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"I don't know about you, but I use my inbox as a virtual piece of string to remind myself about important things I need to do. This site lets you send a 'time-capsule' email which will be delivered on a day you choose in the future. Use the site to send reminders to colleagues, students and to yourself. Ask your students to send themselves emails with their targets and goals at suitable points throughout the school year."

"In the virtual world, the definition of a student-teacher relationship is hazy, particularly on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, where adults and teens share the same forums to connect and keep in touch with friends, classmates, relatives, and co-workers. Chances are, your teen has already found her teachers on Facebook and sent friend requests to join their networks."

This site offers an easy way to create your own virtual flashcard to study anything. You can also use other users' cards or share your own to help students. It supports many non-European typing scripts, like simplified Chinese and Japanese to help learn languages. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

A fun music site where movements of your mouse creates a virtual stringed instrument performance. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

The Teacher Wall is a virtual town hall that gives teachers an opportunity to talk about the things that are most important to them--from challenges to "A-ha! moments," from lessons learned to job satisfaction, from curriculum to parent engagement. The topics tackled on the Teacher Wall showcase a wide range of voices and provide teachers with a chance to interact and share with one another, all while adding to the conversation on America's schools. Backed by the Gates Foundation. Go to the site and click on teacher wall to view some of the features before signing up.

An excellent adaptive learning site that provides online tutoring, interactive tools, and challenges in a fun and engaging way. Students need to use "yoops" (a virtual currency) to progress through activities. This does eventually require students to pay their way through the course as free yoops become increasingly difficult to acquire.. which is the largest drawback.

Flurrious is a superb site where you can make a virtual musical snowflake. Print or share it online. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Winter+%26+Christmas

Corkboard Me is a great site for posting messages online with virtual post it notes. Share the link to let others see. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

A nice site for younger children where you will find games, interactive stories, songs, virtual art creators and more. Free registration is required. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

This is a useful maths site for teaching place value to young children with virtual hundreds, tens and ones blocks. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

"add@getpocket.com" Take a link on any web site and send it by email to your Virtual Pocket.

Slides offers an interesting twist on the online presenter genre... literally. The presentation can roll in many directions like a virtual cube allowing multi-track presentations. The site uses html5, so it works on most computers and devices. Editing is simple and you can share or embed your creations easily. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

educational multi-user virtual game

Created by ETV for K-12 students, teachers, and parents, Knowitall.org is a free online collection of resources designed for classroom use. This educational web portal contains interactive sites, simulations, image collections, virtual field trips and streaming video that support and provide quality inquiry-based experiences for students on the Internet.

This site has virtual versions of handheld computer games from the past. It makes me feel very old. Some of these should be in a museum. Great when looking at the history of computing. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools

A good site for making music. Start the cyber beats and scratch virtual records to create unique sounds. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

A great animation site which makes cartoons from your virtual drawings. It has very few options and buttons which makes it easy to use by younger children. But don't think that it isn't sophisticated. It uses HTML5 and your cartoons will look great. sign up required to save your creations. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video,+animation,+film+&+Webcams

This site offers a unique way to make music with virtual beatboxing. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music,+Sound+&+Podcasts

This musical site gives you a virtual synthesiser to create wonderful tunes and sound effects on. It's easy to use and versatile. You can play the middle octave with your computer keyboard or plot the music along a timeline for greater accuracy. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts