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Among the findings: New teachers aren't more likely than veteran teachers to use technology. This raises some important questions how well teacher preparation programs are training pre-teachers how to integrate technology or if they're simply entering school environments where they're not encouraged to do so.

Great reminders of things you can do with Google-Tip of the day-many with short videos demoing the tip. I added the gadget to my iGoogle homepage.

Free online software to design yearbooks that can be printed or you can pay for them to print books.

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!

Great tool that lets you draw on your webpages - insert text comments & arrows - and you can publish the pages if you like. Nice freeware app. Simply drag an icon to the bookmark's toolbar.

Great tips to helping thin your Inbox. "While lots of newsletters and mailing lists fall into the "spam" category, sometimes you want to read them but don't want them cluttering up your inbox. Filter them out in Gmail by including these oft-used phrases." Also read the post comments for another great way to subscribe to things and not have them end up in your Inbox.

What it is: Join Me is an incredibly simple way to share your computer screen with others. It works on both Windows and Mac allowing you to share your screen (and whatever is on it instantly). The simplicity of this site is brilliant. If you have even a sparkle of being a "techie" among family, colleagues, or friends, you most likely get regular phone calls asking for your help with something. The problem: those asking the question don't usually know enough to accurately articulate what their hang up is. Join Me is a simple solution, it lets you share screens so that you can see what the problem is and walk them step by step through the solution. Join Me is also great for the classroom, it lets students and teachers quickly share their screens for instant collaboration, feedback, or virtual meetings.

"A Googleaholic's Guide to all things gmail" - if you can't use Google Apps for Education and give students an email address, here is a creative use of gmail to do that so students can register and login to different applicaitons.

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.

Very cool visual dictionary/thesaurus. I'm going to use it with my 3rd grade class from time to time. I think it would serve older students very well.

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.

Math videos - Algebra, Calculus, Algebra 2, graphing calculator, etc. Another great resource for math students. Add them to Khan Academy and you have quite a number of math screencasts.

Great open source drawing program for most OS platforms. Well recommended by my Twitter PLN.

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."

Dushare is an incredibly easy way to share files. Dushare lets you transfer files via a web browser as fast as you can upload. The site could not be easier to use, just pick your file, decide if you want it password protected to download, and then share the file. Dushare requires NO login or registration, it really is simple to use! I like that the URL for sharing is very short. This is for quick sending of files, and unlike Drop.io or Dropbox, doesn't store a group of files.

Helpful chart to compare/contrast each tool

Shelley Terrell pulls together some great Skype resources. The embedded video is amazing on the how to of using Skype.

"Welcome to the ultimate guide to YouTube. Unless you've been living under rock throughout the 'Noughties' YouTube is quite simply the world's largest collection of video content and as an educator it is an amazing resource that you SHOULD NOT be without."

These are good tools for any admin. Haven't had any experience yet with Microsoft Live Writer, but will be looking into it.