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Connect with Students and Parents who have no computer by using their phones and texting. Free and safe.

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Pulse.to is similar to Cel.ly. You can login to the website, create a free account and then you start to set up pulses. You can have a public or private mass texting channel (called "pulses"). In addition, you can select if only the pulse owner can send messages or if everyone in the group can send messages. Pulse.to works in many different countries besides the US and Canada! In addition there is not a short code to join, rather students/teachers/parents can text in to a real phone number (so phones that don't work with short codes or keywords will still work with this service!). For example to join my Pulse you text JOIN KOLBY to 704-323-7775.

Cel.ly is a new mass text messagingservice that says they are interested in schools using their free service! You can get started by texting "start" to 23559. Cel.ly will then ask you for a login and password. You can then go to the website Cel.ly, login and set up text message channels. Each channel is set up with a keyword so that students, teachers, community members, and parents can join your mass text message with a keyword from their cell phone! There does not seem to be a limit on the number of people that can join your mass alert. Cel.ly also gives you three choices in how you want to set up the mass text alerts. You can have all members send messages back and forth to the whole group. You can have only the teacher (owner of the channel) send messages to the group. You can have the group members send messages back to the teacher only! In addition your texting channel can be public or private! All messages are archived in Cel.ly! You can send messages via the Cel.ly website or via phone. It works quickly and easily!

Student created Glogster with great resources on earthquake and tsunami crisis in Japan.

Some great sites to convert text to mindmaps.

Create tag clouds in custom shapes.

CopyTaste enables you to create your own private URL with the data you wish to share with your friends or colleagues.

A new version of Twhirl hidden away while its in Beta. Lots of cool new features! Post to Ping.fm. Create Seesmic videos right in Twhirl. More!

Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own custom image created on the fly.

Here's an interesting option for group editing. Send the link to the public workspace that you're given and other people can go there and edit your work.

Like Great Summary bookmarked to the group earlier.

Convert pasted text into a short URL

paste text, click submit, and get a unique URL address to share

Xtranormal's mission is to bring movie-making to the people. Everyone watches movies and we believe everyone can make movies. Movie-making, short and long, online and on-screen, private and public, will be the most important communications process of the 21st century and its democratization is a massive business opportunity. Our revolutionary approach to movie-making builds on an almost universally held skill-typing. You type something; we turn it into a movie.

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