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"Introducing Zoho Show 2.0: The online tool for making powerful presentations.Whether you are a professional, a teacher, a student, a businessman, a salesman or anyone looking to put together a cool presentation, you have come to the right place. Zoho Show's pre-built themes, clipart and shapes coupled with features like drag-and-drop makes it an easy application to use."

I have used and have seen this used. It is like a PowerPoint but web based. Presentations can be embedded.

Zoho provides an easy online word processor to create, connect, and collaborate.

"Skoolaborate is a global initiative uses a blend of technologies including, blogs, online learning, wiki's and 'virtual worlds' to transform learning. We aim to use these tools to provide engaging collaborative learning experiences for students aged between 13 and 18 years of age. We aim to learn how to use these blended experiences to make learning more meaningful and engaging. The projects we create will integrate curriculum and digital technologies into collaborative global actions. Our virtual learning space is secure and only accessible via invitation. Students from schools around the world are invited to participate. Initiated and manage by Westley Field at MLC School Sydney, Skoolaborate now has over 40 schools and organisations from Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Chile, Portugal, Canada, the UK and the USA."

"Alexa is a useful resource for people to discover information about websites. You can use Alexa to discover how popular a site is, to find new sites, to learn who owns a site and a lot more. Whether you are a web professional trying to size up your online competition or you're just trying to find the best website to buy a new TV"

Wikimedia commons provides pictures, sounds, and videos that can be used provided the user follows the commons licensing agreement. This is like creative commons.

SweetSites - High School Teachers is a collection of resources for numerous content areas.

"Welcome to Soundzabound™ - the ONLY royalty free music library which meets all the licensing and technology requirements needed for education! Soundzabound Music Library offers a wide variety of music, audio themes and sound effects for grades K -12 and universities that ensures your copyright safety. Perfect for podcasts, PowerPoint™, videos, news shows, video yearbooks, digital storytelling, presentations, TV broadcasts, web design and more!"

"TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format. We offer our own professional and classroom-ready content along with thousands of reviewed web resources, including practical ideas for classroom use and safe classroom use of Web 2.0 . Busy teachers, parents, and students can find resources using our subject/grade level search, keyword search, or extensive menus."

Teacher's first look like an interesting place for teachers to locate a variety of resources for teaching. As you will see by the home page a corporate partner with this site is ISTE which is the International Society for Technology in Education.

"Welcome to Photo-notes.com ...a fun way to share your photos! A free service for generating PolaroidTM-like images and emailing them to family and friends!"

"The LF10 is a loose association of middle school students in undisclosed locations in cyberspace dedicated to promoting awareness of important academic terms and concepts through absurd stop-motion films"

I checkd out some of the videos the kids made. This looks really engaging. What a great way for kids to demonstrate their understanding.

I checked out some of the projects. What a great way for students to demonstrate understanding of a concept.

WEB 2.0 Guru provides LFS strategies enhanced with Integrated Technologies. These strategies will not only assist students with core content area proficienty but also 21st Century skills and NETS proficiencies.

Great wikispace with lots of integration strategies for Essential questions, vocab activities, activating strategies, teaching strategies, summarizing activities, and extending and refining learning.

Karen Sipe shared this wiki with resources for LFS.

Math Warehouse provides interactive max examples on a variety of math topics for algebra and geometry.

Looks like a good resource for students to know about.

SoftSchools.com provides free math worksheets, free math games, grammar quizzes and free phonics worksheets and games. Worksheets and games are organized by grades and topics. These printable math and phonics worksheets are auto generated.

Origami for kids. There are lots of free ideas from a variety of categories with instructions on how to create with paper.\n\n

"TheHomeworkZone provides teachers with a FREE, simple-to-use and easily editable classroom web site . Quickly post assignments, test dates, study guides, printable worksheets, events, announcements, and custom web pages to the internet."

Thought I would share for those who may not be moodlers yet but would like a way to share homework information.

Free clipart pictures. there are numerous categories.

Free drawing lessons. This site has step by step drawing lessons for a variety of topics.

A site to help kids learn to draw.

This site contains beginner math worksheets, advanced math worksheeets, spanish words, pre-school activities, time activities, geography activities and organization activities.

This site has a variety of connent area resources and activities.

This free math worksheets site has numerous math topics from basic math to advanced math. The printouts are in PDF format and in addition to the question sheet thee is an answer key.

numerous math topics to choose from on this site.