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Free online textbooks. You can customize them once you sign up for a free educators account. It may take up to several days to be approved.

Girls in grades 5-8 can sign up to be mentored by real engineers, accountants , scientists, and astronauts at NASA through Skype in this 5 week summer program. Taking applications now. Adventure starts in July!

A long list of web 2.0 tools that do not require account signup.  

One of the simplest image sharing sites that I've found.

Easy, account-free way to share images

"John Taylor, retired superintendent of schools in Lancaster, S.C., offers this history of the above essay which he wrote while leading that district: "The parody was originally titled 'Absolutely the Best Dentists.' It was written and sent to every newspaper and legislator in South Carolina a number of years ago in an attempt to point out the absurdities inherent in South Carolina's then new accountability act which was focused on 'absolute' performance and threatened retention for every child who couldn't meet very challenging grade level standards. (Not to mention severe penalties for 'poorly performing' schools, teachers ands administrators.) Since then it has traveled widely to the point that I have not been able to keep up with the uses; but I know it has appeared in teacher association publications in at least three Canadian Provinces and in Australia, as well as dozens in the USA. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) seems to have given the story a new life." Thus: No Dentist Left Behind. The essay remains on the Lancaster County School District's Web site."

Thanks to @kbconnor for sharing this one. A twitter yellow pages. Want to find an organization with a twitter account? This may be it.

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Now, no email accounts required for students. This one was shared in the Educators Group today.

"Hotseat, a social networking-powered mobile Web application, creates a collaborative classroom, allowing students to provide near real-time feedback during class and enabling professors to adjust the course content and improve the learning experience. Students can post messages to Hotseat using their Facebook or Twitter accounts, sending text messages, or logging in to the Hotseat Web site."

Photo sharing doesn't get any easier than this. No account needed.

The Graphic Novel Creator: Comic Master is a portion of the Read Me program (learn about it here). This is a really cool online comic creator, the interface is fun to use and very intuitive. It is obviously geared toward students with a great look and even an embedded music player. I love the details on this site, including the headline "Reading isn't only in books, it's everywhere!". Using the Graphic Novel Creator, students can create their own multi-page graphic novels with interesting backgrounds, characters, props, and customized text. The graphic novels can be saved and printed out. You don't need an account to print, but you do need to sign up with an e-mail address if you wish to save your comics.

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"Welcome to the Hands on Banking® program! Want to take charge of your own finances and reach your goals? Just pick your age group and get started! Whether you want to build your credit, your investments, or your own small business; invest in the market, a home, or higher education; shop for a loan, buy a car, or open your first bank accounts, the Hands on Banking program offers all the basic money tools, skills, and information you need."

Shared recently on twitter. No account needed. For you but probably not the students. Nothing wrong, but certainly won't raise a test score. :)

Pixton is a drag-and-drop cartoon creation tool which allows anyone regardless of artistic ability to create comics. Users can join the Pixton community to share their creations with other. In addition to the free individual accounts Pixton offers Pixton for Schools (not free) which allows teachers to create private rooms in which only their students can create and share comics.

Attending a webinar about the iTunes Volume Purchasing Program. Learning about App licenses and organizing accounts. http://bit.ly/df97bh

Find a link u want to share but aren't at your browser? This post describes the process for using ping.fm to post links to your delicious account via e-mail, txt message or IM.

*Glogster is a perfect web 2.0 tool for learning and WIKIs * Glogster gives support and help with creating school accounts and keeping Glogs PRIVATE * Glogster brings updates based on your feedback. Glogster is Yours!

Creating fake student email accounts for web 2.0 applications.

TwitchBoard listens to your twitter account, and forwards messages on to other internet services based on what it hears. Our first service will automatically save any links you tweet to the del.icio.us bookmarking service.