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The UDL centre has created several lists on Diigo. You can follow them.

This became my 500th bookmark on Diigo thanks to Jim Batchel. If you are trying to figure out whether blogs/wikis/ning is better for your students, it looks like you can have it all and more at ThinkQuest! You need an account to sign in but under the Projects tab you can look at some public video tours of its features. ThinkQuest is a protected, online learning platform that enables teachers to integrate learning projects into their classroom curriculum and students to develop critical 21st century skills. It includes a project environment where teachers and students engage in collaborative learning; a competition space where students participate in website development contests; and the award-winning ThinkQuest library, a learning resource visited by millions.

Dipity is a free online timeliner tool . I've looked at several and think it may be the best for intermediate students to use. It's easy to create a free account and start working. The interface is very simple and requires no tutorial. Basically, each new event gives you boxes for title, date, upload a picture or video, url link, and description. You can share timelines out by email or automatically to popular online sites such as Diigo, Facebook, etc. iLearn website has a review of this timeliner and ideas for using it in the classroom in the July 22 2008 entry.

This is a webslides tour of ideas for using Wordle in the classroom.

This is a webslides tour of all of my SMARTBoard sites.

This is a set of mindmapping software links I made into a webslide show.

Harcourt site doesn't require keyboard to use punctuation. Recommended by James Hollis for use with the SB.

Canada's most prominent cyber presence? He likes to write 1/2 an hour a day online! He puts technology in perspective...does it help us communicate? Does it promote learning growth?