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Great tool.  Put in a video and it analyzes the motion from that video. 

PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.

applicationMyna, an audio recording and editing tool, is the latest addition to the Aviary family of web applications, a suite of image creation and editing web applications which allow you to manipulate images to very high standard within your browser.

 I believe "iFake Text" is a great example of  a simple tool that can allow your students to show what they know in a unique or novel way by emulating a text message conversation on an iPhone. Tammy Worcester

We have developped a useful free tool to integrate to your browser: the Ant Video Downloader. It is based on the growing demand from internet users to be able to download the videos they can watch on popular sites such as YouTube, Google Video, Daily Motion , etc.

Read Write Think offers a free program called the Profile Publisher. Profile Publisher allows students to create and print mock-ups of social network profiles. Students can create profiles for themselves of for fictional characters. Profile Publisher includes fields for "about me," "blog posts," "interests," and all of the other profile fields typically found on a social network. Completed profiles can be printed.

A tool for merging multiple RSS feeds into one feed.  Great for collecting a bunch of feeds to share with a group.

So often when we talk about schools, students, parents and teachers, we discuss things in arm-lengths type of way. We discuss how they need to have richer and more meaningful learning experiences, how we need to provide them with the opportunities to use the technological tools in authentic learning experiences. What we don't discuss is how schools need to be places of living not just of learning. They need to be places of community where children can experience life-lessons not just academic lessons. The story that follows is about one such event that took place at our school this past year.

Oh yeah.  This looks like a great tool for a BYOB classroom.  The IWB may actually become interactive!

From google - a great reference tool that answers many questions one might have about the web.

The visuals provided in this post are excellent! "I usually try to explain and emphasize, that these skills are precisely what are being taught. We are not podcasting in order to teach Audacity nor Garageband. We are not recording students for the fun of using microphone, we are not blogging, so we can practice typing, we are not skyping for the purpose of using a webcam."