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Free Online OCR is a free service that allows you to easily convert scanned documents, faxes, screenshots and photos into editable and searchable text, such as DOC, TXT or PDF.

Great list of 70+ Google Forms to instantly use  or tweak to best meet the needs of your students. Forms range in content from assessments to 'getting to know you'.

Google Cloud Connect is available in over 30 languages for PC's running Windows 7, Vista and XP. (Not available for Mac yet.) It integrators using Google Apps for domains should work on this over the summer.

A list of teen books and authors suggested by Plurk members in a thread started by @abuehl

A viewer for microsoft office docs that works with evernote on the android platform. Evernote has a ton of android apps that are being released from third party developers.

Our 6th grade collaborative project with a focus on global issues. We are looking for schools to join us with the hopes of working on some collaborative lyrics in Google Docs, remixing audio tracks shared between schools and possibly a skype session. We are running the project 5 times this year for 6 weeks at a time. Email me if you are interested i taking part at one point. jennifergarcia@abc-net.edu.sv

"Posted on August 1, 2011 by Claude Almansi In 2006, Copiepresse, the rights managing society of Belgian publishers of French- and German-language daily newspapers, sued Google about the snippets shown in Google News and about the cached versions displayed in Google Search. On May 5, 2011, a decision of the Brussels appeal court slightly reworded but basically confirmed the 2007 judgment of the first instance court : (...) This decision of the Brussels Court of Appeals is therefore important for legal studies: not only because of the doubt about what it actually ordered, but also because its long and detailed initial considerations illustrate several differences between the US and European legal cultures. Until recently, this decision was only available as a photographic PDF on Scribd. This meant that it was inaccessible to blind people and awkward to study for everybody. Fortunately, the BJ Institute of Hyderabad, India, has now made it available as accessible PDF and DOC files. This is the version I used for the above quotation. Thanks to the collaborators of the BJ Institute for their very accurate work."

Great user doc and tips for using dropbox with students.

The presentations on this site were originally inspired by Tom Barrett's 'Interesting Ways' presentations. These Google Docs presentations were created by Tom, with lots of contributions from the fantastic teachers who read his blog and are part of his Twitter network.

Awesome tutorial for administrators of the free SMF software. Do not copy and paste on this page, the server will ban you by IP address. Use the print links on the right hand side of the page in different parts of the site to print the pages correctly. Check out the second page also. This is most awesome and user friendly tutorial for installing and administration of the SMF software.

A list of all those "Interesting Ways to Use …" lists. Now you can know what to do with Google Docs, or Twitter, or …