St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic High School

 

Find

 

Qwiki

 

 

Think of asking your favorite teacher about Leonardo Da Vinci, or your most well-traveled friend about Buenos Aires: this is the experience Qwiki will eventually deliver, on demand, wherever you are in the world… on whatever device you’re using. 

 

 

Sweet Search

 

SweetSearch is a Search Engine for Students. It searches only the 35,000 Web sites that our staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved. They constantly evaluate their search results and "fine-tune" them, by increasing the ranking of Web sites from organizations such as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, PBS and university Web sites. 

 

 

Create

 

Animoto

 

Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips, and music. 

 

 

Toondoo 

 

ToonDoo is a cool, comic-creating tool that was the happy result of brainstorming session aimed at creating a new way of expression for those who do not have the talent to draw. You can now just drag-drop or click to create comic strips that express your views, opinions, angst or to just have fun, loads of it!  

 

 

Go!Animate 

 

In the past, it was very difficult and time consuming to make animated cartoons. Now with GoAnimate, you can easily make animations the way your want to. There is nothing to download and there is no need to draw. You can make your own animated characters, direct your own cartoons, and watch others' creations. It's easy, fun and free. You can customize your animations with a large number of tools and features that allow you to create truly unique works of expression. 

 

 

Glogster 

 

Simply put, Glog is a kind of poster - fully designed by yourself! Glog is a fancy creation from text, images, music and video. Glogster is a revolutionary way of expressing your mood, feelings and ideas, and it goes miles beyond text or video! In just a few minutes, you can make a digital poster, a colorful medley of ideas, reflecting your own special style. 

 

 

Dvolver Movie Maker 

 

Have you ever wanted to direct your own movie? No problem. Dvolver Movie Maker helps you make a movie in a few simple steps. When your opus is complete send it to a friend. Or, post it to your website.

 

 

Woordle 

 

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. 

 

 

bubbl 

 

Bubbl is an online mind map generator that allows you to share your map with contacts - providing opportunties for group editing, and project submission. 

 

 

Storybird  

 

 

Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print.Read them like books, play them like games, and send them like greeting cards. They're curiously fun.

 

 

Montage 

 

Montage is a shareable, personal, visual album of the web. You are able to design your personal Montage around a topic by adding content that pulls information from a variety of sources including, RSS feeds, Twitter, Bing News, YouTube, video and Bing Images. Your Montage is constantly evolving as you arrange each area with the content of your choice - which is easy, intuitive and fun; and can be on any topic from, movies, sports, to robots.

 

 

Prezi 

 

Presentations have not evolved much in the 50 years since the slide was invented, but Prezi is changing that. Prezi lets you bring your ideas into one space and see how they relate, helping you and your audience connect. Zoom out to see the big picture and zoom in to see details.

 

 

Edit

 

Audacity

 

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to: Record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files, cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together, change the speed or pitch of a recording, and more!

 

 

Flickr

 

An online photo management and sharing application.

 

 

Share

 

Voice Thread 

 

A VoiceThread 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). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too. Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies.

 

 

Today's Meet 

 

Imagine you're giving a presentation where you can read the mind of every person in the room. You'd have an amazing ability to adjust to your audience's needs and emotions. TodaysMeet gives you an isolated room where you can see only what you need to see, and your audience doesn't need to learn any new tools like hash tags to keep everything together.

 

 

Wall Wisher 

 

An online notice board maker. Build a wall to brainstorm, share comments, make announcements, keep notes. Just like using sticky notes, but online!!

 

 

 

Learn

 

Khan Academy

 

With a library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 150 practice exercies, the Khan Academy is on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.

 

 

Quizlet 

 

Quizlet is the largest flash cards and study games website with over 6 million free sets of flashcards covering every possible subject. It's the best place to play educational games, memorize vocabulary and study online