Essential Software for Teachers and Students
Topic: All subjects
A list of software essentials for teachers and students. Most are free

Create Great PowerPoint Presentations
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It’s not PowerPoint’s fault that presentations have become boring and useless. After all, it just supplies the tools and it’s what we do with it that matters.  Here are 70+ PowerPoint and Presentation Resources and Great Examples to assist your projects.

Create Charts Online
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Ever needed a chart for a report? Did you not feel like spending a couple of hours in Photoshop trying to make one? Look no further than the web for quick and simple chart makers. Here is a small selection of chart makers for your use in everyday life.

Planner, Organiser, To Do List
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Remember The Milk is a great planner and organiser tool. Create as many lists as you need. Into tagging? Use the task cloud to easily see what you have to do. Want to store notes along with your tasks? You can do that too. Receive reminders via email, SMS, and instant messenger. An intuitive interface makes managing tasks fun. Set due dates easily with next Friday or in 2 weeks. Share, send and publish tasks and lists with your contacts or the world. Print your entire list or a handy weekly planner which shows upcoming tasks. View your tasks on your calendar with Apple iCal or Google Calendar. Read the FreeLance review of this product.

Create Your OpenID
Topic: General
With OpenID, you don’t have to sign up and create a new account for each site that supports OpenID – you can just use the identity you already have. OpenID lets you use a web address (URL) that you control to sign in on other sites. An OpenID is a URL. An example OpenID URL would be ‘http://bob.myopenid.com/’, and when asked to sign in to an OpenID-enabled site I would type “http://bob.myopenid.com/” into the sign in box. You enter your OpenID on the login page of any site that supports OpenID (look for the OpenID logo ), authenticate with your OpenID provider and surf on.

 

Customised Music Player
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Jango is all about making online music easy, fun and social. Just type in an artist - and your first station starts playing right away. Customizing your stations further is just as easy. Just add more artists and rate songs that you want to play more or less. You can also tune in to other people's stations - and they can tune in to yours! In your player, you'll see who's listening to the same music as you, who's listening to your stations, and what your friends are playing.

Desktop Recording
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Freecorder Toolbar is a revolutionary new browser-based audio recording program, combining state of the art recording technology, ease-of-use, and some great browser enhancements. You can use Freecorder Toolbar for:Recording Songs.Extracting Audio from Videos.Recording Internet Radio.Recording from your PC's Microphone or Line-in ports.

Image Colour Analysis
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Whats its color is an image-color processing utility that will evaluate an image and give you the image's primary and complementary dominant colors of an image, how many visually unique colors are in an image, and the top ten visually unique colors in an image. Extremely useful when creating any type of designs around an image. The more colorful the image, the better the results. Results will display your image on the best suited background for that image.

Web Site Creation
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Webnode is a new free service that brings you a brand new innovative way of creating and editing advanced websites by just using a web browser. The system is very easy to use and is fully interactive. Real-time fast editing as you see it in the browser. By using Drag-and-Drop from the toolbar you can add new content such as polls, forums, articles, catalogues, widgets . Webnode contains more than 40 beautiful templates or you can make your own.

7 Ways To Start Your Business
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Here is an article from Freelance Switch with 7 suggestions for starting your own business in the digital media industry. For example Create a Name and Logo, Start a Web Portfolio, etc.

Adding Audio To PowerPoint
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Here are some great tips on how to add audio - text and  music - to PowerPoint presentations. In particular the process of riff-ing where the mp3 file extension is changed to wav to allow the mp3 file to be inserted is worth noting.

Text To Voice Converter
Topic: General
SpokenText.net allows you to record (English, French or German) PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files, ,RSS news feeds, emails and web pages, and converts them to speech automatically. You can download your recording as an iPod book or mp3 file. And every member gets a personal podcast URL , which you can use to download recordings to iTunes or your iPod. You can also easily share your recordings on your web site or blog using SpokenText Badges or individual recording players. And best of all it's COMPLETELY FREE!

Digital Media Tips and Resources
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FreelanceSwitch is a website that provides advice and resources to people working in the digital content industry. Highly recommended for students thinking of running their own business - freelancing. Here are 3 great articles:
1.  A Beginners Guide to  Freelance Business  Processes.
2. Accounting Basics for a Freelancer
3. A Copyright Casestudy (RECOMMENDED) 

Image Enhancement
Topic: General
Here is an online version of Apple iPhoto's Enhance tool or Google Picasa's I'm Feeling Lucky button but essentially better than both of those. All you do is upload an image from your system or give it a URL to get it from and it automatically restores true original colours, corrects colour temperature and adjusts for poor lighting. There's nothing else to do and all you get is the option to download the improved image.

Tips and Tricks for eLearning
Topic: Instructional Design

The eLearning Guild asked members for their favorite tips for using software for the creation of e-Learning. In the categories: Courseware authoring and e-Learning development tools - Rapid e-Learning tools - Simulation tools - Media tools - Combining and deploying authoring tools.

Online Quiz Creation
Topic: Instructional Design

ClassMarker is a free, easy to use, online quiz maker that marks your tests and quizzes for you. You simply create your quizzes and your business clients take them online. Link directly to quizzes from your website or emails. Have quiz results emailed to you and saved in ClassMarker. Create multiple choice, true false, free text, short answer, fill in the blank and punctuation quizzes. Add your own images to quizze

Create Interactive Videos
Topic: vblogging

Aspterpix enables you to create links in your video. Hypervideo, or interactive video, makes video an interactive experience by allowing viewers to i) Get more information on objects of interest during video playback ii) Navigate directly to specific scenes that contain objects of interest without having to watch the entire video. Asterpix enables users to easily create interactive videos and share them through websites, blogs, and email.

Design Generator
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TypoGenerator is a random generator for 'typoPosters'. a typoPoster is a poster, created from images and letters/text that doesnt have any sense, just to look good. Create 'jazzy' images for key words in your projects.

Screen Capture Software - Free
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Snagit is very good screen capture software and you can get a copy of version 7.2.5 (now that version 8 is available) for free. SnagIt 7.2.5 absolutely free. SnagIt is the screen capture and editing software that lets you add stunning effects - and helpful instructions - to anything you see on your PC screen.

Online Word Processing
Topic: General

Adobe's Buzzword is a new online word processor that looks great.

"It's probably the freshest approach to word processing in a generation.", "The user experience it promised was truly breathtaking. Buzzword made google docs looks like your grandpas word processing app."