Picnik photo editor is closing in April and the premium features are free until then.

This report analyzes key drivers that will reshape the landscape of work and identifies key work skills needed in the next 10 years.

Feb29th.net is a global blogging project that will cross all age groups and continents. As soon as Feb 29th 2012 begins in Tonga, the Feb29th.net will open up for posts for one day only.

Ombudsman report regarding the Ultranet (p. 93). Some interesting points such as a recommendation to update it every 5 years(!) and it costing $100 million to keep it going for 10 more years.

A tool to check whether a website is down for everyone or just you. Very handy!

Free universally recognised signs and symbols to download.

A new tool to organise student goals. Similar intuitive layout to Facebook, you can set goals for students, have other teachers set goals for the same student and invite parents to view progress. In beta but looks useful!

Oomfo is a new (beta) add-on site for PowerPoint. Once Oomfo is downloaded users can then create excellent looking, interactive, animated graphs.

Site for creating collaborative videos. This is done by either choosing stock video or uploading your own and the editing the footage. A user has the ability to invite others to collaborate/edit a video as well.

BO.LT is a page-sharing platform that lets anyone instantly curate, promote, and share content by copying, editing, commenting on, endorsing, sharing, and socializing on webpages.

This tool could make sharing links with teachers or Twitter or sharing links with students more personalised and collaborative.

Some very interesting data from the US about what parents want in terms of communication (blogs, email etc).

Excellent resource for using Twitter in education

A fun post with trivia for students (or teachers).

"Stykz is the first multi-platform stick figure animation program" Similar to Pivot and free to download

"Spotlight takes some of the data from the last Census - conducted in 2006 - and turns it into a simple interactive movie, to show just a few of the interesting things that the Census can tell us about Australia's people and population. Once you've explored Spotlight, you can create an infographic of your own - a personalised snapshot of your own numbers that you can share with friends. "

Interesting read about social media being more media than social. True conversations don't happen in public online spaces.

Must read post about checking your digital footprint.

A curated Global Education site that will bring resources to educators to address global awareness, skills, literacies and competencies in their schools and classroom.

Free tool to use unlimited group texting via phones or the web.

Fantastic blog post about the "flipped classroom" or reverse instruction. Do your "learning" at night and "homework" during class time.