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Dear Educators, With this webcasting tool, you can connect live face to face with anyone, anywhere, anytime.....family, friends, students, teachers, colleagues, administrative groups, principals meetings, etc. without having to travel. You can even promote world peace by connecting with teachers and students in their classrooms worldwide and learning more about each other's country and culture The tools for your use include the ability to have live video chat, make PowerPoint presentations, stream video, share your desktop, record and share your presentation, and much more. Guests do not have to download any software. They simply click on the link to your conference that you send them, no cost, no travel and better yet, no wasted time. This tool is affordable and easily fits into a classroom, school or administartive office budget. As a former superintendent in the education system with more than 50 schools spread out 400 miles along a major highway, the ability to communicate with everyone in an efficient, effective and economical manner was essential. Hope you find this helpful. Best wishes, Barry

It's about the learning not the tools, but how do we find the balance when helping teachers that are new to the tools?

Lots and lots of online tools, activities, and concepts for technology integration throughout the curriculum.  Lists of very well organized links to a variety of resources including differentiation, digital ethics, 21st Century Learning, digital tools, graphic organizers and many more

If one is constantly searching for new education websites, as I am, this is a handy tool to use before opening that site.

Microsoft's free online course builder.

HTML 5 online drawing tool, works w/out flash 2010

I am convinced that the power is IN THE SOFTWARE. But not the software itself, but how it is used as a tool to present the lesson in a new way, for a different learning style, for access outside of the classroom.

Description: A collection of tutorials on Web 2.0 technology tools such as Google Docs, Wikispaces, Ning, VoiceThread, Diigo and Delicious.

Simple and easy online multi user whiteboard, start skrbl, give out your URL & start working together. Sketch, text, share files, upload pictures all in one common shared space. There are no new tools to learn, nothing to download, nothing to install. Brainstorm on our simple whiteboard to start thinking together, everyone sees the same screen, everybody gets on the same page

"If we change the vocabulary and consider schools as learning environments, however, it makes no sense to talk about them being broken because environments don't break." Of course we currently aren't using technology to create learning environments at best we're embedding them into our current system.

Cool infographic database to search. Can use some as conversation starters in the class. Also has a tool to create your own. Can use with students to create inforgraphics.

Here is the lifehacker pack of tools - suggested by Lifehacker and installed at once by NiNite.

record a screencast directly from you browser

Easy Screencasting tool. This is super simple and from camtasia. WOW!

Cool free screencasting tool.

Ponoko-design-technology-teachers-take-note

The free tool, called Your Privacy Type, requires you to take a brief quiz. Microsoft uses your answers to categorize how much you may, or may not, be concerned about online privacy. The supporting website supplies guidance on how to more proactively gain some measure of privacy.

Lately my thoughts and efforts are shifting from figuring out how to get educators familiar and comfortable enough to use technology, as just another teaching tool to how to change or facilitate a shift of a school's culture into a learning community.