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=Audacity:= (see Podcasts Link) simple to use and highly effective software tool to start podcasting yourself or with your class.

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=Voki:= Create your own talking Avatar. To add audio you can: convert text to speech, record your voice (up to 1 minute) or upload an MP3 audio file.

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=Jing:= Simple and effective screen capture tool which is excellent for demonstrating software features or developing tutorials http://www.jingproject.com/

=Wordle:= A tool 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 others. media type="custom" key="3004158" http://www.wordle.net/

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