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10 tools for file sharing...

"Organize your ideas, thoughts and documents. Share and find with ease. Save anything and everything that's important to you. Be it the contents of a webpage, an email, scanned copy of a business card or an important pdf file, anything. Take rich notes to save your crazy wild idea or a snippet of your latest code. Add annotations - via sticky comments, highlights, drawings etc, to these klips. Get a unique Webklipper URL for each of your klip. Share it with a small group of friends or with all your followers on Twitter - you'll be in complete charge of privacy settings for all your klips. Find your klips easily whenever you need them - search by klip content, annotations, url etc. "

"Timetoast is a great way to share the past, or even the future... Creating a timeline takes minutes, it's as simple as can be. "

Edudemic's library of Google Lessonplans. These lessons are on a variety of topics and contents and they incorporate a lot of Google tools. Many links in the lessons are valuable resources such as commoncraft videos, etc. Pam shared this with us in an email.

Creative Book Builder is a fantastic app that allows students to create books in epub format, which can then be exported to iBooks and shared with others. There are a variety of instructional uses for this app, from using it as a publishing tool for project-based learning to a summative assessment at the end of a unit. Students can embed images, audio files, video files, and write text. The advantage of an epub document over a PDF document is that all of the media will be preserved and available for readers to interact with when the final product is published.

Wondering what CC BY means?  It's the licensure for your work that you are allowing folks to use to share, to remix, and can make commerical use of... under certain attribution.  READ here for clarification.

" With MapStory, people of all kinds turn into Storytellers who can create, share, and collaborate on MapStories and ultimately improve our understanding of global dynamics, worldwide, over the course of history."

Using Google Docs to support your PLCs... this site would be helpful for sharing all about google docs to teachers that are not using them with their colleagues.

"xtimeline is a free web-based timeline. Easily create and share timelines with pictures and videos."

"Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work-in the web browser itself. "

"The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. "

This is a cool concept.

"BagTheWeb helps users curate Web content. For any topic, you can create a "bag" to collect, publish, and share any content from the Web. Beyond most curation tools' capability, BagTheWeb enables users to build networks of bags. This way bags can be linked together to provide rich and complete information about any topic. "

About A Web Whiteboard is touch-friendly online whiteboard app that lets you use your computer, tablet or smartphone to easily draw sketches, collaborate with others and share them with the world. A Web Whiteboard works on all modern browsers, no installation needed.

"Provide as many questions (clues) and answers (locations) as you like to create a virutal 'treasure hunt'. When you are finished you can save the game and share it with others. Players have to use each clue to collect the 'coins' that appear in each of your secret locations. "

"A place to share e-learning and Web 2.0 tools for education. Computers and laptops in education are important only when used with good pedagogy. Digital content and creation is an important part of the process for educators in the 21st century."

Footnote is a fantastic resource on the web to provide historical context for the picture books and novels you are reading in your classroom. With over 70 million original documents online, you can find and share all sorts of intriguing artifacts to build background knowledge in students:

"Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. Whatever you're into, from sonnets to mysteries, from sci-fi stories to cell phone novels, you can find it all here."

a poster from Fairfax that shows succinct instructional strategies in math classrooms... could be used in other content areas as well. A nice resource for sharing out with colleagues.