Resources from Indiana University's ICY

If you're not an avid follower of #edchat on Twitter, you may be missing out on a great opportunity to learn about some new Web 2.0 tools that are currently being used in classrooms around the world. That's because @chickensaltash posed a simple question to the PLN and there has been a huge swell of support as hundreds of people have jumped in to answer the question about which 5 Web 2.0 tools teachers are using in classrooms.

Curate your own videos with this free service. Works with all popular video sites.

Reel helps you quickly create and share presentations. Each preso is stored online behind a unique URL, making it easy to poll your audience for their impressions.

Using Pearltrees you can bookmark websites and arrange your bookmarks into webs or mind-maps of related topics.

Handbrake is an open-source program (free) that converts video.It is available for PC, MAC and Linux platforms.

Survey results indicate several specific technologies as those that we should be investing in and focusing on if we want to effectively leverage technology in education.

"…students who do not have access to a computer at home tend to be lower achievers than the others and, secondly, it would also seem to  be the case that students using computers at home less often had below-average results."