One of the first cell phone polling student response sites. Can use with SMS, smart phone not needed. Free and paid accounts. "Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print - anywhere. And because it works internationally with texting, web, or Twitter, its simplicity and flexibility are earning rave reviews."

Another substitute to try for "clickers" like Poll Everywhere. "Students answer polls or assessments from any device with Via Connect™. Instructors can launch polls from many devices such as: iPhone®, iPad®, Android®, Kindle®, Nook®, Laptop, Lectern Computer. No Limits."

Use with smartphone or any connected device - free. Supports many quiz types and polls. Has anyone used it? How does it compare to Poll Anywhere? Can email responses to excel.

Kathy Schrock provides infographic images containing lots of apps - updated May 2012 - "Each of the images has clickable hotspots and includes suggestions for iPad, Google, Android, and Web 2.0 applications to support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy."

Free converter will convert lots of kinds of files - image, audio, video, ebook, etc. - into other kinds of files. Looks great but haven't tried it yet. Reply to this if you've used it!

The Daring Librarian presents a number of comic tutorials - poster size introductions to QR codes, Twitter and much more. 34 in this set. Cool!

Article offering alternatives to Dropbox.as well as Dropbox refresher info -"The recent security snafu at Dropbox, which left files unprotected for four hours, has us looking at alternatives to the popular file-sharing service. We rounded up a few of the best, current cloud file storage options and compared them based on ease of use, storage capacity, and cost. "

Rich collections of links to free materials, great websites by academic subject and by technology tool. Topics in technology tools include iPod/iPad apps, cameras/video tools as well as Skype and website building.

Learning object repository in KY. "About" contains great PPT/Flash explanation of how a learning object repository works. 30 day guest membership available

Application lets you joing an online meeting from smartphone /tablet/whatever. We have been talking about web conferencing/meeting/learning in the Let's Talk Technology group for the past 2 months. Ran across this in the Android Marketplace today. Reviewers love it but seems to need 4G to work - something to watch in the future.

Looks awesome...and free! Anyone familiar with this? "TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th grade standards. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for school librarians and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students. There is no charge for using TRAILS."

Free Info Literacy assessment

"ImgOps is a meta-tool that lets you quickly apply many online image utilities to an image. " enter the url of an image and you can edit, add effects, convert format and other stuff. You can also add their bookmarklet or just insert http://imgops.com/ in front of an image's url

Larry Falazzo's blog page has extensive list of sites for free images to use in blogs and school proijects.

Story from PRI's "The World" radio program

according to About all images are public domain! Has some art not found at Microsoft

Looks like a useful guide!

Interesting presentation of WWII on Facebook - who would have thought?

Conference that took place July 20-23, 2010

Streamed sessions require Microsoft Silverlight (download available at the site)

"Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts. Cacoo can be used free of charge." Requires registration.

"Cacoo supports real time collaboration. Multiple users can simultaneously edit and complete a single diagram."

My favorite part of this was the "Facebook 'Like'" button at the top of the page! Lots of good references at the bottom of the article