TeacherTube, is a site where you can host, tag and share instructional videos. If you like a video you see you can link to it on the TeacherTube site or embed it into a web page or blog. It is also a valuable resource of instructional videos.
Google Docs is a hosted service where you can create, store and share documents, spreadsheets and presentations and online forms. You can work on your own or collaboratively. You can also import docs from MS Office and Open Office.
Some Interesting Uses:
- Using GoogleForms for synchronous polling in the classroom, quizzes, surveys and grading rubrics
- Using GoogleDocs and GooglePresentations for Group Assignments, i.e. outlining readings and group presentations
- Hosting Your Class Handouts in GoogleDocs and linking to them in your course blog or
website
Slideshare is a site where you can host your presentations and share them with others. Presentations can be linked to at the site itself or else embedded in a web page. You can also synchronise an MP3 audio file (podcast) with the slideset to create a slidecast - a more powerful way of distributing presentations/tutorials.