Techno Constructivist: New Additions to the Digital Backpack #edchat #edtech

I spent some time today updating the Digital Backpack. Here are the new additions (some new tools, other ones have been around a while but I am just now getting around to adding them):

- Google Custom Search of Ning Sites
- Generates graffiti style text
- make your digital photos look like Polaroid™-style images
- Make your own beatbox music online
- free online utility to grab and validate all the links from a web page
- make free calls to telephones from your web browser (no downloads)
- video search engine that searches across multiple video hosting sites
- experimental tag-based video search engine
- test your website on multiple browsers from one site.
- make still pictures talk with comical moving mouths.
- Free wiki host. Allows you to create web pages that anyone with a password can quickly and easily edit. Great for community knowledge construction and information gathering.
- Post Tweets to your Twitter account via a phone call (voice).
- Capture your Tweets in a PDF ebook.
- Twitter visualization tool that lets you see how people on Twitter are connected
- publish rss feeds to your Twitter account
- Twitter search engine.
- Twitter Analytics
- Flash based image editor that looks and feels like a slimmed down version of Adobe Photoshop.
- Great collection of tools that includes an audio editor, video editor, cartoon creator, and mindmapping tool.
- Simple web publishing tool: copy and paste content then click publish
- Simple web-based animation creation tool.
- Simple web-based animation creation tool.
- Create an RSS widget for your website, wiki, or profile.
- combine multiple RSS feeds into one
- Online Spreadsheet Calculator
- real-time text collaboration (Etherpad replacement)
-Sound Search Engine
- Upload photos and add goofy stuff to them.
- free audiobook podcasts
- Location-based text messaging service (sends texts to your friends only if they are within a certain area)
- flash-based mindmapping and flowchart maker
- Videos for kids to learn from organized by subject
- Search engine that looks where other engines don't including popular research databases.
- URL shortening service that also allows you to upload and distribute files
- Turn lengthy URLs into short ones
- Turn lengthy URLs into short ones
- similar image search
- Merges multiple versions of the same document and shows you where differences exist.