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Use the Draw Here bookmarklet to draw on top of web pages while you are browsing the web. If you save your drawings, other Draw Here users will then be able to see your drawings when they go to the same page.

As Easy as Drawing Tersus makes it easy to create AJAX web applications. To develop an application with Tersus, just draw a diagram of your application. The Tersus Server will automatically execute the diagrams, taking care of all that is required to "bring your application to life".

Manage all your ideas, whether alone, twosome or working together with the whole world - collaborative, browser-based and for free.

Search tracks by various types of music for 30 second to 3 minutes or more audio tracks for your podcasts and more.

create your blog and have access to a set of tools including the "Hot Page" which showcases popular blog entries and the use of AJAX to lessen load time

ToonDoo is a cool, comic-creating tool. ToonDoo is a unique place for free and customizable online games of educational value for children of all abilities. You can now just drag-drop or click to create comic strips that express your views, opinions, angst or to just have fun.

Here, you can create websites that mix all the best features of wikis, social networks, blogs, and message boards into a rich, user-generated community based around the whatever-it-is that rocks your socks. A social website that's so easy to use, anyone can participate.

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.

In this tutorial we illustrate how to build a very cool button ideal for your web 2.0 website or blog. The steps are very simple and in less the 10 minutes you can obtain the graphics in the above images.

Dropbox is an easy way to share files and to back them up. You can access your docs on any computer even without the software installed. You can send an invite to share access to specific folders or files to allow collaboration. It works on multiple platforms including iPad/Pod/Phone, PC, MAC, Android, Linux, and Blackberry

A free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily with others.

Parental controls you download on to your computer. You can monitor where your child goes as well as block.

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.

Five minutes to creating your own online survey.

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).

Flickr is a website for storing and displaying digital imagery though it is mostly geared to photography. You can create sets of your own imagery or collect other photographer's photos in galleries. Has many other uses as well. Too numerous to list here.

This is an easy tool to create movies where you can use your pictures or insert from the internet and put it to music. You can stretch and work with the timing or have it done automatically. This is a must do.

This is a fantastic site for creating word clouds and it allows you to select the shape and change many different options within your project. This is a very easy tool to use.

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.

Great site very easy way for the students to make their own comic.