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http://www.polleverywhere.com/ Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It’s the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere. It can help you to raise money by letting people pledge via text messaging. Its simplicity and flexibility are earning rave reviews. Poll [...]

PARIS — A globe-spanning UN digital library seeking to display and explain the wealth of all human cultures has gone into operation on the Internet, serving up mankind’s accumulated knowledge in seven languages for students around the world. James Billington, the librarian of Congress who launched the project four years ago, said the ambition was [...]

http://www.ustream.tv/ LIVE, INTERACTIVE BROADCASTING Experience live video. In just minutes, you can broadcast and chat online with a global audience. Completely free, all it takes is a camera and Internet connection.

http://www.wordle.net/ Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You [...]

24 Oct, 2008

Sim Carnival - game creator

Posted by: Michael George In: Fine Arts|Games

http://www.simscarnival.com No Programming Skills Required! Creating games is a snap with easy-to-use tools from The Sims Carnival. Join the fun now!

http://www.zamzar.com/ It allows you to convert documents, images, videos and music files and share them with friends.  

Musopen! www.musopen.com Musopen is an online music library of copyright free music (public domain music). We want to give the world access to music, without the legal hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost no recordings of this music is in the public domain. We [...]

10 Sep, 2008

Owl & Mouse - Free Software

Posted by: Michael George In: Fine Arts|Games|Open Source/ Freeware

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/owlmouse.htm  Help your child learn with games, software and educational activities from Owl & Mouse Educational Software.   Early reading software—phonics software, alphabet games, and Dolch sight words in a fairy tale story.  All of it FREE!  Free online USA maps, world maps, map of Europe, map puzzles of the US, Europe, Africa, Asia, and many [...]

http://www.jingproject.com/ Think of Jing as a supplement to all your chat discussions, email threads, forum posts and blog entries. It sits nicely on your desktop, ready to capture and share your stuff at a moment’s notice. Simply select an area of your screen, capture it as an image or record it as a video, and [...]

06 Jun, 2008

Go Animate!

Posted by: Michael George In: Fine Arts|Fun|Math|Top Pick|World Languages

http://goanimate.com/  About the site - We are a bunch of guys who love animation and want to share our passion with the world! The problem is that animation requires very specific skills. Animators need to learn Flash or other advanced software before being able to create anything. They also need to know how to draw. [...]