New Technologies & 21st Century Skills

INNOVATION

 

AVIARY

Aviary offers free online image editing tools, from basic image touching to complex effects. It boasts to be a free suite of powerful online creation tools for photo-editing, web templates, logos, filters, color pallettes, screen captures and more.

JING

Jing is a tool that captures images or animations on your computer with your own voice narratives. Once captured, The images or videos can be available instantly on the Web if the user sends them through either screencast.com or saves them locally and uploads to the website, like your blog site.

PREZI

Innovative and creative way to create and share presentations without PowerPoint. This zooming presentation tool also offers collaboration features. You can upload existing PowerPoint presentations and tweak it or create your own with various images, text, audio, video and animation.

VISUALIZING

Visualizing.org is a community of creative people making sense of complex issues through data and design... and a shared space and free resource to help you achieve this goal.

VOCABGRABBER

VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.

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