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Vicki Davis is asking for some help for her kids. "They have been using Google Lively as part of the Digiteen Project teaching digital citizenship (http://www.digiteen.net), however Google has announced it will shut lively down on December 31st." See her 'coolcatteacher' blog --> http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/ for more details.

Twitter has been getting a lot of attention lately as a tool for use in the classroom, including an insightful blog post and front-page video segment on the Chronicle of Higher Education website by University of Texas at Dallas professor David Parry.

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Tumblr is planning a service to allow users to open their Tumblogs for publishing by others.

A simple & fun way to clip sections of webpages, organize, save & share them. You can also embed a "clipcast" on your blog, etc.

Social Media news blog covering cool new websites and social networks: Facebook, Google, Twitter, MySpace and YouTube. The latest web technology news, via RSS daily.

Best 'n' Free Avatar Generater! Available for blogs and SNS!

# Adds audio to your site with one line of HTML # Uses simple, easy-to-hack HTML instead of complicated proprietary markup, ushering in the REAL Media Web # Magical floating design never gets lost, is available when you need it, gets out of your way when you don't need it # Automatically finds all audio links on your page, turning your page into a playlist # Plays all your blog entries with a single button click # Allows you to put the play buttons where they belong: IN CONTEXT # Keeps the user in the page rather than sending them away to a media player # Picks up your images and adds them as cover art # Requires no download, install or maintenance

create a poster and then embed your blog, images and sounds. Create a visually apealing frontage for your blogs and sites.

make stories with uploaded pics, add text and music

Ever wanted to turn your images or photos in to icons so you can set custom icons in your desktop or for your blog. Bradicon allows you to turn any image in to an icon quick and easily. Using the app is simple, upload an image and download the icon. The service is currently free and works well. Currently it supports Jpg, PNG and GIF formats and gives you an ICO file. The icons preserver the transparency.

ScreenFlow is a brand new application for creating amazing screen recordings on your Mac. Using a unique new screen capture system, powerful enough to capture the contents of your entire desktop at the same time as your video camera, microphone and computer's audio, you'll be creating incredible screencasts in no time. The finished result is a QuickTime movie, ready for publishing to your website or blog.

Create a FREE quiz for your classroom, company, blog or friends! Perfect for tests, training, recruitment, assessments, trivia or just plain fun quizzes!

Say you're an investor and you want to see how two companies are faring against each other on the market. You could type in "IBM versus Apple" and Wolfram|Alpha will generate graphs and tables to compare the stocks over time. It also give you the Web-based sources used to generate the data, so you know where the numbers are coming from. The site also solves equations and shows the steps it took to do so, which will be of interest to high school students and math majors. Not into number crunching? If you live near the coast, you could type in "tides in ____" and find charts of tidal and lunar information. You could also graph that against other cities, which would be cool if you're a surfer. The site is also interesting for academic queries. Type in "Internet users in Africa" and you'll get the total number of Web users there - 51 million - as well as lists of the number of users by country plus graphs of this information. If you're in the fisheries business, or if you're an environmentalist, you could type in "fish produced in Italy versus France" to get an idea of how that sector is faring. The answer includes specifics, like how much of the fish crop was farmed versus what was captured. Such data could be used to argue policy points or to debate whether or not certain industries are sustainable.

drop.io has rich phone functionality. simply hit the 'drop it' button to setup a free conference call line (not recorded) and a voicemail line (recorded). use them as you please. you can even have your voicemail automatically forwarded to email addresses, twitter accounts, itunes (for podcasting), or your blog. learn more