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The collection of resources and links are currently being moved from the old website to this new site. You may find that some of the links are out of date and do not lead anywhere.
EdTech, as is life, is a journey with many dead ends.
| wix.com | This is my website builder of choice. This easy to use, drag and drop tool allows you to build beautiful flash websites in a matter of minutes. You can embed these pages into other sites and blogs. There are lots of good widgets including email forms and comment boxes. You can also build mobile sites. Build them by choosing a template and background and add the info, links and images you want. |
| justpaste.it | A really simple way to post text and pictures online with this instant website maker. Great for setting homework. |
| issuu.com | A great online publishing site. Upload pdf files and read them online like a professional magazine. Uploading is a little fiddly the first time you do it, but it will be worth it. |
| corkboard.me | Corkboard Me is a great site for posting messages online with virtual post it notes. Share the link to let others see. |
| peg.gd | Possible the quickest and easiest way to create a simple, text-based website. Great for giving quick instructions to pupils, and colleague or a supply teacher. |
| phile.com | Make a blog style collaborative topic based website to make resources for everyone with Phile. |
| education.weebly.com | Weebly is an easy to use, drag and drop website builder, which now has a free education section which is ad-free and you can even use your own domain. A great option for people just starting out. |
| disposablewebpage.com | Make a disposable webpage which incinerates itself after a set period of up to 90 days. |
| linoit.com | A great online post-it style site. Add text, photos widgets and videos for anyone with the link or set to private. |
| padlet.com | Post videos, text, images or more to a public or private online wall. It’s simple to use and can be used to post homework, collect resources or create projects. You can give your pupils usernames and passwords to edit the wall. Then embed the wall on your website. |
| mypage.it | A website page builder designed for kids. They can create colourful, interactive, media rich pages with ease. Just make a page by choosing a page name and password. A great classroom resource. |
| flavors.me | Make a sleek looking flash webpage easily in minutes with Flavors Me. Just upload your media and click and drag the items you want in to place. |
| prezi.com | Prezi takes presentations to the next level. Make stunning zooming designs with ease. Get extra features when you sign up as a Teacher. |
| empressr.com | Empressr is a online PowerPoint-like presenter with great visual effects. Making a show is simple and you can embed and share your creations with ease. |
| prezentit.com | Prezent It is a great online presentation creator and publisher, similar to PowerPoint. |
| ahead.com | Don’t have boring PowerPoints. Ahead is a powerful and impressive zooming presentation creator, similar to Prezi. |
| calameo.com | Calameo is a online document storage and publishing site. Great for sharing children’s work. |
| yudu.com | Yudu is a good site to find interesting educational publications and to upload your own. |
| pen.io | A text based, no frills notepad site. Works on every device I’ve I’ve tried it on (and I have many in various states of decay), so it makes an ideal site to work with text across platforms. Download text as a PDF or save it on the site and retrieve with a link and password. |
| littlebirdtales.com | Do your children tell tales? Great! Upload children’s photography and art work and narrate it to create a multimedia story. |
| stixy.com | A great site to aid collaboration between colleagues and students by sharing an online wall of resources. |
| typewith.me | Make an online page which anyone with the web link can edit. This is great for leaving a message for your class. Make a personal page for each of your students. |
| tidypub.org | Publish text online quickly and generate a short link to share. Sadly, the site wasn’t what I thought it was! 😦 |
| montage.cloudapp.net | Montage from Microsoft is a clever way to start an auto-updating webpage. Just enter a keyword to make a page and then customise it with images, articles and feeds. |
| slideshare.net | Slideshare is a widely used online Presentation creator. Make your shows and share the link or embed into your site. |
| scrumblr.ca | A different take on the idea of an online wall, Scrumblr is really simple, yet versatile. The possibilities for classroom use are endless. |
| popplet.com | Popplet is something between Wallwisher and a mindmap. Display images and text to organise your ideas and collaborate in real time. |
| embedit.in | This site offers a really easy way to embed documents, images and other files in to your site or blog. |
| jux.com | Jux is a beautiful site that allows users to make great looking websites and blogs quickly and easily by click and dragging media and text where you want it. |
| penzu.com/home | A private online diary, where you only share the bits you want to. Your secrets are safe in the cloud. |
| slidesix.com | Sleek looking presentation maker. Embed photos, videos and documents. Students/colleagues can view by a link or embed on your site. |
| myplick.com | Upload PowerPoint, PDF, MS Office or image files to myplick to publish them online as slideshows. Add audio to your presentations. |
| magnoto.com | Magnoto is a corkboard site where you can upload text, photos, video and audio and arrange it how you want. Great for collaborative projects. |
| moonfruit.com | Build a great looking website without any programming experience with Moon Fruit. |
| soup.io | Soup is a easy to use blogging site with all the usual features. |
| webs.com | Build great looking, media rich website with this great site. The free account has good features and allowances and should be enough for most users. |
| present.me | A superb presentation site. See a split screen of the presentation and the speaker. Basic account is free. |
| axess.im | Make web pages as quickly and easily as editing a Word document. No registration or sign in required and get a choice of page name. Include images, videos and links on your page. |
| myebook.com | A great site for making interactive ebooks. Embed video and sound into your publications. |
| crocodoc.com | Upload documents to view and add comments on with this useful site. |
| authorstream.com | Upload your PowerPoint slideshows to this site to share, collaborate and make videos with your presentations. Great for showcasing work from your class. |
| posti.ca | A sticky & note site which makes it easy to share notes and files. |
| dinkypage.com | Make disposable webpages that will not expire. Supports text and many types of media. Customise the url to your page. Great for making children’s project websites. |
| ijourney.com | A good site for sharing text, images and resources for a particular date. Good for setting homework or recording or planning school events. Set each object as public, private or shared with friends, so you can have a mixture of these on one page. You can make a page right back to the year 1900, so it could be used well for history projects. You can add entries for dates up to 2100 for sci-fi creative writing/publishing projects. |
| splarchive.com | This is a great site that archives most types of documents as easily viewable/shareable PDF files and stores them online. Great for sharing worksheets with your class and documents with colleagues. |
| slidestaxx.com | A slideshow creator that allows users to embed a video and photo presentation on your site, complete with links to web resources. |
| knovio.com | With this site you can upload a PowerPoint and record a webcam video to play along side it. Great for distance or self directed learning. Use it to give instructions to your class. |
| smo.re | Make an instant text and image webpage with Smore. Edit time and time again, choose themes and colours and you can even customise the url. Great for setting homework. |
| flipsnack.com | A great site for making animated online flipbook. Upload a PDF file and embed on a site or share with a link. |
| 280slides.com/Editor | An easy to use, online presentation creator. Embed videos, images and links. You can save your presentations online and sharing them is simple. A great alternative to Powerpoint. |
| reelapp.com | A superb HTML5 site where you can upload PDFs, PointPoints and images to create a online slideshow ready to share with others with a link. |
| imcreator.com | An easy to use website builder. Embed images, audio, video and widgets until its just right. |
| pageorama.com | I love simple and functional sites and this is a good example. Post text, images tables and links to make an instant editable webpage with a customised url. Great for posting homework and lesson notes. |
| pandamian.com | A wonderfully simple site for writing and publishing books online. Make chapters and save your work as draft until you are ready to publish. |
| projeqt.com | This is an easy to use online presentation maker. Upload or search for your images, videos or sounds and publish on the web. |
| substance.io | A good site for writing books online. This site does much of the formatting for you. Collaborate easily with others and your finished masterpiece is available in many on and offline formats, including embedding code and PDFs. |
| helloslide.com | A useful presentation site which allows users to add text to voice audio commentary to a slideshow which then runs like a video with the slides and audio in sync. |
| searcheeze.com | A great site for making online magazines using content from the internet. Add articles, videos, audio and more in just a few clicks. |
| checkthis.com | This site provides a stylish way to produce instant media rich web pages, polls and invites in seconds. Just choose the text, images, videos and link you want to show and publish it. Give out short link to share with others. You can also set an expiry date for your site. |
| mentormob.com | An amazing site that allows users to create and browse ‘playlists’ of websites to make a custom lesson. Add comments and instructions. View hundreds of bundles made by others. Just share the link to share with your students and colleagues. |
| voicethread.com | This site provides an easy way to add audio/voice commentary to images and videos. You can annotate in sync with what you are saying. Users can collaborate on a project and you can share with a link or embed into your site. It’s a wonderful resource to make self-study videos for your students. |
| powtoon.com | This site offers an interesting twist on the online presentation creator genre. Drop and drag a range of quirky cartoon images, patterns and backgrounds to make fab looking slideshows. |
| sparkol.com/sparkol.php | A nice presentation creator where you add images and text to the sections and the site makes stylish slides for you. |
| tackk.com | A quick and easy way to create a media-rich website in seconds. Just edit the text, import some images and change your colour scheme. Then just share the link. You don’t even need to sign in to create a page, but these will expire in 7 days. If you want to keep and edit your page a free sign up is required. It’s a great way for students to make and create online. |
| haikudeck.com | This is a presentation creating app for iPads. Enter a few titles and pieces of text and the app finds stunning images for you to choose from to add to your slides. The finished creations use html and can be viewed on most web enabled computers, tablets and mobiles. |
| rvl.io | Rvl offers an interesting twist on the online presenter genre… literally. The presentation can roll in many directions like a virtual cube allowing multi-track presentations. The site uses html5, so it works on most computers and devices. Editing is simple and you can share or embed your creations easily. |
| meograph.com/education | A site where you can create interactive stories using maps, videos, audio, images and links. Add sections with different elements to build up to an interactive video to share or embed online. |
| nearpod.com | A wonderful resource which for educators to present lesson slides and resources to a class on their own Apple/Android devices. The teacher can set the pace and chooses when the slides move on. This tool allows you to show images, text and set tests/quizzes in real time and collects the data. |
| plotagon.com | A useful Windows app for creating Prezi-like presentations. You can create your presentations offline and they are based of HTML5, meaning that the files can be viewed in most modern browsers, even mobiles and tablets. |
| emaze.com | An interesting online presentation tool which fun and innovative transitions. You can even upload your existing PowerPoint presentations to improve and share them. Share the link or embed on your site. |
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