Technology+Applications

**[|Zamzar]: Online video file conversion, covering a wide range of different image, document, music, video and compression formats. Free for files up to 100MB**
[| Find Anything- All You Need] awesome site containing all kinds of links [|Jing] free software that adds visuals to your online conversations. [|Delicious] be able to get to your bookmarks from any computer, anytime. [|Animoto] site that allows you to create your own videos. [|Smilebox] can be used to create animated scrapbooks, photobooks, slideshows, postcards, and e-cards for any occassion using your own pictures. [|Online Stopwatch] =Everybody needs a stopwatch at some point -- and there's never one around! Well... Now there is! Online Stopwatch! A Simple, Fast Flash Online Stopwatch and Online Countdown timer always available when you need it .= [|BubblePLY] Allows you to add speech and thought bubbles to any online video. [|Comeeko] Allows you to drag and drop photos and text to tell stories in a comic book format\

[|**OurStory**] - FANTASTIC - upload text, photos, and videos into a simple interface to produce a chronologically sequenced timeline. Can collaborate with others, customize, and share. Choose a type of album, answer questions, it generates for you

[|**Slidestory**] - Allows you to overlay audio narration onto a slideshow

**[|Wordle]**
Wordle creates word clouds. This is a neat tool - one idea for world language educators is to take a reading in the target language, paste the text into Wordle, thus creating a word cloud of the high frequency words for the text selection. Here is a Wordle based on an [|article from El País]. Imagine how this Wordle could be used as a pre-reading activity!

Doodle cool site for doing polls

[|Newspaper Clipping Generator]

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