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Tiki-Toci- an esthetically pleasing web-based timeline tool. Students can create interactive multimedia timelines using images, text and videos that are easy to embed.

Celly is a wonderful free site for using mobile phones/text messaging in the classroom (found out about from a member of my PLN on Twitter). There is a lot to like about using Celly such as: creating a chat, alerting, and even using a curator to approve messages before they get posted (ideal for education). Also, it's ideal for taking notes, interacting w/ web (no phone is actually needed), etc etc.

Interesting - a visual and interactive map of tweets; not sure how it is helpful but it is cool!

"According to research by Harris Interactive, that was commissioned by CareerBuilder.com and surveyed 2,667 HR professionals, found that 45% of them use social networking sites to research job candidates, with an additional 11% planning to implement social media screening in the very near future."

Moglue is a new program, available for Mac and Windows, that enables you to create interactive ebooks and publish them to Android and iOS devices. Your ebooks created with Moglue can include videos, images, and audio files that you import from your computer. Moglue supports a wide variety of file formats for image and video content. When you have completed constructing your ebook you can publish it to the Moglue bookstore where it can be downloaded onto your Android or iOS device.

A lot of very useful PowerPoint Games and resources for your college courses.

Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational games and exercises via smartphones and tablets.

Speaking Image simply put is a cool site. This is a site where users can add multi-media content to an image such as: markers (for annotating), wiki articles, lines, etc. Also, this is a collaborative site where users can allow others to edit their images.

A national survey released today indicates that a variety of colleges and universities have shown steady improvement in the quality of undergraduate education, as measured by students' exposure to and involvement in effective educational practices.

Found the following quote interesting: "Students whose classes used course management technologies, which provide discussion boards and the posting of notes, readings or assignments, scored higher on NSSE benchmarks, participated more in deep approaches to learning, and reported higher academic and personal gains during college, as did students whose experience included interactive technologies, such as collaborative editing software, blogs, simulations and virtual worlds. "