Greetings, GOTFREECARDS is a web site offering free printable and virtual holiday greeting cards, Seasons greetings and a huge thank you to everyone who follows DE Tools. Last week, that number topped 10,000 and continues to grow. Not bad for a blog that is so far under the radar that even my own school district [...]

Greetings, CLIPGENERATOR is a free, online, video clip presentation tool that’s a lot of fun to use.I like easy! Perhaps it’s the advanced years or the countless hours spent learning programs like ClarisWorks or Wordperfect but (IMHO) learning to use a new program should not be the digital equivalent of climbing Mount Everest. That’s why I [...]

Greetings, JUXIO is a free, online, slide presentation tool and more. Here’s another alternative for student presentations that doesn’t require a computer based program like PowerPoint, Open Office and Keynote. The app is called JUXIO and what it lacks in functionality (especially when compared to PowerPoint), it more then makes up for in ...

Greetings, AHEAD is a free web app for creating online web sites, presentations and e-portfolios, among other things. Today’s site is touted as an alternative to other online presentation programs such as Presi and Slideshare. The information on the company’s web site would seem to confirm that: “AHEAD a web application that allows creative ...

Greetings, 0TO255 (zero to two fifty five) is a free web site offing colour selection information and advice.Today, it’s another free, web colour selection tool. I like these tools because they help in an area where I really need assistance – colour. While I have no problems creating a web age, it’s a different when it [...]

Greetings, The website “WebDesignBooth” recently put together a list of 30 free and downloadable, script or handwriting fonts. There’s an old joke that goes, “Once you learn to fake sincerity, you’ve got it made”. While I don’t subscribe to the concept as a general rule, there are times when tiny exceptions need to be made – like [...]

Greetings, BOOKR is a free web tool that allows a user to create a digital story or photo album quickly and easily. This tool has generated a lot of buzz on the web lately because of it’s simplicity and connection to digital storytelling. The tool is called BOOKR. It’s a web based tool that allows [...]