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The website dipity is a great classroom tool for teachers. This site can be used by teachers and students to track projects, class assignments, and the school year. This site could also be used to track current events or for a school project of historical events.

This site was really fun and easy to use. This site will hep you remember things and share to others.

I found yodio.com for podcasting. This is a unique site in that you "call in" to record your podcasts and then can go back to add pictures. Not the best for making videos.

Online collaboration allows students or groups to work together without actually being face-to-face. Online collaboration keeps track of the most current version of a document and still has the previous versions available. This is a very efficient way for groups to work on documents together and keep track of changes and what is happening in a document.

This website appears to be a user friendly tool that would enable teachers (or anyone) to professionally produce diagrams, charts, graphs, and pictures. In my career, this would be a helpful tool for use in the classroom for both student interaction and setting up classroom rules and objectives.

WordPress is a user friendly website that allows even a novice blogger to blog like a champion. There is a very nice tutorial that will teach a user everything they need to know. WordPress allows users to include maps, pictures, videos, posts, discussions, polls, and much more!

Jumptags is a user friendly site that allows you to start using it's features quickly and easily.

Finally, Part 3 of the "Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0" series is here. During the last ...

Five minutes to creating your own online survey.

Gives Skype collaborative project links to existing projects.

September 2008 : THE Journal This article describes some great out-of-the box thinking towards the power of webconferencing through Skype's free videoconferencing.

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

Specific program links to collaborative documents given in this page. Check out the main domain (classroom20wiki.com) for a great site on other topics, as well.

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.

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

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

Mindmap Wikipedia Content WikiMindMap is a tool to browse easily and efficiently in Wiki content, inspired by the mindmap technique. Wiki pages in large public wiki's, such as wikipedia, have become rich and complex documents. Thus, it is not always straight forward to find the information you are really looking for. This tool aims to support users to get a good structured and easy understandable overview of the topic you are looking for.

Visual Thinking Evolution Wise Mapping is the web mind mapping tool that leverages the power of Mind Maps using new technologies like vectorial languages (SVG and VML). No pluggin required.

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.