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"Tell us how you are going to explore content formats that already exist on Twitter - short story in tweets, a Twitter chat, live-tweeting - or, even better, how you'll create a new one," says the call for ideas. "How will you work with our real-time global platform, where anyone can contribute to your story at any moment? The proposal must fit into the time window of our five-day festival - but that means that a project could run for the length of the festival, or just for an hour."

Here's how it works: Teachers choose or produce the beginning to a story, then challenge students to continue writing the story. Each student submits the next chapter, and then they vote on which entry is the best. (Students can't vote for their own submission, and they don't know whose chapter they're voting for.) The winning chapter is then added to the story, and the process continues. Co-created by a teacher and the CEO of a technology company, BoomWriter is a free, easy-to-use group writing website that challenges students to produce their best work-and makes them published authors at the end of the process. Students earn BoomDollars for voting and for having their entries chosen, and they can use this currency to buy accessories for their site avatar. The teacher determines the total number of chapters to be completed, and when the story is finished, it's published as a book that students and their families can own. Students are captivated by this unique approach to writing, and it's extremely easy for teachers to incorporate into their curriculum.

A simple way to leave voice feedback in Google Docs.  Awesome tool for anyone who is in World Languages as well as for teachers who want to provide lots of feedback without typing.

This is Skype's attempt to get classroom's collaborating around the world.  Some people are looking for teachers to help them with specific lessons (i.e. Spanish teacher)  Please take a look through the Skype Lessons link for more details.

A list of online tools not requiring registration for students (teachers) to use.

"Tinychat provides dead simple, free to use, video chat rooms that just work!"

I read an article about a month ago on when watching a video or movie in class, teachers were using a chat room to simultaneously discuss the movie. Tiny Chat is only one of many sites where you can create temporary chat rooms for the class and share the link to all of your students. At the end, many of these chat rooms disappear and the info gets cleared. What I liked about Tiny chat is that is also has the ability to show webcams, share Youtube videos, and you can create a whiteboard to share with the group so they can do some brainstorming.

A free app for creating digital posters.