Web Address: https://timeline.knightlab.com

In their own words: "TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet."

Web Address: https://www.reclipped.com/


In thier own words: "Preparing for an exam or adding a new skill to your repertoire? If videos form an integral part of your learning, ReClipped will help you maximise it. Add notes on videos, collect segments to revise, study in groups - on platform of your choice, from your favourite device."

Web Address: https://gometa.io/

In thier own words: "It seems that everyone is excited about Augmented Reality and other technologies that are changing the world around us, but creating Interactive Experiences is difficult and extremely time consuming.

We want to make it easy for anyone, including non-techies, to Create Amazing Things.

Some of our early users are creating mobile games, silly novelties, interactive stories that let you choose your own adventures, educational experiences, and all kinds of business applications. As these early use cases evolve, they will inspire new ones, and there is no way to predict the amazing things that will emerge."

Web Address: https://start.me/en/education

In their own words: "OpenShot™ was created in 2008, in an effort to build a free, simple, open-source video editor for Linux. It is now available on Linux, Mac, and Windows, has been downloaded millions of times, and continues to grow as a project!"

Web Address: https://obsproject.com/

About: "Using OBS Studio you can not only record directly from your webcam and microphone, you can also... add in existing videos and still images, capture a window or portion of your screen, and much more."

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/obs-studio

Web Address: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nimbus-screenshot-screen/bpconcjcammlapcogcnnelfmaeghhagj?hl=en

In thier own words: "Screen Capture FULL Web page or any part. Edit screenshots. Record screencasts - record video from your screen.Capture the web page, either part of it or the whole browser window, edit your screenshots in a very user-friendly interface. Record screencasts - record video from your screen."

Web Address: http://connected-mind.appspot.com/

In their own words: "Draw unique and memorable mind maps, store them in the cloud for free and access them anywhere
At last it is possible to create a mind map as individual and easy to imprint on your mind as one drawn by hand on paper. The mind maps you create with Connected Mind are even better as you can easily include images and shapes and you have a whole rainbow of colors and a selection of fonts at your disposal.

There is no limit to the number of maps you can create and you can store them in the free cloud storage provided. There is no need to create an account. Simply sign in with your Google or GMail credentials and your maps can be stored in the cloud on a google database.

Once stored in the cloud, you can access your mind maps from any computer that has Google Chrome installed.

You can also take you mind maps with you wherever you go with the Connected Mind Android app available from the Android Play (http://goo.gl/7oBhK) and the iPad app available from the App Store (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/connected-mind/id659803223). You can open and edit any of your maps created in Chrome on Android or iOS, and vice versa.

Features
✓ Complete control over map layout
✓ Unlimited undo/redo
✓ Shortcut keys for common operations
✓ Speech recognition - speak the text of your branches
✓ Free cloud storage for every user (no need to create an account)
✓ Choice of over 60 fonts that don't need to be installed
✓ Add rich format notes, including images and links, to any map item
✓ Notes displayed as you move your mouse over items
✓ Choice of 27 shapes, with beautiful color gradient fills
✓ Images added to your maps can be sized and clipped to any supported shape
✓ Autosaves after every change
✓ Have multiple maps open, with thumbnail images of each for selection
✓ Copy & paste between maps
✓ Import maps created in Freemind"

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/connected-mind/pmkffmgahaepmhkhkblhopnpleeikokc?hl=en

Web Address: http://stoodle.ck12.org/

About: Stoodle provides educators and learners with free, online, collaborative whiteboards

Features:

• Real-time collaboration on a virtual whiteboard with infinite pages 
• Real-time communication through voice conferencing and text chat 
• Permanent storage of all classrooms for later access 
• Support for image uploading 
• Access to basic drawing tools and colors

Web Address: http://www.tagxedo.com/

In their own words: "Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text."

Web Address: https://tagul.com/

In their own words: "Tagul is an online word cloud generator that enables you to create amazing and unique word cloud art with ease. Professional quality results can be achieved in no time at all, even for users with no prior knowledge of graphic design. Best of all the service is completely free for personal use!"

Web Address: http://sqworl.com/

In their own words: "Tens of thousands of educators... use Sqworl to organize their bookmarks visually.

Whether you're looking to share a collection of links with some colleagues, or you're making a list of pre-approved links for your 2nd grade students to browse during free time, Sqworl makes it easy."

Web Address: http://useotter.com/index.php

In their own words: "Otter makes it easy to keep parents and students in the loop. Free."

Web Address: https://inkscape.org/en/

About: "Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It's free and open source"

Web Address: https://kaizena.com/

About: A free tool that makes it really easy for teachers to give their learners high quality, meaningful feedback.

Web Address: http://qrvoice.net/

About: A free tool that allows you to create QR codes that when scanned will play a short audio message.

To create your message and QR code you can record a voice message by clicking the microphone icon or by typing in a text message which is then converted into a spoken one.

Web Address: https://www.google.com/keep/

About: Another one of Google's excellent free services, this is very handy for educators and learners as it allows everyone to make all sorts of different types of notes and keep them all synchronized across a wide variety of internet enabled devices.

Web Address: http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

About: An oldie but a goodie.  If you need a powerful image editor that you can use offline, Paint.net is an excellent choice.

Due to it's power it's not as user friendly as online image editing sites like PicMonkey but you can do much more with it.

Web Address: https://padlet.com/

About: Padlet bills itself as "the easiest way to create and collaborate in the world." and is very popular with Key Stage 2 teachers in the UK.

It allows teachers to create a digital "wall" onto which learners can stick 'post it' style notes that contain words, pictures, links, videos etc etc.

I've used it on a number of occasions at all levels of the UK education sector, it's a handy and versatile tool.

Web Address: https://mind42.com/

About: This is my mind mapping tool of choice as it's really easy to use and lets you embed a wide variety of content (images/icons/weblinks etc) into the Mind Maps.  If I'm teaching people how to plan a project or mind map a presentation or a website - this is where I'll go.

Web Address: https://www.mysimpleshow.com/

About: This is a free service which educators and learners can use to make animated 'explainer' videos.  It's very similar to Powtoon but without the cost!