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VoiceThread is a service that lets you create collaborative conversations about media by presenting information and collecting comments (text, voice).

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.

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.

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

Delicious is a free social bookmarking tool. Store your bookmarks online, tag them and share them with your colleagues and students. Easy to use to search for other bookmarked resources.

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

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

Mindmeister supports all the standard features of a classic mind mapping tool - only online, so a collaborative mind mapping tool

Audacity is an open source cross-platform sound editor and recorder suitable for podcasting.

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

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.

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.

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.

Google Reader is a free web-based reader to aggregate and read all your news and blog (RSS) feeds. You can also share your favorites with other readers

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.