ArtWeaver
 Artweaver is a free Windows software "to simulate natural brush tools". It is therefore suitable to leave your creativity free run. Artweaver offers you a clear program window, which can be used without training immediately". Artweaver features includes transparency, layer management, effect filters like sharpen, blur, emboss and mosaic, history function to undo/redo last editing steps.
WIX
Wix is an online application that lets you use create a Flash website or content that you would like to embed into a website or a blog. No downloads or programming are needed.
Screen Toaster
 It's a free web-based screen recording tool that requires no installation and can output a movie of your operations.
After recording, the video is automatically uploaded and available for sharing by email or for embedding on any other site.
Image To Video
 This online application allows to create video slideshows based on images with sound. Just upload all images you wiksh, add an audio clip and click the “Create Video” button. The application will create the video file and makes it available for download.
HohliCharts
It's an web-based charts generator for creating line, bar and pie charts, venn diagrams, scatter plots and radar charts. The process is simple:
select the type of chart, set the chart size and add the data. After chart is created you may download it or share it by embedding onto a website.
Smush.It
 Smush.It is a web based tool for helping web site designers to optimise the size of web images with a minimum visual quality loss. Smushit reduces the file size of images by reducing the number of colors in the pallette. There are three ways you can use Smushit: "You can upload a bunch of pictures in your browser, you can provide a list of image urls or you can get a Firefox Extension or a cross-browser bookmarklet to optimize the images found on any web page"
Show Document
 This online service allows you to upload a document (PDF, Word etc.) and launch a collaboration session for discussing it with invited people in real-time.
Documents can be annotated with pen and highlighter, adding text.
After the collaboration session, annotated documents can be downloaded as PDF files. No registration needed.
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This article discusses the implications of the free culture movement on the educational field, through the analisys of the Wikiversty project. "It is possible to suggest that the precedents of free software on the one hand, and popular/folk education on the other highlight an important challenge for Wikiversity. They point to a gap that is critical to the possible or ultimate effect of the free culture movement on education: On the one side is a remarkably successful system of development and “relevance/accreditation.” On the other is the creation and provision of open educational resources and services that has its own achievements to boast of, but that has typically relied on governmental support and direction, and has remained outside of accreditation and certification systems. "
"Xerte is a suite of powerful tools for creating interactive e-learning content for the Flash platform. Xerte provides a visual, icon-based authoring environment that allows learning objects to be easily created with the minimum of scripting." Alternatively, less tech users may use Xerte Online Toolkits, a "browser-based authoring tools that allow anyone with a web browser to log on and create interactive learning materials simply and effectively, and to collaborate with other users in developing content."
J@M is a series of 39 episodes that "take you through the development of this web design company. Each episode starts with a description of the language areas and skills it practises. There are lots of exercises to help you learn the Business English of each episode. Follow the progress of Sanjeev, J@M's newest recruit, as you learn."
iCue is a collaboration project between NBC News and MIT. It’s a highly interactive environment for learning through the news. Some features of the site are avaliable only to registered users but registration is free and easy.