Cool Tools & Ed Tech

You can search all the best flashcard sites with this search engine.

an 'applet' from drop.io for web-based rich media chat - choose a name, and hit the 'drop.it' button - you instantly have a real-time, rich media chat feed. simply direct participants to the URL of your chat, and you are able to chat and share any media in line. works with third party clients and on mobile

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

A netbook is a laptop with a shrunken screen, an undersize keyboard and a processor that's so slow, you'd have laughed at it in 2007. The netbooks' crucial attractions are tiny dimensions, light weight and low cost, usually $350 to $500. Otherwise, they're all about compromises.

This site uses Flash to create your own animated film. Add characters, action, and sound then watch your creation come to life.

The Accomplished Librarian is a web-information organizing tool for educators; used to embed a large, organized quantity of information into lessons, school websites and education-related, web-based resources.

J.ot Down - Start typing and J.ot Down will handle the rest

Speaks as you type

Turn a boring old spreadsheet into an interactive web-based map, timeline, or table with some simple HTML using the free, open source Exhibit project. Exhibit takes data sets up to about 500 rows, plots locations on a Google Map, dates on an interactive timeline, and displays images and links in a tabular or thumbnail view. The viewer can sort, search, and filter data in any Exhibit view without reloading the page. You can make Exhibit do all this with a single HTML file and a spreadsheet-no hardcore programming required.

I greatly enjoyed Clive Thompson's recent Wired article on netbooks. For years laptop manufacturers have been giving us more and more powerful computers: bigger hard drives, more memory, faster processing chips, etc. What netbooks have shown, however, is that many laptop users actually need less, not more. When 95% of...

ClassJump.com provides teachers web sites free of charge, where multiple classes can be managed and updated using an easy to understand interface. No knowledge of web site programming is needed to get your class or classes set up and quickly providing up-to-date information for your students and parents.

Effective Web 2.0 Tools for the Classroom

Welcome to LMK, the newest interactive Web site for teens from Girl Scouts and Windows. Created with help from teens like you and from industry experts, LMK will provide you with the know-how to safely navigate your online life and even help your parents to understand it. We know how important this is to you! Go ahead: explore the site, create a profile, and make an impact.