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Seems like something that would be great for the business world but not something I would necessarily enjoy using in the classroom.

Similar to Facebook. It is a mashup application that combines a search engine that can be based on your personal interest and preference along with social networking.

Mixbook is a free service that allows users to create online photo books, cards and calendars. It comes with a set of design templates, but the user can create their own using the available design tools. Users can invite others to collaborate on the production of these online projects. Mixbook is mashed-up with sites like Facebook, Flickr and Picasa, so users can easily user their photos from these sites too. There's also a Mixbook Education program where students and teachers have free access to collaborative classroom tools, in a secure online environment and receive discounts on printed products.

Students are allowed to make their own mini movies.

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

Zoomerang is an online polling & surveying site. The basic, aka free, account allows you to create an unlimited number of surveys & polls, each having up to 12 questions, and 100 responses. Results can be viewed in real-time. This is ideal for surveying small population like a class or grade level in a school, or even as a virtual testing/quizzing tool!

Teachers may go here and use preloaded tests or upload their own for students use.

Final Site is a program used to design web sites for schools that the school has complete control over.

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

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 product is fabulous! I cannot say enough cool things about this toolbar. You highlight, put Post Its on it, change the colors of text and after you do all that they make a legend that explains the different colors and what you are trying to do.

May be useful but you will have to figure it out.This is not idiot proof.The site allows you to build everything from personal blogs to enterprise applications. Thousands of add-on modules and designs let you build any site you can imagine.

School must register but it provides TAKs based questions to make tests to print or do online.

This product will be useful to share with parents. There is not a need for it in my schooling environment because we have security plans in place already. It protects the students on the internet.

Record you voice on anything! Great product.

No downloads are required. Take all your notes directly using UberNote--there's no limit on the number of notes or amount of space you can use. The notes are then saved automatically, and accessible from any computer.

Spinscape is a Web based application you use to find, organize, and share information on any topic

ScribLink is a free online, Java based whiteboard tool that users can share in real-time. When you go to the site, a whiteboard is automatically loaded for you to use, so there's not even a need to register. The user invites others to collaborate on the whiteboard, and it's even possible to save print or even email the work. The tool also has a built in chat too, and voice over IP conferencing - so talk for free as long as you want!!! ScribLink also allow users to transfer files to each other, and now there's even an iPhone group messaging app.

Delicious, as the sort of "grandfather" of social bookmarking sites, is a great resource if you 1) have friends or people that you'd want to share bookmarks with...2) you don't mind a monochromatic theme... I actually really like Delicious BUT sometimes, my eyes go crazy because of the plain old black and white theme...I think that makes it hard to find information. I also really like that the website streams the most recent and most popular bookmarked websites...

Technorati, a mashup of th words technology and literati, is a search engine designed specifically for searing blogs. Basically, it tracks and links to the top blogs, posts, and tags. The site also has many channels which feature columns that cover specific niches of the blogosphere and news. The service uses and contributes to open source software.