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Free stock photo search engine.  Good place to start for images.

Twine is a free tool for creating branching e-learning scenarios. It has a flowchart and a storyediting mode, and besides adding links, images, etc. you can manipulate the HTML code for further customization.

MANY alternatives and sources for educational video content beyond YouTube.  Great list.

Online Schools is education made fun. We're a bunch of guys who spend our free time trying to come up with informative and engaging informational graphics. Great source for aesthetically pleasing, student friendly display of facts and concepts. Brainstorm: Would this make sense in a Prezi? PPT with sliding transitions? Or?

Brainshark, a way to upload and annotate presentations, has a free android app.  Worth exploring!

If It Was My Home is a simple site that allows you to quickly compare the current size of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill to your city, county, state, or country. Uses standard Google Maps interface.

I'm not sure if CLRN is living up to its potential, but this website has links to many electronic resources, electronic textbooks, media reviews, and other information for educators. It is worth checking out!

Kelly, this looks very interesting. There are a few resources in the Visual and Performing Arts section that I think I could use. I'm still not clear on whether this is a free or pay-as-you go resource but I am going to sign up for their "trial account".

After using this tool in my internship at Cricket and in creating learning interventions for Marcie's class, I have found that it is truly a versatile and easy-to-learn too. I suggest you check out the free 30-day trial.

I think many of us have had the experience of needing to send a file that is just too large. This is a free service that does it for you. I found this very helpful when I needed to send out an eLearning module that was just too big (even when zipped).

This is great information, thanks so much Amy!

This site allow teachers to create modules for students to listen to, look at and/or read. Once they do that they record an audio response. This is great for ESL and World Language teachers. It has a limited free account and the paid account is very reasonable.

#edtec572 This screencast movie shows how to access the free materials archived by Google. This can be useful for research.

Even stuffy ivy league universities are seeing the value of adding social media classes to their MBA programs to encourage new business models. Part of this is a reaction to some embarrassing errors made by major corporations: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/education/31iht-riedmba.html

Thanks for posting this Cathy! Ken and I were having a difficult time finding images that were free to use in education. We did not want to find ourselves using materials without permission. Thanks for the post!

Quick of overview of Google Apps for Educators. Good beginning article with links.

robust animation browser-based program.  Can create characters, sets, animate and add own images and sound tracks (up to 4 tracks). Easily embed in websites, Facebook, Twitter.

If you need to test web-based training for SCORM compliance before a launch, or just want to share a SCORM based course, this is a free tool that will let you invite up to 10 users to view a course. You can then track their score, etc.

This Cloud is inspiring!

This is a youth publishing site that provides young writers and illustrators with an online method for sharing their work with others. LaunchPad is different from other publishing sites in that submissions are accepted free of charge, which also means there is no physical book produced. There is also an editorial team that reviews each submission and only accepts those they deem worthy. The submission process is very easy, consisting of filling out a handful of informational boxes and uploading the doc or image file. Students are required to provide a parent's email address as a security method. This is a great site to share with your students, especially for those interested in writing!