Cool Tools and Gadgets: And More!

Find and share images free of copyright restrictions. All pictures are released under Creative Commons CC0 licenses into the public domain. You can copy, modify, distribute and use the images without asking permission and without attribution.

Free high-resolution images. All photos published on Unsplash are licensed under Creative Commons Zero which means you can copy, modify, distribute and use the photos for free, including commercial purposes, without asking permission from or providing attribution to the photographer or Unsplash.

Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. All photos are tagged, searchable and easy to discover through the discover pages.

Audacity can record anything you play on your computer and edit it in ways you can't conceive of until you start playing around. Limitations, such as no native MP3 export, are overcome by free plug-ins. If you want to podcast or mix music on the cheap, Audacity is what you need.

The Futures Channel was founded in 1999 with the goal of using new media technologies to create a channel between the scientists, engineers, explorers and visionaries who are shaping the future, and today’s learners who will one day succeed them.

The Futures Channel partners with schools around the country as well as a wide range of publishers, science centers, professional development service providers, public television stations, websites and more to provide high quality real world digital content to enhance their education offerings and objectives.

Pluto TV curates a diverse lineup of channels, in partnership with hundreds of international media companies, offering a wide array of genres, languages and categories. Check Pluto TV out on connected TV devices, mobile or web.

Mobile app for real-time, camera-based translations

Rosetta Stone helps you tap into your brain's innate ability to learn language, and gets you comfortable with communication in real life.

Access to online language learning tools.

Combines videos of native speakers with captions and tools to aid comprehension.

Online community for learning a foreign language that combines video-chat with native speakers with learning and grammar learning units.

Stykz is the first multi-platform stick figure animation program in the world. It’s a powerful, easy to learn tool for creating great looking stick figure animations quickly and efficiently.

Definr.com is a incredibly fast, free dictionary based on Princeton's open WordNet 2.0.

An unsurpassed guide for researchers in any discipline to the meaning, history, and usage of over 500,000 words and phrases across the English-speaking world.

Thousands of historic audio, image, and video files in the public domain from the collection of the Pond5 stock footage company.

Free sound effects available for download for both commercial and non-commercial projects.

If you are looking for sound effects for just about any situation, look no further than SoundGator. The offerings here are organization into 26 different categories, including Household Sounds, Fire Sound Effects, Drink Sound Effects, and Crowd Sound Effects. The materials here are available to embed or download for personal use.

The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. There is a wide range of music available for use in podcasts, videos and other digital presentation formats.

Jamendo offers free streaming and download of music published under Creative Commons licenses.

Offers a variety of free high-quality royalty free items, including stock footage, sound effects, clip art, images, photos, and stock music. Users are normally charged for downloads, but educators and students can access much content for free.

SoundBible.com offers thousands of free sound effects, sound clips, and straight up sounds. These sounds can be used in a variety of projects including videos, movies games, and presentations.

Open source survey application

Most popular web-based survey tool. Simple user interface to create and disseminate surveys, collect and manage responses.

mySurveyLab is on-line and on-demand survey and test creation tool, that enables you to create professional surveys (tests), collects responses, and analyze results in a real time.