"This is a guest post from Karen Schweitzer. Karen writes about online colleges at OnlineColleges.net. Productivity has to be priority number one when you're a student. Between class, study time, and extracurricular activities, there just aren't enough hours in the day. That's why free web apps exist. These no-cost products are specifically designed to make your life easier and less stressful. Some have been around for years and others are relatively new-but they will all do their part to boost your productivity. Here are 20 free web apps that every student can use: "

Tons of storyboard templates to choose from.

"Met Any Good Authors Lately? Classroom author visits can happen via Skype (here's a list of those who do it for free)"

Photo-editing, logos, web templates, filters, color palettes, screen cap[ture and more.... Aviary is on a mission to make creation accessible to artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing. We're a privately held company currently headquartered in Long Island, NY, with team members around the world. Our founders also created Worth1000.com, a talented community of 500,000 digital artists that participate in amazing daily contests.

Good presentation, lots to learn here and twitter and teachers

Vermont educators/students take National Ed. Tech Standards for students--who will be tested on these skills--and create "verbal pictures" for each grade level on a wiki

Today's school curriculum presents students with assignments that lack a real-world context and activities that lead to uninspired projects and end in a letter grade. Many students either learn to do just enough to get by or they lose interest and drop out. In this interconnected world, with ubiquitous access to powerful technology and access to a worldwide community, new models of teaching and learning are possible.

Kevin Honeycutt, I Need My teachers to learn: check this out. The last ten days were a blur. I started in the Chicago suburbs and did a staff development day at a good friends school. I swung by the ICE conference and hung out with friends. Later I stayed with a friend and his family and colored pictures and made music with his kiddos. Next I did online safety presentations for kids and parents int he same location and it was off to Raleigh NC. Starbuck, my dog was with me for the first leg of the journey. Once in Raleigh, I spent three days at the NCTIES conference. I presented and met wonderful teachers but soon it was off to Monroe Louisiana. I spent the day with lots of educators and ate gumbo for lumch. It was goooood gumbo! Finally I traveled home and it was great to see my family again!

Do you plick? - Upload your slides - Sync with audio - Share with your friends

"1,000 IDEAS & ACTIVITIES FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS"

"Although search engines provide a great starting point when you're searching for someone online, with all of the new social sites that have popped up over the past few years, they're often just not enough. In our recent State of Blog Search 2009 post we discussed the various reasons you may choose to use any or all of the following blog search tools: Technorati, Google Blog Search, Ice Rocket, Ask.com Blogsearch, and FriendFeed. While these blog search engines are great to fill specific needs, they're also another great place to look for your footprints on the Web. "

Hybdreds of Educational Websites Rated by popularity, Reading, Math, Science, Social Studies, Writing Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Activities, Clip Art and more.

My goal is to create the ultimate teacher resource that is free for everyone! Have Fun Teaching is updated on a daily basis with new worksheets, songs, videos, flash cards, coloring pages, fun activities and blog articles released every day. Unlike other web sites for teachers, Have Fun Teaching is created by a teacher and it offers high quality songs for learning with content-rich lyrics for kids. HaveFunTeaching.com specializes in fun worksheets, coloring pages, songs for kids, educational videos, fun activities, and teacher tools. ColorMeGood.com is another website that I have created that offers over 6,000 free printable coloring pages for kids! This is the largest selection of coloring pages online with thousands of high quality, full-page coloring pages.

New version of I Need My Teachers to Learn. Check it out.

"Check out this video- based off the flashmob Oprah/Black Eyed Peas show!!!! "

Turn your Animoto videos into beautiful, crisp productions, then play, share, and download your hi-res videos

Playground Seussville, featuring characters from Horton Hears a Who!!

"Educators are crossing a new social-media minefield that can explode with 1 wrong text message or Facebook entry."