Makerspaces

Trello is an app that helps you track and visualize the progress of your ideas. Using a card-based layout, you can create a card for every idea and then jot notes and organize these ideas into categories or lists.

Capture what's on your mind with Google Keep. Add notes, lists and photos to Google Keep. You can also record a voice memo and keep will transcribe it so you can find it again.

Create online diagrams in real time with many collaborators.

Online whiteboard; visualize and share your thoughts as images.

Online whiteboard for collaboration; free and $$ plans.

Collaborative drawing online.

Online educational multiuser whiteboard; download needed (free for non-commercial use).

Real-time image and drawing collaboration.

Sketch gives you drawing tools that interact naturally with the canvas, including a graphite pencil, ink pen, and blending markers. Built-in brushes open up even more creative possibilities. Use Split View to keep your drawings and toolbox side by side on the same screen. Then send your sketches directly to desktop Photoshop to take them to the next level.

AutoDraw is a web tool by Google. AutoDraw offers almost everything a drawing editor can offer: it has a nice wide canvas to draw on. Use the Draw tool to draw anything you want, then add colours from color picker. You can also add text using the Type tool and/or make different shapes by the Shape tool. You can move, rotate and resize objects as you like and when you are done you can download your work in PNG format and share it with others.

Coggle is a collaborative mind-mapping tool that helps you make sense of complex things. Create unlimited mind maps and easily share them with friends and colleagues.

Schedule events, meetings or study groups.

Online shared calendar

Looking to make a video? Adobe has an iPhone app for that called Adobe Spark Video. All you need is a script. The app does the rest. When you open the Adobe Spark Video app, tap on the + at the bottom to begin your first project.

Produce an animated video in minutes with Canva’s free animated video maker. With a user-friendly video editor and a vast collection of video templates, you’ll quickly create a video with stunning animations for any project, for any purpose.

Flipgrid is a website that allows teachers to create "grids" of short discussion-style questions that students respond to through recorded videos. Each grid is effectively a message board where teachers can pose a question and their students can post 90-second video responses that appear in a tiled "grid" display.

Jing is a computer service that lets you capture basic video, animation, and still images, and share them on the web. You can capture what you see, record what you're doing and send your video or screenshot.

Loom is an easy and free screen recorder for Chrome.
You can record your camera and screen with audio and instantly share the video with your team.

Moovly allows you to easily create animated videos and other multimedia content.

'PowToon is a web tool that enables you to create powerful video animations and presentations. PowToon provides you with all the necessary animation tools you’ll need to immediately begin creating your own professional-looking animated explainer videos and animated presentations.

Screen-Cast-O-Matic is a free screen casting tool.

Screencastify is a free screen recorder extension for Chrome. You can capture, edit and share screencasts. No software download required and it works on Mac, Windows and Chromebooks.

Students can "show what they know" using photos, videos, drawings, text, PDFs, and links. You can also import directly from most popular apps.

ThingLInk is an interactive media platform that empowers publishers, educators, brands, and bloggers to create more engaging content by adding rich media links to photos and videos.

VideoAnt is a free web-based video annotation tool for mobile and desktop devices. Use VideoAnt to add annotations, or comments, to web-hosted videos. VideoAnt-annotated videos are called “Ants”. It is produced by the Digital Education and Innovation team in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. It has a Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed). The Chrome Browser is recommended for best compatibility.

BibMe is a fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It’s the easiest way to generate citations to build a works cited page.

EasyBib allows you to create bibliographies with a range of citation styles. Save your citations to create bibliographies on any computer. You can share and collaborate with groups.

Citation Machine automatically generates citations in MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian, and Harvard.

CiteFast is a citation generator. You can generate a bibliography, in-text citations and a title page in APA 6th edition, MLA 7th ed. and Chicago 16th ed.

Slideshare is a Web 2.0 based slide hosting service. Users can upload files privately or publicly in the following file formats: PowerPoint, PDF, Keynote or OpenDocument presentations. Slide decks can then be viewed on the site itself, on hand held devices or embedded on other sites.

With SlideDog, which is free, you can combine almost any media into one seamless multimedia presentation.

Knovio is an innovative tool for turning PowerPoint® slides and images into rich video presentations with just a web browser and webcam or with a mobile app on the Apple iPad.

With Google Slides, you can create, edit, collaborate, and present wherever you are for free.

Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network. Make your own fully-searchable library in seconds, cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device.

Citeulike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references. You can easily store references you find online

Zotero is a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials. Zotero collects all your research in a single, searchable interface. You can add PDFs, images, audio and video files, snapshots of web pages, and really anything else.

EndNote basic is a free web-based system for organizing articles and creating bibliographies. This Web-based tool provides users with 2GB of online storage for references and the ability to instantly format bibliographies in a word processor.

ResearchRabbit is a free online “citation-based literature mapping tool." It is a visual literature review software mapping tool.

Autodesk Homestyler allows users to create and share home designs in 2D and 3D.

Canva is a design app which allows you to simply search for the best graphics, photos, and fonts, or upload your own, then use Canva's drag and drop tool to create a design. Design with hundreds of free and fee elements and fonts, or choose from their library.

DesignCap's poster maker allows anyone to create custom posters with lots of templates, clipart and fonts in minutes with no advanced graphic skills needed.

Easel.ly is a website that features thousands of free infographic templates and design objects which users can customize to create and share their visual ideas online.

Floorplanner is an easy and free online room design application to create and share interactive floorplans. It can help you design 2D floor plans and view them in 3D.

Infogr.am allows you to create charts & infographics the easy way. You can create and publish visualizations of your data.

Pexels is a site with access to a growing database of free stock photos. The company has more than 4, 500 photos under the Creative Commons Zero license.

Piktochart is a web-based infographic Piktochart is an application which allows users without intensive experience as graphic designers to easily create professional-grade infographics using themed templates.

SketchUp Make gives you the tools to create all kinds of 3D images and designs, from woodworking blueprints to urban planning designs.

Smore is a design app to quickly create and share a poster or flyer online. Using Smore you can choose the design of your flyer, choose the font(s), background, color(s), link to content such as your event sign-up page, and even include images and media.

Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-learn online app anyone can use to create and print 3D models.

Visme is a simple tool to translate your ideas into engaging content in the form of infographics, reports and presentations.

Clean, uncomplicated interface allows note taking, lengthy text writing, to-do lists, reminders, attachment of all types of files, photos, documents, communication and collaboration, and creation of presentation layout.
Availability: Apple, Android and full range of devices.

Keeps track of class times, assignments, tests, and projects, offering reminders on due dates. Upcoming assignments are marked in blue, those with approaching due dates are in orange, and those past due appear in red. Can be used offline and then syncs across devices when back online.
Available: Apple, Android, Windows, Kindle, and Chrome.

Designed to help with scheduling and organizing, My Study Life supports rotating, as well as regular weekly schedules, keeps track of assignments, classes, projects, exams, with reminders of deadlines. Syncs across devices.
Availability: Apple, Android, Windows and the web.

Enables the creation of to-do lists by category with built-in reminders. Projects can be shared and discussed online. Categories are created (e.g. for each course or projects within a course) and to dos recorded with dates, reminder windows and links. Students can create task notes and attach PDFs, spreadsheets, and photos. Works on any device and automatically syncs between them.
Available: Apps and extensions for 15 platforms.

WordPress.com lets you create powerful websites or blogs.

Wix.com allows you to build a website for free. You choose a website template, customize it the way you want and publish online instantly.

Weebly allow you to build a website by simply dragging and dropping images & text and publishing when you’re ready. Whether you’re a beginner or professional, the interface is fun to use and there is no coding required.

Mahara is an open source e-portfolio system with a flexible display framework. Mahara, meaning ‘think’ or ‘thought’ in Te Reo Māori, is user centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed. Mahara also features a weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities.

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