Aviary is a fantastic online Creative Suite of tools.  With Aviary you can create and edit images, vector images and create and edit sounds.  For any creative subject area or anyone looking for a different way of presenting ideas/working with information using art and music this one is well worth exploring.

Here is a link to Aviary where you can sign up for a free account.  Below are two videos which will give you an overview of Aviary:

Sound editing:

Google Sketchup is a great tool for design technology, art or ICT.  It can also no doubt be applied in a whole host of ways to other subjects too, for example, building a model of a historic site in humanities.

Sketchup is a piece of software you can download for free and it allows you to create models.  You could use it to design a building, the idea classroom or even an object.  Professionals use this tool to model all sorts of things.  The Burj Al Arab (tallest building in the world not to be confused with the Burj Dubai) was actually modelled from the ground up using Google Sketchup before being built.

We have used Sketchup to ask students to create "The classroom of the future" where they were involved in thinking about what would make an idea learning space.  We actually modelled the build of some of our Business classrooms in Sketchup and allowed students to take a walk around and to give us feedback.

When a model is produced in sketchup it can even be uploaded to Google Earth.  For example, if you modelled your house, school or park this could be made available for anyone around the world to see

Here is a link to a page where you can download Sketchup for free.  There are numerous tutorials on how to use Sketchup.  This link will take you to a number of them:

Tutorials and ideas

Storyjumper is a way of helping your students come up with the inspiration to write a story for children.  The stories can be written and published online easily and once again it is free to use.  If you wish you can also sign up to the classroom edition which allows you to set up a class and manage/review their work.

Here is a link to Storyjumper and below is a tutorial on how to begin using it.  A simple search online will find other similar tools such as Storybird and Zooburst.

Example of use:

Our English department have used Storyjumper as a way of prompting students to write their own stories.  It has proven a simple and successful way to provide the inspiration needed to do this.

A number of ways to make use of Audio and Video have already been described under the Engaging category.  You can click here to see them.

Another option is an online tool named Jaycut.  Jaycut is an online video editing suite.

Here is a link to Jaycut and you can watch a tutorial below: