles.
is a site to design an avatar with animals parts. You choose a background and send it to others. The sites gives you a name and tells about your features.
lets you create a brainstorming sheet that can be embeddable to your website.
BitStrips is a comic creator tool. You choose the characters from the gallery, write in the bubbles and publish it online or save it to your computer.
is a tool to add photo effects to your pictures to turn them into art.
is an online service to create professional network and exchange business cards on web. You can add videos, slide shows, files,external links, your websites, social sites and you can let other people to leave messages and it’s embeddable of course.
is a bot that can write and speak at the same time. The answers are logical, it also asks questions and analyze your answers.
lets you create a video greeting card using your own video. You can choose from different fun card designs that will fit in to your topic.
lets you create virtual groups to meet up in the digital books and have discussions on any chapter. You can also chat by leaving comments and sharing them with each other.
is a site to produce a high-quality PDF Blog Book from all your blog entries, comments and pictures.
is a multi user shared interactive whiteboard with simultaneous access and drawing capabilities. It lets you add as many as you want. Users can use each page independently, and each user can see the changes on each page.
lets you share your files with your visitors in a small widget box.
is another site that is featured by Pimpampum. You create and share your photobook using Flickr images. You can write tags to find the pictures from Flickr photos or you can search your name on Flickr to find your own photos. When you find them, you write your text that matches with the pictures. You may want to create your story with this tool.
is an interactive tool that lets you create a speacial BonzoBox site that you can build your page with your favourite websites. It has a drag and drop application that makes it easy for you to collect your favourites.
lets you make a photo talk with your own voice.
is a way to create your comic strip with Flickr pictures and add bubbles to tell your story!
BombayTV is a tool for writing subtitles for Bollywood films. You can also record your voice or use text to speech application. There is alsoBombayTV2
where you can edit different scenes from Bollywood films together and add subtitles to them
lets you create a slide show from images anywhere on the web.
is an engaging website. You can read book online or you can create your own and publish it.
lets you add bubbles to your pictures and create slide show.
is an automated bibliography generator. It finds information about your sources and formats the citations for you. This site can save you time while building your bibliography. It also allows you to search from a database of millions of entries to find your source.
BrainFlipsis a tool for creating, sharing and studying flashcards. You can add text, images, audio or video to your flashcards. Thanks to Rupert
for suggesting this tool.
This article originally appeared on TechLearning’s blog and Ozge’s blog and is reposted here with the author’s and TechLearning’s permission.
Özge Karaoğlu is an English teacher and a freelance edTech teacher trainer and an e moderator at British Council’s ELT Sharepoint. She currently works at Terakki Foundation Schools as an English teacher and the leader of the kindergarten department.
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