More+Collaboration+Tools

Software reviews comparing two similar toosl.

Lino It and Wallwishers
[|Lino It] is a free service that allows you to create a canvas of online multimedia sticky notes. In addition to basic text, the sticky notes you place on your canvas can contain videos, images, and file attachments. [|Wallwisher.com] is a free site to "build a wall." of post-it notes. Sticky notes added to a [|Wallwisher] wall can contain up to 160 characters of text plus links to images and videos.

Postica and Stixy
[|Postica] is a web-based sticky note service. Users can share their sticky board with other users to share ideas. Users can send sticky notes to each other and edit each other's sticky notes. [|Stixy], as the name implies, allows you to write notes and stick them to a clipboard. You can share you notes with others and have them respond to your notes. The [|Stixy] clipboard has three other great features, the ability to stick and share documents, stick and share photographs, and create and share a "to do" list on the clipboard and on a calendar.

Gliffy and Create a Graph
Gliffy is a graphing, chart-making, diagramming tool. Create a Graph is kid specific, designed and funded by the National Department of Statistics http://nces.ed.gov/

Wordle, Tagul and Tagxedo
All 3 of these sites make word clouds, but have different features- be sure to compare these features. There are many more cloud generators. If you know of one or have used one, include it here as well. Wordle Tagul Tagxedo For lesson plan ideas using word clouds, check out this blog.