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AnimateAI
AnimateAI
Create animated videos with AI. Start by generating characters, which the site says will be consistent throughout your story. You can turn scripts into storyboards and customize them. Then, create videos in 30-second clips. The voice syncing doesn't look great in their demo videos, but this still might be worth experimenting with. The free plan should be enough to test it out.
1/21/25#AI#video#animation#tools#free
·animateai.pro·
AnimateAI
MagicQuill
MagicQuill
MagicQuill is an online image editing tool focused on AI inpainting of existing images. Upload and image and draw the shape of what you want to add or change in the image. The tool guesses what you want and generates a text prompt for you. If it guesses right, you can run it and generate the edited image. If it guesses wrong, you can tweak the prompt. Open source tool with a CC license; you can get the source code and run it on your own server if you want.
12/24/24#AI#imagegeneration#free#tools
·magicquill.art·
MagicQuill
Rate My Site: Rate your site in seconds – get instant feedback.
Rate My Site: Rate your site in seconds – get instant feedback.
AI-generated feedback on website design. Enter a URL and get a score and feedback on the visual design, layout and clarity, and content. The site provides recommendations for improvements as well. As with all things AI, the recommendations should be viewed with some skepticism, but I found it overall reasonably accurate for the few sites I tested.
11/19/24#AI#tools#free#webdesign
·ratemysite.app·
Rate My Site: Rate your site in seconds – get instant feedback.
BreezeDoc | Document signing is a breeze.
BreezeDoc | Document signing is a breeze.
This is an alternative to DocuSign that looks like a good option for freelancers and small businesses. The free plan is limited to 2 documents per month, but the lifetime licenses are pretty cheap to increase that number.
10/15/24#freelance#tools#free
·breezedoc.com·
BreezeDoc | Document signing is a breeze.
Free Image Vectorization
Free Image Vectorization
Convert PNG files to SVG. Useful for converting AI-generated PNG illustrations to SVGs for editing. Works best with flat illustrations without much detail.
10/15/24#images#tools#free
·vectorizer.com·
Free Image Vectorization
Img2Go.com - Online photo editor and image converter
Img2Go.com - Online photo editor and image converter
Multiple image generation and editing tools powered by AI. Upscaling, background removing, face blurring (automatically detecting all the faces in a crowd and blurring them all for privacy), inpainting, image comparison. This site has some basic image editing tools like cropping, rotating, and compressing as well. The basic plan is free, with paid plans for credits for more advanced tools.
8/6/24#tools#free#AI#images#imagegeneration
·img2go.com·
Img2Go.com - Online photo editor and image converter
AI Story Generator (Free, No Signup & Unlimited)
AI Story Generator (Free, No Signup & Unlimited)
This seems like something that could be done with a combination of other tools (an LLM plus an image generator), but this is a tool that creates stories plus images to accompany them. It would be interesting to experiment with as inspiration for training scenarios. However, note that the site claims copyright of all stories created, so don't plan to use this for commercial purposes. Use it for inspiration rather than as the actual content of a story.
Imported from Diigo#AI#tools#free#storytelling#images
·datanumen.com·
AI Story Generator (Free, No Signup & Unlimited)
Vidnoz AI Tools: Create FREE Engaging AI Videos 10X Faster
Vidnoz AI Tools: Create FREE Engaging AI Videos 10X Faster
Vidnoz AI has several tools. Their AI video generator is similar to Synthesia, although the voices and avatars seem to be not quite as good. if you want to try out AI video generation, this looks like a great option for experimenting and exploring because you can generate 3 minutes of video for free. This site also has other tools, some with a freemium model, such as face swapping and background removal.
Imported from Diigo#AI#video#images#tools#free
·vidnoz.com·
Vidnoz AI Tools: Create FREE Engaging AI Videos 10X Faster
Consensus: AI Search Engine for Research
Consensus: AI Search Engine for Research
Curious about the research on a particular topic? Consensus searches research and provides summaries. If you ask a yes/no question on a well-researched topic, it will provide you with a color-coded yes/no/maybe summary. This doesn't work as well if there isn't much research on a particular topic (as is the case for a lot of L&D questions), but it's a good way to both get a quick glance at the research and to find sources so you can dig deeper on your own.
Imported from Diigo#AI#tools#free#research
·consensus.app·
Consensus: AI Search Engine for Research
Visla: All-in-one Video Storytelling.
Visla: All-in-one Video Storytelling.
AI video tool for video editing and generation. Specifically, one of the features lets you edit videos by editing the transcript. This tool has a free plan with some limitations which look like plenty to at least test it out and potentially use if you need something quick.
Imported from Diigo#video#AI#tools#free
·visla.us·
Visla: All-in-one Video Storytelling.
Viral Post Generator
Viral Post Generator
An AI took for writing a viral LinkedIn post--the kind with one sentence per paragraph and some vaguely inspirational advice that the LinkedIn algorithm loves. Use the slider to control the "cringe level" of the text. While this is good just for a funny break in your day, I could see using this as an Easter Egg in a scenario or a mockup in an elearning course.
Imported from Diigo#free#tools#fun
·viralpostgenerator.com·
Viral Post Generator
Accessible color palette builder
Accessible color palette builder
While there are lots of tools for creating color palettes, this is the first one I have seen that so clearly notes the accessibility of different combinations. Even if you create the palette using another tool, you could check it with this free tool to note which colors have sufficient contrast when used together.
Imported from Diigo#tools#free#accessibility
·toolness.github.io·
Accessible color palette builder
Fancy Font Generator
Fancy Font Generator
Generate text with different fonts to paste in other places like LinkedIn. This is one way to make a large block of text easier to read by adding headings and dividers, like in your About Me section on LinkedIn
Imported from Diigo#tools#free
·messletters.com·
Fancy Font Generator
GuidedTrack – Home
GuidedTrack – Home
A no code tool for building web apps and interactive surveys. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like you could use this for building branching scenarios. In the info for educators, it says you can make CYOA lessons that adapt content and grade automatically. You can start with a free plan to try it out.
Imported from Diigo#free#tools#branching
·guidedtrack.com·
GuidedTrack – Home
GitHub - ChapelR/tw-analytics: Quickly add Google analytics to Twine games (and other web apps) from the command line.
GitHub - ChapelR/tw-analytics: Quickly add Google analytics to Twine games (and other web apps) from the command line.
This hasn't been updated in 2 years, but it's a tool for adding Google Analytics tracking to Twine games. While getting xAPI to work with Twine is still probably the ideal option for most learning applications, analytics data would provide a lot of useful info too.
Imported from Diigo#tools#free#Twine
·github.com·
GitHub - ChapelR/tw-analytics: Quickly add Google analytics to Twine games (and other web apps) from the command line.
Lesson plans – Teaching with Twine
Lesson plans – Teaching with Twine
This post includes lesson plans for teaching students how to use Twine, either in a single 50-minute session or in two days with extra time for practicing in the tool. These plans are a few years old, so a few details have changed, but the overall structure makes sense.
Imported from Diigo#Twine#free#opensource#tools
·teachingwithtwine.wordpress.com·
Lesson plans – Teaching with Twine
Using Twine for Classroom Engagement - ACTion
Using Twine for Classroom Engagement - ACTion
This is a summary of a project at the University of Toronto using Twine to create an educational game, plus an overview of Twine.
Although Twine is a tool for creating “games”, this project goes beyond games and gamification to think creatively about how the functions of Twine can be used to create activities that allow students to more directly engage with learning content in a hands-on experiential format that may not be possible in a traditional classroom learning space.
Imported from Diigo#Twine#games#simulation#tools#free#opensource#branching#elearning
·action.act.utoronto.ca·
Using Twine for Classroom Engagement - ACTion
Knight Lab
Knight Lab
Free tools for creating VR stories, timelines, annotated maps and charts, image comparisons, and more. These are open source tools and may be a little clunky, but potentially worth exploring for short experiences. They're design more for journalists and media companies than training, but there's overlap in explainer journalism and elearning.
Imported from Diigo#tools#free#opensource
·knightlab.northwestern.edu·
Knight Lab