Creativity Resources 

Check out these websites when planning your next project. 
If you have any "go to" creativity sites, please let us know.

Create Slideshows and WebSites

Weebly has an easy, drag & drop interface to create your own website. It's free, powerful, and professional. 
Emaze is an easy way to create an online presentation. Simply select any of the professionally designed free presentation templates to easily create a presentation.
Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software and storytelling tool for exploring and sharing ideas on a virtual canvas. Prezi is distinguished by its Zooming User Interface, which enables users to zoom in and out of their presentation media.
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.
SlideRocket is an online presentation platform that lets users create, manage, share and measure presentations.
This is a tool that is easy to use and similar to Prezi.  It allows users to create their story easily. 
Create a free website. Customize with drag drop - No coding skills needed. Publish in 1-click and put a professional website online today.
Haiku Deck is a modern way to build slideshows that are fun and entertaining that are easy to use. 
Great tool that allows users to create slideshows with transitions, effects, texts, animations, etc.  Create amazing photo collages by using a Kizoa template.  

Create Video Presentations

Animoto is an easy way to create a video a visual story about any topic.  Animoto is an online video maker turns your photos, video clips and music into a video in minutes.
Microsoft Photo Story is a free application that allows users to create a visual story (show and tell presentation) from their digital photos.Photo Story is already on your netbook.
Windows Movie Maker is a video creating/editing software application, included in Microsoft Windows Me, XP, and Vista. It contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie. Movie Maker is also already on your netbook.
 Create, Track & Share Online Presentations. Quick. Easy. Fun. Free. Hundreds of applications: Explain a concept. Pitch an idea. You can turn power points into movies. 
Make videos the fun and easy way! Just add photos, clips, music and watch it come to life!
Make animated videos with cartoon characters.  
Online movie editor, audio editor, cartoon maker.  Flip videos not "playing nicely" with MovieMaker?  Use this video editor to be able to work with them.  

Edit IMages, and Create Word Clouds

With BeFunky anyone can transform their pictures into extraordinary works of art in just a few clicks.
Pixlr is a free online photo editor. Edit, adjust and filter your images.
Tagxedo is like Wordle only it arranges words in a shape you choose.
Wordle generates “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

Be Creative with Audio

Got a picture? Blabberize it and make it talk.
Add voice to your photos!  Upload photos and embed in web page, blog, etc.  
Express your musicality. Incredibox invites you to become the conductor of a group of human beatbox.
Easily extract audio from YouTube videos
Use Voki to create and voice customized avatars.
Animated Movies Made Easy! goanimate instantly turns your words into a 3D animated movie. It's that simple.

Get Organized

fav7 offers the ability to create a short page which can hold up to seven urls and you only have one link to share. In addition a screenshot of the urls you are about to visit is included.
LiveBinders is a quick and easy way to create a virtual binder of any topic. Use LiveBinders to create a digital collection of material or content for a project in a subject.
Sqworl makes it easy to organize and share multiple links with just one url.

Other Fun Stuff

Do fun stuff with your digital photos. Create and print personalized motivational posters, calendars, movie posters, magazine covers, badges, mosaics, collages, ...
Create, embed and share your charts, plots, diagrams and maps online.
Use this site to create a "facebook" page for a literary character or historical figure.
vhemes are visual themes. Drag and drop a vheme onto your canvas for easy creation of your visual idea!
Using this free, web-based tool, you can develop virtual posters including audio, video, text, hyperlinks, and images,
Use this site to create your own Jeopardy games online. 
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Click on picture to go to today's meet
Use this site to create headlines and stories for projects.
Today's Meet is a website that will be utilized for digital based discussions.  These may be used during film clips, image discussions, or debates to facilitate the free flow of ideas. 
Use the link to create Trivial Pursuit Game Cards.
Use Mixbook to create electronic scrapbooks and photo albums. Choose images and add text.
This site has templates for games that you can create to make your own.  
Interact with media - with several people at the same time. 
Use this site for a flash card builder.  You can create flash cards or use flash cards that are made on the site.  
Toondoo lets you create comic strips and cartoons easily with just a few clicks, drags and drops
Dropbox is a digital storage site also known as a cloud site that the students will set up to save their work so that they may retrieve the work from any computer or device that can connect to the Internet.
Use this site to create timelines by using pictures and many other neat features.  
ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.
Create beautiful digital flyers and newsletters.  
This website gives designing and customizing visually attractive info graphics allowing the user to have full control over the output of their infographic.  The free application provides three templates with limited graphics, shapes, fonts, and colors. 
This website helps users create free custom info graphics in seconds.  This site creates free interactive charts as well.