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Jumping with glee! Ms. Jurczak recommends Teacher Toolbar. Check it out for yourself: http://tinyurl.com/326m6o

Visualization software from Microsoft; free; helps your computer simulate a telescope; is a mashup of various telescopes around the world; recommended by colleague Jenny Luca

GoAnimate comes highly recommended by a friend and colleague of mine for creating neat animated stories and sharing them with others.

I've been mulling over doing a screencast so I made a small survey looking for the best choices for Mac screencast apps. This is not a review since I haven't had time to actually try them all out. But if you're looking for what's available and some links to useful reviews, this is a good starting point. Screenflow and Snapz Pro seem to be excellent choices although I had people recommend iShowU and Zing to me as well. I tried iShowU and wasn't too impressed. I tried Screenflow and thought it was pretty amazing.

A great guide for beginners and even longtime internet users/texters. It gets into reasons for abbreviations and is much more than just a list of "net lingo". I'd definitely recommend this for parents and teachers alike.

If you want to try ping.fm (I recommend it!) the current beta code is thispingsforyou (still is on 7/18).

Beautiful site and looks like the software is super easy to use to virtually look at anything in space. Big wow factor. Only drawback is that it takes some hefty computing power to run the software. For example, while the minimum RAM is 1 GB, they recommend 2 GB AND while 1 GB minimum hard drive is okay, they suggest 10GB. Now for most people, only the RAM will be the issue. However, it is so cool, I'd love to run out and get a PC with the power to run this application.

This Google Site has been set up by Dr. Helen Barrett to focus on the use of Google Apps to create ePortfolios. On this site, there are instructions on how to use the different elements of Google Apps to maintain e-portfolios.\n\nThere is also a Google Group on developing electronic portfolios in K-12 using Google Apps:\n* Group name: Using Google Apps for ePortfolios in K-12 Education\n* Group home page: http://groups.google.com/group/k12eportfolios\n* Group email address k12eportfolios@googlegroups.com\nI am hoping that other K-12 educators can join the group, and share their experiences developing ePortfolios with these free online tools. I recommend that if schools decide to use GoogleApps, they establish their own Google Apps for Education site, with their own domain name, as a quasi "walled garden" where student work can only be viewed by someone with an account within that domain.

Get your class reviewing and recommending books to one another.

I've been using a USB stick with Portable Apps mentioned in this article. Highly recommend.

nice writeup on portable apps for usb thumb drive

a completely new way of choosing what to read

Get an educator account so every student in your class can use animoto with their own login. Email rebecca@animoto.com

An awesome tool for turning a collection of photos into a multimedia experience. Highly recommended

This is one of the important web2.0 tools i would highly recommend for educators . The Plagiarism Checker detects the plagiarized text or chunks of a text in your students assignments , essays, articles......