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SMART Notebook software is used with the SMART Interactive Whiteboard for creating, delivering and managing interactive lessons within a single application.

Edublogs is "the largest education community on the Internet" where you can sign up for a free WordPress-powered blog. The site provides lots of useful information, e.g. how to use your blog with your students and how start a conversation using your blog. An ideal site for educators who want to blog with support.

Google Sites lets you create simple, secure group websites. You can add students and keep your content off the web.

Google Calendar is a free web-based calendar which you can use for your own personal activities or to share with others. It can be integrated into iGoogle and you can also embed it into web pages/blogs.

gMail is one of the many services offered by Google. It is a web-based email service with many megabytes of storage space for archiving mail threads.

Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online. You can: * Create colourful mind maps online * Share and work with friends * Embed your mind map in your blog or website * Email and print your mind map * Save your mind map as an image

Animoto is a free service that lets you create videos from your images.

With Movie Maker 2.1, you can create, edit, and share movies. Build your movie with a few simple drag-and-drops. Delete bad shots and include only the best scenes. Then share your movie via the Web, e-mail, or CD.

Video Tutorials for using Dimdim webinar software.

Tutorials on how to use all benefits of VoiceThread: What is it, How to Share, Video Doodling, Microphone setup, Embeddng VoiceThread, Comment Moderation, Identities, etc.

This is a table looking at traditional classroom practice and potential digital alternatives. The author has included software tools (proprietary, open source/free (FOSS) and Web 2.0) linked to the corresponding websites.

Tutorials on how to use all benefits of Diigo: bookmarking, tagging, highlighting, clipping, sharing, annotating, searching)

Ning is a hosted service that lets you build a private social network

Wordle is a word cloud generator. Copy in some text and generate the word cloud. Interesting uses could include having students paste in a paper or summary to see the most common usage of words, try using famous speeches, poems, rss, URLs, or del.ico.us usernames

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 Alerts provides you with email updates of latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. For instance if you want to keep up with news about e-learning, type that in as your search term and you will receive notifications of all new Google results that contain that search term. You can also manage the alerts you receive, for example how often you want to receive them.

Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.