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Simple, Secure Sharing from Anywhere Box offers secure, scalable content-sharing that both users and IT love and adopt."

DimDim is a fairly new, streamlined online seminar application with support for chat, slide sharing, emoticons, white-boarding, VOIP voice conferencing and video conferencing. Only PC desktops can be shared, but DimDim supports Mac and Linux users for other features. Participants can enter meeting rooms using almost any system or browser, typically without a download. A free, ad-supported version allows up to 20 people to participate; a version without ads starts at $99 per year for up to 20 people.

Screenstream(www.nchsoftware.com/screen/). Free for anyone to use, Screenstream allows Windows PC presenters to share their desktop with participants on PCs, Macs or Linux, who view the desktop through a browser with no install required.

SymbalooEDU is FREE! Symbaloo is a simple start page that allows you to store and share all of your favorite bookmarks and resources visually. Organize websites, Google Docs, videos, lesson plans, and more! Create a free account and store your bookmarks in the cloud. Your resources will be available to you on any internet-connected device, from anywhere in the world! The Advantages of SymbalooEDU Save time by eliminating the need to type in web addresses Avoid typos in web addresses Use the Symbaloo Bookmarker to save your favorite sites with a single click! Share your page with colleagues, students, and friends Access Symbaloo on-the-go from your smartphone or tablet! No ads!

Yugma provides desktop sharing, chat and white-boarding. It also supports VOIP conferencing, including a feature that integrates seminars with Skype calls. Presenters can use PC, Macs or Linux. Participants can use almost any system or browser by downloading a Java applet. A free, limited-functionality version allows up to 10 people to participate; more feature-rich versions start at about $200 per year for up to 20 people

Case study of a School who used Google Hangouts for teacher observations. Summary of "pros" follows: "Maynard, the observing teacher in whose class Grubb worked, believes Google+ Hangouts offers a lot of potential for student teachers. "They could sit down with professors and supervising teachers and analyze lessons much easier," she says. "I like how multiple people can be invited as well. In the past there has been just one professor from the university sitting in the classroom observing." With Hangouts, multiple people could participate in the observation--including other student teachers. Plus, she added, the recordings could be useful for new teachers; they could simply take it to a job interview and share it. "That could be a huge part of interviews in the future.""

"When most of us think of Pinterest, we probably think of young people sharing links to web pages, photos and videos with their friends - just another social network for people to show off things they like, what's going on in their lives, favorite video's, and so on. But how often do we consider Pinterest as a tool to aid in teaching and learning? Here are a few ways in which Pinterest can play a role in the classroom."

"So you're managing digital projects but don't know your from your ? Do you ever need to just change something small but can't wait for the geeks to sort it out for you? We know that feeling! That's why we made this cheat sheet for ourselves and we thought we'd share it… Enjoy!"

Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best. You can create bookshelves and embed them on your site which provides a very pleasing format for users to access.

"Easy-to-use graphic organizer with lots of templates help you organize, visualize, plan, create and share graphic organizers and diagrams."

While focused more on desktop support situations, TeamViewer allows presenters to share PC or Mac desktops with participants on PCs or Macs. Both presenters and viewers must download and install an application-making it more appropriate for internal teams than more public situations. A free version of the tool is available for private use; otherwise it starts at about $250 for six months.

Tellagami (rhymes with origami) is a quick and easy way to create and share a short story called a Gami.

Tableau is desktop-based data visualization software used by many large companies and media properties to create sophisticated visual representations of large datasets. They have now released Tableau Public, a free web-based tool that allows users to create and share interactive charts. The catch is that there is no ability to create private visualizations - all data that you upload to the Tableau Public site is publicly accessible to anyone on the web, and anyone can download the workbook (and underlying data) that you are displaying. The site has active forums, and is full of helpful information for people trying to get a handle on data visualization best practices.

From Nicole Ellison: Perspective is a platform for exploring, creating, and sharing audiovisual stories with data. Today's storytelling involves a mishmash of apps, websites, blog tools, and technologies. Perspective simplifies all this by combining the essential elements of storytelling into a single iPad App.

Yokto allows you to collect your videos in individual video players for every topic you need. They can be embedded in your website for you and the students to access.

A simple tool that enables you to create images of quotes

Can use to create voice recordings