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Future Me is a simple site that allows users to write an email to your future self. It allows the user to write an email, include an image, and select the date that the writer wants the email to be delivered back to them. This is an amazing site for students to use to send themselves check-ins at various moments in their life.
If This Then That is an amazing free web service that allows educators and students to automate tasks. For example, using this service a teacher can set up a blog post (assignment, homework task, student reminder) to automatically publish to multiple services such as Facebook or Twitter. In addition it can take and archive text messages or archive content from Email or SMS and archive them directly to Evernote.
Clay Yourself is a site that lets users create an claymation style avatar. The site was created by Hotels.com to allow their customers to create a commercial as part of a contest and promotion that they were running. However, the site is still running and is a great and simple way to create an avatar that can be placed on a Facebook page and can also be downloaded and used on a classroom blog, website, or other web service.
Voki enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. You can customize your Voki to look like you or take on the identity of lots of other types of characters, animals, monsters, anime etc. Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone. Voki lives on your blog, social network profile and will soon be integrated in various instant messaging platforms.
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Simply supply content for the QR code to link to - Anything from text, web address, an Email address, geolocation information, etc. - And then pick the size of your code as well as the display colors. It is that easy! Then download the file and place it wherever you want. QR codes can be very useful in the classroom and there are a slew of things you can do with them.
QR Voice is a free tool that allows you to create QR codes that when scanned will play a short audio message. To create your message and QR code you can record a voice message by clicking the microphone icon on QR Voice or you can type in your message. Either way you're limited to 100 characters. QR Voice is offered in Spanish, English, Japanese, and Portuguese.