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Some great ways for students to create and publish presentations online. Some allow you to embed video in them, as well.

Check out the educational program @ http://www.mixbook.com/edu Students & teachers can make different kinds of digital books for a wide variety of projects and even publish them. Can also make yearbooks at very affordable prices with great flexibility in design - 3-5 day lead time for production & delivery

Here is a LiveBinder with resources used for a Virtual Summer Camp (technology camp for teachers). Again, using LiveBinders makes it a snap to organize resources you want to share.

Britons are increasingly overlapping their media habits - tapping out e-mails while watching TV, reading a paper while answering texts from friends. But, asks Hugh Wilson, does media multi-tasking mean instead of doing a few things well, we are just doing more things badly?

"Soshiku is a simple but powerful tool that manages your high school or college assignments. Soshiku keeps track of when your assignments are due and can even notify you via email or SMS."

Fantastic guide & tutorial on how to make videos on the web, provided by Richard Byrne, Free Technology for Teachers. "This guide was created for those teachers who would like to have their students make videos but don't have access to editing software and or video equipment. All of the resources in this guide are completely web-based."

There is a collection of different timers you can use online, or download and use on your desktop (PC), or embed on a webpage or wiki.

Here's the latest update to the first article on Dropbox for educators. I would encourage you to read both posts & take advantage of this great tool - Dropbox!

"The Secret To Getting Every Student Excited About Writing" - some interesting thoughts on how social media can engage students in the writing process.

Great ideas for using Wordle in the classroom.

Some new things I didn't know in the article. I like how you can insert the cloud onto an image. That's cool!

Join.me allows Mac and Windows users to quickly share their screens with each other and work together. The person offering the screen share must download the software, and then just give your nine digit access number to your collaborators to give them access to your screen and to converse with you. It could be a very handy tool for sharing your screen with students to walk them through an application or give to give a virtual presentation. Join.me could also be useful for professional development in which you're introducing colleagues to the ins and outs of a program.

This tool allows you to print web pages stripping away all the adds, images, etc. from the page to give you a clean print. It also allows you to save the portions you want to keep in .pdf. Another similar tool is called Printliminator. Check them out. You'll save toner & paper in the process and have the things you want to read in print in an uncluttered format.

Helpful chart to compare/contrast each tool

A dynamic web-based multimedia resource that includes peer-reviewed lesson plans, handouts, presentations, videos and other resources to enhance the teaching of information literacy (K-16).

Dropbox is a great Web 2.0 tool for students & teachers. Check out the ideas for using it. I use it as a place to save all of my documents & it syncs & makes accessible files from any computer. Very cool! Free 5GB...

Tony Vincent reviews four student response systems that can use iPod touches, iPads, iPhones, netbooks, etc. This is the wave of the future for SRS's. Poll Everywhere, I think allows the use of regular cell phones, as well.

Mission:   A free interactive math textbook on the web. Initially covering high-school geometry. I'm using it with 3rd graders for beginning geometry. I like the interactive aspects of it.

Watch this training on how to use LiveBinders & links to examples and best practices & tutorials

Dropbox is one of those tools that's an essential for teachers, admin., and students

David Warlick: Cracking the "Native" Information Experience on SlideShare & Prezi. It's an excellent view of the changing landscape of information for today's "Natives"