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DIRECTORY OF LEARNING TOOLS
 Widgets and Accessories (for Blog and Web pages)

These are a variety of tools or accessories to add extra functionality and interest to web pages/blogs, including analysis tools, search engines and icon/picture galleries

Key to Availability
£=cost; C =add code to web page/blog; D =download;  H = hosted service;  OS = Open source; FT=free trial

Top Widgets & Accessories
 These are the tools voted Top Tools for Learning by learning professionals worldwide

Tool Summary Available
Google Analytics Website analysis tool Free C  
MyBlogLog Community service for your blog Free C  
StatCounter Invisible web tracker Free C  

Other Widgets & Accessories

Tool Summary Available
Absolutely Free Clipart Clipart gallery Free D  
Add this! buttons Subscribe to all your feeds, collect information about your products, and save your podcasts. Free C  
Apture Allows publishers and bloggers to easily turn flat pages of text into multimedia experiences. Free C  
AXS Website visitor tracking software Free C  
Bookmark Manager Configurable social bookmarking component that can be easily incorporated into any website. Free C  
BrowserPool Tests websites live in all current browsers £ H FT
Buttonator Create free buttons Free H  
Chirrup Twitter comments for your blog, wiki, website, whatever! Free D  
ClickComments One clicking commenting for your website or blog Free C  
ClockLink Clock widgets to embed in your web page Free C  
Clustrmaps See at a glance where your site's visitors are located Free C  
Colour Palette Generator Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches an image. Free H  
Contactify It's email without the address - and embed it in your site Free H  
Download YouTube video widget Widget to add to blog or web page to download YouTube video Free C  
Evoca Record your voice on the web; capture your readers' voices Free H  
Extreme Tracking You get every advanced feature required to picture the visitors of your website Free C  
FavIcon from Pics Create still / animated favicons from regular images Free H  
Feedflash Create Web widgets, feed readers Free H  
Feedjit Real-time traffic data on your blog Free H  
Feevy Display content from other blogs at your website Free C  
Freefoto.com Photographs for private non-commercial use Free H  
Freeimages.co.uk More than 2500 original stock photos Free H  
flickrshow Display flickr photosets on your website Free C  
FlockPod On the spot interactions for social learning and content enrichment Free C  
Freshbadge Create a Web 2.0 badge for your web or blog Free H/D  
fShare Add the widget to your site for your visitors to distribute your content and increase traffic and engagement Free D  
GetaBuz Get a voice player for any web page Free C  
Google Custom Search Harness the power of Google to create a search engine tailored to your needs Free H  
Google Gadgets Gadgets to add to your webpage or blogs Free C  
gVisit Track visitors to your site with Google Maps Free C  
IconBazaar Icons (for personal web pages only) Free D  
iconfinder Find icons to use on web/blog pages Free D  
inserit Integrate live contents into any web design (free version of news module) Free D  
instacomment Service allowing website owners to add an instant comment system to their pages Free D/C  
iStockphoto World's preeminent collection of member-generated royalty-free images, at the world's best prices £ D

LabPixies Directory of web gadgets Free C  
Lijit Revolutionary search tools and stats for your blog Free C  
LineBuzz Gives blog readers the ability to post comments directly on the text of a blog entry Free C  
Neocounter Web counters displaying flags and cities Free C  
Online status indicator Service that lets you put a small image on a web page to show if you are online on IM Free C  
Open Designs Web design templates Free D  
Picosearch Search engine for your website Free C  
Pics4Learning Copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students Free H  
Pictobrowser Lets users easily share large sets of pictures on their websites or blogs. Free D  
Pingdom Web site monitoring tool £ H FT
Plinkme Photos for your web pages Free C  
Popfly Creator Build and share mashups, gadgets, Web pages, and applications Free D  
Postli Replace list of buttons to post to social sites with a single link Free C  
reCAPTCHA Protect your site from abuse and help digitize books Free D  
Resnooze Remind people to come back to your site Free C  
Searchamabob Widget that gives your visitors an easy way to search for a selected text on Google, Omgili or any other search engine they define. Free C  
ShowYourself Simple to make, easy, free and fun utility to help establish your identity across the web Free C  
Site Meter Web counter Free C  
Snap Preview Anywhere Preview sites you are linking to Free C  
Snap Shots Open, extensible platform for creating, sharing, and distributing contextually relevant content Free C  
SocialBookmarkIt Provides the tools you need to quickly add ALL the major social bookmark links to your website Free C  
Spell with Flickr Use Flickr images to spell words Free H  
Stockxpert Royalty free photos and graphics Free D  
Soundsnap Share free sound effects and loops Free H  
Swicki Build a swicki perfectly tailored to your site, blog or community Free H  
Tabs Generator Generate your design, then download and use in your css style sheet! Free C  
Talklets Add to site to provide talking web pages to all website visitors £ H FT
ThatsMyMouse Shares your mouse position with other visitors on the same webpage. Free C  
Triggit Place media and ads with simple clicks and drag on your web/blog page Free D  
Turtilla Online service that allows you to search and filter content related to your interests Free H  
Visitor Ville Web stats in video game format £ D FT
Vodpod Add videos to blogs Free H  
Vuzit Web based document viewer you can embed in any web/blog page Free C  
who's.amung.us Want to know how many people are on your site in real time Free C  
Widgenie Lets you upload various files, customize a visual widget, then embed them onto various popular places on the web. Free H  
Widgetbox Online directory of web widgets for blogs and other web pages. Free H  
Widgipedia Your ultimate widgets resource Free H  
Windows Live Messenger button Add button to blog or email Free C  
YahooWidgets Widget collection from Yahoo - now includes Spread Badges Free H  
YourGen Text generator with widest selection of fonts and create code for use on blog/website Free H  

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