Socrative is for interaction. You ask the questions. Your student responds with any laptop/handheld device. Try it for yourself by playing teacher on this device, and Student on a second computer/smartphone. Instructions: - Student: Open a second computer/smartphone and go to m.socrative.com - Student: Join the Room ###. - Teacher: ask a question out loud and press "Yes / No" button - Student: Respond Yes or No - Teacher: See the results on your screen You can run the Teacher Clicker from an Android phone, or any computer / smartphone by going to l.socrative.com.

"thinkery helps you focus on the important things and lets you access tons of information in an instant. it is your extended brain on steroids."

What's Tildee ? Tildee is a free tool to help you create and share instantly and easily tutorials on any subject

What is Netspeak? Netspeak helps you to improve your writing. When in doubt about how something is written, you can search for alternatives in Netspeak's phrase dictionary. The dictionary contains billions of phrases and how often they are used on the web. That way you can judge whether or not a phrase is common.

"WeatherSpark is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth. Get multiple forecasts for the current location, overlaid on records and averages to put it all in context. "

via @web20classroom

from http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2011/05/trick-of-day-copypastecharactercom-to.html

via @cnansen

"Nice technique to use when creating links on educational materials to YouTube videos!" - Dan Russell

"Sharendipity is a web based creativity suite where anyone can build and deploy engaging and interactive web applications. Go. Build something wonderful today. "

"It's what's cool on the Web; all in one place and made by YOU. Montage is a flexible web-based service that makes it fun and easy to create and share a visual album of the web on the topics you care about. You can design your Montage around any topic you can imagine by adding content that pulls information from a variety of sources, including RSS feeds, Twitter, Bing News, and YouTube. Montage is an expression of you. "

Requested the iBeer sponsorship removed by emailing help@app.cat and it was changed to iMilk.

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