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there now is an edtech app store! Well, it's more like an app directory but you get the point. It's called edshelf and is an easy-to-use directory all the great web 2.0 tools out there just waiting for educators to try them out. You can share your experience with the tools, add your own, store a 'shelf' of your favorite tools, and more.

A guide on 20 selected Web 2.0 tools for research purposes

Web 2.0 survey and polling tools

A huge variety of resources (info-kits, tools and topic information) to support further and higher education. UK based and focused, but many of the topics will be relevant internationally.

NTS aims to use ICTs as a tool to make the learning of science subjects more attractive and accessible. The project target groups are students from the general and vocational schools aged 13 to 18; teachers in science subject,plus college & university students attending science education courses (prospective school teachers in sciences) The project will establish a Virtual Lab, as an experimental virtual aid to science learning. This will serve as a platform for science lessons, as a database of teaching materials and as a hub for science-learning-related graphic aids and recorded and illustrated appealing experiments on Nano-Tech. It will include a Nano-Science Center, presenting to learners and their in-service or future teachers the miracles of the nano-technologies. A program for a week Science Camp training including hands-on experiments and demonstrations will be developed and delivered through the VL, this is a good step as an approbation of the contents and functionalities of the virtual lab.

"Free and easy-to-use tool for interaction with your audience Mentimeter allows you to use mobile phones or tablets to vote on any question you specify. Our vision is to improve the meeting between a presenter and an audience."

Comprehensive blog covering the impact of social media on education and on how social media and Web 2.0 tools can be used in teaching and learning

Toolkit for the post-secondary education sector to help teachers in the design, creation, and assessment of quality online courses

Web based tool for managing polls and audience/class feedback via SMS, Twitter or Web with real-time updating of results (Commercial)

A commercial web-based tool to enable class interaction via any kind of computing device - Polls, discussions, quizzes etc.

Guide to using twitter as a social learning tool

UK Special Interest Group on engaging students through in-class technology

Interesting and relatively new group on using new technology tools more effectively in the lecture room or classroom