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Top student resources from Marco Torres wiki

Wikispaces Wiki - A flexible ad-free wiki – not very visually appealing, but used a lot! Actually very customisable. Examples to visit can be found at Educational Wikis
http://www.wordpress.com - get your own blog here.
http://www.21classes.com/ – or here!
http://edublogs.org/ – or here!
http://www.tumblr.com/ – the easiest way of all to share information.
http://posterous.com/ – the fastest way of all to blog, mulitipost … and more via email
http://www.flickr.com – free image hosting – be ready to share and embed your images into your blogs and wikis.
http://www.photobucket.com – upload your images and video files for free.
FlickrCC – the nicest source of Creative Commons images from Flickr! link back to the source.
http://www.soundzabound.com/ – Soundzabound is the ONLY royalty free music library which meets all the licensing and technology requirements needed for education!
http://www.gliffy.com/ – easily create flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings, and more!
http://www.slideshare.net – never loose a presentation again and add your voice commentary as well!
http://voicethread.com/#home – an online media album that allows people to make comments, either audio or text, and share them with anyone they wish. Open your VoiceThread account. Then go to upgrade the account – Go Pro! Be sure to look for K-12 Educators click here! because that will get you the free account.
http://www.glogster.com/edu/ – create interactive, hyperlinked, embeddable posters!
http://a.viary.com/tools – a collection of online tools to do a massive range of creative things.
http://animoto.com/education – unlimited videos for you and your students, where your video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music.
http://classtools.net/ – allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!
http://www.edmodo.com/ – Edmodo is a private micro-blogging platform for education.
http://www.flauntr.com/ – your chance to do great stuff with your photos!
http://www.zoho.com - Zoho is like office, but free, online and interactive.
http://www.google.com/notebook/ – Google Notebook – Clip and collect information as you browse the web
http://docs.google.com/ - Google Docs & Spreadsheats – Create, store and share documents and spreadsheets on the web
http://www.vodpod.com – search for online videos (YouTube, MySpace, Google etc). Create an account, keep them for yourself, or link them to you BLOG.
http://del.icio.us/ – forget saving bookmarks on your computer – go online and share!
http://www.mindomo.com – mindmapping and project planning tool. Files you create can be shared and developed collaboratively online.
http://mywebspiration.com/ – if you are familiar with Inspiration, then you will love this mind-mapping tool online. Adds online collaboration and chat to a much loved interface.
http://www.mindmeister.com/ – another wonderful online tool for mindmapping, brainstorming, revision, collaborative thinking and more.
http://www.bubbl.us/index – a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.
http://gickr.com/ – create Animated GIF online, free, right now! Create fun slideshows. No need for flash.
http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/ – Pencil – It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics.
http://fileurls.com/ – this is grand – 250MB file sharing, with time limit and password protection.
http://creativecommons.org - COPYRIGHT info that students need to know. Share, remix and reuse legally!!