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Freeware! TreePad Lite is an award-winning Personal Information Manager for Windows (and Linux/Wine). It is portable, easy to use, small in size, yet very powerful. TreePad Lite can be used to store, edit, search, organize and browse any type of textual information: notes, emails, articles, links, phone numbers, addresses, scraps pasted from the Web, etc.

Recently, a graduate student of mine introduced me to a site called Answer Garden, which is an online brainstorming tool. All you need is a question and computers for your students to use to answer! Answer Garden makes it easy to embed on your website or just provide a link for your students to access.

If you are lucky enough to have a few extra computers in your classroom, you may want to use www.vocabulary.com. Your students are given the challenge of answering a variety of multiple choice questions about vocabulary. The questions appear on a note card, giving it a classroom feel. The site has built a database of over 40,000 words and you have options for narrowing your choices down or getting clues. As you compete, you can accumulate points, making it a competition.