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Bitly is a way to save and share links that also shortens the URL links that you share. Their blog is frequently updated with information on the multiple ways that bitly can be used to you advantage - this particular post goes over some basics of "bitmarks."

Create a course website with assignments, calendar, syllabus, and discussion tools.

"This official site of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. features links to each of the Smithsonian's museums and their exhibitions, as well as special online resources in art and design, history and culture, and science and technology." I love this site because the student can through this Site Search any branch of the Museum of Smithsonian. Also this site the student can identify and look at the audience and other cultures to recognize it at first hand. The teacher can use this site to explain other cultures and civilizations to be presented to students in an interesting way to increase the knowledge of students.

eInstruction Workspace (comes with the Mobi, but I use it all the time instead of PowerPoint) Livescribe Desktop (free, but without the pen there isn't much you can do) Animationish (not free, but the most fun art animation program I have ever seen!) Hyperstudio5 (not free, but worth the minimum price - much more creative than PPT!)

12 Resources All Social Studies Teachers Should Try

Technology lessons and ideas, as well as interactive whiteboard lessons, templates and subject specific material.

Most of the time, kids know more than their parents about the internet. It's important to protect our kids from the dangers that lie within internet usage. Great advice I will give to my parents at Technology Parent Night!

Tapestry helps seniors and their families stay connected. Tapestry is designed to be easy to use by anyone, no matter how familiar they are with technology.

Take classroom discussions online, where some students might feel freer and more comfortable in some ways to ask questions and respond to each other, and where there's no bell to end the discussion period. (Blog posts can even be made into a homework assignment - as an online journal of sorts - or part of a class participation requirement.)

A resource page for Educational Technology, I love this site, it provides practical learning for beginning French learners

Virtual Classroom Management is a collection of free online tools gathered by the Technology Resource Teachers of Frederick County, Maryland. Tools include timers, noise monitors, point trackers, random name generators, charts, and more. Online Stopwatch includes analog and digital timers as well as an egg timer, stopwatch (count up or down), talking clock, metronome, chess clock, an interval timer, and split lap timer.