*Mindmeister: not for free; can make slide show; helps you with visual; can change font
Spiderscribe: it is free; have to delete things; concept map; no slideshow; can connect things from topics; can insert images, word documents, dates, and locations; more centered around businesses and meetings; more beneficial for personal use and not visual enough to actually use for teaching
Bubbl.us: free; very similar to inspiration; can make multiple headings; can import pictures; very simple
*lino: free; can post notes; due dates, word documents, pictures, and to-do lists; is an app so it can go on your phone; can change font and color; simple
Photobucket: combination of instagram and pinterest; can see whats trending; can share pictures; can search themes or certain pictures; can make it private; free to upload a certain amount; can buy more storage
Quintura for kids: a lot of potential; search engine for kids; not a good search engine to actually use; can get it as an app on your phone; not extensive but good at limiting
DuckDuckGo: search engine evolved around kids; filter bubble; helps kids use reliable sources
GoGooligans.com: search engine for kids and teens; didn't search well; its a "safe" search engine; free of tracking and scams
*Padlet: a blank wall; start clicking; can type anything you want; students can comment on posts; free
Text2MindMap; basically a concept map; free
Stormboard: can create different boards; can invite users (students) to join the board; can add comments to posts; can vote on posts; have to have code
Kidtopia: search engine for elementary/primary students; shows you different websites on specific topics; "safe" search engine; has adds; not very specific per search
*InstaGrok: mixture of concept map and search engine; gives you key facts for your topic of choice; gives you key facts per subtopic; can give videos and pictures; difficulty range, you can control the difficulty of the map; quizzes that come with it; has adds; free
*SlimeKids: search engine for kids; directory for multiple search engines; has an authors page
WikiSummarizer: visual summary of search; automatically expands; can edit it; can do word cloud; can do a tree view; all info comes from wikipedia
Pearltree: combination of pinterest and concept map; can make categories or select websites; will take you directly to the website if you "pearl" it; kind of complicated; could be a good place to gather and store ideas but maybe not the easiest for kids
*Netvibes: kind of like pearltree but less appealing to the eye; has search engines within; extreme google; anything interesting you can click to get extra info on that topic and can bring you to that website; easy to refer because of the dashboard; can uncategorize and puts it all together; free; expensive premium
*Glogster: place where you can create online poster boards; can create timelines and different assignments; premade dates; can add videos and pictures to timeline; can save and print; has different fonts
Audacity: place where you can record pretty much anything; free; allows you to edit music or different recordings; can eliminate background noise
Vimeo: kind of like youtube; video sharing website; free; doesn't look like it would be good to use for classroom purposes
WordPress: blog site; can create and follow different blogs; can tag things to link them; has more flexibility than blogger and a good alternative for it; maybe also more popular than blogger or easier to use; looks a little more interactive or socially interactive; comparative to tumblr
*Compfight: comparative to google images; can download different sizes of images; free; using creative commons allows you to better use the images; shows you the license agreement for each image and what all is legally allowed to do with the photo
Diigo: can collect, organize, capture, store, tag, recall, and share any information in your library; can search for groups pertaining to your topic you want to search; free, but can go premium
Blabberize: can insert any type of image; can cut out mouth and record what you want it to say; can use for school projects; kind of like a voki but from an image; not very realistic, kind of crappy
*easel.ly: can create visual themes; can create concept maps; good to use for brainstorming; easy to use; free; can look at other pages
*Animoto: can upload images and videos; can create own videos; can create collages for pictures; free for up to 30 seconds of video; has more premium accounts for less limitations; has premade backgrounds
Bookbuilder: can create your own book; easy to use, especially for students; can change book language; can add pictures to your book; can share them for other people to see; creates digital books
*Weebly: makes creating a website very easy; good for slideshows; free, but could get more access with premium accoun; seems more together and organized than google sites; doesn't seem to have any issues
Storyboard generator: gives videos from personal views of a variety of topics to maybe show to class
*Tagul: exactly like wordle, not as limited and a little easier though; can make it into many different shapes, fonts, and colors; can buy merchandise to go along with your word cloud; free
*Edmodo: facebook for teachers; different categories to choose from; secure social network for classroom and teacher use; can ask questions on site and other users can answer and give examples; maybe have to certain info to be able to comment; there are different sections per topic; can create a classroom and can have students log onto it to post and reply
*Socrative: website for teachers to create quizzes and tests for their students; free; easy for class to join
*PodBean: podcasting; can post all lectures or just some lectures on there; if used enough can cost, but otherwise free
Pixton: for school version you have to sign up; could use it as an interactive tool; ex, for english, proper forms of there, their, and they're; can create comic strips
iCloud: pages: first few pages looks like Microsoft Word; different documents you can create; comparable to Word; free word processing tool; numbers: like Microsoft Excel; creates spreadsheets; keynote: like Microsoft Powerpoint; creates slideshows; easy
*infogr.am: can create charts; has different templates you can use; free; can customize after using
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