Free Cool Tools

Zotero – Perhaps the single greatest free research tool around. Collect, manage, cite, and share your research resources.

Wordle -Word Art

Taxedo -Word Art

Picnik – Photo Editing

Prezi – Presentation program better than a slide show.

Audio Boo – Audio Recording program all you need is the web or a cell phone.

Animoto – Make your lessons or presentations into videos.

Mind Meister – Xmind – Free Mind – Mind mapping to help you with that project or paper.

Poll Everywhere – Real time polling using cell phones.

Save Complete – HTTrack – Web pages come and go. If its important to you, save it.

VLC – Media player that plays all formats.

Portable VLC – Put this on a flash drive and know you will be able to play your video wherever you go.

Reading, Writing and Research

Purdue Owl -General writing help, research and academic writing, style guides, etc…

Poets.Org – Huge Archive of Poetry.

Library of Congress – Books, pictures, lesson plans and audio-visual collections.

Voice of the Shuttle – Academic Research Database

Bill Moyer’s Journal – Many essays on timely topics.

The Writer’s Almanac – Short stories and poems delivered daily.

The Underground History of American Education – Research on what is wrong with education.

A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn’s amazing book of the little people.

Project Gutenberg – Thousands of free books.