Prezi

Prezi.com is a new kind of presentation tool! Instead of spread out on many pages, a Prezi presentation only has one page. You can zoom in and out of the presentation, revealing new details and text. It can be a little tricky to use at first, but Prezi has several helpful tutorials avaliable on their website.

Game Maker by Yo Yo Games

You can download a cool tool for making games at: yoyogames.com. It takes a while to learn how to use it, but you could make some pretty cool games with this.

I would reccomend reading the "make your first game" tutorial. It is really helpful and shows you how the game maker works.

Microsoft's Web App

Microsoft Office has released its new web app! Now you can make microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote documents online.

Besides making documents online, you can also upload documents you've made on Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote and share them online. The online tool creates files for the newer versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote (.docx, .pptx, etc.) so you may not be able to upload files made on older versions of Microsoft Office.

Of course, the online version doesn't have all of the great features of Microsoft's programs. But if you don't have Word, PowerPoint, Excel or OneNote or want to share your documents online, this can be a really handy tool.

You can find it at skydrive.live.com. To use it you have to have a Windows Live account. If you use Hotmail you already have the account you need. Just sign in with your email address. The sign in page looks EXACTLY like Hotmail's sign in page, but it's not Hotmail!

Blabberize

On Blabberize.com you can make photos talk! All you have to do is upload a photo to the site and mark the mouth(s). Then you can upload audio or use your microphone or telephone to record your own. Blabberize will make the mouth(s) move up and down to match the audio.

Sometimes marking the mouth(s) can be a little tricky. Also, if you are recording your own audio you have to be careful about Ps, Ts, talking too loudly, etc. because the jaw could drop waaaay too far.

Sketchcast

Sketchcast.com is a very interesting online tool.

You make a drawing using your mouse and then Scetchcast will play it back. You can choose from a variety of different colors and even text. I could see it being used for a lot of different things.

Prints

I came across this site that has interactive animations about how prints are made. It's pretty cool. Here's the link:

http://www.moma.org/interactives/projects/2001/whatisaprint/flash.html

280 Slides

280slides.com is pretty much an online PowerPoint. I think it's really cool because it has a built in tool that lets you find pictures and videos from the internet and put them in your presentation without leaving the site. You can also access your presentations from any computer.

I would reccomend using 280 slides only on faster computers, as it can be very slow at times. It doesn't have some of the great features PowerPoint does.

But for an online, free program, it's pretty good.

Speaking of presentation programs, I heard that Microsoft will be releasing its new online tool at the end of June!