Free Webtools
Your student has already been provided a Google account through the Greater Albany Public School Districts partnership with Google. This includes all of the free Google Apps such as:
- Drive - Cloud based storage, including document creation like Presentations, Word Processors and Spreadsheets
- Mail - Email and share with teachers, students and parents
- Calendar - Can be linked to numerous calendars including my class calendars or district/school calendars
We will also be using some great downloadable apps which can be purchased for FREE at either the Google Play Store or Apple iTunes Store.
No Installation or Registration Required Tools
QR Codes
QR code business cards: Type in your information, choose an online image, and the site will create online business cards that you can download as a PDF file to print on Avery business card paper. People who scan the card will have your information downloaded automatically to their contacts list.
QRickit QR Codes: Create QR codes that will perform up to 18 different tasks including add a contact, sending an email or SMS message, go to a Google map location, or even send a Tweet! You have the option of choosing the code and background colours and including an image in the code. Download the image as a JPEG or PNG file.
Surveys and Polls
Socrative: Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.
Go Soapbox: Web based student response site that offers polls, surveys, quizzes and discussions.
PollCode: This site provides a few additional functions such as multiple answers, colour, background, and font choices, as well as the ability to leave comments. People can also just view the results without giving an answer. The poll is hosted or can be embedded. One unique feature is the ability to use a dropdown menu instead of radio buttons.
Flisti: This site allows for multiple answers and users can leave comments as well. Visitors can view the results without voting. It is hosted and can also be embedded. Online Whiteboards/Corkboards
Awwapp: Draw or type on this whiteboard using a variety of coloured markers. Invite others to participate and post online or save the completed work to your computer.Padlet: We give you a blank wall. You put anything you want on it, anywhere. Simple, yet powerful.
PDF Tools
PDFescape: The most comprehensive of all the free online PDF tools. Create, read, and edit PDF documents. Create and fill in PDF forms all within your browser without needing to register. Some of the more noteable tools including the ability to insert and remove pages from a PDF document, annotate and markup a PDF, as well as creating fillable forms.
FoxyUtils SplitPDF: There are four simple, yet effective, tools: split a PDF (remove a range of pages), merge PDFs (combine 2 or more PDFs into one document), unlock a PDF (in case you forget thepassword), protect a PDF (add a password and restrict usage)
PDF Newspaper: Enter a webpage with an RSS feed and convert the last five posts into a nice looking PDF newspaper.
PDF to Word Online Converter: Upload a PDF and the site will convert it into a Word document without needing to install anything or provide and personal data
2ePub Converter: Converts 14 different types of documents, including PDFs, into one of four different ebook files.
Capture Webpage: Create an image or PDF from a webpage. If you select one of the image files, it will create one long image of the site instead of splitting into seperate files or only what can be viewed on the screen. Great way of capturing an entire page.
Print Friendly: This is one of the easiest and nicest ways of creating a clean PDF document of awebpage for printing. Select sections to delete and keep or remove images. Use the simple bookmarklet to access from any webpage.
Charts/Graphs
ChartGo: Create a bar, line, pie, or area graph in 2D or 3D. Options also include dimensions and orientation. Enter your data and you are then given a URL to edit and one to share. You can also embed the chart on your website or blog. Simple, yet nice looking results.
Piecolor: Create a piechart you can download. Very simple to use and can be in 2D or 3D. No hosting or embedding available.
Hohli: Create bar, line, and pie charts along with Venn diagrams, scatter plots and radar charts. Choose your chart size, colour, and add your data. The chart is hosted as an image, you can also download or embed to your website or blog.
Kids’ Zone: Make a bar, line, area, pie or XY graph. Choose your shading and color, add your data, labels, and fonts, and then download or email yourself the link. Word Clouds.
Wordle: Probably the most popular site for creating word clouds and is one of the best for creating high-quality printable versions of the image. Paste in a text or put in a website URL and it creates a random word cloud. Change the font, style, colour and limit words. You can also check word counts as well. Print out as an image to save for later (if you have the capability of printing as a PDF, you can then print the cloud as large as you want without problems with losing quality).
TagCrowd: Paste or upload a text or choose a website URL. Enter your criteria including word limitations and word counts, and create a square type word cloud that can be embedded or printed. The PDF download function didn’t work for me, but it may be just a temporary problem.
ABCya! Word Clouds: This is a nice little word cloud generator designed for kids. It can’t handle larger texts (seems to have trouble beyond about 35 words), but the images are nice and can be downloaded as a jpeg image file or printed. You do have some control of fonts, color, and layout as well.
WordItOut: This is the only word cloud generator listed here that needs an email address to save it. You can always do a screen shot or put in a temporary email address to get the file. You can paste text or get from a URL and create a word cloud with some control on font, color, and layout.
Tagxedo: Turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
Maps
Earthtools: Find precise location data, sunrise and sunset times, height, contours, and distances all without registration.
MapMaker International from National Geographic: Overlay a number of different themes from water, land, and climate to population, political, and economic systems. Draw on the map and place a variety of different markers as well as use a measuring tool in kilometres or miles. Save as an XML or PNG file.
Planiglobe: Create and download a custom vector map. Add places and political, topographic, and seafloor layers.
Marine Geoscience Data Systems Custom Maps and Grids: Make high-resolution topography maps of land and seabeds that you can download for free.
National Atlas Map Maker: Create, save, and print US based maps using a number of layers including geographic, political, and historical.
Map Generator: Create a simple Google map with one marker and text that you can share or embed without needing to register.
Esri: Add a data overlay to a map based on US data such as age, income, and population. Embed or share a custom URL with comments.
Aardvark Map: Create custom Google maps that can be embedded or shared without registration. Add multiple points or add custom overlay sets.
Scribble Maps: Draw on a Google Map and add markers, images, and text as well. Save as an image, get a link, or embed. Even add a custom style to your map.
ZeeMaps: Create a custom Google map with markers, images, movies, and more. Share your custom map for free.
Indiemapper: Create vector, shape based, or custom maps based on your own data. Change projection types and export as an image.
OpenStreetMap: Created using data from users, OpenStreetMap is an alternative to Google maps where users can download images or data.
Quikmaps: Draw lines, scribble, and add markers with comments on a Google map with out registration. Share the link or embed in your blog or website.
CommunityWalk: Create a community based Google map with special routes, markers, and interactive content.
Dual Maps: Combine Google maps, Streetview, and Bing maps as one map. Add Wikipedia and Panoramio layers as well. Embed on your website or blog.
TravBuddy: Show a map with all the places you have visited in the world. Embed the map on your website or blog.
Roadtrip America: Create a road trip route with markers of things to do and see along the way. You are unable to save or print the map without registering, but you can always create a screenshot of the map to download.
Schedule
When Is Good: This is the website has very few options, but it is also the easiest to use. Choose your time increments of 15, 30, 60 minutes or a whole day and then highlight the times you are available. Use the show options to make full use of the site such as a description or giving the page a custom URL before naming the site and creating the event. You will be given a code that you will need to see the results later on, so make sure you write it down. You will then be supplied with three URLs: one for sharing, one for the results, and one for editing the calendar. Others can then choose their times and provide comments and their name.
NeedtoMeet: Create a schedule by giving it a name, length, location (optional map), and description. You are then given a daytimer type of calender where you select all possible meeting times. You are then given a shared URL and an administrator URL. Users who go the shared URL can then select the time that is good for them. It also shows what choices have already need selected by others.
Meetifyr: This is the most feature-rich site of the three with the options to include extras such as a custom map. You first must provide information such as what it is (title) and where (the location). You can also provide a more detailed description if you would like. For the location, you can choose a map. You then choose your date or date range and copy the URL to share.
Reference (dictionary/thesaurus/citation)
Free Visual Dictionary & Thesaurus | Online Dictionary | Associated Words | Synonyms Dictionary at SnappyWords.com
RhymeZone rhyming dictionary and thesaurus
BibMe: Fast & Easy Bibliography Maker – MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian – Free
Conjugate Verbs |Conjugation English Verbs | Conjugation Spanish Verbs | Conjugation
Portuguese Verbs | Conjugation German Verbs |Conjugated Verbs
Find Similar or Opposite words at WordHippo.com
Voyant Tools: Reveal Your Texts
Pro Writing Aid – Free Writing Software and Editing Tools
Documents (webpages/text/paste/view)
TitanPad
Plurk paste: New Paste
9url – paste text to nice url
The Internet Clipboard – wePaste.com
textsnip – Keep your text & code formatting safe from IM and Email
Kidblog – Blogs for Teachers and Students
Annotation
Comment on, edit, and fill PDF files, Word documents, images and more | Crocodoc
Stories (create/read)
Storybird – Artful storytelling
Photos and Drawing (find/edit/share)
Cut My Pic! The Free online image resize, cut, crop, round corners, drop shadow and colorize tool!
The Pixelator
PunyPNG – PNG Compression and Image Optimization – Gracepoint After Five
JPEGmini – Your Photos on a Diet!
iPaint – An online painting program.
Free Graphic Design Software – Image Editor – Paint – Draw Online – Make Logo – Illustration – Page Layout
Picfull – Free One Click Photo Editing
TinEye Reverse Image Search
DropMocks
Drawing tool
Pixabay – Public Domain Images
PicLits.com – Create a PicLit
Photo editor online – Pixlr.com edit image .:
Sumo Paint 3.7 :.
Myoats – Create something.
Photo Effects and Photo Editing with One Click – BeFunky.com
BigHugeLabs: Do fun stuff with your photos
Photovisi – Photo Collage Maker
Dumpr – Photo Fun
Timeline
Thinkport Tool: My Timeline
Time Line Maker
Chat/Conferencing
MeetingBurner – Fast and free online meetings and webinars
TodaysMeet
Timers/Clocks
Online Stopwatch
E.gg Timer – simple online countdown timer
Writing
Letter Generator
Dr Seuss Text Bubble
cartoon speech bubbles on a picture
The Newspaper Clipping Image Generator – Create your own fun newspaper
Free Certificates – CertificateStreet.com
Teleprompter
Free online teleprompter.
Testing
Testmoz – The Test Generator
Comic Creation
Storyboard That: The World's Best FREE Online Storyboard Creator
QR code business cards: Type in your information, choose an online image, and the site will create online business cards that you can download as a PDF file to print on Avery business card paper. People who scan the card will have your information downloaded automatically to their contacts list.
QRickit QR Codes: Create QR codes that will perform up to 18 different tasks including add a contact, sending an email or SMS message, go to a Google map location, or even send a Tweet! You have the option of choosing the code and background colours and including an image in the code. Download the image as a JPEG or PNG file.
Surveys and Polls
Socrative: Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.
Go Soapbox: Web based student response site that offers polls, surveys, quizzes and discussions.
PollCode: This site provides a few additional functions such as multiple answers, colour, background, and font choices, as well as the ability to leave comments. People can also just view the results without giving an answer. The poll is hosted or can be embedded. One unique feature is the ability to use a dropdown menu instead of radio buttons.
Flisti: This site allows for multiple answers and users can leave comments as well. Visitors can view the results without voting. It is hosted and can also be embedded. Online Whiteboards/Corkboards
Awwapp: Draw or type on this whiteboard using a variety of coloured markers. Invite others to participate and post online or save the completed work to your computer.Padlet: We give you a blank wall. You put anything you want on it, anywhere. Simple, yet powerful.
PDF Tools
PDFescape: The most comprehensive of all the free online PDF tools. Create, read, and edit PDF documents. Create and fill in PDF forms all within your browser without needing to register. Some of the more noteable tools including the ability to insert and remove pages from a PDF document, annotate and markup a PDF, as well as creating fillable forms.
FoxyUtils SplitPDF: There are four simple, yet effective, tools: split a PDF (remove a range of pages), merge PDFs (combine 2 or more PDFs into one document), unlock a PDF (in case you forget thepassword), protect a PDF (add a password and restrict usage)
PDF Newspaper: Enter a webpage with an RSS feed and convert the last five posts into a nice looking PDF newspaper.
PDF to Word Online Converter: Upload a PDF and the site will convert it into a Word document without needing to install anything or provide and personal data
2ePub Converter: Converts 14 different types of documents, including PDFs, into one of four different ebook files.
Capture Webpage: Create an image or PDF from a webpage. If you select one of the image files, it will create one long image of the site instead of splitting into seperate files or only what can be viewed on the screen. Great way of capturing an entire page.
Print Friendly: This is one of the easiest and nicest ways of creating a clean PDF document of awebpage for printing. Select sections to delete and keep or remove images. Use the simple bookmarklet to access from any webpage.
Charts/Graphs
ChartGo: Create a bar, line, pie, or area graph in 2D or 3D. Options also include dimensions and orientation. Enter your data and you are then given a URL to edit and one to share. You can also embed the chart on your website or blog. Simple, yet nice looking results.
Piecolor: Create a piechart you can download. Very simple to use and can be in 2D or 3D. No hosting or embedding available.
Hohli: Create bar, line, and pie charts along with Venn diagrams, scatter plots and radar charts. Choose your chart size, colour, and add your data. The chart is hosted as an image, you can also download or embed to your website or blog.
Kids’ Zone: Make a bar, line, area, pie or XY graph. Choose your shading and color, add your data, labels, and fonts, and then download or email yourself the link. Word Clouds.
Wordle: Probably the most popular site for creating word clouds and is one of the best for creating high-quality printable versions of the image. Paste in a text or put in a website URL and it creates a random word cloud. Change the font, style, colour and limit words. You can also check word counts as well. Print out as an image to save for later (if you have the capability of printing as a PDF, you can then print the cloud as large as you want without problems with losing quality).
TagCrowd: Paste or upload a text or choose a website URL. Enter your criteria including word limitations and word counts, and create a square type word cloud that can be embedded or printed. The PDF download function didn’t work for me, but it may be just a temporary problem.
ABCya! Word Clouds: This is a nice little word cloud generator designed for kids. It can’t handle larger texts (seems to have trouble beyond about 35 words), but the images are nice and can be downloaded as a jpeg image file or printed. You do have some control of fonts, color, and layout as well.
WordItOut: This is the only word cloud generator listed here that needs an email address to save it. You can always do a screen shot or put in a temporary email address to get the file. You can paste text or get from a URL and create a word cloud with some control on font, color, and layout.
Tagxedo: Turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
Maps
Earthtools: Find precise location data, sunrise and sunset times, height, contours, and distances all without registration.
MapMaker International from National Geographic: Overlay a number of different themes from water, land, and climate to population, political, and economic systems. Draw on the map and place a variety of different markers as well as use a measuring tool in kilometres or miles. Save as an XML or PNG file.
Planiglobe: Create and download a custom vector map. Add places and political, topographic, and seafloor layers.
Marine Geoscience Data Systems Custom Maps and Grids: Make high-resolution topography maps of land and seabeds that you can download for free.
National Atlas Map Maker: Create, save, and print US based maps using a number of layers including geographic, political, and historical.
Map Generator: Create a simple Google map with one marker and text that you can share or embed without needing to register.
Esri: Add a data overlay to a map based on US data such as age, income, and population. Embed or share a custom URL with comments.
Aardvark Map: Create custom Google maps that can be embedded or shared without registration. Add multiple points or add custom overlay sets.
Scribble Maps: Draw on a Google Map and add markers, images, and text as well. Save as an image, get a link, or embed. Even add a custom style to your map.
ZeeMaps: Create a custom Google map with markers, images, movies, and more. Share your custom map for free.
Indiemapper: Create vector, shape based, or custom maps based on your own data. Change projection types and export as an image.
OpenStreetMap: Created using data from users, OpenStreetMap is an alternative to Google maps where users can download images or data.
Quikmaps: Draw lines, scribble, and add markers with comments on a Google map with out registration. Share the link or embed in your blog or website.
CommunityWalk: Create a community based Google map with special routes, markers, and interactive content.
Dual Maps: Combine Google maps, Streetview, and Bing maps as one map. Add Wikipedia and Panoramio layers as well. Embed on your website or blog.
TravBuddy: Show a map with all the places you have visited in the world. Embed the map on your website or blog.
Roadtrip America: Create a road trip route with markers of things to do and see along the way. You are unable to save or print the map without registering, but you can always create a screenshot of the map to download.
Schedule
When Is Good: This is the website has very few options, but it is also the easiest to use. Choose your time increments of 15, 30, 60 minutes or a whole day and then highlight the times you are available. Use the show options to make full use of the site such as a description or giving the page a custom URL before naming the site and creating the event. You will be given a code that you will need to see the results later on, so make sure you write it down. You will then be supplied with three URLs: one for sharing, one for the results, and one for editing the calendar. Others can then choose their times and provide comments and their name.
NeedtoMeet: Create a schedule by giving it a name, length, location (optional map), and description. You are then given a daytimer type of calender where you select all possible meeting times. You are then given a shared URL and an administrator URL. Users who go the shared URL can then select the time that is good for them. It also shows what choices have already need selected by others.
Meetifyr: This is the most feature-rich site of the three with the options to include extras such as a custom map. You first must provide information such as what it is (title) and where (the location). You can also provide a more detailed description if you would like. For the location, you can choose a map. You then choose your date or date range and copy the URL to share.
Reference (dictionary/thesaurus/citation)
Free Visual Dictionary & Thesaurus | Online Dictionary | Associated Words | Synonyms Dictionary at SnappyWords.com
RhymeZone rhyming dictionary and thesaurus
BibMe: Fast & Easy Bibliography Maker – MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian – Free
Conjugate Verbs |Conjugation English Verbs | Conjugation Spanish Verbs | Conjugation
Portuguese Verbs | Conjugation German Verbs |Conjugated Verbs
Find Similar or Opposite words at WordHippo.com
Voyant Tools: Reveal Your Texts
Pro Writing Aid – Free Writing Software and Editing Tools
Documents (webpages/text/paste/view)
TitanPad
Plurk paste: New Paste
9url – paste text to nice url
The Internet Clipboard – wePaste.com
textsnip – Keep your text & code formatting safe from IM and Email
Kidblog – Blogs for Teachers and Students
Annotation
Comment on, edit, and fill PDF files, Word documents, images and more | Crocodoc
Stories (create/read)
Storybird – Artful storytelling
Photos and Drawing (find/edit/share)
Cut My Pic! The Free online image resize, cut, crop, round corners, drop shadow and colorize tool!
The Pixelator
PunyPNG – PNG Compression and Image Optimization – Gracepoint After Five
JPEGmini – Your Photos on a Diet!
iPaint – An online painting program.
Free Graphic Design Software – Image Editor – Paint – Draw Online – Make Logo – Illustration – Page Layout
Picfull – Free One Click Photo Editing
TinEye Reverse Image Search
DropMocks
Drawing tool
Pixabay – Public Domain Images
PicLits.com – Create a PicLit
Photo editor online – Pixlr.com edit image .:
Sumo Paint 3.7 :.
Myoats – Create something.
Photo Effects and Photo Editing with One Click – BeFunky.com
BigHugeLabs: Do fun stuff with your photos
Photovisi – Photo Collage Maker
Dumpr – Photo Fun
Timeline
Thinkport Tool: My Timeline
Time Line Maker
Chat/Conferencing
MeetingBurner – Fast and free online meetings and webinars
TodaysMeet
Timers/Clocks
Online Stopwatch
E.gg Timer – simple online countdown timer
Writing
Letter Generator
Dr Seuss Text Bubble
cartoon speech bubbles on a picture
The Newspaper Clipping Image Generator – Create your own fun newspaper
Free Certificates – CertificateStreet.com
Teleprompter
Free online teleprompter.
Testing
Testmoz – The Test Generator
Comic Creation
Storyboard That: The World's Best FREE Online Storyboard Creator