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...and this is related to education how, exactly...?

"«The service goes beyond the basic spell check and grammar check built into the word processor, as Grammarly can identify correctly spelled words that are used in the wrong context.»"

Free instant online crossword puzzle maker--quickly make crossword puzzles using your words!

If you are looking for instant feedback...here it is. FREE ACTIVE POLLING using something most students have, a cellphone!

Free, Instant, Mobile. SMS communications tool for college students.

getting started with photography by Diane Cordell Excellent!

Nice alternative to Skype, especially as Skype begins charging for multiple participant video chat. Communicate using 8-way Voice, 4-way Video, Instant messaging (Facebook, MySpace, MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, Jabber, GTalk and iChat). Transfer files at any size. Remote PC Access. Share files, photos, documents, and stream music to anyone anywhere.

140 characters (teach them how to tweet) instant back channel option without sign in

Excellent resource for students - spreadsheet + targetmap = instant A

Instant Poetry Forms

The purpose of this project is to create a free, open simple dictionary for students to use. This dictionary will ultimately be published in a variety of formats and for multiple platforms. To add to this project, find a word you'd like to write a definition for or click "Instant Karma" for a random word. Please consult the style guidelines for editorial information.

This week Skype and Facebook teamed up to offer a seemingly natural integration between their respective platforms. In Facebook you can now make video calls, and in Skype you can now post updates to your wall, instant message your friends, 'Like' comments and more. Here's how it works.

A great space science flash site where you can make your own planet and look at stats for some real planets. Click the camera icon to download your planet for an instant piece of science work that is out of this world. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

NetTrekker PD article for discussion

Create an ebook from a group of webpages. Send to Kindle, iPad/iPod, or download as an epub (for Nooks and other readers).

This site lets you bundle web pages for mobile devices

Take any bunch of web pages and turn them into an e-book. gone are the days when you photocopy readers. Now, e-publish! Weightless, instant, and free!

"When I observe teachers, I see one small, specific problem more often than anything else. If they fixed it, they would notice an instant difference in how well their classes go." - check out the solution

This has got to be the funkiest instant poll, quiz, response site around. Create questions, quizzes and polls with optional uploaded images for participants to complete in real time from a computer or mobile device. The users access the quiz by using a pin code. The 'question master' gets the data back instantly and it is stored on the site or can be downloaded. This is superb for checking the knowledge of children in your class or that your audience is still awake.

I tried this recently and it was pretty great. The class was engaged, and I got some very good information about what they knew and did not know. Students commented things like, "Can we do this again?" and "We should do this every day."

search tool recommended by Juli during November learning PD day1, to have instant news and forums on particular topics, and use them in the classroom