Bits and Bytes

The MONSTER of all COOL TOOLS websites (it is actually a wiki!): http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

Amazing and fun tools to make your web life smooth and lovely!

Video, Audio and Photo converter – Mediacope http://www.mediacope.com/index.html.
Works great and allows you to convert Flip Video movies to a format that PowerPoint will accept!

Photo Optimizer – www.webresizer.com - have your webpages been loading painfully slow? Maybe your images need to be optimized. This easy to use site will optimize your images in a flash!

Bulk Photo Optimizer – http://fookes.com/ezthumbs/ - will optimize all images at once from a specific folder. Best for digital camera “dumps” !

Avatar Creator – www.doppelme.com - Need an avatar that is simple and quick? and did I say FREE!

Avatar Creator – http://www.faceyourmanga.com/ – Download and print your Avatar and turn your face soon in a wonderful work of art

Online Photobook and Sharing – http://www.mixbook.com/- Free and easy! Registration required.

Online Photo and Video Sharing – http://animoto.com/ - Free and easy! Registration required.

Hit Counters – http://www.sitemeter.com/- Find out how many visitors you have on your blog or website and which pages they vidit most!

Hit Counter – http://myfastcounter.com/ - free graphic hit counters for websites and blogs, very very simple.

Poll Everywhere – http://www.polleverywhere.com – Poll Everywhere is a text message polling and audience response system. It is simple enough for anyone to use and flexible enough for a wide range of scenarios to interact with audiences and collect data.

Prezi – http://prezi.com/ - It’s visualization and storytelling without slides. Your ideas live on stage and on the web.

Sprixi – http://www.sprixi.com/ - A picture search engine that  returns pictures with creative commons or free licensing. Adding the attribution to the bottom of the photo when you download it.

Media Cope  -  is a handy piece of freeware that will allow the user to edit any audio, video, or visual and alter the size and file format as well.  I installed it a few days ago on my own computer and can easily convert an FLV to WMV, a WMA to MP3 and GIFs to JPGs. http://www.mediacope.com/

Wordle - WordSift Tag Crowd

Turn any text into a creative image, displaying main ideas, keywords, etc. Each of these tools works in a different way–be sure to check out all three!

Readability -  http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading (ads, flashing signs etc. ) and allowing you to enlarge the text and orientation.

Polling tools – set up a  survey and collect responses

PollDaddy – www.polldaddy.com

Stage’d – http://stagedproject.com/ Stage’d is a digital toy for creating animated comics.