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Has to be seen to be believed.

Excellent productivity and collaboration applications. One of the great things about opening a Zoho account is that you can access your documents from any computer, anywhere.

Google apps offers something similar. I use i google the same way. I would like to add these kinds of collections to my list of proposal topics. They are very easy to use, not intimidating and really add to ones productivity. I've even had my students create igoogle accounts with different tabs for L/W/R pronunciation and vocabulary. It gives them a little ownership and something they can continue to use after the program/course has ended.

Wordle is fun but how do you use it in the classroom?

I think that it would be good for pre-reading activities (eg. predicting, introduction of vocab etc). It may also be good for writing if you give students the words and they have to make a story from them... It could be a game...first team to write a paragraph, story (correctly), using the most words etc... Fun, fun, Fun!

At a loss as to what to do with Youtube? From Adobe AIR apps that let you download videos to Firefox extensions that protect you from RickRolls, here are over 100 tools to enhance your YouTube experience.

Do you remember the days when you actually had to format a bibliography? Well, here's a site that does it for you... just add the information and you can generate a printable, perfectly formated bibliography for every possible resource.

This may seem like a farfetched idea, but creating your own podcasts is an option in your lesson planning. This website provides, in great detail, information about how to do so. If you're not too intimidated by the technology, podcasts are a great language learning tool.