Online Apps.
Word Processors
- Online Word processor, spreadsheet, slideshow, and database. (Allows you to store, publish, share, and collaborate.) ?
- Full online office suite. (Allows you to store, publish, share, and collaborate.) ?
- Online operating system. (Allows you to store, publish, share, and collaborate.) ?
Presentation
- Allows you to mix pictures, audio, and video in a collaborative environment where rich threaded discussions can take place. ?
- Online slide presentation tool that lets you publish your presentations either as webpages or embed them in webpages. ?
- Online Word processor, spreadsheet, slideshow, and database. (Allows you to store, publish, share, and collaborate.) ?
- Full online office suite. (Allows you to store, publish, share, and collaborate.) ?
- Online presentation tool that lets you create and share slide presentations. ?
- Upload PowerPoint presentations to share and embed on your website. Keeps all animations from origional file. ?
- Online operating system. (Allows you to store, publish, share, and collaborate.) ?
Image Editors
- Flash based free version of Adobe Photoshop. Edit and store your files online. ?
- Flash based image editor that looks and feels like a slimmed down version of Adobe Photoshop. ?
- Powerful yet intuitive online photo editor. ?
- Online photo editor that allows you to create animated gif files. ?
- Online photo editor. ?
- Online operating system that contains a nice paint program. (Allows you to store, publish, share, and collaborate.) ?
File Converters
- Online file converter that supports most filetypes. Upload and download without an email address or creating accounts. ?
- Online file converter that also lets you extract videos from YouTube. Requires an email account. ?
Spreadsheets
- Online Word processor, spreadsheet, slideshow, and database. (Allows you to store, publish, share, and collaborate.)
- Full online office suite. (Allows you to store, publish, share, and collaborate.)
- Online operating system. (Allows you to store, publish, share, and collaborate.)
File Management
- Unlimited free online storage of files up to 100mb. Also lets you share files with others.
- Box.net is like an online 1gig flash drive.
- 2gig of online storage. Allows you to share files with others.
- Email large files
- Email large files
- enables you to create simple private exchange points called "drops." Good for letting others upload files to you or to use as online storage.
Other Tools
- Share your screen with others online
- Create online quizzes and surveys
- Create online quizzes and surveys (lets you embed your survey on your webpage)
- Social Bookmarking. Keep your bookmarks online so they are with you at any computer.
- Create concept maps or ven diagrams online.
- Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.
- See what websites looked like on previous dates.
- Translate foreign websites into English. Or translate your own text into any of 14 other languages.
Search Engines
Google
- Ranks based on popularity (# of pages linked from).
- Energy saving Google search.
- Make your own search engine or choose from one someone else already created. This tool uses Google's search algorithms but only applies them to websites you choose instead of the whole web.
Yahoo
- Ranks based on relevancy (occurrence of terms).
Altavista
- Ranks based on connectivity of pages, including where the links come from and which ones are "hubs."
Dogpile
- combines the best of different search engines, into a more powerful and efficient "metasearch."
Ask.com
- Rank based on # of subject-related pages linked from.
del.icio.us
- returns searches based on what users have bookmarked
MSN
- results are compiled based on a database of websites that pay for rank.
Online Publishing
Blogging
- Blog host owned by Google. Great for journaling, publishing, and connecting with other writers with simmilar interests.
- Allows teachers to set up class blog accounts and manage the settings and permissions for students in their class.
- Blog host designed for educational use.
- RSS aggregator (allows you to subscribe to websites and have content pushed to you).
- Combine photos, video, and audio to create multimedia scrapbooks or scrapblogs.
Wikis
- Free wiki host. Allows you to create web pages that anyone with a password can quickly and easily edit. Great for community knowledge construction and information gathering.
- Free wiki host. Allows you to create web pages that anyone with a password can quickly and easily edit. Great for community knowledge construction and information gathering.
- Free wiki host. Allows you to create web pages that anyone with a password can quickly and easily edit. Great for community knowledge construction and information gathering.
Video
- User generated video content. Upload and share your videos.
- Extract audio from a YouTube video as an MP3 file.
- Like YouTube but for education. Great place for teachers to upload and share student projects.
- Create and send quick video messages
- Create and send quick video messages
- Record video screenshots online
- Upload, edit, & broadcast your videos, audio, and pictures and mash them together.
- Stream live from a webcam and mic. Allows you to create your own channel, host backchannel discussions, embed live streams on your website, and record sessions.
Podcasting
- Record audio files with your cell phone
- Content Management System (CMS) for publishing media content on the web. It automatically generates a skinnable website and an RSS-Feed for Podcasting.
Website Hosting
- Online Word processor, spreadsheet, slideshow, and database. (Allows you to store, publish, share, and collaborate.)
- Full online office suite. (Allows you to store, publish, share, and collaborate.)
- Online operating system. (Allows you to store, publish, share, and collaborate.)
- The State of Minnesota funds and hosts this site where residents are all entitled to a space to create their own websites. Great for digital resumes.
Reference Tools
Books & Articles
- SOUTHEASTERN LIBRARIES COOPERATING/SOUTHEAST LIBRARY SYSTEM
- Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
- Can't find what your are looking for in our library? Use this tool to find out what other libraries have it.
- Search for periodical articles online.
- Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.
Encyclopedias
- Wiki based encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Great for finding direction but be careful about citing Wikipedia sources in papers.
- Online encyclopedia, dictionary, and atlas (MSN).
Paper Formatting
- Online tools that generates citations for you in many formats for bibliography or work cited pages.
- Online tools that generates citations for you in many formats for bibliography or work cited pages.