http://www.3dtextmaker.com/ 3D Textmaker is "an online 3D text banner creation tool...Create your own 3D text banners! Choose a font, colorize it, size it, and then save it and take it with you. "
http://coder.com/creations/banner/ The Banner Generator "is a free service to let you create graphical banners for your web-pages." Scroll to the bottom of the page to begin.
http://cooltext.com/ "Cool Text is an online graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you might need an impressive logo without a lot of work. We provide real-time generation of graphics that are customized exactly the way you want them. Simply choose what kind of image you would like to create. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own image created on the fly."
http://www.flamingtext.com/ " At FlamingText you can create cool, custom images for FREE, to use on your website, or in your e-mail."
Blogs
Examples of Blogs in Education:
http://www.weblogg-ed.com/ Will Richardson's "site is dedicated to discussions and reflections on the use of Weblogs, wikis, RSS, audiocasts and other Read/Write Web related technologies in the K-12 realm, technologies that are transforming classrooms around the world."
http://joycevalenza.edublogs.org/ The Never Ending Search- Joyce Valenza's blog specifically for Media Specialists.
http://homepage.mac.com/iajukes/blogwavestudio Ian Jukes Educational Technology blog, The Committed Sardine.
http://kathyschrock.blogspot.com Kathy Schrock's blog.
http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/ David Warlick's educational technology blog.
Post a free blog on:
- http://www.blogger.com
- http://www.livejournal.com
- http://www.edublogs.org
- http://epnweb.org/blogmeister
http://blogsearch.google.com/ A blog search tool from Google.
Sounds
http://www.findsounds.com/ Findsounds.com is "a free site where you can search the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples."
http://www.freeplaymusic.com/ "The Freeplay Music Library is a comprehensive collection of High End Broadcast production music spanning all the popular musical genres, available for download either on-line or for purchase on CD."
http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/ More free sound effects.
http://www.stonewashed.net/sfx.html A hotlist to free sound effects.
Web Hosting
http://eduscapes.com/sessions/brick/brick3.htm Eduscapes hotlist of free web hosing sites for educators.
http://schoolnotes.com/ Schoolnotes is one of the easiest ways to set up a simple, free website.
http://my.school.discovery.com/MyDiscovery/ Custom Classroom from Discovery Schools delivers some great teacher tools. " Click Custom Classroom to sign in and create online quizzes for your students.
http://4teachers.org/ The ever popular "4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering FREE online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create and post ready-to-use Web links, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. Discover valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ESL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students."
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/ Filamentality "is a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into online learning activities. Support is built-in along the way through Mentality Tips. In the end, you'll create a web-based activity you can share with others even if you don't know anything about HTML or serving web pages."
Miscellaneous
http://www.localendar.com/elsie "With your calendar, you can: add a free calendar to your web site."
http://www.ultimatecounter.com/ The Ultimate Counter "features an easy-to-use web counter service. You can choose from over 500 digits styles for use on your home page as a counter or clock."
http://www.htmlgoodies.com Want to learn HTML? This is the place to do it.
http://www.backflip.com/tour/index.ihtml Backflip is a free service that allows you to save your links online. "As you discover interesting Web pages, use the Backflip it! button to save them and Backflip will organize them for you. Then, simply go to your Backflip account and you'll find all of your favorite pages filed in your personal directory -- which you can access from any computer."
