No new accounts can be created, and the whole service will close-up by March.

It’s too bad…

I’m adding it to The Best Online Sites For Creating Music just because it’s so easy to use. On that list, I share a few ideas on how web apps like this one can be used for language development.

Here’s the latest installment in my series on The Best Ways To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly. As you may remember, in order to make it on this list, the web tool has to:

* be easily accessible to English Language Learners and/or non-tech savvy computer users.

* allow people to create engaging content within minutes.

* host the user’s creation on the site itself indefinitely, and allow a direct link to be able to be posted on a student or teacher’s website/blog to it (or let it be embedded). If it just provides the url address of the student creation, you can either just post the address or use Embedit.in , a free web tool that makes pretty much any url address embeddable.

* provide some language-learning opportunity (for example, students can write about their creations).

* not require any registration.

You can find previous installments of this series with the rest of my “The Best…” lists at Websites Of The Year. Several hundred sites have been highlighted in these past lists. You might also want to take a look at the first list I posted in this series — The Best Ways For Students (And Anyone Else!) To Create Online Content Easily, Quickly, and Painlessly.

You might also want to look at The Best Ways To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly — 2009.

Here are the newest additions:

MAKE CHOCOLATES DANCE: You can choreograph a dance for a piece of chocolate, choose the accompanying music, and write a message using this piece of viral marketing. The link can be posted a student/teacher blog or website.

SAY THANKS TO SOMEONE: Thanks For Being There is a simple and accessible web application from State Farm that lets you thank someone for “being there” for you. It’s easy to use, and students can post the url of their creation on a student blog or website.

MAKE DOGS SING: With the holiday season coming-up, you can send a Critter Carol — dogs singing a Christmas song, with a message you write included. Students can create on, and then post the url of their card on a website or blog.

CREATE A WEBSITE: Just Paste It and Axess are very, very simple ways to create websites. They’re ideal for teachers or students who are not very tech savvy, and just want a place to add links or, for example, if students have an assignment where they might need to collect images and then describe them. Axess has an advantage over Just Paste It because it appears that you can return to edit Axess but can’t do that for Just Paste It. No registration is required for either one.

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They’re ideal for teachers or students who are not very tech savvy, and just want a place to add links or, for example, if students have an assignment where they might need to collect images and then describe them.

Axess has an advantage over Just Paste It because it appears that you can return to edit Axess but can’t do that for Just Paste It.

No registration is required for either one.

I’m adding both to The Best Ways For Students Or Teachers To Create A Website.

It’s easy to use, and students can post the url of their creation on a student blog or website.

Jamie Keddie has just shared a very easy “trick” that lets you create a Wordle of phrases (and not just individual words), which can come in handy. Check it out at his post ” A Really Useful WordleTrick.”

I’m adding a few of them to The Best Online Sources For Images:

Stockvault

Dreamstime

Stock.xchng

In the future, once there are many entries, it might be a great source of information for English Language Learners. Now, however, it’s an excellent opportunity for students to identify topics, develop their own 140 character answer or description about the topic, and then post it to the site.

I’m adding it to The Best Places Where Students Can Write For An “Authentic Audience.”

One feature I particularly like is the ability to easily add url address to polls. Teachers or students can quickly make polls where people can vote on their favorite online games, for example. Many survey sites don’t have this option.

I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Creating Online Polls & Surveys.

It seems fairly easy-to-use, though I haven’t spent a whole lot of time checking it out.

If you do, let me know what you think.