Greetings, TINKERCAD is a free, online, 3D CAD program Recently, I blogged about an online 3D drawing program called 3DTIN. Today, I have what looks like the industrial strength version of that program called TINKERCAD. It’s a free, web based, computer assisted drafting program. There’s no drawing with TINKERCAD. All designs are created using ...

Greetings, CROPPOLA is a free, online photo cropping service. Once again dear reader, I am puzzled. The source of my puzzlement is today’s offering called CROPPOLA. It’s purpose is to automatically analyze then crop a submitted picture. Is it just me or are there others, out in Cyber-space who have absolutely no problem cropping a [...]

Greetings, SLIDEFINDER is an online search tool which specializes in finding just Powerpoint presentations. “Let’s not re-invent the wheel.” How many times have you heard that while attending a presentation or conference. The statement generally refers to teacher created materials and the sharing of those materials. It’s a great concept that ...

Greetings, 3DTIN is free, online, three dimensional drawing program Today’s offering — 3DTIN — is a neat little online 3D drawing program that’s relatively easy to use yet capable of amazing things in the hands of an imaginative person. The program looks very similar to most other drawing programs with pen, paint and erase tools [...]

Greetings, FIREALPACA is a free, downloadable draw/paint program with versions for both Mac and Windows. Web apps are great provided that the class or school using them has access to a very big Internet “pipe”, All too often, that’s not the case. As a result, it’s may be better to have an actual program installed [...]

Greetings DISAPAINTED is a free, online paint/draw/animation program. Today’s app, DISAPAINTED is a fun, easy to use draw/paint program with animation capabilities. The draw/paint portion is fairly conventional with the expected features such as a brush tool, line tool, shape drawing tools, air brush tool, a bucket fill tool and an erase tool. ...

Greetings, DREAMSTIME is a web site offering free, downloadable pictures and images. Today’s offering, DREAMSTIME is one of those “good news/bad news” sites where everything positive seems to be off-set by something negative. So, let’s begin with the positive. The good news is that DREAMSTIME has a lovely collection of free downloadable ...

Greetings, PINBALL is an unusual, online mind mapping tool. I found today’s offering nestled in amongst a long list of mind mapping apps on a web page curated by a well known teacher librarian (who’s name escapes me). It was the name that first caught my attention — PINBALL. What a weird name for a [...]

Greetings, COVER BROWSER is a web site containing thousands of old comic book cover pages. It’s Sunday again, the day of rest and perhaps a little reminiscence, back to the days before the Internet, wifi and the always on, instant and constant connection. Back then, it was possible to shut out the world and indulge [...]

Greetings IGNITESTOCK is a website offering free stock photos for downloading. A few days ago, I wrote about a website offering free video backgrounds called IgniteMotion. After finishing that post, I poked around the site some more and found a whole other site devoted just to stock photographic images. This site is called IGNITESTOCK. Right ...