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I love this website. Here's why: to use many online resources, you have to provide an email address. And then you have to check your email to validate that you gave the company a real email address. If you are a teacher, simply looking at resources and you don't feel like submitting your re email address, just use 10 Minute Mail. I used it today to sign up for Grockit and Socrative. The website gives you an email address that lasts for 10 minutes. If you have to wait for another website to email you, just wait for the email to show up. (The page autorefreshes, I believe.) Then you're all set.

Well, this is the description that was automatically populated: "Easy online video recording, video email, and video sharing. Embed a webcam recorder on your site for video testimonials. Run a video contest on your site with customized form and video upload tool. A Video API is available to developers who want to add video messaging to their app."

I'm not sure if anyone has posted this already (so forgive me if this is a repeat!), but basically Tumblr is like a blog hybrid that allows you post just about anything (as the site states: "Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, email or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors to your theme's HTML."). The site is very creativity-oriented, and seems like a potentially very useful online resource for students to express themselves creatively, to write and publish for a real audience, to gain exposure to cultural dimensions of the target speech community, and to enhance their digital literacy.