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Freesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound today?

This a great tool that allows students to use it without a log-in, but allows them to identify themselves when entering to make it easier for you to see the contributions by all; all revisions are kept and the text is highlighted with a different color for each contributor

ScreenLeap...share your screen instantly. free and neat! http://t.co/QBTiZ9Xx #edtech

Share your screen instantly to any device with a browser.

iPhone app

3 education technology experts give advice on their 3 top web based tools.  Elluminate, Twitter, SlideRocket, Blogging, etc.  Tool recommendations come with ideas on implementations.  Quick read.

"...the latest National Atlas includes electronic maps and services that are delivered online. We are using information presentation, access, and delivery technologies that didn't exist 30 years ago to bring you a dynamic and interactive atlas. But we have held fast to our tradition of producing the finest maps in the world. We think nationalatlas.gov™ is more useful than any bound collection of paper maps." Work with multiple map layers

Create informational, interactive, and engaging maps with the ability to include photos, videos, and more.

"Free Group Texting GroupMe makes life easy for you and your groups. It's your real-life network, in your pocket."

"Lino is a free sticky & canvas service that requires nothing but a Web browser."

Include live tweets in your Prezi files

Spaaze is a free online sticky note service that offers some handy functions for teachers and students. Spaaze allows you to write notes, edit notes and reorder your notes. Your notes can be simple text notes or you can create notes that contain videos, images, or links. Use the Spaaze browser bookmarklet to add a note to your collection anytime you come across an interesting find on the web. The video below gives a good overview of what can be done with Spaaze. Applications for Education Spaaze could be used by students as a personal organizer. Spaaze could be particularly useful for students who don't have their own computers and need to rely on computer labs in order to get work done online. By using Spaaze those students can create notes of what they need to do, what they have done, and create notes about the useful things they find while researching on the web.

.this site allows you to create your own social network; can be used as an alternative for Ning