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Media Tools

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File Conversion Utilities

BenderConverter (convert and download various online videos to a variety of file types)

ClipNabber (saves various online video as an FLV file)

Comet Docs (convert and download files & data)

Convert Hub

ePub2Go (convert a PDF document to ePub format; ePub is easier to read on a phone)

Free PDF Conversion (web page to PDF)

GetGo YouTube Downloader (use at home-requires a download; converts flv files to other formats)

KeepVid (convert and download videos from YouTube and many other video sites - see FAQ)

KM Player (use at home-requires a download; multimedia player that plays multiple media formats)

Media Converter

Media.IO (audio file conversions)

OCR Terminal (PDF or JPG to text)

PDF my URL (web page to a PDF; may also be used to back up a web page)

RotatePDF (rotate a PDF 90 degrees)

SaveVideo.Me (download from YouTube, Flickr, Google and other sites)

StreamClip (use at home-requires a download; converts flv files to other formats)

Vixy.net (video conversion)

YouConvertIt (convert online video files, file types, send files)

Web2PDF (converts a web page to a PDF file)

YakItToMe (convert electronic text to a sound file)

Zamzar (Zamzar directions for converting online video) (use Zamzar to convert Google or YouTube videos; also converts a variety of file formats to other formats)

Audio & Video Editing

25+ Things to do with Audacity or a Flip camera

43+ Interesting Ways to Use a Pocket Camera in the Classroom

Audacity (documentation for this audio-editing software)

Audacity handout (making a podcast, uploading it to Destiny);

Audacity tutorial videos
Audio Expert (web-based audio editor, audio file converter and sound recorder)

BrainShark (upload video, PowerPoint, photos or documents and add audio soundtrack with phone, microphone or mp3; iPhone/iPad app available)

Creaza (video editor, audio editor, cartoon creator, mindmap creator)

EditorOne (video editing for education; embed, link or email; free for 1 minute or less videos)

Freemake (use at home-requires a download; file type conversion tool, video editing, capture online videos)

Incredibox (create rhythm-based soundtracks)

Magisto (simple web-based video editing; integrated with YouTube)

MP3Cut (upload an MP3 file, select a portion, save as a new MP3 file)

Making Videos on the Web (guide to free online tools by Richard Byrne)

OneTrue Media (web-based video editing, slideshows, photo montage; resource library, DVD cover)

Pixorial (video editor)

Podcasting for Teachers & Students (finding, subscribing & listening to educational podcasts)

Qwips (add a 30 second audio clip to a photo, a video, an email or a text message; iPhone app)

sample podcast rubric

ShoutOmatic (record a "shout," upload a picture, generates a QR code)

Soundation (audio editor; create sound tracks with music and sound effects)

Stroome (video editing/sharing)

TubeChop (select and save a segment of a YouTube video)

UJAM (record, edit and share an audio track)

*Vocaroo (web-based voice recorder)

WeVideo (web-based video editing tool; upload then add titles, effects, animation, music, narration; works w/ Google drive; apps for OIS and Android)

Windows MovieMaker screencast tutorials

Image & Video sources

America.gov (videos about the American experience; Note the "share" button that lets you embed the video on your own website)

American Memory (LOC collections: images, maps)

Archive Research Collection (National Archives - images, sound, video)

Awesome Clipart for Educators

Awesome Stories (primary sources: text, audio, video and lesson plans)

BrainyBetty Sounds for PowerPoint

Classroom Clipart use at home

ClipArt ETC (free clipart for education and information on citations)

Clip Art Gallery (Discovery Education)

Clip Art Lord (free)

Copyright-Friendly Images and Sounds (links to copyright-friendly media; some links on this webpage may need to be used at home)

Creative Commons (search for media that is free to use or build upon; use the License Tool to choose the appropriate license for your work)

DearComputer (Google image ripper - find images by size)

DK Clipart

Digital Library System (US Fish & Wildlife)

Dreamstime (free images, photos)

EduPic (photos and graphics)

Exploratorium Digital Library (images, video)

Font Play Free Photos use at home

Free Clip Art by Phillip Martin

Free Clipart Pictures

Free Media Goo (pictures, sounds, textures, flash)

Free Photographs (royalty free stock photos) use at home

Google Images use at home

Internet Archive

Library of Congress Collection

LIFE Photos (photographs from Life Magazine)

Morgue File (public images archive)

Movie Clips (searchable by movie, actor, genre, action, mood, character, theme, prop)

NEN Gallery* (video clips & images for use in education)

NYPL Digital Gallery (New York Public Library: illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, prints, photographs)

Open Clip Art Library (download clip art or upload to share)

PhotoPin (search for images from Flickr with Creative Commons attribution)

Pics4Learning* (copyright-friendly photos for education use)

Public-Domain-Photos

Public Domain Photos8

Public Domain Pictures

Recordr (use a web cam to record a video, then embed a link)

Robots and Monsters Gallery (some nice ones of book monsters)

School Clip Art

Sepia Town (mashup of historical images with Google Maps)

Snag.gy (web-based; annotate or draw on a screen screen capture)

StockVault (photos)

Stock.xchng (free stock photos)

TheColor (wide variety of school subjects - line drawings to color)

US Govt. Photos & Images (extensive database of photos and graphics)

Video4Schools (metasearch for education multimedia: TeacherTube, SchoolTube, etc.)

WatchKnow (educational videos)

Wikimedia Commons

Wikipedia Public Domain Image Resources

Photo Editing

Be Funky (art effects; email the "funkified" photo to yourself to save it; sample: original, altered)

BigHugeLabs (photo generator tools: "Warholizer," motivation posters, magazine covers, badge maker, calendars, jigsaw puzzle maker, palette generator)

Block Posters (enlarge a photo to poster size or wall-sized posters)

Button Badges (design a custom button/badge)

Citrify (special effects, airbrush, editing tools for photos)

CleVR (create panoramic photos)

Cut My Pic (upload and crop a graphic)

DrPic (resizer & editor)

Einstein image generator

FlauntR (edit, add effects, text, resize, print) use at home

FotoBabble (add an audio message to a photo; mobile app)

FotoFlexer (photo editing)

FunPhotoBox (photo effects, animations)

Gickr (create an animated GIF file)
Image Chef (remix photos, add effects) use at home

ImageSplitter (crop, convert, resize or split an image into parts)

KodakGallery (photo storage and tools)

Loonapix (photo editing: photo effects, frames, face effects, editing tools)

Pho.to (photo editing, cartoons, avatars, filters)

PhotoRaster (photo editing, paint/draw tools, layers, filters, masks)

PhotoShop (photo editing)

PhotoSynth (stitch photos together toreate panoramic or 3D views)

Picozu (image editor)

Picture Trail (slideshow, image hosting, and creative display options) use at home

Piknik (photo editing)

Pixlr (photo editing)

Psykopaint (create a "painting" effect from a photo)

Ribbet! (online photo editing)

Rsizr (photo resizer)

Shutterfly (photo storage and tools)

Skitch (requires download; photo screen capture with comments, arrows)

Speechable (add speech bubbles to photos) use at home

Splashup (photo and image editing)

ThingLink (embed links in a photo)

Toolwerk Image Merger (merge two images, one on top if the other)

Troovi (photo sharing; generates a URL for upload purpose)

Web Resizer (optimize photos for use on a web page)

Online Drawing

Color Jack (color selection tools, drawing tool)

Crayola Digi-color (browser-based: choose form crayons, pencils, markers)

Dreezle (drawing program)

FlockDraw (collaborative drawing tool; can get a unique url to share and an embed code)

ImaginationCubed (online "paint;" collaborate, share)

Slimber (draw, replay the process, save; access your drawing through a url)

SumoPaint (browser-based paint application)

Create an Animation

ABCya Animate

DoInk (create animations)

DomoAnimate (create animations)

Audio sources

Absolute Sound Effects

Amazon (choose MP3 downloads, then sort by price)

Archive Research Collection (National Archives - images, sound, video)

Copyright-Friendly Images and Sounds (links to copyright-friendly media; some links on this webpage may need to be used at home)

Creative Commons (search for media that is free to use or build upon)

Croak.it (make a 30 second redording to share; IOS and Android apps)

Cylinder Project (public domain recordings from the early 1900's)

FindSounds (audio search engine)

FreeSound Project use at home

FotoSearch (royalty free music and audio clips)

Get Loops (free, royalty free sounds and music)

Internet Archive

Jamendo (music with CC licenses) use at home

JustHearIt (search for audio/video files of songs)

LibraVox (free audiobooks)

Lyrster (lyrics search engine; search by the words or phrase you DO remember)

Magnatunes (search by mood or collection)

MakeYourOwnRingtone (mp3 files) use at home

National Jukebox (Library of Congress collection of recordings from the early 20th century; embed links)

Partners in Rhyme (royalty free music & sound effects) use at home

Recordr (use a microphone to record an audio track, then embed a link)

RoyaltyFree Music (school license)

Royalty Free Music (Incompetech's list)

SoundBible (royalty free sound effects)
SoundJay (free sound effects)

SoundSnap (5 free downloads/month)

Soundzabound (royalty free music for education; $ site license)

Soungle (royalty free sound effects and musical instrument samples)

TuneFind (Heard a song recently on a TV program that you want to find? Check here to find the details) use at home - connects to ITunes

*Vocaroo (record your podcast, then email, download or embed the file; for best results, use a microphone; sample)

Generators (graphics, logo, maps/charts/graphs, word clouds)

Amaztype (word graphic made from book titles)

ASCII-O-Matic (upload a photo, change it to an ASCII image)

Binary Code translator

Buttons & Badges (template for creating button)

Cereal Box

Comic Maker

Concert Ticket

Einstein chalkboard (customize the text on Einstein's board)

Face ecards (add your own photo to create these ecards)

Favicon (upload a graphic to create a 16x16 icon)

Festisite (personalized money, rebus; text layouts) use at home

FunFaceCam (photo booth effects, use with webcam)

GeoGreeting (create a Google Map greeeting)

Grabba Beast (build a monster)

Graffiti Creator
GraphicSprings (create a logo graphic; free)

Historic Tale Construction Kit (Bayeux tapestry style)

Image Chef use at home

Image Generator (links to generator sites)

Keep Calm-o-matic (create "Keep Calm" posters)

KidSpace (comic style story creator; Toronto Public Library)

Map Message (smoke signals on a satellite view)

Mr Picasso Head

Newspaper Clipping

Penguin Message

Pixton (comic creator)

Posterini (create a poster with your own photos: magazine cover, movie poster, travel poster,

Puzzlemaker (upload your own photo)

Screedbot (scrolling typewriter text)

Seuss Says Generator

Soft Drink Can

Spell with Flickr (generate a title made from flickr images of letters)
Street Sign

Uncle Sam poster

VocabGrabber

Wanted poster (old west style)

Warning label

World MapperTicket Generator

WriteOnIt (photo montage, magazine cover, cartoonize)

Maps, Charts & Graphs, Infographics (data visualization)

Create-a-graph

Creately (flowcharts, diagrams, Venn diagrams, concept maps, compare/contrast, graphic organizers)

Diagramly (create diagrams and flowcharts; export as png, jpg or xml)

Easel.ly (quickly create an infographic)
GapMinder (data visualization tool)
Gliffy (charts, flowcharts)

Google Chart Tool (create embeddable charts and graphs)

Google Public Data (use Google datasets to animate charts and graphs)

Infogr.am (create, then embed, charts, graphs, infographics)

Infographics (Larry Ferlazzo's list of resources)

Issue Map (upload your own csv or Excel data to make the map)
LovelyCharts (flowcharts, sitemaps, organizational charts)

LucidChart (flowcharts, mindmaps, org charts, venn diagrams, etc.)
Many Eyes (visual representations of data sets)

MapTrot (create customized maps)

Rich Chart Live (create Flash charts)

SpiderScribe (mind maps that use text, maps, photos, events, documents)

TinyMap (create and share customized map)

ScribbleMaps (create and share customized maps; can save as jpg, Google Earth or embed on your web page)

Stat Planet (statistics, maps and graphs)

Which Chart or Graph is Right For You? (white paper about how to determine the most appropriate data visualization tool)
What is an Infographic? (posted on Cool Infographics, a blog that highlights some of the best examples of infographics)

Word Clouds

ABCya Word Cloud (make a "word cloud" graphic; change colors, fonts -- requires Flash)

TagCrowd (create a "word cloud" graphic; input your own text for the word cloud, or input a url to create a word cloud based on the text of a web page)

Tagul (create a "word cloud" graphic)

Tagxedo (create word cloud; several options, requires Silverlight plug-in)

Word Cloud Training Video (Russell Stannard's excellent overview of sites & features; ideas for using word cloud generators in the classroom)

WordItOut (create a "word cloud" graphic; customize colors, margins and fonts)

Word Mosaic (make a "word cloud" graphic)

Word Sift (make a "word cloud" graphic)

Wordle ("word cloud" graphic; Useful Wordle Trick - how to use phrases in a Wordle)

Wordlings (word cloud in a specified shape)