Research project tools
20th Century Decades
Local Resources | Plagiarism Check
Web 2.0 Tools
Chart Tools | Creativity | File Conversion Tools | Gif Tools | Graphic Organizers | Interactives | Multimedia |
Music Playlist Sites | Photo Tools | Polls | Puzzles & Quizzes | QR Codes | ReadWriteThink Interactives |
Sign/Text Generators | TimeLine Tools | Mrs. Houle's 20th Century Livebinder
Web 2.0 Tools
Chart Tools | Creativity | File Conversion Tools | Gif Tools | Graphic Organizers | Interactives | Multimedia |
Music Playlist Sites | Photo Tools | Polls | Puzzles & Quizzes | QR Codes | ReadWriteThink Interactives |
Sign/Text Generators | TimeLine Tools | Mrs. Houle's 20th Century Livebinder
Books
- Non-fiction materials
- Social Studies textbook
- Alexandria (WJH catalog)
- Gale Student Resources in Context (WJH Username/Password required to access from home.)
- World Book Online Reference Center (WJH Username/Password required to access from home.)
- Westmont Public Library Online
Plagiarism Check
Not sure if you are using your own voice and documenting correctly? Try these free sites - no registration required.
Not sure if you are using your own voice and documenting correctly? Try these free sites - no registration required.
- ImageCodr.org: To give correct attribution when using Creative Commons Flickr images, enter URL and get html to use on your webpage.
- Plagiarism Checker: Free and easy detector, copy and paste or upload word document.
- Plagiarism Checker SE: Type or paste document or website to find plagiarized text on web.
- Plagiarisma.net: Limit of 5000 characters unless chose to register Android app and Windows download available
- PlagTracker: Limit of 500 characters but provides feedback with highlights and list of sources.
- TinEye Reverse Image Search: Upload a picture or enter a URL and find the original source of an image.
Web 2.0 Tools
Chart Tools | Creativity | File Conversion Tools | Gif Tools | Graphic Organizers | Interactives | Multimedia |
Music Playlist Sites | Photo Tools | Polls | Puzzles & Quizzes | QR Codes | ReadWriteThink Interactives |
Sign/Text Generators | TimeLine Tools | Mrs. Houle's 20th Century Livebinder
Chart Tools | Creativity | File Conversion Tools | Gif Tools | Graphic Organizers | Interactives | Multimedia |
Music Playlist Sites | Photo Tools | Polls | Puzzles & Quizzes | QR Codes | ReadWriteThink Interactives |
Sign/Text Generators | TimeLine Tools | Mrs. Houle's 20th Century Livebinder
- Chart Tools
- ChartGo: Create a chart with size, colors, spacing options. Use a link or embed code. Available in 3D.
- Hohli Online Chart Builder: Create variety of charts with size, colors, spacing options. Save image, get embed code or a link for project in hand.)
- Online Chart Tool: Create variety of charts with ability to go back and revise. Save as image.
- Creativity:
- ClassTools.net: Create interactive games, activities and diagrams with Flash
- Easel.ly: Infographic tool with templates - Registration Required
- Glogster: Create online poster for your wiki page - Registration Required
- Infographic Templates for Google Drawings NEW
- Newspaper Clipping Generator: Create your own newspaper front page headline and story.
- Tableizer: Create nice even text tables by copying your text contents from a spreadsheet to Tableize
- Tagxedo: Make a tag cloud with style
- Word Clouds: Enter URL, copy and paste text, or upload a document and choose your theme, shape, size, font, and direction.
- File Conversion Tools
- Document Converter: Converts documents to PDF or image format
- KeepVid: Download streaming video
- Konwerter: Converts documents, images, ebooks, and pdf's. Deletes your files at conclusion of process.
- Online Converter: Free audio, video, image, document, e-book, and hash generator
- GIF Tools
- Bloggif: Turn a video into an animated gif
- Gickr: Create a gif animation from uploaded pictures or URLs
- Gifmaker.me: (Create animated gifs, slideshows and video from choice of images.
- Imgflip Images to Gif Generator: Upload photos, determine size, speed, select private for download, and generate an animated gif.
- Imgflip Video to Gif Generator: Upload a video 35MB or smaller, select starting and ending points, speed, and size to create an animated gif. Chose private to download video or it appears in the public gallery
- YouTube video to gif Add gif before youtube in your video URL to create a gif.
- Graphic Organizers
- Draw.io: Using a drag and drop system of pictures and shapes create diagrams or mind maps.
- mindmap: HTML5 browser based mind mapping tool
- yEd Live: Diagram editor from yWorks that offers a number of shapes, with grey and orange coloration. File can be uploaded back for more editing. Integrates with regular Google Drive account. (Formerly Graphity Diagram Editor)
- Interactive Tools
- 3D Galley Generator: Create a virtual exhibition of 10 exhibits using images and video
- ClassTools.net: Create interactive games, activities and diagrams with Flash
- Google Drawings as an alternative to Thinglink
Richard Byrne describes how to create a Google Thinglink - Polls: (links below)
- Puzzles & Quizzes: (links below)
- QR Codes: (links below)
- ReadWriteThink FlipBook: Type and illustrate tabbed flip books up to ten pages.
- StoryJumper: Make a story book. - Registration Required)
- Multimedia Tools
- 2 Useful Tips to Know When Sharing YouTube Videos (Makeuseof.com)
- Animoto: Online video slide show creator - Registration Required
- Apowersoft: Online Video Converter (Converts video to audio in a variety of formats.
- Biteable: Easily create your own videos - Registration Required
- ImagetoVideo: Make a video with pictures and music. NEW
- Cut MP3 Files Online: Cuts your MP3, no need to upload, at frame level without losing the MP3 quality. Works well with mobile devices.
- EasyPrompter: Paste your content, set font size, speed and a teleprompter ready to read.)
- Media.io: Audio converter
- Online Audio (MP3) Cutter: Upload an MP3, select interval of music you want (cut) and save a selection of music.
- Online Audio Joiner (123apps): Join multiple audio files into a single one. It supports most audio formats and allows cross-fading
- Online Voice Recorder (123apps): Simple voice recording tool, have your microphone ready.
- SafeShare.tv: Share YouTube video without the distracting extras, just the video itself which can be cropped to share just what you want.
- YTCropper: TubeChop like application to cut out a portion of a YouTube video for sharing.
- 2 Useful Tips to Know When Sharing YouTube Videos (Makeuseof.com)
- Music Playlist Sites
- Daily Motion: Music, TV and Film Videos
- SCM Music Player
- Photo Tools
- Block posters: Upload a jpg or gif picture and make a poster as large as you like.
- Collage Tools: Fotojet| Photocat | PhotoCollage | Photojet
- Fotojet: Create classic or creative collages
- Online Image Resizer: Resize, crop, rotate, add text, or effects
- Photocat: Photo editing/collage tool
- Photojoiner: Upload multiple photos to create a photo strip
- PicFont: Add text to a picture in 2 easy steps
- Pixlr: Online image/photo editor (Pixlr Express requires Flash but has a great collage tool. Unfortunately Express will soon be eliminated.)
- Sumo Paint: Online image editor and drawing application similar to Photoshop
- Block posters: Upload a jpg or gif picture and make a poster as large as you like.
- Polls
- Poll Junkie: Create a poll of one or more questions that you can or embed on a webpage. Prevents a 2nd vote.
- Pollmaker: Create and personalize a one question poll which provides a graphical feedback of answers.
- Updwn: Ask a question, provide options, get a URL for your poll and share a link. Poll takes votes and offers opportunities for new ideas.
- Puzzles and Quizzes
- QR Codes
- mQR - Must QRcode
- QR Code Generator
- QRCode Monkey: If saved as a png add a logo for a great theme.
- READWRITETHINK Tools
- ReadWroteThink Cube Creator: Visual thinking tool for creating a biography, mystery, story, or topic planning sheet. Save and reload for ongoing work. Final result is a pdf.
- ReadWriteThink FlipBook: Type and illustrate tabbed flip books up to ten pages.
- ReadWriteThink Postcard Creator
- ReadWriteThink Printing Press: Create and print out a flyer, newspaper, brochure or booklet.
- ReadWroteThink Cube Creator: Visual thinking tool for creating a biography, mystery, story, or topic planning sheet. Save and reload for ongoing work. Final result is a pdf.
- Sign/Text Generators
- Cool Text Graphics Generator
- Glow Text
- Photo Text Tools
- Signbot: Make you own animated scrolling text LED sign
- Supalogo: Create your own logo.
- Textanim 2.0: Animated text generator
- Textcraft: Minecraft like logos
- TimeLine Tools
- Classtools.net: Click on Timeline on right side of web page
- Teachnology Time Line Maker
Updated July 22, 2020