Cartoonize

Cartoonize is a fun site for taking photos and turning it into a cartoon similar to befunky (looks a little bit like the movie Scanner Darkly).

To have fun w/ photo effects check out Cartoonize by clicking here.

Also, check out Big Huge Labs for other ways to have fun w/ photos.



Thanks to Free Technology 4 Learning for the tip.

Corkboard Me

Corkboard Me is a wonderfully simple site for creating collaborative sticky notes. This site works very similar to Wallwisher, Pindax, and Spaaze, just click on board and start typing away to add a sticky note. This site generates a unique URL that can be shared w/ others to facilitate collaboration.

I highly recommend checking out Corkboard Me by clicking here.

Thanks to the award winning iLearn Technology for the tip!!

Pollmo

Pollmo is a simple new (beta) site that I joust found out about on Free Technology 4 Teachers. This is a great site for making simple polls by adding a question, answer, and then picking a skin (theme). Once that is a done grab the embed code to add the poll to your site.

Give Pollmo a try by clicking here!!

Lucid Chart

Lucid Chart is a nice free (for education) site for creating online charts, diagrams, wireframes, etc. It has a very easy to use drag-n-drop interface that that reminds me a bit of Lovely Charts.

I recommend giving Lucid Chart a try by clicking here!!

For a much more detailed review check out Richard Byrne's award winning blog.

Folding Story

Folding Story is a wonderful new site for collaborative writing that I just found out about from, Free Technology 4 Teachers. This is a site where users can either start their own story and then share w/ others or join an already existing story to collaborate on. There are other sites that accomplish much of the same thing, but Folding Story might just be the easiest.

I recommend checking out Folding Story by clicking here!

Chirpstory

Chirpstory is an interesting site that allows people to create a story from tweets on Twitter. This is done w/ a very easy to use drag-n-drop interface by adding tweets and links to pics, videos, sites, etc. This is a fun/innovative way to share information w/ others.

I highly recommend checking out Chirpstory by clicking here!!

Top 10 Sites for Images and Clip Art

Finding images on the internet for educators to use has been a common problem problem for many alike. This can happen for a number of reason such as: copy right privileges, inappropriateness, etc etc.

While there are a number of paid solutions for finding images such as Nettrekker or Discovery Streaming, there are a number of free alternatives that work nicely as well.

However, keep in mind that most of the sites listed below do not have built in filters for images. These image search engines should be used either by educators (adults assisting students) or go in hand in hand w/ a school district filtering solution and Acceptable Use Policy.

Top 10 Sites for Images & Clip Art

1. Pics4Learning - A very popular site to find free safe to use images for teachers and students.
2. Cyclo.ps - A search engine that searches the most popular free image engines around and provides a nice one stop shopping of sorts.
3. School Clip Art - A great site for free school clip art.
4. Ookaboo - A nice creative commons (free) site for finding great images for class work.
5. Picsearch - Excellent image search engine if used w/ a district's filtering solution.
6. Veezzle - A wonderful free stock photo search engine.
7. Google Swirl - An innovative way to search for images and see their relationships w/ each other (use w/ Google Safe Search enabled).
8. Free Photo Bank - An easy way to find creative common images.
9. Open Clip Art - A great way to find free clip art to use.
10. Find Icons - A nice site for free icons.