Useful (Free) Software

Animoto

Animoto turns your images and soundtrack into stunning music videos in minues

Xtranormal

Turn your text into movies.

Mash Face

Choose a photo. Record your mouth and eyes. Mash it.

Voki

Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.

Audacity

Free, open source software for recording and editing sounds

Chirbit

A free online tool for audio sharing. Record, upload, listen to and share sound bites easily.

Screen Toaster

Prezi

The zooming editor for stunning presentations

Sliderocket

Create stunning online presentations

Slide share

Upload and share your PowerPoint presentations and Word documents on Slide Share.

Flowgram

Create interactive guided presentations by combining web pages, photos, PowerPoint and audio.

Paint.net

Free photo editing software

GIMP

Image manipulation program

Terragen

Create your own landscapes for films, games, geography

Inkscape

An open source vector graphics editor with capabilities similar to illustrator.

Face in Hole

For iPhone users

befunky

Turn your photos into incredible artwork in one click.

Twiddla

Collaborative mind maps

Mind Meister

A collaborative online mind mapping tool

bubbl.us

A fantastic online mind mapping tool which produces great looking end results

Mind 42

Another collaborative online mind mapping tool

FreeMind

A downloadable open source mind mapping software

Wordle

A tool for generating word clouds from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently.

Word mosaics

Write text in the shape of hearts, stars or other symbols

Wallwisher

Create an online word wall

Etherpad

The only web-based word processor that allows people to work together in real-time

Google docs

Voice Thread

Voice thread is a powerful new way to talk about and share your images, documents and videos

Twiddla

Collaborative mind maps

Diigo

Highlight the web, add sticky notes, research, annotate, collaborate

Drop.io

Drop.io is an easy to use, online collaboration and file sharing service that provides users with a simple, real time and private way to chat and share images, video, audio, documents and other digital content through unique, user-created and controlled sharing points called 'drops.

Posterous

Edmodo

For teachers and students

Pivot Stickfigure

A tool for generating word clouds from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently.

Goanimate

Create your own online animated content for free.

Monkey Jam

Create stop frame animation with this useful freeware

Clayanimator

Elastoplast stories

Scratch

A programming language for everyone. Create interactive stories, games, music and art - and share them online.

Alice

Free educational software which teaches students computer programming in a 3D environment

Game Maker

Google sketchup

A 3D software tool that combines a tool-set with an intelligent drawing system.

Glogster

A programming language for everyone. Create interactive stories, games, music and art - and share them online.

Rasterbator

The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture.

Wallpostr

Transform pohotos into a giant wall-sized poster

Motivational poster maker

Mahara

Open source e-portfolio. Now integrates with Moodle.

Wordsearch maker

Easy to make and can embed result into Moodle

YouTube Downloader

YouTube Downloader is software that allows you to download videos from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, and many others and convert them to other video formats.

Tooble

Tag Galaxy

Yahoo advanced image search

Compfight

Picasa

Search creative commons

Jamendo

Sound Bible

Free sound clips for movies and presentations

Wolfram Alpha

Today's Wolfram Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone.  Enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer.

Evernote

Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere

My Gallery Generator

MyGalleryGenerator is the simpliest way to create an HTML photo gallery. Upload your photos (jpg, png and gif allowed), set the title and a nice description for any photo, and the gallery will be automatically generated!

Big Huge Labs

Share and view digital media

Twazzup

Search Twitter

Indespensible tools

Huge list of free s/w - need to look at

Ideas to inspire use of ICT in the classroom

Newspaper clipping generator