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Photos have all sorts of homes on the web: Instagram, Flickr, and Picasa, not to mention the images still on your camera or tucked away in your computer. Snapjoy (free) is a new web service that puts those pictures in one place. Import photos straight from Instagram, online albums, or your hard drive, and Snapjoy automatically rearranges them into a Timeline.

* It develops creativity and critical thinking * Students who are shy or afraid to talk in class get a chance to speak out their minds * It empowers students voice to deliver rich, deep message that is capable of conveying a powerful message. * It helps students explore the meaning of their own experience, give value to it, and communicate that experience with others. *It promotes the notions of life long learning and independent learning * It develops students communicative skills * It is a reflective process that helps students reflect upon their learning and find deep connections with the subject matter of a course or with an out-of-class experience. * It fosters students sense of individuality * It also gives students an opportunity to experiment with self-representation and establish their identity *Students creating digital stories develop proficiency with multimedia applications

"Citing resources is an important skill for the 21st century students and for any other learner or researcher. I have already included it in my ebook " The 21St Century Skills Teachers and Students Need to Have ". It is a fact universally acknowledged that citing resources nowadays is way harder than it used to be when technology was not a huge issue."

Kikutext is a service that aims at engaging parents and supporting students. It makes it easy for teachers to communicate with parents using text messaging so students perform better. Teachers can send individualized text message updates to every parent. Then, parents can instantly respond with questions by simply replying. This is a great free service to engage parents and help increase communication between the members of the class.

"PowerPoint® Presentations on the iPad Free. Easy to use. Powerful. Professional. SlideShark is the one and only app used to reliably and professionally show or view your PowerPoints on your iPad. Preserve animations, fonts, graphics and colors* Swipe to advance animations and slides Connect to a TV or projector"

Fab initiative from #NYR12 partner Australian Women Online - 4 free downloadable stories for parents & kids each month http://t.co/sLx9CLsB

Read Cube readcube.com/#features find references to scholarly articles in one place