Podcats are updated every couple of days. Created by Jeff McQuillan. Topics are mainly American-oriented, and each podcast includes a "Learning Guide.l" Podcasts seem mainly for low advanced, university/adult students.

"Philologus is designed by teachers for teachers and allows them to create customised interactive versions of popular games suitable for use during lessons."

""This document text is synchronized as you type, so that everyone viewing this page sees the same text. This allows you to collaborate seamlessly on documents in your Web browser." A collaborative writing tool. No directions given until you start a new document.

Although the home page looks like it's for children, the text is really fairly complex, so high school or adult is more appropriate. Offers suggestions on point of view, reviews, summaries, etc. A sophisticated mind-mapper.

Collaborative storytelling beginning with excellent pictures from which children can develop stories. Share, read, and print.

TimeToast is a way to create historical timelines. Could be used for project- or content-based learning, or for personal autobiographies. Also has several good content examples, such as Moon Landings, The Great Gatsby, and Western Civilization. You place points on the timeline and then add text and pictures to go along with the dates.

How to use Twitter for your classroom. Another great video by Russell Stannard. that shows you all the ins and outs of this social networking device as it would be used for educational purposes.

Describes LinoIt and how to use it--a nice brainstorming and student collaboration tool, but it's great to see examples and how it can be used with students. Free.

Loads of ideas for using the video camera (mobile phone camera or video recorder) in the classroom. From Nick Peachey's newsletter.

"Sites is Google's free tool to create custom websites. Similar to a wiki, you can develop the site by yourself or choose to collaborate with others on the creation and content of the pages. Then, you can decide on the level of sharing you would like to permit. You can determine who the owners are, whom you would like to give permission to edit and revise the site, and whom you would like to give permission to view the site. You can limit viewing your site to a small, private group or you can choose to publish it so that it is accessible to anyone in the world."

Interesting article arguing that collective corporate interests have co-opted social networks and detract from learner control and education use of Web 2.0.

This page contains the cognate highlighter, where you can paste in any English text to highlight. Good for English-speaking foreign-language learners also.

"Improve Reading Speed and Comprehension Spreeder.com is free online speed reading software designed to improve your reading speed and comprehension. Spreeder is a free service provided by 7-Speed-ReadingTM. If you like this site, please have a look at our powerful 7 Speed Reading Software." This looks like an amazing tool-- You can paste in your own text and it will pop up in a timer box. When you click the Speeder button it will tell you how long it took to read the passage. But no comprehension questions!

This may be very useful as a way to show your students both the limitations of software/computer use, and how a summary might proceed.

"Create a newspaper, ninja text, a clapper board, wizard text, talking squirrels, talking flowers, a cigarette packet, talking tomatoes, talking cats, talking owls" - Fun projects for younger learners or teens, with fairly simple interface. The final project can be downloaded and images placed on your own website or blog.

Link to other blogs that discuss ways to use Facebook--from Kindergarten to college.

Nice description of how to use this tool for education.

Teaching social bookmarking is the topic of this K-12 blog entry. Tells how and why to use Diigo educationally, but can be applied to other, similar applications.

Not well organized, but packed with fun-learning sites that kids can use on their own, or that teachers might want to incorporate into class projects. Not just for summer!

This is an amazing resource for teaching high school/adult ed. It is video-based and free--individual students can sign in, or a teacher can register a whole class and keep records of their activities. There is an excellent explanatory video for teachers also. Lots of listening/speaking/reading practice.