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1. Choose 1 or 2 tools you would like to use and test out its useability for your context. 2. Add any other web tools that you are aware of, that support the creation of multimodal texts to this list.

WEB TOOLS TO SUPPORT MULTIMODAL TEXTS

This is not a comprehensive or exhaustive list rather a range of tools used by different teachers.

Online tools
Animaps http://www.animaps.com/#!home Save the word www.savetheword.org . Can create and view beautifully informative animated maps. Animoto http://animoto.com/education

Apps
Book creator

Storybird www.storybird.com

Corkulous

It turns your photos and video clips into professional video slideshows in minutes.

Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print.

Educreations for ipad

Bubbl.us https://bubbl.us/

Spiderscribe.net http://www.spiderscribe.net/

Evernote

Easily create colourful mind maps to print or share with others.

Brainstorming tool

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Comic masterhttp://www.comicmaster.org.uk/

Simple Booklet http://simplebooklet.com/index.ph p#

Flip board

Geo cache

It allows you to create your own short graphic novel Dipity http://www.dipity.com/

Create online brochures or booklets Tagxedo http://www.tagxedo.com/

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Find embed and create interactive timelines Dvolver www.dvolver.com

Turns words (famous speeches, news articles, slogans etc..) into a visually stunning word cloud Toondoo http://www.toondoo.com/

Iconit

Create online movies. Graphwords http://graphwords.com/

Create your own comics! Wordle www.wordle.net

Pearltrees

Popplet Is a free visualization tool to explore English dictionary and thesaurus, helps you to search the meaning of words and other associated words. Glogster http://www.glogster.com/ Can make interactive posters online. It generates word clouds from texts you provide.

Xtranormal www.xtranormal.com

QR hd

Qwiki It create amazing interactive stories with a few clicks and a little imagination.

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Live binders www.livebinders.com and http://livebinders4teachers.pbworks.c om/w/page/574743/FrontPage Magmypic http://www.magmypic.com/

Wallwisher www.wallwisher.com

Scanmydoc

Showme An on-line notice board.

Weebly http://www.weebly.com/

Sock puppets

Create personalized, artfully framed magazine or comics covers. Popplet http://popplet.com/ It is where you can collect, curate and share your ideas, inspirations, and projects.

Create own websites Voki http://www.voki.com/Voki_for_ed ucation.php It enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. Voicethread http://voicethread.com/ The three little pigs pop up Tagmydoc

Museum box http://museumbox.e2bn.org/

We me avatar

This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.

A voice thread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam)

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Prezi http://prezi.com/

Xtimeline http://www.xtimeline.com/index.a spx

Wheres my water

Is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides

Is a free website that lets you create timelines and explore timelines about history, biography and more Wunderlist

Software and apps are developed and updated continually. Use this space to keep track of the software applications you can use with multimodal texts

Online tools

Apps

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