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keeptherecord.com - October 28, 2011 10:57 AM

Keep The Record - instant online conferencing

This website enables you to create short video conferences with upto 10 people. It also records them so you can watch again afterwards. This can be really useful for recording tutorials or collecting interviews for research.

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quickshout.blogspot.com - November 16, 2011 11:57 AM

Translate text into phonetic script

I always believe that the best sites and web tools are the simplest, and this is certainly the case with Phonetizer. It's a really easy to use tool that takes and text and adds the phonetic spelling below it.

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prezi.com - February 14, 6:26 AM

Prezi Viewer for iPad | Prezi

View and present your prezis anywhere with simple, intuitive multitouch gestures.
Revise and retouch your prezis, correct typos and adjust your presentation on-the-fly.
Prezi Viewer is the perfect companion to your Prezi experience, and... it’s free.

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www.gifpal.com - February 11, 7:45 AM

GIFPAL - Make animated GIFs online with webcam and images.

This is a great free tool for making animated 'gif' images from either your photographs or using your web cam. You can also add a number of effects to the images and then download them or share them online. No registration necessary.

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www.makeuseof.com - February 10, 3:35 AM

Select & Speak: An Easy To Use Text To Speech Extension [Chrome]

Select and Speak is a handy extension for Google Chrome that allows users to listen to text from almost any website. The extension has a list of voices (accents) to choose from; you can choose any of the voices that you recognize the clearest and the easiest.

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www.timelinemoviemaker.com - February 7, 2:54 AM

Timeline Movie Maker

This free site enables you to create a ovie from your Facebook timeline. This is a great way to create a digital narrative of your life since you joined Facebook.

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en.bab.la - February 3, 3:02 AM

Wording - bab.la

This is a great site to help you with prepositions and sentence structure. Just type in the beginning of the sentence and it will offer you options for the next word in the sentence.

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muse.dillfrog.com - January 31, 5:48 AM

Random Words By POS

This is a really useful tool for testing your own vocabulary. Just generate random word lists and then check to see how many of the words you know.

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sites.google.com - January 26, 4:05 PM

Becoming an eTeacher

This course is in five parts, preceded by an introduction video (to the right). You can preview the modules to see which of them you want or need to complete on its own, or you can complete them all one-by-one in your own time, at your own pace. If you complete them all, we suggest you complete them in order, beginning with Module 1.

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itunes.apple.com - January 19, 6:48 AM

Storytree

This is a nice app for iPad, iPhone etc which enables you to structure and create stories combining images and audio with text. Great for digital storytelling.

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addons.mozilla.org - January 17, 9:04 AM

Screen Draw :: Add-ons for Firefox

This is a useful plugin for Firefox that allows you to draw over web pages and then take and share screen shots of the page. Useful for creating and illustrating 'how to' type documents.

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www.messmyphoto.com - January 13, 11:45 AM

Photo Effects - Online Artistic Free Photo effects

This is an online photo editor for adding a range of different effects to your images. Integrates with Facebook for upload and save too.

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qrvoice.net - January 12, 3:16 AM

QR voice

This is a useful tool that allows you to 'embed' voice messages into QR Codes. This means that you can print up short message on paper or add them to websites for people to scan.

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itunes.apple.com - January 3, 4:41 AM

Movie360:My Movies,My Life

This is a very impressive free app for iPhone etc which enhances any videos you create on your mobile device. It's a little like the Instagram of video. Really useful to enhance your videos.

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infogr.am - February 20, 5:05 AM

Create interactive charts and infographics

This is a great tool for creating graphs from your own data. You can them embed the graphics it produces into reports or webpages using the embed code. You do need a Twitter or Facebook account to sign up though.

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mentimeter.com - February 19, 4:38 AM

Create quick polls for mobile

This is a great tool for creating quick live interaction polls. Great way to get quick research or audience response.

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www.thinkbinder.com - February 13, 6:13 AM

ThinkBinder

ThinkBinder is a great free tool for creating your own study group.

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qwips.com - February 10, 7:33 AM

Add Voice to Tweets and Voice Over to Videos you Share

This looks like a useful free tool for adding voice to your tweets or facebook postings. You can also add voice overs to videos you share. Could be very useful. There's also a free mobile app.

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www.idroo.com - February 7, 3:01 AM

IDroo Whiteboard for Skype

This is a very useful free interactive whiteboard that works along side Skype for online teaching and tutoring.

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www.vidinotes.com - February 6, 10:46 AM

Create a printable summary of your video with Vidinotes!

This website enables you to upload a video and convert it into a series of images that you can print to make notes on. This is very useful for taking notes about video lectures or information rich documentary type programs.

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ipiccy.com - February 2, 7:26 AM

iPiccy.com - Online image editing

iPiccy is a very simple easy to use, feature rich online image editor. You can start using it without even registering. Very useful for simple cropping, adding effects or more complex edits.

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paperrater.com - January 29, 4:25 AM

Free Online Grammar Checker, Proofreader, and Writing Coach

This is a great way to improve your essay and assignment writing. This tool will check your grammar, show you any areas where you may have plagiarised content and make suggestions for improving your writing style.

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www.wontube.com - January 26, 9:57 AM

Free Video Converter for Windows and Mac | WonTube

This is a free software tool which runs on MAC or Windows and allows you to download and convert videos to a range of formats suitable to run on mobile or desktop devices.

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itunes.apple.com - January 18, 3:45 AM

Fotobabble

This is a great free app for combining voice with images. Just take pictures or upload them from your gallery and then add audio and voice messages to them and share them. Great speaking practice.

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www.studyblue.com - January 17, 5:20 AM

Make online & mobile flashcards & notes

This is a really useful tool for creating digital flashcards and study notes. You can also download the free app for use on iPad, iPhone etc.

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conjugation.com - January 12, 10:24 AM

Conjugation English Verbs

This is a very easy to use tool for conjugating verbs. Just type in the base form of the verb and click to see the verb in all its various forms. It also works with a range of other languages.

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www.pdfescape.com - January 12, 3:13 AM

PDFescape - Free PDF Editor

This is a really useful tool that allows you to create and annotate on PDF documents. This is really useful if you want to fill in PDF forms without printing them up tc.

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