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Ginipic is a nice desktop application that allows you to crawl a host of photo sharing services as well as your own machine for pictures, making it a close to ideal image search tool.

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In this second post of The Edublogger 'podcasting series' learn how to host podcasts on blogs so readers who know how to create video/audio can set up their podcast feed.

Welcome to Yola - where you'll find all the tools you need to build a website just the way you want. Point and click. Drag and drop. That's all you need to know. Amazingly enough, you can build and host your website for free. That's Yola. Previously: SynthaSite

This Java-based tool will record a select region of your screen and any audio from your computer's microphone. It then hosts it for you, complete with download links so you or your users can download a local copy for offline viewing.

EduTube is a new educational video search platform launched in April 2008. The main aim of EduTube is to organize the best educational video content on the Internet. It is not just another website for submitting videos - we recognize that a lot of great content is already out there, it just needs to be better organized. Educational Videos only All content on EduTube is moderated and only relevant, educational content is permitted. What distinguishes EduTube from other educational video sites is the focus on high quality, popular videos - typically EduTube videos are those which get several hundred to several thousand or more views a day on the hosting website (such as YouTube). Also unique to EduTube is the system for organizing videos and making them searchable, as explained below.

The Social Media Classroom (we'll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes-integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools. The Classroom also includes curricular material: syllabi, lesson plans, resource repositories, screencasts and videos. The Collaboratory (or Colab), is what we call just the web service part of it. Educators are encouraged to use the Colab and SMB materials freely, and we host your Colab communities if you don't want to install your own.

Screencast.com allows you to upload videos, documents, images, and presentations to a free Web host and link to it or embed a code on your Web page. This way, you can view your work without taking up tons of space on your own hard drive, or others can vie

NuancePDF.com is a cloud-based conversion service that lets you turn PDF files into fully formatted Word and Excel files - right from the free Nuance PDF Reader!  With Nuance PDF Reader, you get the most accurate online PDF conversion available through NuancePDF.com - without having to install extra software. No more copying and pasting or retyping PDF documents. Just use our hosted web service to convert PDF to Word, Excel, RTF or WordPerfect using Nuance's industry-leading OCR technology. It's never been easier to upload, convert, and start using information previously trapped in a PDF.

"PurposeGames.com is host to educational quiz and trivia games created by its members. In just a few minutes, you can create your very own game to share with your friends!."

PBS hosted games regarding language arts skills. Great for your Interactive Whiteboard.

"We tell the story of chemistry." The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) fosters an understanding of chemistry's impact on society. An independent, nonprofit organization, CHF maintains major collections of instruments, fine art, photographs, papers, and books. We host conferences and lectures, support research, offer fellowships, and produce educational materials. Our museum and public programs explore subjects ranging from alchemy to nanotechnology.

Fascinating! What if the school could provide each student a domain. Not some lousy directory or content-managed set of pages or subdomain. A fully fledged domain. Where the student could choose the best way to manage his/her own digital identity, whether it be WordPress, or a wiki, or whatever.

Sigil is a multi-platform EPUB ebook editor. The Wysiwyg may help students learn some html effortlessly.

cool image editor

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

Make the site you've always wanted now - Instantly build, publish & share Create interactive, stylish & ad-free pages -With Webon's powerful site creation platform

Our forums are social, engaging, easy to use, and most importantly - fun to interact with.

Here's a sample: http://theconnectedclassroom.lefora.com/headlines/