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Box.net is a way to share and manage your files online.

It is an simple, intuitive content management, where the online file sharing is secured and a lot of features for collaboration are offered.Box lets you store documents, media and all of your content online, so you can access, manage and share them from anywhere. Integrate Box with Google Apps and Salesforce. Access Box on mobile devices. Free trial version only. Pedagogoical uses: project amangement, deadlines, timetable, share media and files

Very easy website creator

This is a very nice strategy for using the FUTUREME.org tool in class. Students will get an email in the future in which they can describe their goals or make predictions. Similar to 43things.com

one of my favourite publishing tools

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

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...

screen sharing tool.

pedagogical use: collaborative work on e.g. a presentation, the viewers can comment on it and the presenter can change the document, image, ... immediately

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, ,...

MindMeister is an online mind mapping tool offering several functions in order to collect, organise an comment ideas: graphical connections between ideas history view with playback facility Wikimaps (everybody can edit) task feeds, search in maps, ,... pedagogical use: creating mind maps for e.g. personal or group todo lists, project plans, meeting minutes, presentations of project ideas (e.g. in order to find project partners)

Digital storytelling is simply using computer-based tools to tell stories. There are many different ways to do this - from making movies, recording voices, creating animations or electronic books. In schools they can help to take a task that might be seen as mundane - write a report, write a story, explain a process, describe an experiment - and turn it into something a whole lot more interesting.There are a great many tools out there that could be used for digital storytelling. Here are a few mentioned.

Building the world of your interests. A pearltree represents a given interest. A pearltree is made of pearls and each pearls represents a web content. Pedagogical uses: to organize and bookmark information. To share resources

Get more of what you love by searching across numerous Google products with one click. Try with "education" for example. You'll get a Google search environment, another way to improve your search. Very practical. Pedagogical uses: research and organization

Create and view beautifully informative animated maps, for free. Very interesting tool to transform the way learners discover maps and the globe. A funny way to tell stories. I recommend to first look at the Show Case. The tutorial helps as well. Pedagogical uses: research and organization; story telling

Google Docs for visual people The easiest way for creative teams to think, imagine and discuss their ideas.

A mix of web apps that can help you make presentations that are fun, eye catching, and engaging (great for students too)! Pedagogical use: presentation tools; applying concepts and creating ideas and sharing with others