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The discussion at Wes Fryer's blog in part concerned the implications that the December 2006 e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) have upon technology use in the schools, particularly Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, Wimba, social networking sites, and microblogs.

Examples of Web 2.0 tools being used in classrooms

Compare the value of fractions using both area (region) and number line models.

The use of Twitter in an elementary math lesson

Free software for many Microsoft products, using Google, SPSS, MiniTab, StataQuest, Quick Books, Mat Lab, and many others

Photosynth uses hundreds of standard digital camera images to construct a three-dimensional view of an environment or "synth". These synths can be explored much like a video game, allowing you to explore, zoom into tiny details, and see where the photographer was standing (or flying) when they took the pictures.

Why students need us--before they grow up!

Great site in development to help teachers teach the American Civil War using technology to enhance instruction.

Useful educational resources

Free model-based learning resources and software We are delighted to be able to offer a growing collection of free software and student materials that use this software. Finding it is a bit of a treasure hunt. Sorry. The software is being developed in different projects, so we have not collected it all in one place. The following describes the major places to look. * Three powerful modeling environments * Activity authoring * Algebra interactives * Sustainable development education * VideoPaper builder * License and copyright You may also wish to visit our complete Software Download Center.

Note Taking Web 2.0 tool ~ Thanks to Cheryl Capozzoli for the Link

Mash your ideas and media together with friends in a dynamic whiteboard wiki. Using photos, videos, and other web content you can instantly create brainstorms, presentations, scrapbooks, and enjoy an interactive chat with more than 50 friends.

Despite being around for years, podcasting is often misunderstood. This video is our way of building awareness and hopefully adoption of a technology that any computer user can use.

Text to voice.

Interesting site that reads text to you in a remarkably un-annoying voice. Special educators might like this one.

Take pieces of your favorite web sites and put them on your desktop? Things like that auction you've got your eye on, your web mail's inbox, or even that search box you're always using.

Shrink O'Matic is an AIR application to easily (batch) resize (shrink) images. It handles JPGs, GIFs and PNGs.\n\nSimply drag and drop images and they'll be resized as you wish! Options allow you to choose the output sizes, names and formats. Useful for web designers, bloggers, yearbook editors, and more.

As with any test, there are strategies you can use on the SAT Reasoning Test to make sure you finish on time, and with the best possible score...

VideoSurf has created a better way for users to search, discover and watch online videos. Using a unique combination of new computer vision and fast computation methods, VideoSurf has taught computers to "see" inside videos to find content in a fast, efficient, and scalable way. Basing its search on visual identification, rather than text only, VideoSurf's computer vision video search engine provides more relevant results and a better experience to let users find and discover the videos they really want to watch.

Looking to create, build and keep resources for people using http://voicethread.com in their classrooms.