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​Art Fun

• ABCya! Animate: Create an animation online with as many as 40 frames and save it to your computer Example iPad version available.
• ABCya Paint: Free online painting program for K-5 with lots of cool tools for coloring, drawing and painting.
• AutoDraw: Using machine learning, this Experiments with Google tool matches your doodles to their database rand replaces it with a more professional drawing if available.
• Bomomo: Cool abstract art generator. Works only with Firefox and Safari. Click here for a site introduction from Nik's Quick Shout Blog.
• Brush Ninja: Create animated gifs using draw or shape tools and save it to your device. Works in any browser on any device. Example
• Draw Island: Create simple animation gifs or just draw and paint Animation Example iPhone and iPad version available.
• Draw.to: Draw anything with the simple interface then share, embed or save your art work. You also can publish a drawing to their gallery. Example
• Flipanim: Create animated flipbooks with a choice of tools, number of pages, speed, and transparency options and save as animated gifs. Example
• iPaint: An online comparable version to desktop MS Paint using javascript and HTML5. iPad/IPod version at a cost. iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad version available
• Kleki: Paint or edit images in your web browser. (Be sure students download their results not make public.)
• Method Draw: Site offers easy to use tools for drawing and sketching with text, imported images, shapes, and colors. Save as an SVG or export as a PNG.
• Sketchpad 5.1: Drawing/painting application to create art using a variety of drawing tools including text as well as basic drawing utilities. (Be sure students download their results not share.)
• Toy Theater's Doodle Pad: Simple and easy drawing pad with choice of pencil size and color.
• Wick Editor: An online free, open-source tool for creating animations with tutorials and video to help learn the tool. NEW
  

 

Avatar Creators

• Avataaars Generator: Create a simple emoji like avatar with a variety of choices in appearance. Example
• Otaku Avatar Maker: Create you avatar from head to toe. Example
  
• Portrait Illustration Maker: Create and customize a character icon with large number of customization's for all parts of the face. Example
• Shrink Pictures Create Avatar: Upload a picture, decide any size under 200 pixels and site returns top/left cropped picture, centered picture, and bottom/right cropped pictures. Example

 

Cartoon Makers

• Toony Tool: Create a single cartoon with great backgrounds, black and white figures, bubbles, props, or add text and create a meme. Example Combine several together with a collage tool to make a full cartoon.  Example (Be sure students download results and do not share.)
  

 

General

• Crunchzilla :"Code Monster, Code Maven, and Game Maven are interactive tutorials where kids and adults can play with code, experiment, build, and learn."
• DaFont: Locate and download fonts. (careful)
• Jigsaw Explorer: Create your own custom jigsaw puzzle. Upload your own or find one on the web.
  
• Makebadges: Use templates, designs or upload your own images. Also provides for creating avatars and logos. Example
  
• Snap (Build Your Own Blocks): A reimplementation of Scratch using visual drag and drop programming language from the University of California at Berkeley
• Tessellation Creator: From the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is a free online interactive tessellation creator.

 

Posters

• Block Poster: Upload a jpg or gif picture and make a poster as large as you like.
• Quotes Cover: Turn text into graphics with worry free licensed fonts and beautiful backgrounds. Example
  
• Quozio: Create beautiful image posters showing a quote and who coined it. Chose from a large number of backgrounds. Example​

 

Sign-Text Generators

• Bart Simpson Chalkboard Generator (from Add Letters) Example
• Cool Text Graphics Generator Example
• Font-Generator: Cool and funky fonts including Pokemon, Disney, holiday and Star Wars themes. Example
• Glow Text:  Example
• Supalogo: Create your own logo Example
• Text Giraffe: No design skills necessary. To create a logo just enter text and choose from 10 pages of colorful results. Example NEW
  
• Textanim 2.0: Animated text generator Example
• Textcraft: Graphical and text-based logos including Minecraft font. Example

 

Word Clouds

• ABC-ya! Word Clouds: Easy word cloud creator for grades 2 and up  Example
• TagCrowd: Simplistic word cloud creator, just add text and click visualize. Offers embed code which, for looks, needs editing - full-screen print, or PDF.  Example - screenshot done in Szoter  Example offsite - PDF
• Tagxedo: Make a tag cloud with style. Use any words, a web site, a letter, etc. and choose your shape, color, orientation and font. (Requires Silverlight) Example
• Word Cloud Generator: Enter URL or paste text, make appearance choices and see instant results then download as png or svg. Example
• Wordclouds: Enter URL, copy and paste text, or upload a document and choose your theme, shape, size, font, and direction. (Be sure students download their results aand do not share to gallery.) Example
  
• Wordsift :Visualize text, creating a word cloud from which you can connect images and words and synonyms to deepen understanding

Check out 200 Ways to Use Word Clouds in the Classroom by Michael Gorman

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Links verified December 11, 2021