hacker-snacker: amazing sites and softwares

The most awesome sites 

 Animoto.com is a web application that produces professional quality videos from your pictures and music.

 Bitstrips is a website that allows you to create comics and cartoons. There is a premium school version.

 Camstudio is a free desktop application that allows you to record your computer screen. Dabbleboard is an online whiteboard that will help you visualize, explore and communicate ideas

 Embedit.in is a service that allows you to upload and embed documents into blogs or other websites quickly and easily. Perfect for a classroom blog or a teacher-blogger.

 Filezilla is a very useful desktop application that allows you upload content to your web pages or blogs using FTP (File Transfer protocol).

 Greenfoot allows you to make graphical representation of objects and simulations.

 Hot Potatoes is an application that allows you to create interactive exercises, such as quizzes, multiple choice questions and crosswords, which can be added to websites. Free for schools.

 ImageChef is a website that allows you to create custom images by combining text, symbols and photos. Great for classroom displays, starter activities or homework.

 Jamglue is a web based application for recording and mixing tracks. Like Audacity or Garageband but online.

 Khan Academy has a library of almost 3000 education videos from a wide variety of subjects.

 Lingt is a web application that allows you to create and edit language assignments incorporating voice, video, images, and text.

 Mindomo is a web application for creating and sharing mind-maps.

 Ning allows you to create your own public or, importantly for education, private social networks. Use it to communicate and share resources with your colleagues and students. Unfortunately, no longer free but still worth considering.

 OneTrueMedia.com produces slide shows from templates with your own photos and music which you can then post online.

PDFCreator is a desktop application that turns anything in your computer (Windows only, I think) into a PDF file, be it word documents, PowerPoint presentations, web pages… anything. Very good if you want to create hand-outs or lesson notes quickly and easily.

 Quizlet allows you to create and share flaschcards. Great to help your students revise material or for you to create resources for the Interactive Whiteboard.

 Random Activity Generator allows you to generate a creative classroom activity, homework or task instantly.

Save Skelly is a flash game generator that allows you to create interactive assessments which can be uploaded to a website or stored in your computer as a .swf file. Great for Interactive Whiteboards.

 TeacherTube. Name says it all: like YouTube but for educational purposes.

 Ubuntu is an Open Source, Linux-based operating system. It contains all the applications you need – a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.

 Voki.com is a web application that produces animated characters to which you can add your voice (or anybody else’s).

 Wetpaint allows you can create websites that mix all the best features of wikis, blogs, forums and social networks into a rich, user-generated space.

 Xmind is an Open Source mind mapping desktop application.

 Yacapaca allows you to create quizzes, test, surveys and e-portfolios. It’s an online Virtual learning Environment.

 Zamzar Convert file format to any other file format and download YouTube videos.