Online Tools and Web Applications

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Web tools and online utilities have become more full-featured and useful over the years. 

Here are some links to various online tools to help both teaching and learning. The online tools all work with laptops and Chromebooks unless stated otherwise. The ones that have Chrome apps available have a link to the Chrome Web Store link. 

If you find a link that is not working, please let me know the title and I will fix it.

If you have a suggestion, please fill out the form at the bottom of the page!

Form for evaluation of online creation tools.

Pedagogical components of the presentation in this gallery.

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No-registration necessary Web tools

• Linda Houle: Web 2.0 Tools
• Nathan Hall's list

​A.I. online tools

1. ChatGPT: interacts in a conversational way
2. GPT-4: next level text, image, and audio interaction
3. DALL-E 2: create images and art from a natural language description
4. Stable Diffusion 2: open source generative AI project
5. Soundraw: create royalty-free music
6. Looka: design a logo with AI
7. Podcastle: podcasting tool with AI editing capabilities
8. MyHeritage Deep Nostalgia: animate your family photos
9. Murf AI: Text to speech
10. Cleanup Pictures: remove unwanted objects from an image
11. Magic Eraser: remove unwanted objects from an image
12. Fireflies.ai: automate your meeting notes
13. Fliki: turns a blog post into a video
14. Neural Love: free AI art generator
15. AIVA: AI background music generator
16. This person does not exist: random face generator
17. Magic Sketchpad: tries to finish your drawings with AI
18. Craiyon: easy art generator
19. Fontjoy: helps you generate fonts that work together
20. Elicit: a research helper to find abstracts and papers
21. Thank You Note: easily create a thank you note online
22. Let's Foodie: enter your ingredients and get a meal created
23. PlayPhrase.me: enter a quote and find the movies
24. AI Duet music maker​: a piano that responds to your input
25. DeepBeat rap generator: make your own rap music
26. Even Stranger Things: make a Stranger Things poster
27. Shadow Art with Google: make some shadows with AI​​
28. TinyWow: AI Write: free AI writing tools
29. QuestionWell: creates all types of questions from your input
30. AI tools for teachers: an educator's list of many AI tools
31. Canva Magic Write Tool


32. Google Labs AI/machine learning online apps
    1. Emoji scavenger hunt (need camera or phone)
    2. AutoDraw
    3. Can you sing like Freddie Mercury?
    4. Semantris
    5. Beat Blender
    6. Nonsense Library
    7. NSynth Sound Maker
    8. Talk to Books
33. Google Arts and Culture AI/machine learning experiments
    1. XYZ Toy
    2. Odd One Out
    3. Descent of the Serpent
    4. GEO Artwork
    5. Puzzle Party (APAHM edition)
    6. Puzzle Party (Czechia edition)
    7. Puzzle Party (Milan Cathedral edition)
    8. Puzzle Party (Diwali edition)
    9. Blob Opera
    10. Baguette Sprint
    11. Un-Dough!
    12. Blob Beats
    13. In Rhythm with Nature
    14. 3D Pottery
    15. Guess the Line
    16. AI Duet
    17. Where is Hopper?
    18. Fabricius
    19. What came first?
    20. BTS x Street Galleries
    21. Fourth of July fireworks

​Online graphic design tools

• Adobe Creative Cloud Express
• Canva for Education
• Desygner
• MockoFUN (MockoFUN for teachers)

Online video editors/creators/downloaders

• Adobe Creative Cloud Express
• Adobe Express free animated video creator
• ClipChamp Create
• Headliner (free upgrade for schools)
• Instagram video downloader
• Kapwing creator​
• TinyWow: Video tools
• Video Candy online video editor
• WeVideo editor/creator (Chrome)​ 
• YouTube video downloader

Online audio recorders/editors

• 123Apps
• AudioMass
• Audiotool
• Chirbit
• Clyp.it voice recording
• Online recorder from VEED.io
• Online Voice Recorder (Chrome)
• ​QRVoice
• Soundation Studio
• Soundtrap​​
• TwistedWave (Chrome)
• Vocal remover
• Vocaroo voice recording

Online image editors/creators

• Background Eraser
• BeFunky: Image editor​
• Block Posters
• Canva: Text to image
• CutMyPic photo customizer
• Free Online Photo Editor
• Image Candy
• iPiccy (Chrome)
• Lunapic
• Magic Eraser
• Online Photo Editor
• PhotoAiD Online Photo Editing Tools
• Photopea​
• Polarr (Chrome)
• PicMonkey (Chrome)
• Pixlr (Chrome)
• Pizap (Chrome)
• Remove.bg
• Sumo Paint (Chrome)
• TinyWow: Image tools
• Web Photo Resizer

Online collage makers

• BeFunky collage maker
• ​Canva: Photo collages creator
  
• FotoJet collage maker
• Fotor collage maker (Chrome)
• Kizoa collage maker
• iPiccy (Chrome)
• PhotoCollage
• Photovisi collage maker
• PicMonkey collage maker

 
Online sketchnoting and drawing tools

• ABCya! Paint and Draw
• AutoDraw
• Draw Island
• Draw.to
• Explain Everything Online Whiteboard
• Google Drawings (Chrome)
• InspirARTion (Chrome)
• Miro
• Muro​
• Sketchpad 5 and Sketchpad 3 (Chrome)
• SketchToy
• Speedpaint
• ​Toy Theater

Online word processors

• ABCya! Story Maker
• Acrobat.com
• Book Creator for Chrome
  
• Google Docs (Chrome)
• Lucidpress (Chrome)
• Zoho Writer (Chrome)

Online animation creators

• ABCya! Animate
• Animaker for Education
• Animatron
• Culture Street​
  
• Powtoon (Chrome)
• Simpleshow video maker
• Wideo (Chrome)

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Online comic creators

• Chogger comic maker
• Comic Creator from Read, Write, and Think
• Pixton
• ToonDoo

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Online avatar makers

• Avatar Maker
• Create your own superhero
• Disney yourself​

Online cool tools

• Acme Labelmaker
• Big Huge Labs
• Blabberize
• Bomomo design maker
• Breaking news generator
• Clideo: Meme generator
• Closr zooming tool​
• Facebook video downloader
• Fake Tweet builder
• Fake Tweet generator
• Fake tweet maker from ClassTools
• Fakebook fake FB builder
• Gickr animated GIF maker
• Inspirograph
• Interactive crossword puzzles
• Jeopardy Labs​
• Keep Calm-O-Matic
• Make your own Wordle
• Phrase.it speech bubbles
• Random name generator/spinner
• Simitator fake site builder
• TextGiraffe logo maker
• Wheel of Names spinner
• Word Blanks (Mad-Libs creator)

Online WYSIWYG Web page creators

• Adobe Express for Education
• Google Sites
• Populr
• Weebly
• Wix

Online design tools

• BeFunky: Designer
• Canva design app (Chrome)
• DesignCap
• Desygner
• Poster My Wall
• The Printshop Club
• Smore design app

Online podcast creators

• AudioPal​
• Podbean
• SoundCloud for podcasting
• Spotify for Podcasting

Online converters

• CleverPDF (file to PDF)
• Online Video Converter (Chrome)
• PDF Candy (PDF to file)
• SmallPDF Converter
• TinyWow: PDF tools
• TinyWow: Tools
• Zamzar (Chrome)

Online word cloud generators

• AbcYa 
• EdWorldle​
• MonkeyLearn
• TagCrowd 
• Tagul
• Tagxedo 
• VocabGrabber
• Word Cloud Generator
• WordClouds.com
• WordSift
• WordItOut 
• WordMosaic  ​

Online clipping/curation tools

• Diigo (Chrome)​
  
• ​elink.io
• Evernote (Chrome)​
• ​Google Keep (Chrome)
• Livebinders (Chrome)
• Milanote (iOS | Android)
• Pearltrees (Chrome)
• Pinterest (Chrome)
• Pocket (Chrome)
• ​Pullquote (Chrome)
• Scoop.it
• Symbaloo (Chrome)
• ​Wakelet

​Online blogging/microblogging tools

• Blogger (Chrome)
• Edublogs (Chrome)
• Jottit
• Penzu (Chrome)
• Tumblr
• Twitter
• Wordpress (Chrome)

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Online RSS Readers

• Feedly (Chrome)
  
• Feedspot (Chrome)

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Classroom Chrome extensions/add-ons

• Google: Chrome Web store extensions
• Google: Chrome Web store extensions for education
• Great classroom-specific Chrome extensions
• 10 free Chrome extensions teachers should try
• 15+ Chrome extensions for teachers
• Padlet Mini
• 21 Chrome extensions for struggling/special needs students
• Add-ons for G Suite: Docs | Sheets

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Online coding and programming tools

• Code Avengers (Chrome)
• Code Combat 
• Code Monster
• Code Studio 
• Codeacademy 
• Coding with Chrome (Chrome only)
• Khan Academy: Computer programming
• Pencil Code
• Run Marco (Chrome)
• Scratch
• Scratch Jr. (Chrome)
• Sketch Nation Create
• Tynker (Chrome)

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Online survey/feedback tools

• Flipgrid
• Google Forms and Docs
• Kahoot
• Mentimeter
• Spiral
• SurveyAnyplace (upgraded accounts with school email​
• Tricider
• Votesy
• Wufoo

Online mind mapping tools

• Cacoo (Chrome)​
• Creately (Chrome)
• Examtime
• Lucidchart (Chrome) (free for K-12 teachers and students)
• Mindmaps
• MindMeister (Chrome)
• Mindomo (Chrome)
• Popplet (needs Flash)
• RealtimeBoard for Education
• Slatebox
• UnConcept

Online timeline makers

• Canva: Timeline maker
• Capzles​
• Time Toast
• Timeline Editor
• Timeline

​Online storyboarding tools

• Storyboard That (Chrome)​
• Storyboard Generator

Online screencasting/screen capture tools

• Clarisketch (ChromeOS only)
• Clipular (Chrome)
• Full Web page screenshot
• LoomPro (Chrome extension)
• RecordCast
• Screen-castify (Chrome and ChromeOS) (ideas)
• ScreeenPal (Chrome)
• More on this page of the site.

Online citation makers

• APA (7th ed.) style generator
  
• BibMe
  
• Citation Builder
• Citation Generator
• Citationsy
• Cite It In
• EasyBib (Chrome)
• eTurabian
• KnightCite
• Son of Citation Machine
• WorksCited4U

Online presentation tools

• Adobe Express for Education
• Buncee
• Fotobabble
• Google Slides (Chrome)
• Magisto (Chrome)
• MoveNote (Chrome)
• My Simple Show
• Photopeach (Chrome)​
• Powtoon (Chrome)
• Prezi (Chrome)
• ​Sharalike
• Slideshare
• SlideSnack (Chrome)​
• Swipe
• Tackk (Chrome)
• theLearnia
• Thematic
• Thinglink​
• UTellStory
• Voicethread (Chrome)
• Wakelet
• Zoho Show (Chrome)

​Online image/quote creators

• Addtext
• Adobe Express for Education
• Block Posters
• Motivator
• Pablo
• Photonotes
• Picfont
• PicLits
• Pixteller image/quote maker

Online math/conversion tools

• Convert LaTeX to RTF format
• ​Desmos online graphing calculator
• Firemath
• Google Docs Equation Editor
• ​Graphing calculator
• Keely's MathOL Web Site
• LaTeX Equation Editor
• Matcha Online Math Editor
• Math Whiteboard collaborative space
• MathJax
• Online Conversion
• Online Graphing Calculator
• Online LaTeX Editor​
• Overleaf (single user free)
• Unit Converter

Online infographic and graph creation tools​

• Canva for education
• Chartle
• Easel.ly
• Google Drawings​​
• Infogr.am (Chrome)
• NCES Create-a-Graph​
• Online Chart Tool
• PieColor
• Piktochart (Chrome)
• ​Genially​
• Visme
• Venngage

Online collaboration tools

• Bitpaper.io
• Conceptboard
• CoSketch​
• Dropcanvas file sharing
• Flip
• Google CAST for Education (Chromebook screen sharing)
• Google Meet​
• Kialo EDU
• Lino (Chrome)
• MeetingWords
• Miro
• NoteBookCast collaborative whiteboard
• Notion
• Microsoft OneNote (Office 365)
• Padlet  (iOS | Android | Chrome)
• PrimaryPad​
• Stoodle online whiteboard
• Taskade
• TeamTalk.io videoconferencing
• TitanPad
• tlk.io
• Trello
• Unio
• Whereby videoconferencing
• Zoom

Online ebook creators

• Blurb (Chrome)
• Issuu
• Readium: Online ePub reader​
  
• Visme eBook Creator
• ZinePal​

Offline Chrome apps

• Gmail Offline
• Google Keep
• Google Play Books
• Kindle Cloud Reader
• Pixlr TouchUp
• Pocket
• Quick Note
• Sketchpad 3.5
• TechSmith SnagIt

Online digital research tools

• DiRT directory of online research tools

​Online URL shorteners

• bit.do
• bit.ly​
• tinyurl.com

Online reverse image search tools

• Directions for reverse image search in Google Images
• Getty Images
• Picsearch
• PREPOSTSEO
• TinEye Reverse Image Search

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Page created: 01/18/2011
Last updated: 10/032023
Kathy Schrock (kathy@kathyschrock.net)
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