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Chatzy is a free private chat service which you can use to communicate with people you already know or people who visits your blog or website. With Chatzy you can create a chatroom and send out email invitations very quickly and easily. No registration is required.

Shmoop offers teachers a place where they can collaborate with fellow teachers online as well as find educational support services for students, teachers, parents, and districts.

This is a blog by the Technology Direct at College Community School District, Craig Barnum in Cedar Rapids, IA. He posts great ideas for curriculum ideas, digital literacy tools, and other content ideas for teachers, parents, and staff.

A mind-mapping service with 1.5 million users and more than 3 million mind maps.

I have used bubbl.us in the classroom before for brainstorming activities. The part that I don't like about it is having to sign up and then you are actually limited on the free account. This is definitely program for student use. I really do enjoy this program, but with 1:1 iPads, we went with Inspiration instead.

Check out all Angela has to offer with digital learning.

I've had the privilege to work with Angela in a previous job as part of our science department professional development. Her work is meant mostly for teachers to help them with digital learning in the classroom. I do wish she would update her work more often.

This is a type of presentation service that would be great for digital story telling. It is more exciting than your traditional powerpoint and provides a more visual way for students to present ideas.

Prezi is an excellent presentation tool for both students AND teachers. Many other storytelling aids exist (and there's always PowerPoint), but all the ones I've seen are simply copycats of Prezi. Hand's down, Prezi is the gold standard in Web 2.0 presentationmaking.

My students love viewing content through prezi rather than ppt! I need to expand it to student use next year.

This will be helpful to read for my PLN to consider instructional technology.

Great blog to get technology lessons for teachers

This is an easy places to check up on either monthly or weekly for new ideas and resources. Free is always good!