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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

Strawpoll offers users the opportunity to create 140 character polls in Twitter itself. Rather than redirecting users off the site to give their answers, the tool allows Twitter followers to choose from one of two responses directly in their Twitter dashboard. Users only have to visit Strawpoll if they want to see the final tally.

TwtPoll is just one of a number of products created by TwtApps. Some of the others include Twtcards and Twtvite. This service allows users to create more than 17 different types of polls and syncs with Facebook, Twitter and Friendfeed. Rather than polling within the tool, response participants are redirected to Twtpoll via a short URL.

Poll Daddy allows users to create polls in WordPress and offers a Twitter service. This service allows question publishers to add as many multiple choice answers as they want. From here a user's poll is sent out via a link to their Twitter account.

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.

This is an update to Bloom's Revised Taxonomy which attempts to account for the new behaviors and actions emerging as technology advances and becomes more ubiquitous.

User-created videos about Google Docs.

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.

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

Virtual Worlds, Avatars, free 3D chat, online meetings - Second Life Official Site

Dimdim is a web conferencing tool. Let's you deliver synchronised live presentations, whiteboards and web pages while sharing voice and video over the Internet.

Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere.