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a bit dated (not all links work anymore) but still very rich resource on using technology in education. 

At Google, we support teachers in their efforts to empower students and expand the frontiers of human knowledge. That's why we've assembled the information and tools you'll find on this site. # Tools # Activities # Posters # Teacher Community

This is a first approach for teachers to research about all tools that GOOGLE offers to education. There are many and very useful, try it! Pedagogical uses: collaborating, presenting, comunicating, planning, sharing.

overview of tools used for learning

web site focussed on education web 2.0 with links to teachers web 2.0 sites and interesting web 2.0tools to be used in class related to virtual office, Word processing, spreadsheet, image creation, maps, blogs, audio/podcasting, blogs, … Pedagogical uses: creating , presenting, create podcasts, ,...

LeMill is primary a tool for trainers. You have to register for free, that you can use it. It is a tool for finding, authoring and sharing open educational resources. 18759 teachers from 67 countries share 29838 learning resources in 49 languages. Only the Greek lanuage is missing. Pedagogical uses: find, develop educational learning materials, and work on them with other trainers tag: trainer, learning materials

We are a Mobile Storytelling platform that makes it easy to create, share and play GPS games and tours. Mission We link your media to places so you can create engaging city experiences for anyone with a mobile phone. Guide, tour, game? That's up to you... Connect your story to the city!

Cool Dutch maker-education initiative and organisation.

Learning is Personal - Goalbook helps teams of educators, students, and parents collaborate around personal learning plans.

"What is ThingLink? ThingLink helps you create and discover touching images. Be creative! Make your images come alive with music, video, text, images, shops and more! Every image contains a story and ThingLink helps you tell your stories. Follow image channels from your favorite bands, bloggers and friends. Your ThingLink interactive images form a channel that other users can follow. Share your channel with friends on Facebook and Twitter, and follow your friends. Touch and discover."

Design collaborative activities with students to learn about geography, geology, environmental sciences

Jott to Self - Send emails to yourself Jott Reminders - Get text message and email reminders Jott to List - Add items to your to-do list Jott to Someone Else - Send emails and texts to your contacts Jott to Group - Email and text a group of contacts Jott to Link - Send messages to web services Messagingon the go -- Reminders at work -- Lists at home -- Web services at play

speech recognition software that allows obtaining written documents. Not free, but educational licenses. Pedagogical uses: Improve core skills for students * Provide greater independence for students with physical disabilities * Level the playing field for students with learning disabilities * Improve writing fluency for students learning English * Increase productity in students

The story is all inside your head She said to me The answer is easy if you Go on the web and see I'd like to help you in your struggle To be free There must be fifty web 2.0 ways To tell a story

Guidelines how you can tell a story with a range of tools to illustrate your story. Ways to tell your personal story or the collaborate on a common story. Pedagogical use: storytelling as one possibility to present oneself in the familiarisation phase way to develop and present a (transnational) project

http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools#The Fifty Tools Go to this link and you will find all the following tools to create stories!! They ar more than 50... SLIDESHOW TOOLS: 2. ImageLoop 3. One True Media 4. RockYou 5. Slide 6. SlideFlickr 8. Slideoo 9. pictobrowser 11. Slideroll 12. Picasa 13. PhotoPeach 14. Tikatok 15. Tar Heel Reader TIMELINE TOOLS: 17. OurStory 18. xtimeline MIXER TOOLS: 19. Voice Thread 21. VUVOX COMIC/SKETCH TOOLS: 23. gnomz 24. ComicsSketch 25. Toondoo 26. Kerpoof 27. Bubblr 28. Comiqs 29. PikiStrips 30. Pixton COLLAGE TOOLS: 31. Tabblo 32. Scrapblog 33. Glogster MAP TOOLS: 34. Mapwing 35. Google My Maps 36. Wayfaring Flickr TOOLS / IDEAS: 37. Flickr Tell a Story in 5 Frames 38. Flickr Six Word Story 39. Flicktion 40. Linking Flickr Notes 41. Pictures with Stories Flickr Group AUDIO TOOLS: 42. Podcast People 43. Blabberize 44. yodio VIDEO TOOLS: 45. BubblePLY 47. Animoto 48. JayCut 49. xtranormal 50. shwup PRESENTATION TOOLS: 51. Empressr 52. Spresent 53. Slideshare / Slidecasts 54. Zentation 55. Zoho Show 56. Vcasmo 57. MyPlick 58. Google Presenter 59. WebSlides 60. Slideboom 61. SlideRocket 62. 280 slides 63. Prezi 64. Ahead 65. Zooburst

Collaborative web conferencing environment enabling synchronous communication using video and audio or through text chat, and to share presentations, documents and images on an interactive whiteboard.

It is not free at all...

sending very simple polls through email.

Relaytor is a simple tool to send mass messages attaching files but especially adding polls of up to 10 options. It can be useful in ReAct project in communication in National and International level. Pedagogical uses: The trainer can create a poll in order to find out priorities. Learners can create their own polls regarding their education or in social subjects.

Collaborative environment for your school to connect with people of common interests all around the world. Share your library, chats, webconference, etc. Pedagogical uses: Collaborative projects with people from other cities or countries related to a common subject. Create a space of your classroom and find other students from other schools to share interests.

lists of annotated tools including public learning sites instructional tools social and collaborative spaces collaboration and sharing tools social learning tools image, audio and video tools presentation tools video conferencing, sreensharing tools ... information whether the tool is for free or to purchase pedagogical uses: variety of tools to integrate in one's personal learning environment or to facilitate (transnational) projects

personal project management software.

Tom's planner is online free software for project planning simple enough in use. Pedagogical uses can be both for learners and trainers. Learners can plan their educational and personal activities. Trainers can plan their different classes. As it is online tool enables collaboration in planning.

The Zooniverse is home to the internet's largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects. Our current projects are here but plenty more are on the way. If you're new to the Zooniverse, we suggest picking a project and diving in - the same account will get you into all of our projects, and you can keep track of what you've contributed by watching 'My Zooniverse'. The Zooniverse and the suite of projects it contains is produced, maintained and developed by the Citizen Science Alliance. The member institutions of the CSA work with many academic and other partners around the world to produce projects that use the efforts and ability of volunteers to help scientists and researchers deal with the flood of data that confronts them.

Learn about science in a visual and interesting way through educational resources provided for exceptional science projects . Pedagogical uses: provide an excellent resource for inquiry-based learning within the classroom or for home-school groups

platform for games, not computer games, but offline games, like card games.

The Game Crafter is an interesting tool. There is a part that you can bye games and this part is of no interest at all. Also there is a part that a "very skilled trainer" may "create a game" with a lot of pedagogical possibilities. In order to do so it needs a nice idea about a pedagogical game. I think it can also be a tool for common creation by trainers and learners.