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I would use Office Live in my classroom by giving it to students as an option for completing their work collaboratively with other students from the comfort of their own home. I think that group work is key to helping students really grasp concepts and taking responsibility for portions of assignments so, while I would not use this as a platform for teaching or providing feedback, I would present this to my students who need a way to work together outside of school.

Somehow we have managed to successfully program our students/children to think that Math and fun don't mix. This app combines fun with space rockets and quick-thinking math skills. The better your student/child does on the challenges, the more "money" he/she earns to upgrade their rockets. This would be a great app to use in the classroom to help review math operations, and still motivate the students to accomplish something and they can see their progress through how much money they have earned or by how fancy their rocket is.

NSTEP Study Buddy is a student-to-student math tutoring service that is freely available to students who have been been qualified through their school or after school program to receive the tutoring services, or who qualify under the national school lunch program or whose households receive food stamps. This is a tremendous example of community service that benefits many. The disadvantaged getting the opportunity and support to realize, or even surpass their potential, and the volunteer tutors get the reward of contributing to the success of their fellow world citizen.

This site allows for students to collaborate with other on a website. Students can ask ask other questions and answer those, allow who you want and it has great setting for students.

Very easy and simple tool to use. Yu or your students design the story and the artwork is provided. Great tool to use as a final project at the end of the year to check on the students writting skills in English or any other second language (ESL).

This site is aval. to have students make a funny story with searching in a Google search engine. The students can have a lot of fun.

Although I don't plan on using any sort of podcasting in my classroom as a mode of instruction, I might consider using it as a way for students to make up missed lectures or instruction. This would hopefully help students reduce stress in that they would know that if they miss class, important information can be caught up online through listening to my podcast.

I would use this in my Spanish classroom by having students build a version of themselves and then have them describe their characteristics & features using adjectives and animal names in Spanish. This is a great way to allow students to open up and create a fun character version of themselves. This could be used as a cross-curricular project involving science and genetics.

This is a great tool for adults looking for a safe way to let their children or students browse the web. This Internet browser (from the makers of Firefox) lets parents rest assured that their kids are safe online and lets teachers rest assured that their students are not being inundated with falsified or inappropriate information.

"NoteMesh is like Wikipedia for your [class] notes". This service makes it possible for students in the same class (created in NoteMesh) to aggregate their notes. If users want to start a class, they just complete a form and NoteMesh creates a wiki page for the class. students who add the class to their roster could post notes to the wiki. Ultimately, you "collaborate to graduate".

This is more for teachers. Users can collect, analyze and weight information about many other products, services, etc. It helps the higher education community make better choices in course management systems, student services, and e-learning policies.

Teachers are able to set up blogs for their students in a safe environment so their students can blog about anything.

NEATO! In most classrooms the teacher will find podcast episodes for students to listen to or watch. Sets of laptops, iPods, netbooks or other devices can be loaded with podcast episodes so students can use them at their desks, on field trips, in the library, or at home.

The downside about WebspirationPRO is that you need to purchase a subscription or you can download a 30 day trial. Overall mindmapping is a useful tool for Professionals and all students (K-college). Professionals and students can brainstorm, develop ideas and express their thinking with visual mapping techniques such as webs, bubble diagrams, concept maps and idea maps.

My students can finish their lab report together. The students can add info as they need to at the same time as their peers to allow more time for other things.

Mindomo is a versatile Web-based mind mapping tool, delivering the capabilities of desktop mind mapping software in a Web browser - with no complex software to install or maintain. Create, edit mind maps, and share them with your colleagues or your friends.

I would use this tool, MindOMO, in my Spanish classroom because I would use it to have student link key grammar concepts or vocabulary words together. This would help them see how grammar concepts in Spanish are intermingled and therefore it would help them get a better grasp on the language.

Similar to YouTube but education oriented. I found some interesting videos on here but I have found the equivalent YouTube videos to have better production values.

It's YoutTube for Teachers!!! TeacherTube is a service that allows users, mostly educators to share educational resources (documents, images, audio & video files) for free. The sites has resources for classroom use, professional development, and even have some posted by students.

The format is just like Facebook, but it offers blogs, adding courses you teach, grades, allows comments on each students, tracks attendance, etc. Great tool to use as a teacher or school administrator.

This is a great tool to prepare quizzes, or create practice exercises to help students prepare for exams. It has six applications. Allows you to make interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the Web. It is not an open source.