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"APPitic is an directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) to help you transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings."

It is a backchannel app that works on all internet ready devices and promotes student participation.  You can try it out for free for 14 days.  It works a lot like todaysmeet and polleverywhere with a couple extra features like the confusion barometer.  GoSoapBox allows teachers to create polls and discussions as well as allowing students to submit questions and vote those questions up.  I think that this app is worth checking out.  

App Inventor is a great tool to teach programming to high school students. This site contains a 6 week long curriculum program created by Google Intern, Michelle Hutton. The curriculum is a project based curriculum that allows students to explore the world of computer science through the creation of smartphone apps.

Free calls from Android device to other devices AND to landlines and mobiles in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Requires facebook login.

Cool Tools for Schools is a catalogue of Web 2.0 tools organized by category such as presentation tools, collaborative tools, etc.  It also includes descriptions of each app.  

One click on express.smarttech.com and anyone, anywhere can open, edit and share lessons and other content created using SMART Notebook collaborative learning software. This lightweight version of SMART Notebook software is accessible online anytime at no charge. With the SMART Notebook Express™ web application, you don't need to log in and there's no software to download - all you need is Internet access.