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Lovely Charts is an online diagramming application that allows you to create professional looking diagrams, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, organisation charts, wireframes, and many more... For free. Teachers could use this application when creating charts for lessons.

Live Documents offers a suite of web-enabled Office productivity applications (equivalents of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint) that can be used as software on your desktop or as services within your browser. Live Documents gives you unprecedented choice and flexibility and increases personal productivity and group collaboration. Live Documents office tools include feature-rich applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mail, database and lists. This website could be a great help if you need to share presentations that are too big to send through email.

This site allows for personalizing and updating charts and graphs for either the teacher or the student. In can be used to create more formal illustrations of data or used as a lesson when addressing either geometric shapes or data representation. It includes instructions. For total use you need to sign in.

You have to sign up but there is a trial version to look at. This is a graph drawing application for the Web with a focus on usability.

Graph drawing application used to access graph projects from anywhere.

These provide great real world examples of how to apply Algebra concepts to real world scenarios. This is something students could really get into. There is a possibility that these could be strung together to make one big application unit.

Create interactive flash applications online. Check out the samples and demos!

Prezentit is an application to make presentations online. Teachers can use this anywhere as long as there's a web browser.

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.

This website offers lesson examples that align with the NCTM standards. It also offers other resources that I have used in the middle school classroom.

Math activities website sponsored by NCTM.

From NCTM - a great source of interactive discovery lessons and activities for math students

Live Documents allows you to create documents online to share with a group or community, which has obvious implications as a teacher. A desktop application allows you to create documents offline. This service is free and is great for working in a group setting. Aside from documents, there are also tools for creating 'live presentations'

This site gives you a way to create a tool bar for your website. Applications could be for school websites, teacher's websites. or webquests. It would help teachers encourage students particiapation in an online assignment by making it easier for students to link to the teachers website. After the assignment is done, students could delete the tool bar.

Face is a powerful tool for finding pictures of you and your friends on Facebook. This application scan photos and detect all faces appearing on them, recognize and automatically match names to all faces. You can also search for friends and browse their face galleries.

Setster is a web-based application that gives service providers and teams of professionals the ability to manage their online calendars and appointment books in a very simple and intuitive user interface, while allowing their clients access to their availability and the instant gratification of booking appointments online.

We wanted a fully-featured, social networking aware task management application with a user interface that made sense, something we didn't have to devote a couple of hours to learning to use. We wanted to be able to get a clear overview of the status of any project, anytime and from any place. We needed to be able to collaborate effortlessly. We wanted to be able to update project information in many different ways : via email, online, desktop, mobile, IM... and we needed to be able to share information in real time with all our team members, no matter how computer-savvy they are … or aren't.

middlespot.com is a powerful new interface for analyzing and managing your search results. No plugins, logins or passwords required. We're your web application for search.

Setster is a web-based application that gives service providers and teams of professionals the ability to manage their online calendars and appointment books in a very simple and intuitive user interface, while allowing their clients access to their availability and the instant gratification of booking appointments online.

Creates and manages to do list

Free stock market game to learn how the stock market works using real time stock data from Wall street beginners to real pro and educators to bring Wall street to classrooms.

This 2.0 website is a worldwide community and travel guide that teachers can use for interactive activities. Providing the classroom allows, the teacher can navigate the website and students can research and apply math concepts to traveling. Sign-up is free.

Clip information from numerous web pages and save on one page on the web. Teachers could use this to make up an information sheet for a project or extention sheets on applications of a math concept.

Snipd helps you save and share your favorite content from within pages you enjoy. Save a snippet of an article, image, or any flash content (YouTube, Hulu, MetaCafe, etc.) without leaving the page.

This website is a great tutorial site for mathematics.