TIE 2007 P1
Welcome to my TIE conference presentation page. The following online tools are free, or are available in free versions with pay for premium services. They are meant to replace the need to purchase expensive applications or productivity suites to accomplish average everyday tasks. This list is neither authoritative nor exhaustive, merely a representative sampling of available options.
File Backup, Sharing, and Conversion
- Senduit lets you upload files and share them with a private link. 100MB limit on file sizes. Files are saved temporarily for up to 1 week. http://www.senduit.com/
- YouSendIt lets you upload files and share them with a private link. 100MB limit on file sizes. Files are saved temporarily for up to 1 week. http://www.yousendit.net/
- myDataBus: store, transfer and share your files online. Includes group collaboration tools. http://mydatabus.com/index.php
- Scribd is an open library of user created documents. http://www.scribd.com/
- Zamzar is a free online file conversion tool that can be used to turn a document into a PDF file, a bitmap into a jpg, or a wav into an mp3. http://www.zamzar.com/
- Fotowoosh converts flat 2d images into 3d images. http://fotowoosh.com/index.html
- xFruits for converting to and from RSS, PDF, email, and mobile. http://www.xfruits.com/
Office Suites - Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Presentations
- Google Docs & Spreadsheets: allows you to create documents and spreadsheets from scratch or upload your own files. Documents can be shared with others, edited by multiple contributors at the same time, and exported to different formats. Documents can also be shared as web pages or viewed only by a limited set of people. http://docs.google.com/
- Zoho Office Suite: includes Zoho Writer for word processing, Zoho Sheet for spreadsheets, Zoho Show for presentations, Zoho Creator for databases, and more. All include a free version, while some also have additional for pay features. http://zoho.com/
- ThinkFree: Includes ThinkFree Write for word processing, ThinkFree Calc for spreadsheets, and ThinkFreeShow for presentations. Up to 1 GB of storage space provides collaboration tools, publishing to blogs, web pages or Doc Exchange, and PDF creation. http://product.thinkfree.com/online/overview.html
- Peepel is a collaborative online office suite that includes: allows two or more users to work on a document together, share your files with other users, choose who to share files with and see who has shared files with you, word processor, spreadsheet, document templates that have standard parts already completed, such as letters, are now available as Templates. http://peepel.com/signup.php
Personal Organizer - Calendaring
- Backpack includes to-do lists, notes, links, reminders, writeboards, and schedules. Pay for features include calendar, file and image uploads. http://www.backpackit.com/
- Famundo coordinates between a calendar, address list, message board, library, and file storage. http://famundo.com/
Graphic Organizer
- MindMeister supports all the standard features of a classic mind mapping tool - only online, and with simultaneous users. http://www.mindmeister.com/
- Wridea can be used for collaborative brainstorming sessions, organize ideas, and create categories and pages. Wridea can also be used as a basic project management tool.
http://www.wridea.com/
Collaboration and Conferencing
- Vyew.com provides live conferencing with desktop sharing, screen capture, integrated text, with integrated PowerPoint-like authoring. Collaborate on all common file types. Sessions can be streamed live, or captured for later playback. http://vyew.com/content/Home
- Dimdim is an Open Source web conferencing company. With Dimdim you can show Presentations, Applications and Desktops to any other person over the internet. You can chat, show your webcam and talk with others in the meeting. Presenter software is Windows only. http://www.dimdim.com/
- FlashMeeting is a simple meeting tool that supports video and audio broadcasts, text chat, shared whiteboard, recording for archiving and later viewing, and secure and private meetings. http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk/
Surveys
- Quimble is a quick and easy way to post polls. Registered users can restrict editing rights and can leave comments on polls. http://quimble.com/poll/index
- SurveyGizmo includes a free account to create surveys, polls, quizes, contact forms and more. http://www.surveygizmo.com/
- Zoomerang includes a trial version for up to 30 questions, 100 responses, and surveys expire after 10 days. http://info.zoomerang.com/signup/signupnow.htm
- SurveyMonkey includes a free basic account for 10 questions and100 responses. http://www.surveymonkey.com/Default.aspx
Photography and Video
- Picnik allows you to rotate, crop, resize, change exposure, correct colors, sharpen, fix red-eye, apply filters, save, share, and convert to different file types. http://www.picnik.com/
- Springdoo records audio and video for sharing through email or posted to your blog. The demos are worth watching even if you never sign-up. http://www.springdoo.com/default.aspx
- SlideShare is a place to host and share presentations. Upload, search, and download. http://www.slideshare.net/
- Fliptrack for slideshows as music videos. http://fliptrack.com/
- Mogopop creates and shares multimedia content for iPod. http://www.mogopop.com/
- ImageShack is an intuitive and easy-to-use free image hosting solution. It can be used to share pictures with friends, as well as to post images on message boards and blogs. It can also be used to direct link images. http://www.imageshack.us/
- TeacherTube is like YouTube, but for teachers, so it’s better. http://www.teachertube.com/
Blogs and Social Networks
- Edublogs created by teachers for teachers, provides blogs for teachers and students. http://edublogs.org/
- Blogger sponsored by Google, is probably the largest and best known blog provider. https://www.blogger.com/start
- Vox is a simple blog that includes pictures, audio, and video sharing.
http://www.vox.com/ - Tumblr is sort of a blog-lite. http://www.tumblr.com/
- Imbee is a collection of blogging, social networking, and file sharing.
https://www.imbee.com/
Web Publishing
- Bubbletop lets you organize/access/slice/re-slice/re-discover all the content you are interested in so that you can keep up-to-date in a fast and easy fashion. http://www.bubbletop.com/Login
- Magnoto is sort of a refrigerator/post-it-note blog/web page. http://www.magnoto.com/
- Pakeflakes is a homepage you can personalize with news, weather, sports, photos, videos, music, and more. http://www.pageflakes.com/
- Protopage is a widget/post-it-note approach to building a homepage. Create a public tab to share your widgets. http://protopage.com/
- Netvibes is a widget/post-it-note approach to building a homepage. Create a shared tab. http://www.netvibes.com/
- SynthaSite is a browser-based web site builder and host. http://www.synthasite.com/
- Weebly is a browser-based web site builder and host. http://www.weebly.com/
- 3spots: Ajax Startpages contains a long list of similar web publishing services. http://3spots.blogspot.com/2006/03/ajax-or-flash-startpages-or-homepages.html
Online Bookmarks
- del.icio.us lets you keep, organize, and share links to favorite web sites. http://del.icio.us/
- LookSmart’s Furl lets you keep, organize, share links, and archive favorite web sites. http://www.furl.net/index.jsp
- BlinkList lets you keep, organize, share links, and archive favorite web sites. http://www.blinklist.com/
- Cluztr online bookmark organizer that also lets you share your favorites in a clickstream. http://www.cluztr.com/
- Diigo lets you annotate websites. It’s like putting a post-it-note on someone else’s website. http://www.diigo.com/
Just for Fun
- Wogger is an adventure puzzle game. http://www.woggerworld.com/inside/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=56
- Hanamushi ia an adventure puzzle game. http://www.geocities.jp/hanamushi011/poc02.htm
- The Polyphnic Spree is an adventure puzzle game. http://questfortherest.com/
- Haluz is an adventure puzzle game. http://www.haluz.eu/
- Bobitos is a lemming-style puzzle game. http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~dfs2/jogos/AI.swf
- World Without Oil is an alternate reality event simulating a world running out of oil. Kind of like the real one. http://www.worldwithoutoil.org/what.aspx
- Jackson Pollock by Miltos Maeta lets you paint in the style of Jackson Pollock. http://www.jacksonpollock.org/
- WIKISKY is an online planetarium. http://www.wikisky.org/
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Mike
Great Job. You have provided valuable access to FREE sites. I have a bit of work to do if I’m going to pass this on to my teachers.
Thanks for the heads up on Net Neutrality, I was in the dark. My Wyoming senators need some prodding. The one who was against the legislation has passed away, so we’ll have to work on the other one and the replacement.
Thanks again